GIFTED KID SYNDROME 

ppl being surprised that youre well-spoken feels like a microaggression 💀

Thank you for speaking about how the ‘gifted kid’ syndrome affects neurodivergent people. As someone with autism who who labelled as one as a kid but then when I became a teen and developed both anxiety and depression which led to me not even being able to go into school anymore the way most of the adults in my life said I was ‘wasting my potential’ made my mental health issues even worse 😭😭

I grew up as a very gifted kid. I was just an undiagnosed autistic and I’m kinda stupid now. Don’t ask me how to do long division, I’ll cry.

"You gotta look ugly to look good" real

I remember the "gifted" program in my elementary school was where all the special ed kids went, that's where I went 😎

They're wearing a Cinnamoroll hairband, their word is gospel.

almost every year in school they would notice i was kind of smart, have me take the “gifted kid” sort of tests, and i never got high enough scored to be placed in the gifted kid classes. hurt me every time i wish they would have just left me alone 😭

my mom was convinced I was a gifted child to the point that the program had to reject me. (multiple times)

Everyone talks about the gifted kid but nobody talks about the opposite scenario. Being the “slow/Lazy” kid and turning into a successful adult.

I honestly have gifted kid syndrome, but luckily I had a career choice at kindergarten I've been sticking to, so I never really listened to other people's potential of me. 😭😭😭 I was too busy caring about my own goal.

I straight didn’t listen when they said I was “gifted”, I still don’t believe them, I think they just liked that I had bad enough anxiety that I was too scared to fail and that was what they perceived as my “gift”

The whole "just enough to get by thing." Was pretty much what all my teachers said about me from 7th up until 12th grade. And I knew I could've had above average grades too, but I didn't see the point in sacrificing my mental health to look smarter for absolutely no reason.

i think the realization the whole system is messed up is what snapped me out of gifted kid syndrome around the end of high school. i'd started falling way behind in my sophomore year because of depression triggered by the undiagnosed, untreated anxiety i'd had my whole life, and that switch from being propped up as someone with a lot of potential to someone who was treated as worthless was obviously traumatizing. but i managed to snap out of that after it clicked that that was just generally how neurodivergent kids or with mental health issues are treated in schools, which is horrifying to think about when it comes to kids who started school that way. massive issue of neglect towards any struggling student. i can't image the trauma that would cause a child. i think a lot of people who get stuck in gifted kid syndrome are unable to see the wider problem and have internalized it as a personal failing, can't figure out that the way schools are currently structured, including having gifted programs, are bad for the mental health of _everyone_ both immediately and later in life. (also, funny enough thinking back on it, while other programs i'd been in as a kid were standard and we just had higher level work, the "gifted program" in my intermediate school they didn't even have us do anything during class. they just like, pulled us out of our normal class sometimes to do marshmallow-toothpick towers and glitter crafts and they told us how much smarter we were than everyone else. and they also made us put on a play to encourage everyone else to do well in exams, except again, undiagnosed anxiety disorder, so i broke down before the play and they still made me at least stand in front waving a sign. honestly fascinating. completely fake class)

I was in the stupid gifted kids program and never burned out but I am incredibly depressed as I am about to go to a top school that doesn't have anything I want to study. It's like we are led to believe that because we are good in academics we have to want to be something "worth" our potential

I know I experience struggling with studying and self esteem as a “gifted kid” but I went to a supposedly “gifted and talented” school so literally everyone I knew was in the gifted program and had parents who expected them to go to harvard or something. it was weird and definitely affected my social skills but personally I think i benefitted from this situation. I genuinely thought i was stupid in middle school because i was getting 70s and 80s on my algebra tests and my friends were getting 90s. Then i went to a normal highschool and realized i have imposter syndrome and genuinely enjoy reading and learning, and the self deprecating humor/self hatred we all harbored in middle school was based on literally nothing. Its like the opposite of the average gifted kid syndrome, i still struggle with imposter syndrome but im actually learning stuff for once and im really glad i didnt end up in a normal gifted program so i didnt get compared to other kids as much. we were all at equal levels growing up, we just got smarties thrown at us by the principle a few times and complained about how fake the entire schools concept was. Tho apparently that school is crumbling now rip the spanish teacher tried to strangle a kid and half the staff left

“You can’t all be gifted kids” I promise that Tweet that the standards for “gifted” was *low* It literally just meant you got good grades

I like when she goes into the neurodivergent aspect of a gifted kid but likeeeeeeeee I was the kid with hyperactive adhd in the back of the class falling asleep 🫲😑🫱

“Honors classes were a snooze and APs made me want to kill myself” is the realest thing I’ve ever heard. At my school, honors classes were kinda just the regular classes except they gave you more homework. And almost every AP I took was more difficult than my actual college classes. Also, I had forgotten about DBQs and I hope to return to blissful ignorance about them again soon.

