forum former gifted kid chat

Started July 14, 2020 by @croccin-champagne

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I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

Yeah, I may have that problem too

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

mine are mostly stupid. out of current characters tho nicky is straight up a genius. and then the dude went and transferred from his fancy private smart kid school to ANOTHER private school but for less smart kids. his twin is more a people genius.

I’m just now realizing one of my major issues is with being a GT kid, I was always kind of taught that intelligence and talent always stayed on the same level, or at the very least, people who had more natural talent would always be ahead. I think that’s why I can’t commit to things if I’m not naturally good at them, I feel like I’ll never be anywhere close to good enough. So I’ve quit on a lot of things, especially if I do put in effort and it doesn’t yield results.

that's a really good point, and sort of what i was trying to get at (though i wasn't as concise lol). gifted kids learn that their intelligence is the source of their worth, and that their worth is intrinsically linked with their "natural talent," which is such a nebulous concept to begin with.

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

mine are mostly stupid. out of current characters tho nicky is straight up a genius. and then the dude went and transferred from his fancy private smart kid school to ANOTHER private school but for less smart kids. his twin is more a people genius.

Honestly so many of my stories center on washed-up gifted kids that it's kinda wild. All of my realistic fiction stories (besides the Much Ado musical ig lol) center on different former gifted kids.

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

out of my main 5, i have 1 gifted kid who never grew out of the overachiever mindset, 2 who at least sort of did (although they have plenty of other issues), 1 who wasn't a gifted kid in school but was gifted in other ways (magic) which led the adults in her life to hold her to a similar higher standard and now her ego is both super inflated and super fragile, and 1 who could never have been considered academically gifted in any sense and she's better off for it.

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

out of my main 5, i have 1 gifted kid who never grew out of the overachiever mindset, 2 who at least sort of did (although they have plenty of other issues), 1 who wasn't a gifted kid in school but was gifted in other ways (magic) which led the adults in her life to hold her to a similar higher standard and now her ego is both super inflated and super fragile, and 1 who could never have been considered academically gifted in any sense and she's better off for it.

In my realistic fiction stuff, I've got Victor (duh), Geneva, Jackson (kinda? he was the "smart but doesn't apply himself" type), Kate (current gifted kid), Max, Beckett, Marisol, and Della's entire friend group.
Oliver'd definitely be considered a former gifted kid, as would andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), Francesca, and Margot, and Samuel a current one, same with Lysander.
Christopher and Trinity too.

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

out of my main 5, i have 1 gifted kid who never grew out of the overachiever mindset, 2 who at least sort of did (although they have plenty of other issues), 1 who wasn't a gifted kid in school but was gifted in other ways (magic) which led the adults in her life to hold her to a similar higher standard and now her ego is both super inflated and super fragile, and 1 who could never have been considered academically gifted in any sense and she's better off for it.

In my realistic fiction stuff, I've got Victor (duh), Geneva, Jackson (kinda? he was the "smart but doesn't apply himself" type), Kate (current gifted kid), Max, Beckett, Marisol, and Della's entire friend group.
Oliver'd definitely be considered a former gifted kid, as would andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), Francesca, and Margot, and Samuel a current one, same with Lysander.
Christopher and Trinity too.

when i was making victor's moodboard earlier today, he was giving me major anxious gifted kid vibes

I didn't realize how many of my characters were former/current Gifted Kids (or are by their setting's standards/equal or would be considered such if they lived in our setting)

out of my main 5, i have 1 gifted kid who never grew out of the overachiever mindset, 2 who at least sort of did (although they have plenty of other issues), 1 who wasn't a gifted kid in school but was gifted in other ways (magic) which led the adults in her life to hold her to a similar higher standard and now her ego is both super inflated and super fragile, and 1 who could never have been considered academically gifted in any sense and she's better off for it.

