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Was everything super easy for you? Congrats, you never learned how to struggle and persist and you get discouraged easily. Good luck growing your skills and knowledge now...

Oh I feel this so much. There's a range of jobs and environments where I do really really well. But the way most organizations are structured I can never find a place where my strengths are desirable in the long term.
And selling myself is not one of my strengths.

Your topics of interest are too complex for everyone else around? Have fun enjoying your friendships less than everyone else.

This never goes away, but it at least got me a job.

In my experience, the expectations of most people about "gifted" level intelligence seem to be shaped shaped by things like movies and are wholly unrealistic.

Even a twice as fast CPU is no guarantee that the software running in it is any good or appropriate for any one task.

Reminds me of this comic, in Dutch but the translation is right below it (for all the dumbasses who can’t read Dutch)

Humble autism.

"Gifted" in school basically just means "above average" and as we all know...

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

--George Carlin

Well the origins were laudable, it's just that it was shortly thereafter extended for racist means. Binet and Simon wanted to see if they could devise a test to measure intelligence in children, and they ultimately came up with a way to measure a child's mental age.

At the time, problem children who did poorly in school were assumed to be sick and sent to an asylum. They proposed that some children were just slow, but they could still be successful if they got more help. Their test was meant to identify the slow children so that they could allocate the proper resources to them.

Later, their ideas were extended beyond the education system to try to prove racial hierarchies, and that's where much of the controversy comes from. The other part is that the tests were meant to identify children that would struggle in school. They weren't meant to identify geniuses or to understand people's intelligence level outside of the classroom.

We know this, the issue is until a more comprehensive test comes around, the IQ test is the best we have, also measuring general pattern recognition can be pretty useful as a "quick and sweet" measure since pattern recognition is the base for all other forms of intelligence

Me too, the red band on the left hand side

Little Bobby Tables

I don't follow this at all.

My son is in the gifted program. He is also one of the most socially intelligent people I've ever met. Makes friends easily, is a natural leader, shows kindness and acceptance towards all people, and adults frequently comment to me how mature he is when interacting with them. He is well accepted by society and moves around in it with ease.

I also think you're missing the point. Are you familiar with the dunning Kruger effect? It's the idea that smart people are better at recognizing their own shortcomings because they are smart, and less intelligent people aren't smart enough to realize all of their shortcomings.

I see what you're going for here, and I disagree.

You're saying that "gifted" refers to someone who is neurodivergent. Implying that neurodivergent people are gifted. I assert that gifted people are more likely to be neurodivergent. Not the other way around.

Look, I know tons of people diagnosed with all sorts of neurodivergent brains who are pretty worthless when it comes to being "gifted".

I do however, also know plenty of gifted people who have discovered that they are in fact, neurodivergent.

I'm just saying.

I had a guy in my class. We shared a first name and middle name. If he was going to school today he would have had a IEP. My high school guidance counselor who also created the class schedules was in a feud with my parents about some trivial thing. She knew but didn't care she swapped my almost by name doppelgangers schedules. Poor dude got stuck in advanced classes and they stuck me in the the regular classes. I didn't say anything since I hated the advanced classes. I had straight A's for the first time in my life. Unfortunately at around five weeks in they decided to swap us since my parents found out and of course the teachers knew it was a 'mistake'. I told them I wanted to stay in the regular classes but of course that simply wasn't possible. I could have had a high grade point in high school but since they insisted I had to be in the advanced classes where maintained a B to C grade in everything except computer science and physics. I know why I sucked in all the other classes today but back then I had that 'keen awareness of my own deficiencies'. My parents were so busy having their childish feuds that they refused to get me help for my problems.

I wonder how many of those who would fall in the blue area represented here have some form of Executive Dysfunction or as in my case additional issues?

OK, I just had 5 Ginn tonics, how much more?