It would be super useful in South Korea because they value education and studying more that Japan, though. It’s built into their system.
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Which is crazy, considering the amount of testing Japanese students go through.
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I know right?
I’d die there
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True’s pretty good at digging graves 
it’s kinda bitchy to say but i feel like everyone and their dog was a “gifted kid” in middle or high school.
being quiet lol. it mostly annoys people.
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If I ever have any enemies that I want six feet under, I calling True to assist me with that. LOL!
That’s interesting to say.
Does it depend on the school? I never really got that impression in my school, then again I barely remember things from back in the day.
I get like that sometimes. LOL!
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I thought that your talent was copy editing.
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definitely the right person to call
probably, but i recently saw someone’s mini rant on tiktok about how people misuse ‘gifted’ and ‘gifted kid burnout’ when what they really mean is they did decently well in middle/high school which is designed for you to succeed in (even if its not designed terribly well).
so, i do think that happens a lot, at least online.
but also i personally ended up friends and classmates with a lot of overachievers and actual gifted kids so i’m a little jaded to the term now 
spooks people out lol
oh no, a missed opportunity
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Well, as someone who was in Honors and Gifted & Tslented…well, yeah, its overused, but there’s 3 levels in jr highs, technically 4 in highschools. Oh, hell, 5 or 8, really.
- Special ed, non-inclusion, often not even in the same school.
- Inclusions special-ed. Mostly in regular classes but pulled aside for help.
- Regular classes.90% of those fit “you should be able to do the work”, but my “Advanced Math” course was the “Senior Regular Class” and the “Jr Honors Class”, so it’s the pinaccle of “what you should do” a year early. There was a few courses that overlapped like that.
- Honors Classes: aometimes much harder, other times juat plain faster because “no one to slow you down” in the course. All these can cause burnout in a low-average child, but if youre “smart”, this just cuts out on peer frustration.
- Gifted Classes: this is a lot more like self study, college work, hobors on steroids, and these classes start well before JR high. It ie easy to get burnout in these focused courses, especially above your pay grade.
- Skills outside basic academics that needed self-study and college level work, such as in music.AKA: Talented.
- In highschool college courses, taught like crossover classes, earensd you credits.
- Permission to take college classes while in highschool.
I did 3, 4, 6, & 8. I didnt hit burnout until about 2-3 years into college, but it wasnt because highschool coursework was easy all the time. Ive stayed uo finishing papers and projects from my Sophomore year on through college–that level of pressure never changed, all the while having bs classes I didnt need eating up my time. Ive missed 1 day of a class and had that been the reason Ive failed a test–in that Advanced Math class.
Sp, from my experience of always edging into harder material than necessary, it didn’t take much for burnout. It just has to be chornic and low grade stress. That only takes 1 horrible teacher, missing a crucial day, chronic projects. Its not difficult. Any given day in school, throw a well-rested me in, and I’d tell you that day was easy.
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Anyone else?
yeah i mean, i believe there are gifted kids and gifted kid burnout happens. and i’m not saying high school courses are easy while you’re doing them. but they’re also designed to maximize success. the average student is supposed to be able to at the bare minimum pass them. and i think the person in the og tiktok meant that some people took performing well at level 3 or 4 as being ‘gifted’ and then call it gifted kid burnout when they start college and suddenly have level 5 expectations to meet.
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I’m sure youre right because that’s the mode of operation in our society at this point.
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Owen Orem from Alive At Crepusculum (which I don’t talk a lot about here). He has the talent to recognize when a bottlecap is a “collector’s item”. No one else understands the value of this except him. And he’s so caught up in his own little world, he doesn’t notice that no one cares 
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My character Yasmine has a talent that only characters who do not know her or are new acquaintances consider mundane. Through years of practice, Yasmine developed the art of brewing a perfect pot of Bedouin black tea (herbs optional). Yasmine’s friends (Karen and her mercenaries) consider her tea to be the elixir of strength and youth.* Yasmine is known to add some variety to her brews, on the mercenaries’ requests. For example, Krista is addicted to Yasmine’s adaptation of Russian black tea with lemon…A reference to Doctor Zhivago, I think…
*If you want to know why Israel wins so many wars, each morning our soldiers have that tea ~ Ashley Azaria (Karen’s aide).
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