In my realistic fiction stuff, I've got Victor (duh), Geneva, Jackson (kinda? he was the "smart but doesn't apply himself" type), Kate (current gifted kid), Max, Beckett, Marisol, and Della's entire friend group.
Oliver'd definitely be considered a former gifted kid, as would andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), Francesca, and Margot, and Samuel a current one, same with Lysander.
Christopher and Trinity too.

when i was making victor's moodboard earlier today, he was giving me major anxious gifted kid vibes

He definitely is, of the "I had my entire future meticulously planned and I have no idea what to do now that that plan's been ruined-" variety

I just realized that Oberon also falls into the gifted/formerly gifted kid category and I don't know how I feel about that.

Hey yall, im still in gifted. Am i allowed to join this chat?

Ya I think so. I’m still in the gifted program I just suffer a hell of a lot :’)

Ya I think so. I’m still in the gifted program I just suffer a hell of a lot :’)

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Ya I think so. I’m still in the gifted program I just suffer a hell of a lot :’)

I've never been gifted, just honors in some classes, and I STILL suffer a hell of a lot xD

I wasn't dumb though. "Apply yourself" was basically the motto of my childhood…

At this point I'm stuck so far in my comfort zones with the things I AM good at, I've stopped progressing. Part of why I gave up art, I just wasn't happy with my work, wasn't having any fun, and quit. Now trying to learn how to be a game master for my family I'm having a hard itme reminding myself that it's a skill I have to develop :/ Normally If I'm not already good at a thing, I just quit

Danggg there are a lot of us. Welp here's my story- I was quite gifted all throughout elementary, enough that I didn't feel like the work was work. I was especially advanced in reading, ELA, science, and I guess history but math wise I stayed on the same level as my peers. I remember doing long division in forth grade and crying because it didn't just "click" like in other subjects. I actually had to learn it and take time to think. I was in an early morning advanced science program, which was perfectly chaotic. We made parachutes for eggs, and were forced to name them and draw faces on them so we'd grow attached and make sure they would make it to the ground without cracking. I also got dry ice in my eye in that class. Good times. Anyway, when 7th and 8th rolled around my "school is too easy" attitude vanished since they assign ridiculous amounts of work. Not necessarily stimulating work, just the kind that actually made me busy. Around then I kinda fell behind and am now floating around upperclassmen level, except in reading and ELA. I'm still considered advanced in those, I believe.

(this entire chat looked me in the eye as it punched me in the gut
apparently I, too, am a former gifted kid)

Danggg there are a lot of us. Welp here's my story- I was quite gifted all throughout elementary, enough that I didn't feel like the work was work. I was especially advanced in reading, ELA, science, and I guess history but math wise I stayed on the same level as my peers. I remember doing long division in forth grade and crying because it didn't just "click" like in other subjects. I actually had to learn it and take time to think. I was in an early morning advanced science program, which was perfectly chaotic. We made parachutes for eggs, and were forced to name them and draw faces on them so we'd grow attached and make sure they would make it to the ground without cracking. I also got dry ice in my eye in that class. Good times. Anyway, when 7th and 8th rolled around my "school is too easy" attitude vanished since they assign ridiculous amounts of work. Not necessarily stimulating work, just the kind that actually made me busy. Around then I kinda fell behind and am now floating around upperclassmen level, except in reading and ELA. I'm still considered advanced in those, I believe.

Jeez, dude, did you have any lasting damage from that??

Nah lol, it burned for a bit but we got it out from under my lower eyelid pretty quick. It was just a little chip. It did land in my now-bad eye though, before I had glasses, but there's no evidence that's what caused the vision problems.

hello to my people
I am that kid who has to do good and no it's not because my parents really pressure me. everyone else just expects it of me. I mean I spent my first three schooling years in a Montessori school and then went to public 2nd grade already knowing how to do a lot of things. I was gifted in pretty much all of it and I'd do my assignments and then go back to reading my book. My favorite class was honestly always my TAG class cuz all of my friends were there and we were super close. I've always gotten A's and if I don't have an A, I feel like absolute crap. About middle school is when I realized that my assignments were still pretty easy for me but I just didn't have any motivation to do any of it. coincidentally it'a also when my mental health became really bad
Even now, I'm still trying too hard to get good grades and be a good student so the teacher likes me. I need everyone to like me, all the time, it's exhausting In quarantine, we only had to do 1 assignment a week (10 weeks) and then we were done with school but I still did all of the assignments for no reason and it just
i don't even know

Lol I got perfect scores for my last quarter even though I'm just me. It sort of makes no sense. But at least I get to brag.

