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catboyfurina · 1 year ago

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One thing I've never seen ex"gifted kids" talk about (and maybe it's not that common ? Maybe it's just me???) Is that when you go from your little bubble of gifted kid classes (advanced math in my case cus I ditched the honors track for writing related stuff earlier on) into just being mixed in with Everybody (college) it's actually super jarring because you go from being Consistently the stupidest guy in the room into being goodish*??? At the classes comparatively. Like yeah people told me I was smart but it was basically only in the context of "so why are you so lazy >:(" and the Evidence (everyone else in the class understanding things faster and better and completing homework and projects in less time with more quality, getting things wrong and messing up All The Time, etc) said that wasn't actually for real true. And now I'm trying to explain multiplying both sides of the equation to a senior in their second to last semester and I'm like ??? So confused

#beeep #inb4 i just wanna say: intelligence is a meaningless category both in terms of its vagueness and in terms of its value #this class isnt her major and im sure shes excellent at those and also last i heard she has so many classes so perhaps it was just tiredness #i suck complete balls at memorization so like . yea #and also its wrong to say that being smarter makes u better than someone now all those disclaimers established #why does nobody else talk about this!!!!! where are the other people who were the worst in their advanced class and it maybe fucked up their #like. perceptions of whats expected snd normal #anyway yea #also i say ish because getting the information goes decently well (in this class specifically) but completing tasks is not my strong suit at #all #but like its so jarring because i got So Used to being the person who messed up the most and like. huh whah

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