#giftedness

[zebulontheplanet]

Giftedness is not required with autism or adhd. No one owes you talent or giftedness. Stop acting like it’s a requirement!!

[chilli-talks-a-lot]

How Prevent Gifted Kid Burnout From a Gifted Silly whose Fire is still Blazing with Rage

1. EVERYTHING IS STUPID.

School is stupid, parents with unrealistically high expectations of you are stupid, teachers who overwork you are stupid.

You don't need their approval. You don't need to impress authority to have worth.

You don't need to be perfect, especially not in a broken system.

Test scores aren't a measure of intelligence. You are smart, even if the material was difficult to grasp.

You're not "wasting your potential" if you decide to pursue a career you love. Create art, write music, perform, you're contributing to the beauty of the world. There's more value in that than most people see.

You're not "wasting your potential" if you're an adult who isn't busting their butt in college or a fancy job. The economy is fucked right now, and being an adult is hard. You're doing your best.

And sometimes, you can't be at your best all the time, but you're trying, and that's all that matters.

2. Don't let school ruin a passion for learning.

Just learn. Learn and love learning. Learn without school holding you down. Find your passions, and run after them. Pursue knowledge because it's fucking fun.

Research something you care about for fun, challenge yourself to learn how to complete that math problem, learn, not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to.

Never let school make you lose a love for learning.

3. They explain it more effectively than I can lol

I made a video game metaphor but, when I was finding the video that made me realize this I read another video game metaphor that explained it better, "So basically, as a gifted kid, I skipped the tutorial because it felt too easy. Then the actual game threw curveballs at me" (adorablehoe, 2nd top comment).

HealthyGamerGG's entire channel has great information

[jellyfish3s]

i should relate more to my giftedness but it's so damn hard when the only part of it that really applies is "i got good grades without studying don't fucking ask me how"

[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

[metapianycist]

sometimes i read old tumblr posts (or even old poems) that i think are beautifully worded or skillfully argued, and i am shocked to discover that i wrote them.

i am working on not viewing this in a self-deprecating "wow my brain is poop now, i used to be Smart™" way but in a way of "i had a lot more time and spoons and opportunities to devote to developing my writing/argument skills when i wrote that, and i'm proud of what I've done." i am out of practice now for multiple reasons, some of which are beyond my control but none of which mean "I've peaked and nothing i can write now will ever be as good, so i shouldn't bother trying" or "i was more valuable then than i am now."

as an undiagnosed neurodivergent child whose disabilities were ignored (or outright denied) because i was categorized as "gifted," i was told i was "too smart to have ADHD" among other fucked up things. my special interests (that teachers knew about) were diagnosed as gifted, my lack of friends was attributed to giftedness making me unrelatable, and all my struggles were diagnosed as laziness instead of executive dysfunction. opportunities when i was able to perform at my absolute best then became the standard i was expected to perform all the time, and my inevitable failure to do so was interpreted as more evidence of my laziness, instead of me being a human being.

tl;dr: i am realizing that i have more work to do in dismantling the Gifted® Kid™ bullshit that laid much of the foundation of my internalized ableism. accepting myself as disabled—more than a decade ago—was only the beginning.

[giftedswagpoll]

Gifted Swag Tournament: Quarter-finals

Phineas Flynn (Phineas and Ferb) vs. Gus Porter (The Owl House)

HYDROGEN BOMB VS HYDROGEN BOMB

[minipisi-is-dumb]

guys what the hell was anyone gonna tell me shadow was canon gifted. wdym we got three canon nd fellas in sonic and i had no idea. why would you do this 2 me

[tacosdefresa]

Si

[50044w44s]

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

[theineated]

As a gifted person I'm very very grateful that Jonny (and Rusty Quill) has chosen to make Gerry and Sam gifted. The only representation we get in media is Sheldoncooperesque knowitall jerks or deathnotesque unrealistic supergeniuses. It's so refreshing to see two characters who act like normal people openly talk about that part of themselves

[chaosandthe-deadblog]

franziska von karma is gifted in the sense that she skipped grades in school and is obsessed with doing everything perfectly

edgeworth is gifted but he never found out he was but he still has the trademark superiority complex gifted kids have at some point in their lives

phoenix wright was diagnosed when he was a kid but he's dumb as shit so no one ever thinks he's gifted until he mentions that he changed careers on a whim and still passed the bar making shit up on the spot

[xjnegen]

Hi I've noticed there is a lot of neurodivergency info going around with tags #actually [thing] (like #actually autistic, #actually adhd etc), but there's very little stuff for gifted people.

Giftedness is a neurodivergency as well! And the amount of information to be found about it is HORRIBLY low. As in, wikipedia basically says "gifted people are super awesome and smart, thats it". That ignores that there are so many symptoms that aren't necessairily very easy to deal with, both for gifted people themselves and for the people around them!

I've been misdiagnosed by teachers, other kids, my driving instructor (???) and many more people as autistic/adhd, and honestly I think we could do with some more gifted people awareness.

[parrotvoid]

[jellyfish3s]

dad had to teach me how to ask why someone is asking me if they could take something im using because i was supposedly rude to my mom (which i didn't intend to be). someone bring me a diagnosis i feel like i'll cry

[kaurwreck]

I continue to be bewildered by the internet's definition of intellectual giftedness. The gifted program in my underfunded, Deep Southern public school, as mandated by the state, requires three tests, including two different intelligence-based tests and an interview, as well as a recommendation by a teacher on the premise that the student is struggling in a traditional classroom environment based on behaviors that align with a specific diagnostic criteria. Gifted programs are funded through special education allocations.

Giftedness is not "you read fast and teachers in elementary school often praised you;" gifted education program coordinators train teachers that often it is the disruptive, struggling students who are intellectually gifted (I've watched several trainings since they became available online at the outset of the pandemic, and all emphasized that giftedness is not synonymous with academic talent or well-adjustment).

Giftedness is a form of neurodivergence, and y'all act as if the few accommodations that exist for it are the root of all intellectual stratification, and that a symptom of giftedness is middle school being harder than elementary school.

[saint-daimon]