As a gifted kid, they always told me, it’s not more work, it’s different work. But I’d skipped a grade, and no one thought to skip me into a refresher on what we missed, nope we were just expected to jump in and know everything. I started falling behind in math, and to this day have never learned my multiplication tables. The expectations were so high, that I have been a 90s student throughout high school, and a 90 isn’t high enough. I didn’t win any awards for excelling in a specific subject, and my mother was mad at me. I earned a 98% in a course, and got a “good job”. Anything less than a 90 should have been better. If I was to get something less than 80%, I would be slacking off. It’s not that I wouldn’t get it, it’s that I don’t try, I don’t work for it, this is real life, get over it.
We never learned social skills, being isolated from an early age, and we had to rely on only each other. It took me until I was 8 to make a real friend, until 13 to have a friend the same gender. I had my second birthday party at 16. My parents want me to take a year off of school, because I won’t know how to live on my own, because we never learned how to study properly, how to cope in social situations.
To this day, I prefer the lives I make up in my head. I’d rather live in a world of fantasy, than face my life. I’d rather be put in life-or-death situations, than have to face the pressure of my life now.
Everyone above said it better than I can, but I want people to realize that being deemed ‘gifted’ doesn’t always mean ‘smarter’, ‘better’. Most of us were just the kids who turned to studying when everyone turned on us for our grades.
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