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honestly the whole thing around gifted children in america is so weird to me
it's a mixture of parents desperate to see their children making it under neoliberalism (especially through gifted programs) and psychologists having a really hard time setting boundaries between the ordinary and the exceptional (while being financially incentivized to make those boundaries even murkier)
that said, there's always time. just because the person went through the gifted child into underachieving adult pipeline doesn't mean they have to stop there
i have my whole life ahead of me to plumb the depths of underachieving
Gifted child to underachieving youth to revolutionary adult arc