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I feel really bad for the kids that are clearly not gifted, but their parents want them to be gifted and pretend they were 
They have to deal with to much expectations 
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10 Jan 2018, 6:15 pm
QuantumChemist wrote:
Being classified as "gifted" can have a definite down side:
I was tested around third grade and was put in the highly/exceptional gifted category. My classmates did not treat me any differently, they just knew that I was bright. I understood certain topics better than the teachers did. There were times in which I was allowed to work on special projects while they worked on their studies. I was given access to pick out books that were high school level and above in science topics that I enjoyed researching on. Albert Einstein's work on The Special Theory of Relativity was one of my special topics that I concentrated on. Life was good, but alas it did not last...
All of that changed when I moved to a new state and a school full of bullies. When I was tested there, the results were leaked over the entire school and I was targeted for being so different. It became a curse for me to be so "special" compared to everyone else. They started calling me names to try to push me down and make me feel inferior. I was not allowed to compete in junior high science fairs while I was there as they felt that I had an unfair advantage over the other kids. I was not allowed to be on the quiz bowl team because they only wanted certain cool students to represent the school. There are more things that were done, but I do not want to talk about it.
For partial payback of this mistreatment, I took it out on the class in biology by literally destroying the exam curves (with the help of a competitive friend). I moved to a different town soon after. In many days of my youth, I wished I was of average intelligence so everyone would just leave me alone. I never asked to be smart. It has taken a long time for me to learn to accept what I am, not what others tell me what I am.
Being gifted does not make you a better or happier person. I would say quite the opposite is true from my own experiences.
I was tested around third grade and was put in the highly/exceptional gifted category. My classmates did not treat me any differently, they just knew that I was bright. I understood certain topics better than the teachers did. There were times in which I was allowed to work on special projects while they worked on their studies. I was given access to pick out books that were high school level and above in science topics that I enjoyed researching on. Albert Einstein's work on The Special Theory of Relativity was one of my special topics that I concentrated on. Life was good, but alas it did not last...
All of that changed when I moved to a new state and a school full of bullies. When I was tested there, the results were leaked over the entire school and I was targeted for being so different. It became a curse for me to be so "special" compared to everyone else. They started calling me names to try to push me down and make me feel inferior. I was not allowed to compete in junior high science fairs while I was there as they felt that I had an unfair advantage over the other kids. I was not allowed to be on the quiz bowl team because they only wanted certain cool students to represent the school. There are more things that were done, but I do not want to talk about it.
For partial payback of this mistreatment, I took it out on the class in biology by literally destroying the exam curves (with the help of a competitive friend). I moved to a different town soon after. In many days of my youth, I wished I was of average intelligence so everyone would just leave me alone. I never asked to be smart. It has taken a long time for me to learn to accept what I am, not what others tell me what I am.
Being gifted does not make you a better or happier person. I would say quite the opposite is true from my own experiences.
They certainly wouldn't forbidden big and strong kids to play football because they have "unfair advantages" I bet.
You may also have been bullied without the test having leaked; just for be "different" and all that. The tolerance shown by peoples for difference vary greatly from place to place.
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10 Jan 2018, 7:25 pm
Tollorin wrote:
QuantumChemist wrote:
Being classified as "gifted" can have a definite down side:
I was tested around third grade and was put in the highly/exceptional gifted category. My classmates did not treat me any differently, they just knew that I was bright. I understood certain topics better than the teachers did. There were times in which I was allowed to work on special projects while they worked on their studies. I was given access to pick out books that were high school level and above in science topics that I enjoyed researching on. Albert Einstein's work on The Special Theory of Relativity was one of my special topics that I concentrated on. Life was good, but alas it did not last...
All of that changed when I moved to a new state and a school full of bullies. When I was tested there, the results were leaked over the entire school and I was targeted for being so different. It became a curse for me to be so "special" compared to everyone else. They started calling me names to try to push me down and make me feel inferior. I was not allowed to compete in junior high science fairs while I was there as they felt that I had an unfair advantage over the other kids. I was not allowed to be on the quiz bowl team because they only wanted certain cool students to represent the school. There are more things that were done, but I do not want to talk about it.
For partial payback of this mistreatment, I took it out on the class in biology by literally destroying the exam curves (with the help of a competitive friend). I moved to a different town soon after. In many days of my youth, I wished I was of average intelligence so everyone would just leave me alone. I never asked to be smart. It has taken a long time for me to learn to accept what I am, not what others tell me what I am.
Being gifted does not make you a better or happier person. I would say quite the opposite is true from my own experiences.
I was tested around third grade and was put in the highly/exceptional gifted category. My classmates did not treat me any differently, they just knew that I was bright. I understood certain topics better than the teachers did. There were times in which I was allowed to work on special projects while they worked on their studies. I was given access to pick out books that were high school level and above in science topics that I enjoyed researching on. Albert Einstein's work on The Special Theory of Relativity was one of my special topics that I concentrated on. Life was good, but alas it did not last...
All of that changed when I moved to a new state and a school full of bullies. When I was tested there, the results were leaked over the entire school and I was targeted for being so different. It became a curse for me to be so "special" compared to everyone else. They started calling me names to try to push me down and make me feel inferior. I was not allowed to compete in junior high science fairs while I was there as they felt that I had an unfair advantage over the other kids. I was not allowed to be on the quiz bowl team because they only wanted certain cool students to represent the school. There are more things that were done, but I do not want to talk about it.
For partial payback of this mistreatment, I took it out on the class in biology by literally destroying the exam curves (with the help of a competitive friend). I moved to a different town soon after. In many days of my youth, I wished I was of average intelligence so everyone would just leave me alone. I never asked to be smart. It has taken a long time for me to learn to accept what I am, not what others tell me what I am.
Being gifted does not make you a better or happier person. I would say quite the opposite is true from my own experiences.
They certainly wouldn't forbidden big and strong kids to play football because they have "unfair advantages" I bet.
You may also have been bullied without the test having leaked; just for be "different" and all that. The tolerance shown by peoples for difference vary greatly from place to place.
True, I was already being bullied for being the "new" fat kid in school. However, once the test results got out, the bullying went to a whole new level. (The school forgot to test me until two years after I transferred in.) I was already on the ban list for sports, but this was putting gasoline directly on the fire. It really aggravated the "cool" kids as this was one thing that they could not equalize with all of their money pooled together.
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