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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.

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