We've normalized bisexual introverted leftist former gifted children with depression who drinks ice-tea and sleeps till noon. I don't think society can handle this yet.
I did not give anyone permission to describe my bisexual introverted leftist former gifted 18 yo child who has depression and lives on iced coffee and sleeps until noon. How do you dare??
yeah being a gifted child fucks you up. i speak from experience. my only sense of identity as a kid was being smart since i was too socially anxious to make friends. and my fear of losing my only sense of self in school made me pretentious and scared to make mistakes or challenge myself. even now, i struggle with feeling like a failure if i don't make perfect grades which led to me dropping out. very hard to separate my identity from my grades even years later.
Because being able to recall mathematical formulas and facts about the war of 1812 isn’t super helpful in project management jobs that depend on consistency and non-procrastination for success.
It’s because they had so much anxiety always feeling pressured to perform in gifted and talented and STEM classes they dropped all the g&t and went for regular classes.
im a former gifted kid cause i had undiagnosed ADHD and probably a bit of autism too, and in middle school i would read books all the time as escapism and because they were one of the few things that held my focus, so i got a good vocabulary because of all the reading i was doing and could read tougher books, and got put into the gifted and talented program, and then my parents raised their expectations on me for the rest of my life and i had to hear tons and tons of lectures about "you're such a smart kid, you would be getting A's in every class if you would just put in the work" while i was getting burnt out because executive dysfunction was making my life miserable and i couldnt figure out what was wrong with me and i got depressed and suicidal for most of high school until i finally realized it was ADHD and not just me being a failure
I thought it was also because Gifted kids also tend to be neurodivergent and then “crash” into adulthood, and not all of them new it was because they were neurodivergent.
Everyone on Reddit is a former gifted child who was too smart for their own good, got to high school/university and faced a shock when they couldn’t just breeze through like they used to do and now have to get accustomed to not being the smartest in the room
we’re former gifted kids because the 90s had a huge surge of parents telling their children they’re super smart and special. we now know that this isn’t good for kids developmentally and you should praise them for their actions and their effort, but they thought they were doing us a favor back then. and there’s a fetishization in our culture (that’s still around) of like, the mad genius, the idiot savant. if you actually did have a fairly iq but then also were a weirdo or seemingly neurodivergent in some way, you had authority figures constantly telling you that you’re inherently brilliant, which studies have shown is really not great for future mental health. on some subconscious level, these kids start to believe life is about innate attributes; you’re praised for how effortlessly things come to you, and life starts to feel like you don’t actually have any agency over anything, you just have to keep proving to everyone that you were born brilliant because that’s what you come to associate with validation and worth. & it’s easy, when you get older, to fall to the outskirts society, become an addict or some sort of idk broke bohemian because people often mold towards whatever’s expected of them. they never saw themselves as like making a comfortable 70k at a 9-5 selling insurance but they also didn’t make it as a rocket scientist so now they just do drugs and rant to everyone about david foster wallace.
This subreddit is such dogshit. If it isn't stuff that is just very clearly not 'oddly specific', it's weird, hateful shit like this. I've literally seen this exact same post half a dozen times this past week or so.
What a bunch of little children. Get on the heaviest dose Ritalin that you can't be described and yet still be able to sleep up to 18 hours a day or sometimes it's just a whole 24 hours if you don't have any responsibility. Oh and be over 35.
As a self diagnosed dreamsexual drepressed adhd dyslexic drug addict emo goth man-woman alcoholic at 12 years old who sleeps until 1:30:327.5 pm leftist and drinks lukewarm tea I feel extremely excluded.
Haven't we?
We have. We're everywhere.
We've normalized bisexual introverted leftist former gifted children with depression who drinks ice-tea and sleeps till noon. I don't think society can handle this yet.
I did not give anyone permission to describe my bisexual introverted leftist former gifted 18 yo child who has depression and lives on iced coffee and sleeps until noon. How do you dare??
I want to clarify, are they former gifted children because they grew up or because they aren’t as smart as when they were initially assessed?
yeah being a gifted child fucks you up. i speak from experience. my only sense of identity as a kid was being smart since i was too socially anxious to make friends. and my fear of losing my only sense of self in school made me pretentious and scared to make mistakes or challenge myself. even now, i struggle with feeling like a failure if i don't make perfect grades which led to me dropping out. very hard to separate my identity from my grades even years later.
Because being able to recall mathematical formulas and facts about the war of 1812 isn’t super helpful in project management jobs that depend on consistency and non-procrastination for success.
It’s because they had so much anxiety always feeling pressured to perform in gifted and talented and STEM classes they dropped all the g&t and went for regular classes.
we’re burnt out
im a former gifted kid cause i had undiagnosed ADHD and probably a bit of autism too, and in middle school i would read books all the time as escapism and because they were one of the few things that held my focus, so i got a good vocabulary because of all the reading i was doing and could read tougher books, and got put into the gifted and talented program, and then my parents raised their expectations on me for the rest of my life and i had to hear tons and tons of lectures about "you're such a smart kid, you would be getting A's in every class if you would just put in the work" while i was getting burnt out because executive dysfunction was making my life miserable and i couldnt figure out what was wrong with me and i got depressed and suicidal for most of high school until i finally realized it was ADHD and not just me being a failure
I thought it was also because Gifted kids also tend to be neurodivergent and then “crash” into adulthood, and not all of them new it was because they were neurodivergent.
