No Help For The Neurodivergent Gifted
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No Help For The Neurodivergent Gifted

By Michelle Mairena Elisandra Fernandez first heard of the “gifted kid” label one morning in her first-grade class, when a teacher told her she was a good test-taker and belonged in the gifted student program — a program to academically accelerate high-achieving and fast-developing students. Fernandez didn’t understand what being ‘gifted’ meant, but when she…

Gifted Kid Burnout Explained by Former Gifted Kids
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Gifted Kid Burnout Explained by Former Gifted Kids

By Kayla Cheung Gifted Kid Burnout is somewhat of a new term, coined by teens and young adults on the internet that have had similar childhood experiences in school. It is characterized by lifelong perfectionism, inexplicable lack of self-esteem, and a decline in surface ingenuity caused by growing up a “gifted kid,” causing them to…