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the really shitty thing about being told that youre smart your whole entire life is that as soon as you dont understand something you just kind of completely shut down and his this big shitty crisis because maybe youre not as smart as youve always been told 

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Preach.

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100 Things I get yelled at for at school that are not against the rules:

Tapping my toe

Bouncing my knee 

Bouncing both my knees

Playing drums with my fingers

Twiddling my thumbs

Chewing on my pen

Chewing

Playing with a paper clip

Playing with a moldable eraser

Playing with putty

Playing with clay

Clicking a binder clip

Clicking my pen

Tapping my pen

Tapping my finger

‘sketching’

doodling

coloring in every other box of graph paper

coloring in letters on handouts

Writing in colored pencils

Writing in colored pens

Changing writing from cursive to print and back

Changing writing color mid paragraph

Not writing on lined paper

Not writing between the lines of paper

Writing REALLY BIG

Writing multiple lines of words in one line of the paper

Writing on lined paper like this

“Decorating” the margins

“Decorating’ the Header

Writing in code

Writing in Crayon

Writing in Sharpie

Snapping a rubber band

erasing the marks on the desk

Playing with a ball of foil from lunch

Sneaking bites of quiet snacks

Tying my shoes in the middle of lecture

Sitting sideways in my chair

Looking at other kids

Looking at the clock

Looking at the giraffe hidden in the potted plant

Looking out the window

Looking at the wrong board

Not looking at the teacher

Looking at the teacher too much

Staring at the board

Not looking at the board at all

Not paying attention

Not looking like I’m paying attention

Knocking a water bottle over

My shirt being ‘too bright’

My shoes being ‘too bright’

My socks being ‘too bright’

Having a balloon

Accidentally numbering my entire test wrong

Numbering half my test wrong

Not being in class because I was ill

Being in class not feeling well

Missing class for sports

Missing sports for class

Making faces

Giggling at my own doodles

Drawing on my notebooks

Drawing on my folder

Drawing on my shoes

Drawing on my handouts

Misspelling the instructors name

Misspelling the class’s name

Having to go potty in the middle of class

Telling a classmate they reminded me of eeyore 

Asking the teacher to explain a biblical reference because I’m not religious

Being terrible at history

Not asking questions

Not knowing the answer

Coming dressed up as the grim reaper on halloween

Having a ‘bubble wand’

Not using my locker

Not wanting to take the PSATs

Not taking the PSAT seriously

Falling asleep during the PSAT

Taking the SATs early

Not taking the SATs seriously enough 

Falling asleep during the SATs 

Doodling during Drivers ED

Fidgeting

Cooing at the CPR baby test dummy

Having a large stuffed cat in my locker

Not telling my counselor I got into a top school with scholarship

Not dressing ‘nicely enough’ to sit in a class

Drawing on my calculator case

Typing messages into my calculator

Having a Disturbed band T

Texting on my phone after classes were over

Giving a friend a piggy back ride down the hall

Talking to my friend in code

Plugging my ears during when a fire alarm went off

Never heard of (insert celebrity here)

Mixing Juices for sports practice in the hallway

Knitting in the hallway

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Autistic Axolotl: ‘Oh, you have a high IQ. Clearly you should have perfect self-care.’ *rolls eyes*

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It actually is called “Palcuzzi’s ploy,” and it was used long ago, as I understand it, in Pennsylvania where Palcuzzi had been criticized by the School Board because his gifted program was “elitist and took a favored few students and gave them special learning experiences.” Palcuzzi, as the story goes, responded to the School Board by saying that the biggest problem with the gifted program was that it was not elitist enough. He said that if the school really wanted a first-rate gifted program to be proud of, then they should take several steps. 1) Conduct a state-wide search to hire a specially trained gifted teacher who had been through gifted programs; 2) Give that teacher a salary supplement; 3) Hire specialty teachers to work with children who showed promise in particular specialty areas, 4) Let children try out for the gifted program, and avoid age grouping so that the gifted children could work with other children—older or younger—based on competency and potential, 5) Allow these teachers to freely bring these gifted children in after school, on weekends, and during vacations to develop their skills, 6) Make the program a source of pride, with school assemblies where the children could describe the projects they were working on, as well as their goals and aspirations, 7) Get broad community support, including newspaper and TV reporters who would write about their activities, and 8) Perhaps supply these students with a sweater or a jacket that said “G” for gifted. Then Palcuzzi said, “But I guess you already have this kind of program, because I just described your football team and your basketball team and your baseball team.”

~ James Webb, Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page (via fuckyeahintellectualgiftedness)

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"What's a Zen?" [the cook] asked. The Fool's bells tinkled as he sorted through his cards. Without thinking, he said: "Oh, a sub-sect of the Turnwise Klatch philosophical system of Sumtin, noted for its simple austerity and the offer of personal tranquility and wholeness achieved through meditation and breathing techniques; an interesting aspect is the asking of apparently nonsensical questions in order to widen the doors of perception." "How's that again?" asked the cook suspiciously... The Fool hesitated with a card in his hand, suppressed his panic and thought quickly. "I'faith, nuncle," he squeaked, "thou't more full of questions than a martlebury is of mizzensails." The cook relaxed. "Well, OK," he said, not entirely satisfied.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters. 

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So I’ve got pretty severe ADHD.

And I’m stuck in a class where, most days, every single other person is talking. Some days, only 20/22 people are talking.

This class is an independent thing- you go through lessons and teach them to yourself. Alone. There is no reason whatsoever that you’d need to talk. However, everyone does. And they do it loudly.

Even with my meds it is incredibly difficult to focus. My teacher knows I’ve got severe ADHD. My teacher asks me if I’m alright all the time.

But I cannot bring myself to ask her to keep the room a tad bit quieter, because as an intellectually gifted person, my whole life I have been shamed and occasionally punished for struggling or needing help.

The end result is me blaming myself both for being unable to focus and being unable to do anything about it.

“If I’m so smart, why can’t I fix this problem?”

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The last thing you want to do with kids like these, she said, is to try and hold them back...Confirming the true extent of Jack’s intellectual potential was simultaneously thrilling and terrifying, validating both our secret pride and a long list of worries: his anxiety, his difficulty making friends, his out-and-out difference from other kids. The news sent my parental compass spinning. Slower-is-better had been our true north. Now I didn’t know which way to go.

-a sweet, if mainstream-y, salon.com article.

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