#gifted kid shit

[holierthanth0u]

"gifted children" are not necessarily gifted... sometimes kids just get a burst of development in certain areas, and it evens out and stagnates over time. its just how some people develop, you are not "failed" because of it.

#its why the “gifted kid” thing is so common in autistics #because its a DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER #autism #neurodivergent #audhd #autistic #actually autistic #autistic things #autistic experiences #asd #gifted kid burnout #burnt out gifted kid #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid problems #gifted kid shit

[theadderalltoyourstiles]

Pretty sure this has been done already , but i wanted to do it anyway .

Also there's MORE to add but there's no space :(

#im fucking exhausted #this shit is killing me #i have the shittiest memory and it makes me wanna cry #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid shit #gifted kid problems #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid things #former gifted kid #stemblr #desiblr #memes #relatable #college #relatable memes #whatever #im tired #wtf #life

[drunkndead]

i feel like im missing out on the whole teenage experience. day by day i while my time away behind books, scars and calories.

#ed but not sheeran #ed vent #self deprecating humor #self h@rm #sewerslidal #sh #sh meme #depressing memes #selfharn #sewercide #tw sui vent #tw sui implied #gifted kid shit #burn out

[apocalypse-boi]

#this is very important research #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid #gifted kid shit #inferiority complex #superiority complex #poll #polls #tumblr polls #mental health

[cole-is-a-dragon]

Just found an absolute gem in one of my diaries that I'd forgotten about, here it goes:

"I think the reason I keep making excuses not to even try is that if I don't and I fail I can tell myself I still have this ✨potential✨, this magical, wobbly mass that may never be touched because if I use it, I might just learn it's limits, which, after an entire life of everyone telling me I could do anything, scares me into a state of academic paralysis.

And what if, what if I try, really try, and I fail? Then I will lose the piece of self-worth that is tied to thinking I am the smartest person in the room."

Maybe someone finds it relatable, cause I certainly did when I found it again

#executive dysfunction #autism #adhdlife #giftedness #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid shit

[geekandanerd]

I get solute and solvent mixed up when I'm stressing during a chem exam. After last exam I came up with this:

Solute: Lute, the musical instrument

Solvent: Vent, what the animitronics crawl through in FNAF 2

You can put a Lute in a Vent, but not a Vent in a Lute.

May this help others who get this confused sometimes

#college life #honestly this is how I remember things guys #learning to study in college is fun #was a “gifted” kid in elementary/middle/high school #university life #gifted kid problems #gifted kid shit #have a chem exam tomorrow #chemistry

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i could go on and on about gifted kid burnout/what being gifted or intelligent does to a person. especially when it’s represented in characters in media. like, there’s so many characters who recieved academic validation but reacted so differently about it and it’s always so interesting to me.

#for example: lip and debbie gallagher + rory gilmore + paris geller #shameless #gilmore girls #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid syndrome #academic validation #gifted kid shit #lip gallagher #debbie gallagher #rory gilmore #paris geller

[theblogofinsanity]

The curse of growing up as a "gifted" child

It seems that the better you do as a child equally and oppositely effects the outcome of life as an adult.

Just look at all the child actors, musical prodigies, and academically gifted children.

They tend to wash up. Or, in the absolute best case scenario, they end up... Normal. Bland. Average.

Why is that?

I was a gifted child during schooling.

I tested "off the charts" on most standardized testing I was subjected to.

As far as school went, I found most of it very easy. I studied infrequently and frequently got As through my years of schooling.

And despite dropping out twice, I managed to maintain a 4.0 GPA during my times in college. I might add that I was also a poly-substance addict and alcoholic who almost never studied or put my best foot forward during my time in college.

I think that part of it is the pressure.

It's not normal to shoulder that much pressure at a young age. And I believe it's what eventually burned me out. The sky high expectations, the worry that you're not doing enough or doing it well enough can be very damaging.

A lot of the pressure I felt was self-inflicted. I come from a family of very intelligent and educated people on both my mother's and father's side of the family.

Out of my whole family...

Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins..

I'm the only one without a college degree.

The black sheep.

The broken one.

The failure.

The disappointment.

I always wanted (and still do in a way) to 'keep up' with them.

But I'm now in my 30s.

With a GED.

No degree.

Single parent.

Every family reunion, I'm surrounded by physicians, pharmacists, engineers, and very accomplished people. Happily married people with beautiful families.

What do I have to show for my three and a half decades on this planet?

A single wide mobile home. 2 beat up cars. A couple of tattoos. A job as a public servant, barely making ends meet. Dependent on Suboxone and alcohol to function normally.

I'm a handsome man who is aging pretty well, all things considered.

