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Feb 11, 2024 6:57 PM
ginalynn8942
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brokehackfourlane
how dare you
PunnyPunenstein
You don't have to be academically gifted to be the first one
jakcspellgood
what about me? I'm anxious and spiral into self hate at the slightest mistake and I was never gifted at anything.
ninjamurray
jimmyriba
Pourquois pas les deux?
Zetor
Still doing it. I have a stack of unopened Lego boxes... :(
tjn2000
Spirals for me, thank you very much
omegaprimus01
I feel attacked
90sLego
Jokes on you, I was not academically talented and still have the above symptoms. Get a larger sample size you hack
nthensome
Yes, there is a fucking in between
CthuluIsMyHomie
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it (both descriptions, less than anxiety, I kept my GenX angst instead)
duktayp
Search words: Did Harvard create the Unabomber ... If you're bored
cuttysark
There is far too much in between these two for the conclusion being drawn
takebackmath
Why do we built this narrative of universal hopelessness? Many people are having happy, fun and productive lives.
GuitarBobMonterey
forgot...'or alcoholics'
mynamespaul
“I was a gifted kid” is the intellectual equivalent of “ in high-school i once scored 3 touchdowns in a single game”.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yeah, I feel like people post these just to humble-brag.
Kitehammer
I grew up to be wildly mediocre.
rossonerinho
https://imgur.com/hk1tqtA.gif
rossonerinho
https://imgur.com/g2XIzj5.gif
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
David Spade just losing it, lol
DominoAmorous
I fell in to the gifted program as a kid but spent the rest of my scholastic life doing the bare minimum to pass. I'm now 37 and have spent the last decade slowly erasing and completing all the stupid little hobbies I got in to during my life. But now I'm too self-hating to allow myself to enjoy delving into something new. My bookcases and shelves are not just clean, but nearly empty of possessions past the bare minimum.
hiiamluciole
and why do you punish yourself ?
mirrorz
Well I was never going to be a doctor.
noxdracoria
some of us also got diagnosed as autistic or ADHD after we burned out as adults and then we learned why everything was always so hard for us outside the structure and support of an academic setting and we start to learn to love ourselves a little and get back on track leading pretty kick ass lives. *high five*
AstroPenguin81
#1 wow. I'm the first, wife is a doctor... But anxiety laden. Fascinating!
tzahtman
Kids who grow up to repost a repost of a repost of a repost of a repost are either bots or someone that uses "introvert" to mean "antisocial". There are no other options.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Much more accurate than the post!!!
theHUNGERian
Why not both?
gtotherizzle
Substance abusers as well
NZSheeps
They already said doctors
nowinsituation
Lawyers, professors, highly successful entrepreneurs, experts in their fields...actually it was a minority of kids in the gifted program from my school who didn't do pretty well....some struggled in their 20s and 30s- but most came out really well...a few were complete disasters...so, sorry, bud- its you- not gifted kids in general.
mangoinparis
Best to not tell kids they are gifted. They often think they don't need to put in effort and end up underperforming, in my teaching experience.
nowinsituation
nah, some are slackers, but once they find themselves amongst similarly intelligent peers they see that they have to work- but having a work ethic instilled in any child is important regardless of supposed "gifted" intelligence...
raindirve
Most kids will notice anyway. Might also depend on whether you're able to commit the resources. My teachers absolutely told me I was gifted, but not in a praise sort of way. Instead there was a clear target of "listen kid, you're going to have to learn to put effort in sooner or later, so here's how we're going to try to challenge you right now, and in ten years we can say we told you so". Not that I listened at the time, so I almost failed a year of college, but they laid a good foundation.
DoseOfScience
I mean, there's also successful engineers.
DaveSamsonite
Bingo.
HazelandChaCha
And we also spiral into self-hate
demolitionlover09
As an engineer, my hobbies are not abandoned, they are there to be picked up whenever i feel the urge.
DoctorNinjah
there's also UNsuccessful engineers.
DoseOfScience
That falls under the 'spiraling into self hate' stuff.
Sorrontis
I'm a doctor that spirals into self hate when I think about my abandoned hobbies.
Sechran
The purpose of a hobby is to bring you joy - if it fails to do so to such an extent you abandon it, that's the hobby's fault, not yours. Even if it's a matter of, "Damn it, I'm a doctor! I don't have TIME for [insert hobby here]!" hobbies are still just a supplement to our lives.
We don't owe them anything. They're not people. They're not pets. You can regret not having time for them, but they're not an obligation. It's natural and normal to move on to new things and leave the old behind.
starrs3
It may be the fact that they love them but are mad they dont have the time for them. My fiance is a post doc associate and he gets frusterated when he doesnt get any chill time. Sometimes he works 60-80 weeks on a 40 hr salary, with over $100,000 in loans. The amount of overworked he is is criminal
savemebabyjebus
I dont think ur meant to refer to patients as “abandoned hobbies”
hasori
Me too
mthedoor
Oh hey me too! We should form a club and then abandon it and then engage in self hate!
dmd3eorg
yuppppp there’s plenty of us
justfiguredoutimc4azyanddumbb
Stamp collecting and carpentry? Haberdashery? Breeding hermit crabs?
BamblingBaboons
Me too, me too...
lovingspace
Same, but not that kind of doctor.
Rockafella83
Flarty
Don't worry, we'll all be dead soon
yoyo42
I'm an abandoned self-hater who spirals into hobbies when I think about my doctor.
Sainare
Nice
wagnus
Nice
Sorrontis
why commemorate it with a screemshot?
Sorrontis
oh, wait, 69... nice
imakeeper
Little grammatical peeve of mine. "That" is a pronoun that refers to an object, while "who" refers to a person. You are a doctor WHO spirals.
FractalShoggoth
Listen here you pedantic fuck.
Thank you for your service. I was also making this mistake and now I will not.
DaveInPhilly
But I’m an adult who considers myself an object. Now you have insulted me.
cuntgrenade
who says doctors cannot objectify themselves?
oldDudeButNotThatOld
What!? Like a Time Lord?
GameofFutons
I was taught "who" = person, "which" = object, "that" = person or object.
imakeeper
https://www.touro.edu/departments/writing-center/tutorials/when-to-use-who-or-that/#:~:text=When%20you%20determine%20whether%20to,%2C%20such%20as%20%E2%80%9Cthat%E2%80%9D%20team
SupernaturalReactions
If they are a doctor in the American Healthcare system, they are an object....
MstrES
Maybe they don't consider themselves a person anymore. I know I didn't at some point in such a spiral.
yoyo42
Doctor is a role not a person. Either way works for me.
Sorrontis
no no, you're right. thanks for the correction... I'm just going to hate myself for a little bit...
Ionico
That's the spirit!
MediocreExtremist
only a little??? you're worth more than that !
TurtleBrawler
Have some duckies
Sorrontis
cute, thanks!