#fucking. retroactively offended that they weren't considered gifted as a kid or smth. ik the whole tag system is fucked unfortunately | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mother-of-houseplants-2 · 22 days ago

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when will people stop talking about 'former gifted kid syndrome' like it's just "i used to be smart and now i'm not wah wah wah" and start talking about what it really is, which is "people expected perfection from me my whole life with no support and now i'm struggling as a grown up with no support"

#personal #not tagging this with anything relevant #because i feel like people have very big feelings about this issue and i don't want to hear about why i'm actually the worst person alive y #i don't want discourse just want to vent #ami rants #like it's actually so infuriating to hear people make fun of folks experiencing academic burnout and shit on them just because they feel.#fucking. retroactively offended that they weren't considered gifted as a kid or smth. ik the whole tag system is fucked unfortunately #but like. what do you want me as an individual to do about it. my lived experience has already been lived.#anyways i get really upset when i'm shut down when i try to express frustration or difficulty coping with high academic pressure or #expectation because like. it's a real thing that actively destroyed my body and mh for so many years and how can you invalidate that just #because you struggled with school in a different way than me?????#ALSOOOOOO #as soon as you talk about it a lot of people's instinct to help/express empathy just goes away.#which . IS WHY WE ARE STRUGGLING SO MUCH IN THE FIRST PLACE #BARK BARK BARK ABARK. BARK ABAKRB KABR

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