THANK YOU for mentioning the non-gifted kids. I have ADHD, and have never done perfect in school. All my friends were in gifted classes and dude, it was horrible for my self esteem. I see all these ex-gifted kids talking about burn out and not being praised anymore. Like I was never praised 💀💀

Gifted kid could never be me, I have ADHD and dyslexia that no one helped me with, I remember feeling so stupid compared to my siblings, at lest I was told in high school and was able to take meds + going to a school that would help me for once and my grades sky rocked after that, they still weren't the best but why better then they ever were before

I feel like nobody talks about the relation between gifted kids and kids with learning disablilities. I was in a gifted program and i was also a 'dumb kid'. struggled in foreign language and math really bad. a lot of gifted kids are really strong in their 'gifted' area and have pitfalls in others. those pitfalls usually start to show themselves around transitions to different schools (like elementary -> middle -> high) so it seems like it just "drops off". the kids who could overcome their challenges got to go to IB in high school and the rest of us went off like anybody else lol

You're so right about the kids who don't do the work got the most to say. I remember in 7th grade, people hated writing class, mostly because it writing (not me bc I write a lot) but they didn't do anything. This one girl would always ask me to share documents with her so she'd pass and be the people pleaser I did, then she'd turn around and say "I hate writing" WHEN I GAVE HER MY WORK. Long story short, when people ask for answers, say no.

As someone who is nerodivergent, I didn't do super well in school for the longest time, and while I wasn't necessarily failing, I wasn't really doing as well as I could have. When I started homeschooling, my mom quickly noticed the problem, which is how I had to do things while in public school. Once I figured out the best way I learn, I started doing a lot better in most subjects. I never knew just how much of a difference it made until then.

The fit is fire

I was a gifted kid too. But I got kicked out of the gifted program and that destroyed my self esteem. Mostly because as a kid I based my value on academics. So then I hated school. I had terrible anxiety attacks just being in a classroom. But that was never addressed because I still did good at my classwork. I had to “suck it up” and deal with it because my anxiety and later depression (and other possible things I have unfortunately never been able to be diagnosed with) was never as important as my grades I guess. That will always stay with me, but finding value outside of school was so important. People calling themselves a gifted kid far beyond school does make me sad. It’s the same thing I did in middle and high school. Desperately trying to attach yourself to that foundation because you-and a lot of people around you-don’t see much value in yourself. It also hurts the things I loved, no one cared about my other passions and only saw me as useful for one thing that doesn’t even last. I also really did enjoy that Abbott Elementary Episode!

I also want to bring up, a lot of kids are what people tell them. I hated math because I had homework everyday without fail. I wasn’t bad at math, just really slow and didn’t quite understand word problems unless all of the excess jargon was removed. I didn’t realize I wasn’t bad at math because I always heard jokes since I was a kid about “haha Waffles doesn’t like math.” And I was told that I had to be able to do math in my head and to be able to do it quickly to be good at math. But everyone including me skipped over the fact I taught myself how to solve for X in like 2nd grade because of an IPad game that I GENUINELY ENJOYED. I like a math game. I didn’t hate it, I played it constantly. Difference is I just need paper and a calculator with some extra time. I’m not bad at math, I’m just slow at it and told that I’m bad. So if anyone tells you you’re bad at something, think about past experiences because chances are you aren’t. You could just need more time or have a bad memory etc.

thats so interesting that your gifted program was people being pulled out of class. mine was just a completely separate class in itself. we didnt get pulled out, that was literally just our regular class.

