'At some point, I just wanted to be a kid rather than the 'genius' (family’s word, not mine) people wanted me to be.'
came through with a lot of their own experiences, so we're back! To start us off,"gifted" kids are children who are put in higher-level classes at a young age and essentially told they are smarter than the other kids.First off, we want to say that many"gifted" or advanced programs can be really helpful , and it's very privileged to be able to end up in one.
We were all locked in at 8:00 to study. We weren’t allowed to have our cars, or leave the campus. We couldn’t go into dorm halls that weren’t ours, and we weren’t allowed to get less than a B. "With the hard work ethic and now the ability to tune into the lectures, I went from intro to genomics straight to advanced molecular biology in my second year of grad school."Being a 'gifted' kid meant my ADHD went undiagnosed until adulthood because I didn’t struggle in class like ADHD kids are 'supposed' to. Even now, in my late twenties, half my family doesn’t believe the diagnosis because I’m 'too smart for that' .
so I had a really rocky start to adulthood. Now I'm thriving and I love my intelligence and I embrace being autistic, but being a gifted kid was the reason I missed out on resources that could have spared me a lot of trauma and failures as a teenager and young adult.
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