Sometimes all people do is wish they were gifted. You get to go to a special class. Everything comes easily to you. You get good grades so your parents are never angry at you. You don't have to worry about math grades or science projects. That is the biggest lie that has ever been told in a million years.
Its true we get a special class. It's also true that our lessons come easily to us. But what do we do when everyone else is still working. We sit there. very bored. sometimes for 15 minutes or more. And don't you realize that the higher your grades are the higher your parents want the to be. Sometimes it gets to the point were only a 100% is acceptable. As for math grades and science projects sure their a bit easier for us but we still have to worry about them. Then thiers the whole social aspect of being gifted. Its a lot harder for kids that are gifted to fit in with everyone else simply because we're different. In many ways gifted is a good thing. And gifted is labeled as a good thing in many other ways. The American Academy of Children and Teenage Phycology says "there are a number of benifets typically assiciated with bieng identified as a gifted child. What people don't realize is that it's a curse too.
Another assumtion made about gifted kids it that we are more mature than other kids, But we're not. It's called asynchronis development. our minds develope faster than our emotions. sometimes people expect us to be mature but we arent.
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