Other points:
- it’s not mutually exclusive with any other neurodivergence, in which case they’re “twice exceptional”;
- In an environment with unprepared people and professionals, they may be wrongly diagnosed as having some other neurodivergence.
- It’s not just a high IQ score;
- Gifted kids can be problem students and have low grades;
- Homework feels like torture (this is true to any child, tho);
- They’re very likely to question authorities and point out perceived hypocrisy (emphasis here on perceived, because pointing something and being right are different things);
- As kids, they may have weird quirks for executing tasks, such as wanting to hold pencils the “wrong” way, or wanting to press against a wall to do homework;
If you’re Brazilian or can understand Brazilian Portuguese, this is the podcast I listened to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apnuIIePeeA
Aos brasileiros que acabarem encontrando esse post, o podcast que assisti é o que linkei acima
“Gifted” is a bullshit word that says more about the state of the Napoleonic educational industry than it does about the poor kid it’s leveled at.
Fuck “gifted”.
There is no God.
Every bit of knowledge & skill that the phrase steals credit for? That kid in question has busted their ass to attain. But, with a couple syllables, it’s all surreptitiously offered at the feet of an ancient comic book character whose modern flock justify war, genocide, rape, genital mutilation, and myriad other human rights atrocities in its “name”. Nah.
Fuck “gifted”, and fuck your god.
edit: So many “gifted” here, so confidently ignorant. 🤦🏽♂️ That tracks so hard. Good job. Your comments are your reward, O’ “Gifted”.
edit: Yes, perfect. Cling to the moniker they’ve given you and mentally reconfigure its meaning to make you feel better. That’s how change happens. You’re doing everyone so proud. Truly. So gifted. We’re all so lucky to have you genuises around. Whew. 😭🥰
I don’t like the choice of words either, mostly because of all the expectations associated with it, but the rest of your rant just goes off rails
The “rest of my rant” is lived experience and factually relevant, friend. You can either recognize that reality or keep lying to yourself (and subsequently perpetuate that shit with inaction). You choose.
“Gifted” is not “talented”, “skilled”, etc. It inherently implies a “gift” by some pre-birth entity, and largely assumed to be whatever god is acceptable in the location of the phrase’s utterance. Don’t play dumb. It’s beneath you.
edit: Your personal lack of etymological roots is no proof. Read a fuckin’ book, friends. How typical.
My dude, at no point I explicitly or implicitly tried to equate being skilled with being gifted or talented, nor that being gifted has anything to do with religion or god. I didn’t choose the term that the english language uses for this.
I won’t bother with you anymore because it’s clear you don’t want to talk in good faith, at least not here
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Unless you can give me an exact specific definition of what “intellectually gifted” means in this context then all of this is just meaningless bullshit.
Exactly. That’s all this is. That’s all ANYTHING is. Just a series of meaningless bullshit until we can get home from work/school for the day, and be naked for the next 6 hours. Freely letting our farts out without fear of judgement. Letting our man-titties and butt cheeks jiggle in the vibrations of the long fart. Then we can masturbate, and eat dorritos.
Everything else is just made up bullshit designed to waste our time.
