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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Not to mention gifted children that take coasting through school for granted because they can easily intuit the subjects there, only to run up against a wall later when much of life isn’t quite so intuitive and much of university topics requires far more rigorous practice and study than we’re used to, and suddenly we have to catch up on learning to study systematically.

I suspect much of that could be remedied by appropriately guiding and challenging “gifted” children to teach them those essential skills, but even though my school prided itself on being one of the first with such a “gifted children track”, we didn’t actually do much different than the rest, and it sucked ass because we got all the overconfidence and none of the actual assistance.

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shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
🥹 yeaaaa

also “gifted” is a funny way to say “neurodivergent”, and now, 2 years after finishing uni and battling my adhd to try to find a job - i’m realising that 1) i’ve never known struggle and have the determination of a water bottle, most likely because school required little to no effort for me to do good 2) the job market is full of lies, manipulation, and bullshit, and i’m used to the academia’s world of like, saying what you mean and being honest? 3) i wish i got to lose like 40IQ points so i could be a happy himbo doing sports or welding or something idc 4) your IQ means nothing, it’s a metric of “potential” and i’m so fucking tired of hearing about how much potential i have

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- itsralC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t disagree with your comment, but
  
  also “gifted” is a funny way to say “neurodivergent”
  
  This is not true.
  
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  - shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    every single used-to-be-a-gifted-child i’ve spoken to both IRL and online has been diagnosed with some neurodivergence
    
    not saying it’s a rule, but the overlap is rather suspicious
    
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- Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You can do welding? No need to be dumb, it is fun. You can get a super high profile expert on some niche topic if you want. Like welding titanium.
  
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KittyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I was one of those students in high school, thing is I also coasted comfortably through undergrad and grad school, and both were mechanical engineering programs. So I never really learned good study habits, but I’ve also never really needed them idk.

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- Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Same. High IQ is a cheat code for life, gaining 100 points for 20k is a no brianer.
  
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  - Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Gaining 100, even when starting at lower values, would make you extremely smart. When starting at higher values you could easily be the smartest person on the planet. But since IQ loses it’s meaning at high values… does it?
    
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- luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If you’re having an easy time with it, I love that for you
  
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trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s what calculus is for in 1st year engineering: to show that you’re normal in that group and if you don’t ramp up you’re going to fluke everything that comes in the following years.

Though that didn’t prepare me to electronics 101. That was really humbling, and it only comes in 3rd year.

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