But I don't think I will find a woman interested any time soon.

I'm damaged goods. I come with baggage.

And if I was to ask myself: "where did it all go wrong?"

I think my answer would be: "It all started with the pressure that comes with being an intellectually gifted child."

#journal #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid problems #gifted kid shit #neurodivergent #undiagnosed neurodivergent #pressure #stress #mental health

[harlansthoughts]

my childhood was literally that feeling in a race when you immediately start sprinting as fast as you can and you're ahead of everyone but then later you run out energy and everybody ends up ahead of you and you're last

#childhood #growing up #childhood trauma #burnt out #burnt out gifted kid #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid shit #gifted kid things #gifted kid #gifted kid problems #gifted

[emonerdfriend]

sorry for having an anxiety attack due to stress. that wasn’t very paris geller, academic validation, perfectionist, control freak, oldest sibling, student council member, ivy league wannabe, talented artist, gifted kid of me.

#academic validation #crying over a 95% #burnt out gifted kid #oldest sibling #studyblr #valedictorian #are you satisfied? #sticky notes my love #ivy league #gifted kid shit #perfectionist

[50044w44s]

In the end it's just you and the fear of being average.

#burnout #burnt out #prodigal son #burnt out gifted kid #gifted #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid shit #quotes #personal shit #genius #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid problems #giftedness #average #fear of being average #writers #writing #autistic burnout

[lovendersonline]

currently: firing my chekov's gun from the bottom of a lake

#lana del ray aesthetic #lovender #coquette #female hysteria #hell is a teenage girl #indie music #girl blog aesthetic #girl blogger #girlblogging #this is a girlblog #this is what makes us girls #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid problems #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid shit #girly aesthetic #life quote #quotes #beautiful quote #song lyrics #lyric posting #lyric quotes #lyrics #singer songwriter #songwriter #song of the day #song writing #song writer #my writing #writing

[theadderalltoyourstiles]

Gifted kid burnout culture is treating your 3rd grade assignments like college entrance examination and end up treating your actual college entrance examination like a 3rd grade assignment .  

#yes I'm back but not for long haha #i logged in just to post this thought #this is actually happening to me rn and im panicking #fuck #gifted kid burnout #gifted kid shit #gifted kid problems #college #life #relatable #desiblr #stemblr #life problems #burnout #whatever #posts

[cistematicchaos]

maybe it's bc i'm not a gifted kid. i'm not one of those kids who did super well or had school come easily for them. i worked really hard in between bouts of depression and nauseating anxiety to hide that I was bad at a large amount of it and struggling with all of it and that was only successful because no one gave enough of a fuck to notice.

maybe it's because of that but the constant focus that a lot of people, parents specifically, put into "intelligence" and how "smart" or talented their children are is constantly off-putting to me. i genuinely don't believe intelligence is a real thing. i hate the emphasis people put into IQ as well or how parents in particular try to force their children to base their entire personality or lives around what they perceive their "talent/s" to be.

and it feeds into this concept of gifted kids that i hate. of these ultra-talented, usually high IQ, smart kids who don't necessarily "do well" in the school system but will succeed in life some way or another (ignoring how the school system burns out most kids lol and ableism'll fuck you up too) and i just.

Even folks who don't have gifted kids still put weight into this idea of intelligence and shit and i'm not sure if it's me dealing with internalized issues or what but it feels gross thinking about how once you place a bunch of kids on a pedestal (especially just for something like IQ), you're usually creating a hierarchy.

you're telling one kid he's special, then you're telling the other kids they're not. it's not that i don't think sometimes some kids need accommodations, but that's totally different than slapping the label "gifted" on, right? i really just feel like it needs to end. the whole "gifted" shit, the emphasis on "intelligence" and "high IQ", it's such bullshit.

#ableism #disability #actually disabled #ND #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autistic #actually autistic #chaos is speaking #IQ #gifted kid shit

[stricktlyco]

"Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family."

Emma, Jane Austen

#emma #jane austen #clever girl #clever #spoiled #book #book quotes #book quotations #quotes #intelligence #booklr #bookblr #gifted #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid problems #gifted kid things #gifted kid shit #mr knightley

[catsandbooksstuff]

I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extracurricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it’s not ambition, not entirely. It’s fear. Because I don’t know who I am when I’m not working, when I’m not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there’s nothing to do? I haven’t found her yet and it scares me.

#agggtm #pippa fitz amobi #pip and ravi #ravi singh #sal singh #a good girls guide to murder #pipravi #as good as dead #holly jackson #gilmore girls #rory gilmore #gifted kid things #gifted kid burnout culture is #gifted kid shit