Thank you... you're the first person to mention how it is for a person who wasn't considered gifted or 'stupid' as a child. I got told so many times about how dumb I was because I was so afraid to speak to others. I nearly became mute. Even while having pretty high grades, teachers disliked me for this reason, and I wasn't put in the gifted program. In middle school, I was placed in a higher gifted program for the first time. I was so scared with being with students 'smarter' than me, and even while my grades increased in those classes, I still was too afraid of others as I was being bullied in those classes. The kids in those classes were really just... pretty horrible and mean. Some parents actually argued with councilors just to place their kids in it. In high school, finally I was placed with both nicer people in honors or AP classes. The whole idea of being gifted shattered as any student could really be placed in those classes with some work (even though kids who were previously in the gifted 'accelerated' class that I was in got into honors or AP with less arguing). It was the first time I felt as if I could succeed with really encouraging people with me. I became valedictorian of my high school, and yet the whole gifted idea still kind of feels like a wound that hasn't fully healed. Perhaps it was because of the bullying, or being constantly considered as 'challenging' or 'stupid'. Or it could just be the separation between students. My current friends who were members of gifted and talented starting in middle school seem to have enjoyed the program, but whenever they speak about it... it could really just be me but it stings a bit. I almost do admittedly feel a tiny bit jealous haha. Anyways sorry for my long rant lol. Point is, from my strange perspective, I really grew up semi despising the gifted program because while I did join it in middle school, the whole idea of separating some students from others really does more harm than good. Much love and have a good day!! 💗

in my experience the gifted program was very much geared towards kids who were gifted in STEM. in elementary school i was put in the gifted program for reading and really excelled. they also put me in gifted math but i HATED it and requested to go back to the regular math class. by middle school there was no more gifted program for reading. just math. the 3 different tracks were accelerated math, regular math, and special ed. your teacher had to ask you to join the accelerated math program. i was not asked. i remember feeling really bad about myself because i was taking my (on grade level) math class with kids from the grade below who were on the accelerated track. so much attention was paid to math to the point that if you weren't taking accelerated math, you felt like you were behind.

NEW WURLD VIDEO RIGHT AS MY LUNCH IS READY LETS GOOOO. Anyway, my middle school had the same system where we were broke off into groups based on how smart we were, I was in the group just below the “smartest kids” and when I tell you we were made to feel so stupid if you weren’t in the smartest group was insane. A lot of times in school activities the smartest group was almost always guaranteed to win, such as the last day in 8th grade where my group knew for a fact we were supposed to win the class competition and we were told that there was a tie. There was not in fact a tie. And we lost. If you weren’t in the highest group then automatically you were treated as stupid. Everyone knew where the smart kids were, everyone knew teachers favored them. All because they were “smarter” than other kids. Now as a high schooler I’ve noticed how stressed out these “smarter” kids are as I’m in a ton of classes with them, they all struggle with hours worth of work, essays, tests and so much more. They all chase the same thing and that is academic validation and the levels they go to, to feel that feeling is insanity. Being a “gifted kid” is not fun. It’s not what people think it is. Have a great day

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I was always told that I was gifted. Straight A's for the first 5 years, then I realized I needed to actually study and talk to people. I hate it when people call kids "gifted". It just sets them on the wrong path in the long run.

The groups in school, I had that too in middle school. The names of the groups were “onyx,” “emerald,” and “diamond.” 💀 they were not trying to hide which one was the advanced group at all.

thank you for talking about kids outside of the program with disabilities. I had undiagnosed ADHD as a child, which led to pretty severe depression. I was constantly struggling with school, but people just wrote me off as stupid or lazy instead of questioning why their methods weren't working with me. I can't help but feel that if even a modicum of the effort and attention that went towards students in the gifted program had been put towards the non-gifted students, maybe somebody could have saved me years of suffering. Being treated like i was stupid and lazy obliterated my self-esteem and gave me issues I'm still working through to this day. It may sound harsh, but this experience and the resentment it bred means I have very very little sympathy for former gifted students.

Something I realized lately was like, in a room full of all types of kids, I always stood out, but when placed in a room with other kids who excelled and have done things, I blend into the walls. I had a student government program recently and like, the schools from my state selected some of their top students and that's who went, so when I was put with those top students, I didn't look all that interesting at all. I see their Instagram pages and they're doing all of these things that I could only dream of doing and just being better at living than I am, and it was slap in the face because, in a room full of "average" people, I was never used to that.

