propter_hog [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoFormer Gifted Childhexbear.netimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down10
arrow-up1154arrow-down1imageFormer Gifted Childhexbear.netpropter_hog [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareSpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·8 months agoA lot of those ‘gifted child’ memes have the same energy of ‘I’m an empath’ to be. Then again, I was always more of a C student.
minus-squarewild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 months agoi was in the gifted program and i felt like all it did was make people more pretentious.
minus-squarebumpusoot [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-28 months agoI was in the gifted program and I felt like all it did was separate us from the ‘normal’ children so we’d be less annoying to the teachers.
minus-squarebarrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoI was in a similar program and the way it was implemented meant that my records had a special mark, and they kept trying to put me in remedial classes because the same mark was used for people with learning disabilities.
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoThe “I’m an empath” thing always comes from some of the most annoying, self absorbed people.
A lot of those ‘gifted child’ memes have the same energy of ‘I’m an empath’ to be.
Then again, I was always more of a C student.
i was in the gifted program and i felt like all it did was make people more pretentious.
I was in the gifted program and I felt like all it did was separate us from the ‘normal’ children so we’d be less annoying to the teachers.
Also this lol
I was in a similar program and the way it was implemented meant that my records had a special mark, and they kept trying to put me in remedial classes because the same mark was used for people with learning disabilities.
The “I’m an empath” thing always comes from some of the most annoying, self absorbed people.