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gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

• the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative
• a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud
• never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to
• reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now
• dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this
• feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)
• being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit

• Peaking early and feeling like an eternal failure ever since
• Remembering what it felt like to be motivated and at the top of your game and you could do ten things at once and cared so much, but now it’s a struggle to keep up with anything
• ~depression~
• ~functional depression~ so you feel like you are faking it
• Holding a mediocre job and feeling unfulfilled but feeling like you aren’t good enough to do anything else
• Being book smart but struggles with social skills and communication with others.
• Feeling like you are the worst person on earth for making a mistake or not knowing something

• Also other students dismissing your efforts because you’re “smart”.
• Also your family members dismissing your efforts because your “smart”.
• Even some teachers do that.

Thank you.

• all of your fellow students/ siblings getting a reward for each A and never getting recognized for your work because “it’s an expectation”

• the one (1) time you make a mistake the rest of the class with never let you live down

• if you struggle in a subject it seems like you just don’t care even if you work really hard and still barely get a b

• I can either hand in perfect work or miss the assignment

• Anxiety

- Apparently, I don’t struggle with things

- Get an answer wrong in class? 15 minute lecture from the teacher [no repercussions if it’s someone else-]

- Never learned to study and review because people never bothered to consider that I might need those skills

- Academic validation was the only kind I ever god

• feeling like worse when you procrastinate some study and then can’t seem to/want to do it later and then feeling double worse bcs you know you can

• anxiety

• feeling like you’re not studying enough until it’s exam time and then you don’t think about studying

• feeling like an imposter

• trying not think about studies whenever someone around you is being coached/studying

Feeling like you’ve fallen from grace is the biggest one for me personally

At school I have barely any house points compared to other students, because teachers thought I didn’t try.

I’m… All of these except the job thing…

(Also, replace “Techer lecturing you for 15 minutes” with “Mom lecturing you for 15-30 minutes depending on if you start crying or not”)

• Anxiety

• no executive function meaning its hard for you to get dressed or eat or get up in the morning