Thanks for helping me realize why it went from strict mad teachers to fun goofy teachers that brought in GameCubes. I went from being in the smart kid track to the stupid kid track around when depression and not trying kicked in (:

I was in all the excelled stuff in school except for math, and it always fucked me up bc i felt like i could've jumped that final hurdle and didn't which = failure, i'm older now and realized it really wasn't that serious

Man i remember being put in the big boy classes and immediately being kicked out bc my undiagnosed adhd kicked in and bro English wasn't even my first language so i was struggling 😭

"have you tried mustard gas" ok time to binge this channel's videos

As a current "gifted kid" [autistic] what really hit me was that according to the several tests I was given I should've been "excelling in class" However time and time again I kept on well failing to reach those excelling qualifications. Often at the bottom or barely scraping above. Quite literally internalizing the idea that I was an inherent failure and wasn't using my "gifts" correctly and that I was somehow required to be great for who I was. Looking back - I was average. I was average and yet I was developing suicidal thoughts because I wasn't doing good enough. I was constantly under the idea that I was a lazy person who didn't work enough, didn't study enough and the everyone around me was great at studying and working hard because they learned how to work hard. [my friends are all incredibly hard-working people who are excelling well in school]. Anyway turns out my ADHD was more severe than we thought and that I needed to medicate it. I still trying to learn how to work hard consistently however it's a lot easier when I'm on drugs huh.

Damn, not a personal callout

Me. Like to the point that the word 'potential' can be a trigger. I was reading LOTR prior to 5th grade, so my vocabulary was at a higher grade level. But, due to life events and undiagnosed ADHD, and likely undiagnosed dyscalculia, I fell behind quite a bit. But, my fav subjects in highschool were English and History too. The history teacher was a cool guy, and had pictures and stories to tell from places he had been. I never understood how some folks found that class boring. Although, too be fair, the American history portion we were taught, which was seriously whitewashed and dumbed down, was always my least favorite aspect of History class.

Omg you described the exact same system in my old my school system and you perfectly described the exact same experience I had. Turns out it was just undiagnosed autism for me lol

Haven’t finished the video but I don’t like how people gatekeep “gifted kid syndrome.” It’s used a lot, but that’s because it’s useful- or at least because there’s an appetite for this discussion. “Gifted kid burnout” is the concise term we have to describe a kind of disillusionment with school and learning, as well as one’s perception of one’s self as “smart.” I’ve seen people say things like “well obviously you were never that smart in the first place” or “you’re just lazy and desperate for attention.” Okay, sure, I’m a stupid idiot desperate for attention and unwilling to try hard. Is that the end of the discussion? If being “smart” isn’t an unchanging bedrock I can lay my identity and personality on, then people’s struggles shouldn’t be chalked up to character flaws either. Edit: yeah I can see how it’s annoying for grown adults to talk about this, especially when we don’t include the experiences of people who were told they were stupid. Maybe we can recognize that a lot of us come from a school system/societal approach to academics that seriously messed us up?

This is such a great video and you bring up some great points on the gifted kid syndrome. I got retested in 2nd grade for the gifted class and I got in, but when I got in 6th grade for some reason I was really anxious about my grades and stuff. It got really worse when I got to 8th grade because somehow I ended up in the advanced English class even though I wasn’t really good at English(and bc I had to move to a new school). I was proficient but I always felt that I wasn’t doing my best. It got to a point that towards the end of the year I would have massive panic attacks. Even after school was over I’d still have them. I always felt like I had to live up to the expectations of my teachers and my parents because they call me smart all the time but I don’t feel it. I’m about to go into my 9th grade year in a few weeks and I’m kinda nervous about it but after watching this video I don’t really feel as anxious anymore. Thanks Wurld❤️

as a former gifted kid i was always kind of embarrassed (and mad) to be a gifted kid, like i left in the middle of class and everyone watched as i left. i dont like knowing that people are watching me. plus, it was really annoying when my friends would come up to me asking "so what did you do when you were gone", MATH. I DID MATH OKAY KHLOE. and it was super boring. you guys got to read and i got pulled out of class to do math.

I went to a specialized gifted kid school for most of my childhood, only stopped after getting out of high school, but I was still in a specialized program. Everyone was shocked when most if not all of the kids from that first school were diagnosed or suspected to have autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergencies.

