I really dislike the whole "all late-diagnosed neurodivergent people are former gifted kids who are burned out" sentiment that is going around the internet
there is just so much evidence that your socioeconomic class as well as race are strongly linked to how well you perform at school so like please examine other factors that might have helped you.
i feel like there is also this grudge that kids that were neurodivergent and acted badly or did bad at school, all got their diagnoses and everything was good for them. in reality, they probably they had a very difficult life both at school and at home. they were probably given even less help that these gifted kids. there is a reason why over 30% of British prisoners have some sort of learning disability/difficulty. Paired with the fact that Black-Caribbean men are over represented in the prison system in the UK, would suggest that a significant percentage of Black neurodivergent people are left behind because they are not the "gifted" kid and are in the need of help but due to ableist and racist society they end up in prisons.
quite frankly, I have a hard time that this many people have been "gifted". if your school had an actual special programme for gifted kids go back to point one and think about it.
i feel like majority of people who consider themselves as gifted were just slightly better than their peers under the age of 15 which is quite frankly embarassing like if you are over the age of 16, stop crying that adults are no longer clapping and cheering because you are slighlty better than your peers.
idk this whole thing reeks of aspie supremacy - also the word neurodivergent means nothing most of you are talking about being autistic/having adhd
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