Lol I got perfect scores for my last quarter even though I'm just me. It sort of makes no sense. But at least I get to brag.

….did they do pass/fail? A lot of schools did that because of corona

Nah.

Hello folks!
I'm still technically a "gifted" kid but definitely not as much as I was back in elementary school. My story starts back in second grade when I had just moved to the U.S. I remember this teacher taking me and a couple other kids out of class to do enrichment work or something every once in a while. The following year, they placed me in an advanced math and ELA class (my school didn't have anything advanced for science and social studies). In my other country, I we didn't have any advanced classes or anything so this was new. Lmao I remember the other kids telling me they were confused how I was in the advanced ELA class because I barely spoke English the past year. Anyways, this continued up till middle school. In 6th grade, I got an upgrade and was put in a double advanced math class. 6th grade was fine but 7th was my downfall. I was taking Algebra and it was definitely not my strong suit. I got a C in math the first trimester and I remember failing so many quizzes. I didn't have any motivation to do a lot of hw too. I also remember having a breakdown toward the end of the year because I misunderstood my final math project and didn't have enough time to fix it. Fun times. Fast forward to 8th grade, that year was fine. I had almost all As but I was pretty lazy. When quarantine hit, I barely did any work because I knew I'd pass from my grades in the past semester. Yeah, so now I'm going into 9th grade. Idk how its gonna go. I'm kinda nervous because I'm taking Algebra 2 and I sucked at Algebra. Also, if this remote learning thing continues, I doubt I'm gonna be able to do any work.

Hello folks!
I'm still technically a "gifted" kid but definitely not as much as I was back in elementary school. My story starts back in second grade when I had just moved to the U.S. I remember this teacher taking me and a couple other kids out of class to do enrichment work or something every once in a while. The following year, they placed me in an advanced math and ELA class (my school didn't have anything advanced for science and social studies). In my other country, I we didn't have any advanced classes or anything so this was new. Lmao I remember the other kids telling me they were confused how I was in the advanced ELA class because I barely spoke English the past year. Anyways, this continued up till middle school. In 6th grade, I got an upgrade and was put in a double advanced math class. 6th grade was fine but 7th was my downfall. I was taking Algebra and it was definitely not my strong suit. I got a C in math the first trimester and I remember failing so many quizzes. I didn't have any motivation to do a lot of hw too. I also remember having a breakdown toward the end of the year because I misunderstood my final math project and didn't have enough time to fix it. Fun times. Fast forward to 8th grade, that year was fine. I had almost all As but I was pretty lazy. When quarantine hit, I barely did any work because I knew I'd pass from my grades in the past semester. Yeah, so now I'm going into 9th grade. Idk how its gonna go. I'm kinda nervous because I'm taking Algebra 2 and I sucked at Algebra. Also, if this remote learning thing continues, I doubt I'm gonna be able to do any work.

I took Algebra 2 this year and even though I'm really bad at math it was easier than I thought, I passed it.

When I took Algebra, it was difficult for me, but I found Algebra 2 easier. I did geometry and it was easy, and I struggled and AP Precalculus and AP Calculus. Probaility and Statistics was also easy. It all depends on how your brain is wired. If you're on the creative side, the math involving shapes or colorful graphs are easier. The analytical side, (in this case) meaning better with numbers, will find geometry and prob and stats more difficult that algebra and calculus. (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel like it is…)

I did algebra over the summer by myself and I didn't really get most of it until it got reviewed in geometry and algebra 2. And I didn't really get some of that stuff until it got reviewed later. And then I took precalc and didn't get any of the calculus stuff. And I'm taking AP Calc BC this year so…fuuuun. I'm screwed
Geometry was easy and I'll stand by that forever

I found AP Calculus easier that AP Precalculus. For some reason, cal used different things that precal did and I found it easier.

Well we did Calc AB the last quarter and it made even less sense than everything else so.

i wish i could add some insight here but i'm going into my junior year of college and i never took math higher than precalc :')