I was a gifted kid but my anxiety made sure i never burned out until i was going in and out of psych treatment centers like 24/7 in 10/11th grade💀💀 and even then the anxiety was too high that i still graduated with a 4.0 GPA

I find it so interesting hearing about others experiences with growing up as the ‘gifted kid’ as it was far from my own experience in primary/elementary school. Being the bottom or close to bottom in each class was honestly humiliating for me, it led me to convince myself that I wasn’t was smart as the other kids (cause well..look at the proof). I can only speculate that much of it had to do with the environment and how anxious it made me. I do wonder whether things would’ve been different if I got diagnosed as being on the spectrum a lot earlier or whether that could’ve come with another bout of struggles, or perhaps if I did have the right support or a teacher that didn’t look at me with indifference/contempt. I thrived once I was out of school as I didn’t have that constant mirror and dread of being in an environment that created so much hindrance to me truly absorbing and learning the curriculum (though one could argue social media is a nice little replacement of that 😅) .

I was gifted in elementary school but then I got hit with a bunch of ACEs & nobody knew what to do about it so I very quickly got the troubled teen label where no one expected anything of me other than addiction and teen pregnancy (which I avoided, but was still treated like 💩)

Found your channel two days ago and I gotta say I love your style of editing and commentary. Keep it up, you're goated, Wurld.

Dividing fractions is hard WURLD, genuinely I really feel you😂❤

Is it telling that I feel called out by the definition of a gifted, the whole ties their self worth to their grades 😭😭😭

As a psychology graduate trying to master in counseling, You got it on the head. Tbf, gifted kid syndrome making me crash, burn, and learn to deal partially got me into this field, so I blame that for how I got this way.

As a former “gifted” kid & son of a public school teacher who wouldn’t let me join it (as he thought it was a weird hierarchal system that gave kids an inflated ego at an early age) I was often bummed out. Looking back on it now as an adult diagnosed with adult ADHD and OCD it makes sense why I was “gifted” lmaooo my anxiety just made me get my work done as fast as humanely possible to the letter so no one would get mad at me

..that makes so much sense, no wonder why I didn't know how to do division until 6th grade

For me in primary we had a thing where 3 of us got pulled out of class and got to make fun crafts. I was always the smart kid. Still don’t know what the hell that was about lol. But for 5-6 we got to join a math competition. You were picked by teachers and if you could be there for the competition you stayed. You couldn’t miss to many lessons, you could only forget your work twice. And it was definitely an advanced class/competition and I got to be in it for both 5th and 6th grade. That’s just my experience with gifted kid stuff. Never really had it but yeah. I’m still one of the token smart kids and I’m starting to become average and I’m desperately trying to keep this smart kid title. I probably always will till I graduate but I’m hanging on by a thread 😃 Also the school system is coming for everyone. No matter if you’re gifted or not, they’re just preparing us for a 9-5 and to bow down to our future bosses and stuff like that.

4:29 My sister-in-law always called these kids "sweaty regular kids" 💀

For me it was "the gifted kid" to "the burnt out kid" to "late diagnosis of autism" pipeline

Honestly when I get older I realize the reason why I relate to robots and cyborgs is more than them not understanding social cues or classic monotone voices and nerdy facts but also… They’re always, no matter what treated as machines. Not a person, but something that is good at only one and should be good at only that one thing. If not? then you are questioned as if there’s something “wrong” with you, because you’re not working like a machine.

I was in the gifted program and haven't burnt out yet. You kinda just have to keep up the rigor that you were given. It's hard, but it's do-able. I'm in college now, and if it feels too easy I give myself more challenges, like learning a new subject on my own, learning a new language, or learning a new hobby.

I've had this theory that the gifted program was just where they(unintentionally) put all the autistic kids that aren't high-support-needs enough to be in special ed bc looking back every single one of the kids I was in that class with including me were wicked autistic

I got placed into my middle schools “gifted and talented” program in 7th grade. To be honest I liked it way more then the general ed classes I had been in before. But it was very clear from the get go that almost everyone in my GT classes had some mental things going on. Weather this be trauma , ptsd, adhd, ocd, etc etc. The point is we were told that our brains were wired differently than everybody else’s. To be fair we did take more advanced classes then our 7th/8th grade piers. But this just ultimately just put everyone in stressful situations. Meaning that yes, we were “smarter” then the gen ed kids but it wasn’t being shown because of the fact that we were getting so much hard work above our grade level. Half of my class just quite doing assignments all together. In the end I really enjoyed the GT program, but at the same time I think a lot of kids had the gifted kid syndrome.

as a gifted kid who was praised my whole life during elementary , seeing that first C or D on anything made me feel like I failed. And it sent me into a spiral of depression and I fell behind. I was lost in places like math and English, because I was so used to everything coming easy , there was no challenge. But once there was , it sucked to me.

