Some explain their inability to complete a task unless they’re immediately good at it, while others explain their self-worth comes solely from academic validation.Ī common theme between all of these videos is that these former gifted kids deal with an increased amount of mental illness.
#giftedkidburnout has amassed 89.9 million views on TikTok, with videos composed of people spelling out the ways being “gifted” as a kid negatively affected them. If I wasn’t succeeding academically, I wasn’t succeeding at all.
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Anxiety blossomed and I didn’t know how to cope. If I procrastinated and didn’t live up to my standards, I could blame the amount of time I had rather than myself. I began procrastinating instead of tackling a task because of the fear of not being good enough. Later, in challenging honors and Advanced Placement (AP) classes, I needed to study, but I had no idea how to. Due to the way school was structured, I was set up to succeed on paper as I got older, I began to see the holes in this facade of success. I thrived in an academic setting without trying, but I just got lucky. For me, that meant going upstairs for math with third-grade students, and being put in the gifted classes in elementary school, before the label transitioned to “advanced” in junior high. The results of this testing informed my teachers I was “gifted”. In reality, it was a label that set me up to struggle when things no longer came easy. I saw it as a label affixed to me after a strange lady took me to a strange classroom to answer a plethora of questions, ruining my day that was supposed to be spent watching “The Polar Express” with my class. The term “gifted” was handed to me in second grade.
NovemCOLUMN NATALIE MAZEY PHOTOGRAPHY MARLEIGH WINTERBOTTOM
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