Anon was gifted | TheaterFire

I was homeschooled in kindergarten and when I went to 1st grade in public school they were doing stuff I had already done. I didn't start learning anything new until 4th grade and by then I had lost a lot of interest in school. I was put in the gifted program all the way until middle school when I asked my mom to take me out because I was sick of school.

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rhino_shit_gif@reddit

Yeah I used to beg my mum to let me skip grades

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rhino_shit_gif@reddit

Mmmm… clouds…

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NetStaIker@reddit

As someone who was “gifted”, that is the most cope thing I’ve ever read. Smart people are never ever poor, because poor people can’t ever become rich

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denialofcervix@reddit

Caught one boys.

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SpiritedEclair@reddit

if you have a modicum of intelligence higher than average person, you can make money and escape your social class.

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lowrads@reddit

Not so much escape, as making large scale problems or societal dysfunction not apply to you. This only appeals to a certain type of person.

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whydoyouevenreadthis@reddit

No, it's a label used for people who are autistic and of at least average intelligence.

By the way, "high functioning" doesn't mean "intelligent". It means the absence of intellectual disability, which is more common in people with autism.

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Snozzberriez@reddit

Because intelligence is inextricable from social class… no one poor ever made it big being smart. Never.

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Ouragan999@reddit

Gotta paint it as problematic to justify not paying you proportionally to the value you provide

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CompactAvocado@reddit

gifted just means above the average schlub in highschool

then you get to college and realize you are room temperature at best there

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NetStaIker@reddit

Everybody thinks they’re gifted until they get to uni and realize everybody else was “gifted” too.

Gifted an IQ that was average and not room temp I guess

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Metrix145@reddit

Life must be a wonder as a 21 IQ scrapper.

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Complete-Anon@reddit

it's not

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precision_cumshot@reddit

someone once said “gifted” just meant hitting the average before everyone else and that kinda stuck with me ever since

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Horrorifying@reddit

Were you also called “special” a lot? Did they come up with a “special education” curriculum just for you?

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mrlunes@reddit

Special education = low function autism

Advanced education = high functioning autistism

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battle_clown@reddit

In early middle school I remember I would be occasionally called out of class to a separate room with some other kids where we just did logic puzzles. The only one I remember was that "connect all the dots without overlapping lines" one and I couldn't fucking do it lol

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Elektro05@reddit

In Math I always was allowed to do the stuff one year above me and later just do the fuck I want as long as I dont disturb the others and it has anything to do with math

fuck its me, isnt it?

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jonatna@reddit

Not a universal experience. They said I was gifted and I do not have autism.

Unfortunately, the conditions I was diagnosed with did not make me successful.

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Mac-The-VIII@reddit

All these former gifted kids get "burned out" as a cope for why they never achieved anything.

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neat-NEAT@reddit

Getting called gifted because you heard every 5th word your teachers said in a school system designed to teach kids who actively resist learning anything. Getting used to coasting along doing what feels like the bare minimum then finding the inevitable reality check of higher education that expects your full attention.

I just about got through uni without ever failing but I don't think I ever mastered the "learning" bit. I managed to separate my self worth from being the smartest kid in the room with some effort. Prevented me from taking a swan dive into oncoming traffic but I was still underachieving the whole way.

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

I wish we'd stop calling it "gifted"

It feels so patronizing and condescending.

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mmf9194@reddit

Also half of us aren't "gifted", it's just the average person is really fucking stupid, apparently.

I mean... gestures around broadly

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whydoyouevenreadthis@reddit

the average person is really fucking stupid, apparently

Take a second to think about what "really fucking stupid" means, and why that can't possibly apply to the average person.

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JuanHernandes89@reddit

Hehe yeah hehe awesome points all around

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CornginaFlegemark@reddit

Seems every damn person is a high functioning autist

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Marco_Forelli@reddit

Anon figures out the short bus wasn’t for VIP students

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worstofalloptions@reddit

Fake: Anon is high functioning

Gay: Autism

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Real-Ad-1728@reddit

I was in the gifted program from 5th to 8th grade. Going into high school they gave me the option of either continuing in the gifted program classes, or just going for honors level classes (our school had three levels of classes:gifted, honors, and whatever the normal level was called). I chose to just go for honors level classes, and it was the right call. My grades went from Bs/Cs to almost all As, and I could still take AP level classes here and there so I could get college credits. Graduated with a much higher GPA than I would have otherwise and was generally a lot happier throughout high school versus middle school.

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Wiggie49@reddit

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Scurvy_BT@reddit

Confirmed