I might have some symptoms of gifted kid syndrome. My mom is smart my dad is smart and so naturally my brother and I (for me I guess) are smart. My parents would always encourage us to do well in school and encourage us to get high 90s. My mom would use to make us do math workbooks when we were very young and also applied us to do an advanced prep class (which I have been doing since 3rd grade and am still doing now). I remember back in my old school there was a gifted and talented program thing that you had to take an exam in order to get in and I didn’t really try hard on but was 2 points away from getting in. I started to apply myself more in 5th grade and got into a higher level grade 6th class. But my family moved to a different state so things had to start over again. In 6th grade in my new school I did not really do so well lol but my parents helped me a lot during the pandemic. Same thing with 7th grade (I was full virtual learning) but I also studied my ass off for certain subjects things because my mom and dad were in the house always supervising me. I took a test in order to get into honors algebra 1 and I passed. In 8th grade I took 4 honors classes (French, math, English, history, they did not have one for science. The only class I struggled with was math (I had a 87) avg grade but still made it into 9th geometry honors. I sucked ass in geometry I had a 83 avg but I still did well in most of my classes and got into honors algebra 2. 3rd marking period and 4th marking period of 10th grade was horrible. I had like 5 honor classes and I did crap on then. I also studied my ass off for some subjects so I really don’t know what happened. My gpa was 3.86 and now it’s 3.75. my brother got into a specialized high school around that time.I am also taking 3 aps in September and I desperately need to get it up. Also ur cinnamoroll headband is so cute

i was in GT (short for "gifted and talented") in 2nd grade and again in 6th-8th and it was both the funnest thing ever and also the most stressful thing ever cuz we were doing insane long term projects with high school level presentations and i was just starting to go through autistic burnout (i was undiagnosed until 21 TEEHEE) luckily in high school i went back to the basic level of everything and even got behind in math so it slowed down a little bit (until my dear sweet favorite teacher convinced me to do her college-level english class my senior year and i ended up at a crisis center and almost didn't graduate because of a 15+ page essay on walt whitman that i never finished LMAO)

That is the weird thing, I relate with this so much BUT I’ve never been labeled as a gifted kid 🧍‍♀️

I was called gifted a lot because I am pretty smart, especially when it came to science and even though I was high functioning autistic, I didn't get put in any special programs surprisingly. But I did realize that in most of my classes, everyone asked for my help, especially in science. I swear whenever I was in life science in 7th grade, everybody wanted my help and everyone wanted to be in my group if we were doing group projects, mainly so they could use me for an easy grade. And I did try to teach them myself, even though I was taking speech therapy and was very terrible at explaining things. But I wasn't good at everything, math was my most hated subject since I was terrible at it. Elementary school was a walk in the park, but once middle school and high school math kicked in, I was struggling so much. Sports I'm also terrible at, except for running, until I start running out of breath due to my weak lungs, then I'm terrible at it. But let's put the academics aside. I did realize how depressed and anxious I was and now that I'm better at speaking to others, I've managed to get many friends that I'm able to talk to about these things. But now I realize that I don't really talk to my family as much about serious topics and I don't think I can talk to them about those things. But yeah being a former gifted kid is weird.

I went from gifted kid to dumb kid by moving countries. I was gifted throughout elementary and middle with plans to go to a private academy. I moved across the world and couldnt speak/read/write the language. The only thing I stayed consistent with was math. Then i went to a school where they prioritized english so it didn’t matter that I could do math. Further found out multiple teachers and guidance counselors gave red flags about my behavior being heavily abnormal and more in line with someone who was autistic when i was in elementary/middle school. I struggled really hard. I’m still struggling. Imma be real around high school i started drinking and giving up because it didn’t matter. All of a sudden everything i worked for was nothing. Im 21 now and still getting rejected from colleges, jobs, and more. I’m not drinking anymore but i just realized like last year that a lot of those skills that people typically learn early were things i never learned because i missed those classes in favor of some second rate project based class that didnt stick. Im trying to teach myself them now. Went from ahead of the curve to not even qualifying to work at a amazon warehouse. It wouldn’t sting so bad if the people around me didnt directly say i was stupid now but hey its either try late and be stupid or kms🤷

yeah so it turns out that me getting so involved in books that i literally did not hear the teacher yelling at me and had to move down on the behavior chart was not a sign of me being gifted but in fact a sign of me being neurodiverse

I used to think I was a gifted kid, but I just needed extra help with math so I went to a math help class…

I also loved that moment when I did not care too much about grades and expectations. I wish I could somehow convince my gifted friend to do the same.

