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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by mdorazio on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:55PM (#21254171)
Similar boat for me, but in my case it was that everyone else then raised their expectations. Because if you're "gifted" or whatever term they use these days, clearly you should be accomplishing amazing things constantly and if you don't you're a disappointment to the world at large. That kind of burden is pretty awful for most kids to grow up with.
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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by alexbanks on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:05AM (#21255467)
I was in gifted classes growing up, but it felt like a big fraud. I never really did any of the work, so my grades were always mediocre at best. But then testing came around and I'd score in the top %s, and continue to get placed in classes I wasn't willing to work hard enough to succeed at. It was this treadmill of failure and shame. It was really really awful, but my mom always said if I placed that high I had to take those classes, so I just kept going. It was definitely a pretty damaging process.
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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by TurkishPoptart on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:52AM (#21259767)
This is me. Did you at least become a software engineer?
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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by alexbanks on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:39PM (#21260435)
I did. I've been employed as an eng for 8 years.
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