Gifted Kid Discourse - Tumblr Posts

lol yeah, my dad was crazy and limited our contact with the outside world in order to further his control over us. Too bad the moron didn't think about NPR on the radio or all the history books he gave me.

Every day I see people get on this website and am retroactively grateful that my parents limited screen time and didn't get us any video game consoles. Sure my 90s kid memories are mostly of the weird mini games in Encarta and of PBS rather than Mario and Nickelodeon and this was hell on me socially, but by God I don't have to rest on gifted kid who doesn't know anything laurels

shout out to“dumb” kids

we talk about formerly-gifted kids a lot but here’s a shout out to the kids who were NEVER told they were gifted. The kids who teachers didn’t like and were constantly told to “put more effort into it”. The kids who were spit on by the system since day one and belittled. Kids who struggled to keep with the expectations and who thought their parents could never be proud of them because they were “dumb”