I was a gifted kid in elementary, but the school I went to only had 75 kids and only three people in my class were "gifted" so we were just given the same work as everyone else, and then when we finished it within 5 minutes we would get something harder

It's been a few years since I "burnt out" but I'm still dealing with the consequences to this day lmao. I was in the gifted program all throughout elementary, but on the other hand, I was also a bit of a problem child. Frequent outbursts because of grades, lashed out at my peers sometimes. Around 4th-5th grade I knew that my luck was about to run out and I developed major anxiety issues. I wasn't able to prepare myself in time before burnout hit, so when I was admitted into a 'special' science highschool having to deal with not being the 'smartest' kid was punch to the stomach. My anger issues only got worse in middleschool and a bunch of extracurriculars I did then practically destroyed all my self-confidence. I realized at that point that I couldn't deal with high stress situations, let alone socializing with other people. I also found out that I sucked at STEM if it wasnt memorization and that I much preferred the humanities(except I go to a STEM hs and I can't get out!!). The next semester is only 2 weeks away and I'm kind of scared to go back because we have to start a huge project that we have to work on until we graduate and I work very poorly under stress.

This just reminded me of a stupid math competition they would pull me out for bc I was gifted in math, BUT THE QUESTIONS WERE SO HARD I NEVER WON A SINGLE ONE such a waste of time!! But they still pulled me every time despite me never getting all the answers right bruh

My parents had me tested for the gifted program at the suggestion of my teacher, and I just barely passed. Was in it for two years and my AuDHD-ass was STRUGGLING for those two years. It ended with a parent-teacher conference with my gifted teacher, my regular teacher, my parents, and I. It was basically a "come to Jesus" conference where everyone except my mom just kinda ripped into me. My dad absolutely was there to throw me under the bus and talked about how I would misbehave at home but was so well behaved at school. I just remember my teachers looking at me so disappointedly, shaking their heads, and going "oh, Jesse, that's awful." I excused myself to the bathroom and cried lmao

Yeah I was "gifted" as a kid. Now I don't know how to study, I don't know how to learn if I'm uninterested, and I'm so burnt out I don't Eat during high stress points. It was just autism, I'm just autistic and already used all my brain up

I remember getting picked by that old Duke Tip program. They had me take the most boring, low-level class in coding I ever took. They almost changed my career path for the worse with it lmao.

My gifted program I went to in elementary was so weird. Like. It was mostly physics stuff, photography stuff, logic puzzles, and architecture stuff(?). We went to some city to check out architectural elements irl. Kinda cool. Class was pretty underfunded though. It wasn't in an actual school building, it was in some other commercial office. We were even advised to limit using water and turn off the lights when they're not in use. There was even a sign on the bathroom doors "Yellow, leave it mellow. Brown, flush it down."

I love this channel. You make me feel like I'm talking to an old friend who has been gone for a few years in life, and now they're back. You have such a welcoming vibe ❤

In elementary I got put in all the “advanced” classes and once 6th grade hit I couldnt concentrate on shit, had no motivation. I remember not being picked for the advanced math class and feeling like a failure. My grades got worse each year and I barely graduated lol guess I peaked in elementary

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I went to a normal elementary school from 1st to 3rd grade that didn't have class divisions so I didn't think I was too smart, but I didn't think I was dumb either. So when I moved to a new school in 4th grade that did, I was quickly moved into the 'lower' math class which had less students and felt like a 1-on-1 tutoring session with the teacher. This was such a shock to me that I studied hard 'to prove I'm not dumb' and they eventually moved me back into the average math class. I'm not sure, but I think the test were timed multiplication drills? That school also had a teacher who assigned spelling quizzes where we had to write down the word she said and pronounced crayon as 'cran' and gave me a zero when I wrote that down bc I hadn't heard anyone say it like that before.

