Current Events > 'I was so gifted as a child, but now I'm depressed and a failure!'

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https://youtu.be/QUjYy4Ksy1E

I think its more annoying when gifted kids complain about being given extra resources like entire classes being detrimental to their development because they feel they thought of themselves too highly while other kids didnt receive shit. Lol

i got distracted in college and pretty much dropped out after a series of unfortunate events stressed me out. I'm going to try again though and major in CS/CiS and maybe minor in Graphic Design

Shadow20201 posted...

No one's life goes as expected though so I don't subscribe to the 'Woe is me. I could have been something.' feelings.

I feel this is unfair. A bad relationship, a bad family situation, serious health problems, or sometimes even a few spectacularly bad life choices can send you into a death spiral that's difficult to recover from. The vast majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and upward social mobility in 2021 is kind of limited compared how it used to be. I think it's perfectly valid to feel like your life totally went off track, and to recognize that digging yourself out of the hole you dug for yourself (or had dug for you in some cases) is harder than society tends to admit, and is made even harder by the lack of good social programs and resources for folks in a tough spot.