Everyone on Reddit is a former gifted child who was too smart for their own good, got to high school/university and faced a shock when they couldn’t just breeze through like they used to do and now have to get accustomed to not being the smartest in the room
Yes
They were gifted for their age until they caught up to that age and stopped
we’re former gifted kids because the 90s had a huge surge of parents telling their children they’re super smart and special. we now know that this isn’t good for kids developmentally and you should praise them for their actions and their effort, but they thought they were doing us a favor back then. and there’s a fetishization in our culture (that’s still around) of like, the mad genius, the idiot savant. if you actually did have a fairly iq but then also were a weirdo or seemingly neurodivergent in some way, you had authority figures constantly telling you that you’re inherently brilliant, which studies have shown is really not great for future mental health. on some subconscious level, these kids start to believe life is about innate attributes; you’re praised for how effortlessly things come to you, and life starts to feel like you don’t actually have any agency over anything, you just have to keep proving to everyone that you were born brilliant because that’s what you come to associate with validation and worth. & it’s easy, when you get older, to fall to the outskirts society, become an addict or some sort of idk broke bohemian because people often mold towards whatever’s expected of them. they never saw themselves as like making a comfortable 70k at a 9-5 selling insurance but they also didn’t make it as a rocket scientist so now they just do drugs and rant to everyone about david foster wallace.
I prefer Arnold Palmers and I'm pansexual instead of bi, but other than that, damn that's spot on.
That’s soooooo different
I’m just full on gay, but yeah!
First of all, it is normalized, it is called being a millennial
I'm Gen X and this describes me perfectly..... eek
I'm in this post and I dont like it
I'm also in this post, WTF
I would feel personally called out. Except i only drink frappe style coffee, not iced coffee, like a fucking pleb.
remove bisexual and youve got a good 40% of america
A big number of people are probably secretly bi. stigmas and such in more traditional homes
Me but I hate coffee 90% of the time
I don’t know about leftist but uh, this is very broadly covering a lot of people I know
Isn’t that everyone under 30?
Excuse you, some of us are over 30
I can confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that there's at least one of em in this comment section, won't be saying names beyond it starting with a B
Well
i feel very called out and i don’t like it
ummmmm why is this specfically about me though :")
That’s like 40% of both Millenials and Gen Z. Seems pretty normalized to me.
imsospecialandunique
Really doesn’t fit
I believe that's what a hippie is?
Dude you don't have to call me out like that :(
That’s meee
When I tell you my jaw dropped…
I’m not sure what to put in your open mouth, because this post describes so many mouth-based pleasures that you enjoy.
Me but I don’t drink coffee
Why does this almost apply to me
All that is very normal for someone with ADHD…
LITERALLY ME???? WHAT THE FUCK
I feel called out.
Reading these make me feel like an Npc literally one thing off
I drink black coffee and am libertarian but damn that's p close.
Why are we normalizing my fiancé? (Also me except I’m ace and gay, not bi)
Accurate but I drink hot tea with way too much sugar instead
Jokes on you I'm pansexual and I don't sleep because I drink too much coffee
Normalize me?
Is it weird that I fit this category pretty much exactly?
Swap out introverted with autistic and that’s me
Me except for the ice coffee (my stomach cannot handle)
How bout we normalize being FUCKING NORMAL
No you don't normalize that behavior.
This subreddit is such dogshit. If it isn't stuff that is just very clearly not 'oddly specific', it's weird, hateful shit like this. I've literally seen this exact same post half a dozen times this past week or so.
How's this hateful? Genuinely curious.
Called Bob.
Mom?
Tf is "former gifted"?
Someone who was called a "gifted kid" in school then got burnt out. It's more common than you would think
This is 99% of Gen Z tho
I'm pretty sure it's been normalized
Jesus Christ get out of my head.
Ngl isn’t this like…a lot of people?
I'm not joking that's my sister
this was written by some college kid i bet on it
That's not normal? Damn
Done.
With you except I'm a lesbian
Dang, that’s pretty close. You watching me or something?
Aha... I found my kind of redditor.
Normalize? I’m pretty sure this is like 80% of the social media content that my millennial counterparts churn out.
Oddly specific, yet perfectly describing SO many people. And yes i’m one of them, shut up
You perfectly described me. Like, everything here 100% applies to me.
Im not bisexual tho
jokesopdidnotlike
The subreddit
We need to normaliz-
Omg that's me.
Am I not normal?
Please don’t normalise these demons
Please don't start dragging legitimately gifted people into this shit show.
Give them their own pride month it’s about time
Well, going by the artists I follow on Twitter, this is already the norm.
It's me except I'm a socdem and I was only gifted until like 3rd grade
It what way is that abnormal? Was this post mad before this was normal, because it's been normal for a while now.
we need to normalize shutting the fuck up.
Remember when everyone hated the 1%?
What do you want from me? Who are you?
No. Denormalize everything.
This is literally me
Hate this normalize shit just live your life and dont be set on being accepted by a social stand point
They've found me
i feel called out
I'm this, but I don't like coffee and I only sleep from 3am to 6 am because school
other than the bi it’s me to a tee
What a bunch of little children. Get on the heaviest dose Ritalin that you can't be described and yet still be able to sleep up to 18 hours a day or sometimes it's just a whole 24 hours if you don't have any responsibility. Oh and be over 35.
It would be better to clarify noon in which time zone because this description is too general for my liking.
Already normalized are all permutations of the following:
Bitch that’s me to the t
*till
It is actually 'til'. As in 'until'. It's not untill.
Let's not and say we did. Mkayyy?
Uh ..no please
As a self diagnosed dreamsexual drepressed adhd dyslexic drug addict emo goth man-woman alcoholic at 12 years old who sleeps until 1:30:327.5 pm leftist and drinks lukewarm tea I feel extremely excluded.
You okay bud?