Giftedness easily becomes a social disability if your environment isn't good for it. The education system isn't ready to handle you constantly being ahead of the class? Get ready to sleep in school as the best years to take advantage of it pass by. Your topics of interest are too complex for everyone else around? Have fun enjoying your friendships less than everyone else. You don't mask your intelligence? Here, have 10 lottery tickets to get bullied, no, you can't return them. Congratulations, you graduated from college. Do you have the money for a masters degree? Oops, guess you studied for nothing. Got into debt and got a masters, but the job market isn't booming? Do you have rich parents, or rich friends? Aw shucks, guess you couldn't network your way into the type of job you would have liked.

Being intelligent helps, if you're patient, hard-working, and have the means to look out for the less conventional options, but not so much as one would instinctively think.

I was told that when I went to college I would realize that I'm not that smart. Instead I met a bunch of people who got depressed because they weren't as good as I was. I tried to explain to them that I was a freak who was masking so hard that I collapsed from exhaustion whenever I got home, and they shouldn't try to compare themselves to me because the part of my brain that does logic ate the part that reads faces and understands how talking works. I wanted them to understand that there was a lot that came naturally to them that I would never be able to do easily.

School said I was gifted but I think I was just a big fish in a small pond.

"IQ" and other intelligence tests are incredibly flawed. The biggest issue is that intelligence is very hard to define. Not to mention the IQ test comes from racist origins and was used for immigration testing for a long time.

Thought I read something somewhere like:

the most common thing in the world is unapplied intelligence

Must be butchering it pretty badly if Google’s blank

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

"The Woods Would Be Very Silent If No Birds Sang Except Those Who Sang Best"

i mean, "gifted" is basically doublespeak for "on the neurodivergence spectrum" and society just fucking hates neurodivergent people.
It's not really that we're aware of our deficiencies, it's that society makes us feel bad for things that are completely natural and should be viewed as sidegrades mostly.

His last name is DROP TABLE Students;--.

Trust me, the same thing applies to the green region.

Now we're going to put you in the ~~special ed~~ gifted school program.

The awwwwtism range

As I've said before, G&T when you're young means MANY G&T's when you're older.

Don't worry everyone. Blue is exactly the same as green, but colored differently. As someone in the blue, friends with green.

I was put in GT classes in middle school because I went to a (shitty) private elementary school where every kid went on to GT. Somehow I struggled through GT until those classes weren't offered anymore (sophomore year of high school) and I hated every minute of it and was really bad at what they wanted me to do.

If I could do it over again, I would beg my parents not to put me in GT classes.

i think blue should be either extended or completely replace green, "excellence" is not given just because you're smart