The Gifted Kid Syndrome 🧠

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You should reeeeeally just keep that to yourself.

[EpixGaminginc]

What really happens is when you're gifted early the teachers forget about you whenever you'd actually struggle on a subject. Until you eventually fall back down to the average.

[bobbygronert]

This should honestly be a full-length song, so i could feel the emotion of "Shit, that's me" for another 3 minutes

[MustacheWax]

Dude. The way you poke at insecurities is beautiful.

[GeorgeCowsert]

To be fair, hyping up kids like they're gonna be hot shit and then unceremoniously tossing them into an uncaring world is worse than cruel.

[camerapasteurize]

Man it's been so awesome growing up being called the "smart kid" only to actually start encountering difficulties and issues in academics, which not only are harder to overcome as no one thought you'd need to learn how to handle such things, but also greatly shake and crack your self confidence, as your self-image was centered around being good at academic work, the "smart one."

And then getting older only to find out your emotional connections and ability to form new connections are all messed up because you relied more on your logical and reasoning side your whole life, allowing your emotional intelligence to stagnate.

Now you have massive imposter syndrome *and* no friends.

[eggman]

When you got told that you were so smart and had so much potential. When all your troubles were met with "you'll figure it out". Teachers and parents needn't pay attention to the struggles of a A+ student, because surely they can't be that bad, right? So you indirectly learn that you don't need any help. You don't deserve it.

So you wind up a dysfunctional adult with inadequate training in everyday skills, lacking a healthy support group and have crushingly unrealistic self-expectations.

"Gifted kid" was the cursed mantle placed upon you by well-meaning people, filling you with a sense of importance and false ego.

So when you're sitting at a bench drinking away the last of your money, you can console yourself with your little rusty crown of superiority. What if it was all a lie? Maybe you were never worth anything. Maybe you're like everyone else, but failed. Worse than average.

Nay. You clutch your crown. "I'm the king of the castle and you're all dirty rascals."

[andresadler]

This is unironcally very good. Make a full song, im trying to recapture that fifth grade spelling bee high again

[acekoala]

You didn't have to call me out like that Stepdad.

[ikiyou_]

It's all at home. My parents always thought "He's doing well, so I don't need to do anything." Wrong. Sooo wrong. People who learn good studying and working habits and values early on do so much better. Now I'm stuck with this shit procrastinating personality and my brain has to flip a coin every day whether it's going to be a productive day or a "sob yourself to sleep" day

[jerrysandoval]

The funny thing is that there was a study that just the title of "Gifted" and the extra attention for it is what made those kids succeed, not them actually being gifted themselves.

[lotrdude]

And then gifted kids often have stunted emotional intelligence due to their logical brain being able to find "solutions" without emotion (speaking from experience here) so they're bad at keeping up with people and inquiring about what goes on in other people's lives because they're out of sight and out of mind, which makes other people stop talking to you because you don't know what questions to ask because you find it hard to find the reason why there needs to be more conversation and they think you don't care about them so they stop caring about you - it's just awesome!

[dawert]

I will say this. Teachers don’t take pleas for help from “gifted” kids seriously.
I used to stand in line as my precalc teacher helped every kid before me, and when I was up to ask for help I’d say “please help, I don’t get this.”
She’d say “you’ll figure it out, you’re in AP statistics!”
I ended up with a C in the class and years worth of overcoming my fear of asking for help. It also put me back a level in my math track. :/

[RichardHall]

All I’m saying is if I got adhd meds sooner I’d have been in a much different situation, but nooo, “ADHD isn’t real you just aren’t applying yourself” said my parents.

[Xahnel]

I was a gifted kid, and then I got skipped up into advanced classes and was completely lost because I didn't have the continuous foundation. It's like they tried to build a fifth story on a three story building. In midair. And then I'm the one who caught flak because it fell on me.

[Rfthbf]

I failed the fifth grade spelling be on purpose cause I knew I had to go around the state and compete multiple times and I was like fuck that I wanna stay home and play New Vegas.

[YehudiNimol]

Never was quite "gifted", but I was considered the smart one in elementary and middle school. Led to years of disappointment and confusion as I became stressed out due to perfectionism.
Being "gifted" is actually useless if you do nothing with it. Society teaches you to take pride in your intelligence, but in reality it's much more probable that the 'slower' kids will pass you due to having better work ethic

[FandralStar]

That guitar line at the end is awesome (I also love the keyboard)! Great addition to the VS catologue.

[Taveren]

Yeah that was Just Depressing, people kept telling me when I was about to leave high school that I was gifted and that I was going places then had a mental breakdown after, and so this is just a vibe but it just feels like a back handed insult lmao

[boxman]

It always felt like people had such high expectations of me and I had fulfilled them all the way into my sophomore year and then I just crashed. I didn’t feel rewarded by any effort I put in and I’d never had to really try before. It led me down this path where I felt like I could never measure up with what people expected of me all the while they kept wondering why I was falling behind while saying I was so smart. I still finished with only a few points away from “honor graduate” by the time I graduated but it still feels like my family has expectations of me that I can’t really measure up to. And another person commented on how it affects emotional relationships and I can confirm it’s 100% accurate with the rift it creates. My being autistic certainly didn’t help with them denying the things they’d give to other people with autism because I was “too smart”. All in all I’m glad I’m free of most of the expectations but now I feel lost. Just gotta keep going forward

[sketcher]

Being promised a world you never deserved is a real kick in the ass