My middle school didn’t know how to deal with my learning issues so they just said I wasn’t responsible for certain subjects. Like they didn’t even give me a chance. At the time I obviously was happy about not having to do as much work, but eventually I just gave up entirely on trying because they didn’t have any expectations or hope for me. It didn’t help that my peers literally treated me like a baby BECAUSE of this treatment. They tried to help me in class but I just wanted to be seen as normal so I rejected it even though I really needed it. They fr thought that because I wasn’t understanding the material like the rest of the students that I HAD to have some sort mental condition like adhd or autism or for some reason bipolar disorder?? It was really dehumanizing and embarrassing constantly having testing done over and over again to figure out what was “wrong” with me. I literally just learned differently and they couldn’t understand that. While I wasn’t a “gifted kid” or even close to anything like that, I literally didn’t know how to take notes or study properly because they just gave the answer to everything. I definitely relate to not knowing how to try or work because they didn’t even give me that option. That’s why high school was literal hell when it came to that stuff.

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I think people who said they were gifted kids I mean the key word is kids. If they were actually smart it never leaves you during adulthood. or if you need to work more then just adapt if you were so gifted it shouldn’t be too hard to learn

The unfortunate thing is I didn't burn out until recently and now in my senior year of high school my family is like "you used to do so well"... I'm just over it

I’m sorry but I had to give a sub merely just from your off topic convo about your brief experience with soccer and the girls on the team, I thought you were me for a second!! Except I played soccer for a good 15 years of my life and for about 9 of them I was stuck with the same few girls in the competitive side of it and eventually had to deal with them in high school just from going to the same school,( not even being on the school team with them) and feeling like I never had a true safe space to be in. Not to mention I was the only black girl on the team, so you can imagine how that went, and to this day I firmly believe that I was better than 95% of the girls on the teams but was always forced to learn my place as a little black girl operating in a competition sport where being the best brought you a lot of opportunities. 😭 I actually just started my RU-vid channel and you just inspired a future video 🫶🏾

hearing people talk about how often gifted kids are neurodivergent made me realize I have ADHD. I chose not to be in the “gifted” classes in 8th grade and I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t make friends in my class but it recently dawned on me that it’s because no one else was neurodivergent (cough cough, weird) like me 💀💀

I was in a gifted kid class in both elementary and middle school In elementary we were taken to the middle school because the classrooms were in the basement of said school (not in a creepy way, that was just the only place it could be held considering that *all* of the elementary school's gifted kids in our district were there) and in middle school there was a classroom right above the basement that we went to instead of p.e. (there were weeks when we went to p.e. still, it was just a p.e./gifted shit/p.e./gifted shit week rotation) One of the teachers taught both groups (grades 1-5 in the mornings and 6-8 in the evenings) that everyone loved. It was pretty nice A majority of us had undiagnosed adhd, ocd, autism, etc. (Including myself) and we were burnt out 97% of the time :'J

1:42 I could tell because of the glasses. I was also a gifted kid, too.

My schools never had any gifted programs (apart from a school I attended for a year in Chicago with college courses if that counts), so I just got straight A's throughout middle and elementary school as a gifted student, apart from a few times

I was asked to join the gifted program and I said no because I didn’t want people to expect so much from me and now I’m relieved I said no

I was a 'gifted kid' in elementary school, but was undiagnosed Autistic and now I'm in High School with anxiety and depression. Still have advanced classes so classes aren't boring, yes, but if it was up to me, I'd just leave school entirely.

I was in the honors program/gifted kid program from middle school through highschool and took AP classes and I haven't burnt out. But I think it's because our teachers literally had to teach us study skills and note taking skills so when I did struggle, I knew what to do. I defo agree that it has to do with a lack of preparedness when it comes to academic blocks.

I feel like Abbott elementary season 1 EP 6 captivates this real well

As someone who's opposite of gifted I feel like being "gifted" is actually normal cuz I was so bad in school couldn't concentrate or anything I barely passed and I feel so very much alone in the world because of it

8:17 during my second grade year, apparently my parents asked my teacher why I was moved down from the accelerated math (one year ahead of the grade essentially) and put into on level and how they could help me get back to the accelerated level. And as they told me, she no joke told them I was just dumb essentially (note that there was no test involved). I ended up in the gifted program in middle school though which had an accelerated math class that taught two years ahead… I’ve always been relatively good at math and banged through on level assignments pretty quickly while in those classes.

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