Who on WP went to gifted school?

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What do you think about gifted school? Did you meet aspies there?

Gifted School?

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I went to a school for girls who were considered gifted. I think there may have been other aspies at the school, but it's hard to say.

In New Zealand, when I was 8, I was in a class where you worked to your ability level. Ages ranged from 7-10. I was top of the class in everything except sport (bottom of the class for that). In high school, I was in the advanced classes for maths, science and English (the other classes did not have advanced options.) This is the closest I've been to anything like a gifted school.

In my country there's no such a thing like schools for the gifted

Often I wonder if it's actually the other way around...

There's no such thing as schools for 'gifted people' in Norway. Ironically, stupid people who are NTs are rewarded with less homework.

We had more gifted classes here in NYC. However, I wasn't in them. I really hated school. Boring, Boring!!

I was sent to a public school in the UK for the last seven years of my education. Although the teaching standards were higher than a state school the main reason I was sent there by my parents was my discipline problem. The final straw came when I knocked a girl's front teeth out (she wanted to kiss me, I objected). Not a bad punch for an eight year old.

Ed Almos

I was supposed to go to a gifted school in Oklahoma for 6th grade, but we moved to Indiana before school started. I was in the 'gifted and talented' program in Indiana from 6th grade through graduation.

I didn't know I was an Aspie back then because AS wasn't added to the DSM until 1994 and I graduated from high school in 1995. I'm sure there were other Aspies in my classes.

Because I was in the gifted and talented program, I felt like I was supposed to be gifted in every subject. So I took a lot of classes that I wasn't interested in or were too hard for me.

i was in the gifted program at school...

I attended a part-time class for the gifted at a different school when I was in 4th grade.

I thought it was kinda cool. I regret dropping out. Don't think there were any aspies but then again I didn't even know anything back then, and then I wasn't as much of an outsider as I am now.

And that's the extent of my "gifted" education. That's pretty much all we had - the Zenith program.

I was in my school's "gifted" program from grades 5-8. Definitely no other Aspies among the 40 of us there.

Me included. I studied the gifted program from grade 3 to my 4-year-program at college. In my country everyone tries to get into gifted school, they think they are the best schools. I guess people's perceptions of gifted schools and programs are different depending on the educational system. I do hope I had met aspies in my classes. All of my close friends were also from gifted program, but I do not think they are aspies but smart and caring NTs.

Ha, I was in the "gifted" program in grade 5 for less than a week; O the error of inducting students based on IQ alone. They quickly learnt that I do what Daniel says, not what teacher says.

(No idea if anyone had Asperger's or not.)

I was in special ed cause they had nowhere else to put me, does that count??

No , thought so, it sucked cause I could not behave well enough and socialize to be with normal mainstream kids but was to intelligent for special ed (im not saying those in special ed are dumb, just that the pace is too slow and I always got in trouble for being bored). Back then they did not have a place for autistics, except specail ed, now thet mainstream usually if they are mild enough.