One of the most important insights a gifted person can acquire -- beyond high performance in the academics and the arts, is to actually be able to relate to others in a sensitive, empathic, and supportive way. This skill took me years to acquire. To be able to set aside impatience with others, and relate to them in a context of mutual understanding and sincere communication, is one of the ultimate achievements of a highly gifted person.
I agree, but I actually think this is harder if you have to go to a normal class with kids your own age. Then you might grow up seeing them as the roadblocks holding you back and get annoyed at them not communicating at you level. I think a well-adjusted child with friends with the same intellectual capabilities will also be more patient with normal children.
I picked it up kind of easily honestly. My problem is keeping it on, it shuts off really quickly if I'm upset it any way or feel the person needs to be punished and I can shut it off myself. But my mother is incredibly empathetic so I learned how to fake empathy very well and how to play the part very well, to the point where my mother actually believes I'm empathetic and caring when really I only play the part unless it harms me, and when it harms me I can do a complete 360 and harm other people in order to re assure that I'm not harmed.
Exactly, l noticed that my niece is gifted because she had so much compassion at two years old, she noticed when people are hurting and tried everything to comfort them. It occurred to me that l was in college when l first realized that l need to pay attention to other people's needs. Also at two years old she kept trying to show a physiotherapist how to do his job while working with my mom 😂 all as she kept saying "it's ok" to her grandmother
The fact that our society has chosen to defund programs for intelligent individuals is a clear sign that our leaders do not have the same goal in mind that most citizens would expect as a natural course of direction.
@FlyingMonkies325 I like to think of it as awareness of one’s evolution. It’s one thing to evolve through the natural process but it’s another experience altogether to participate in it and watch yourself become stronger within and appreciate the possibility of what might be if one continues this direct approach rather than the haphazard form that most people experience.
It was very hard for me when I was sent to kindergarten because I could already read and most of the classroom books had pictures but no words. I went to the school library and checked out a 5th grade book on European art. I wanted to study this instead of the math that I already knew for that age. I'm a visual learner and didn't pick up on motor skills early on. I needed the teacher to show me what to do not just tell me when it came to certain activities. So, when I didn't make a paper yellow duck correctly my teacher said I had not been paying attention and punished me. I think it's very sad my teachers didn't notice or care that I did want to learn. I wanted to learn many things! But I was the square peg in their classrooms and they had no patience for me. I was rescued from this prison when my parents decided to homeschool me when I was 8. I could finally learn and be free to learn! The world became my classroom. But children deserve schools, any school they go to that will embrace them for who they are! Not label them!
I never realized I was gifted until I was a janitor working at a college. One day I saw this nearly impossible math equation on the black board and was able to figure it out.
My 6 year olds 1st grade teacher just asked me if she could enroll him in the testing for gifted and talented program...I always knew he was "different" but in an amazing way...he speaks all the time, has idea's, imagination and loves reading, he reads way above his grade level. I'm going to let them test him. He's one, if not, the most sensitive, intellectual little beings I've met in my life ❤️
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Testing him gives you more insight than just a single number. And, with the test comes the ability to advance him into classes where he belongs. Testing out kid early, and having the ability to advance them was the best thing we could've done.
ive been diagnosed with intellectual giftedness. but i havent found a specific maths or science or arts or language thing. im just weird. ive never been the wizz kid, get the a's be the smart kid. im just weird and generaly phycologicaly advanced from a general linguistic, social, and emotional level as well as having the sensory extremities that some kids have. hence why so many people have decided im on the autistic spectrum. nobody agnologes me as smart or clever exept for my parents but thats typical parental behavior. so idk what im exactly trying to say, for all the gifted kids who arent acknowledged because they arent the typical einstein kid, the rest of us are out there.
In Kindergarten the goal was to read a book a day and record what book it was. I'd read the same book over and over, always pausing for abnormally long periods of time to stare at the pictures. The teacher thought I was only staring at the pictures and not doing the work (I should have finished multiple books by now and I knew that). What I was ACTUALLY doing was, at home, having Harry Potter read to me every night, learning to read along with my mom. I easily read the dinosaur book cover to cover every day. I just loved to stare at the pictures and use my visualization capacity to imagine the world as being real. I was essentially creating my own world simultaneously while reading. It's how I passed the time whenever I was bored, which was often. I have so many stories of my past that act as indicators to why I was improperly diagnosed as aspergers and ADHD as a young child. And now that I've come to understand my own apparent giftedness that had remained a mystery to me for years I've noticed that word being tossed around much more frequently in my life, more often than not as directed towards me. It's strange how life can do that.
What's the worst is when teachers expect the "math whizzes" get to be tought on their level, but if you can write an intellectual, inttelagent, wise poem you will be criticized for slacking off, and daydreaming because being creative isn't as much of an intelligent trait as writing or being creative. They do not realize how hard it is to see the world differently and not be treated to the part you would like to play. There was one teacher who had to make me believe because of the educational system I thought all I had done was played a role of a gifted child, but no I had only convinced myself that I had. Being a different kind of Gifted does not make you not gifted, it makes you a different kind of gifted.
Wow! I ( as an eleven year old child ) can actually relate to this for once. Don't bash me for having a TH-cam channel like everyone else, I like to comment on meaningful things and my parents are perfectly fine with it.
If your that smart, I am guessing that your parents recognize that. That’s probably why they let you have a TH-cam channel, you have the intellect to understand the perks and pitfalls of the internet. No one should bash you or your parents. Just be safe, the internet can be a tricky place ❤️
ive been diagnosed ASD, ive been forced to learn, u cant cant be urself, forced myself learn hide and lies, for survival, in normal human world, ive been stopped staying in libraries for too long, been conned, abused by peers and teachers all my young life. So pretend to be normal & unnotice , only be urself secretly alone, unless some ASD lucky enough living in a good place. sadly im not gifted with IQ 68. All depends where u born into including ur family ur care takers
I'm also gifted but then i got a whole lot of illnesses throughout my life from my autoimmune conditions. it was probably the most devastating thing for me. i hope you goodness
Thank you for this video. Now I can see how I must've been like as a kid. I was misunderstood in school and in my family. I was seen as a mouthy child ending up in powerstruggles with my mom and teachers. I am 48 years old now 😢. How different my life could've been if I was given the right support.
It seems to me, one of the difficulties of taking gifted students into account in a public school setting, is the divergent nature of their patterns of understanding. Luckily, in this day and age, it is easier than ever to be an autodidact. Many of the most influential minds of the past have been self taught, and have based their hypotheses, theories, and actions off of things they had read and learned on their own. When I was in elementary school, I was diagnosed with ODD and ADD in part because I thought it was silly to rewrite the spelling and vocabulary words 10 times each when I learned them after a single repetition, but also because I was always asking questions and wanting to know more than what teachers were prepared to administer. Frustratingly, they gave me an IQ test to determine if I needed special Ed in order to redirect my study habits. After which, they determined that the solution was more (not better directed) work. I was put in a group with kids who were doing higher level process activities, but it was not tailored to individual ability to progress-nor do I believe that should, necessarily, reasonably be expected. When my kids were younger, standardized testing automatically funneled them into the school’s gifted program, and it was a good opportunity to engage with and identify those that could communicate on the same level. On the other hand, they learned nothing of their actual fields of interest. The gifted label seemed more of a badge of honor, and an excuse to leave class. In my experience, I thought that I was somehow defective because other kids didn’t understand me and thought I was weird. It was a double-edged sword, though. Out of necessity, I learned how to be what society expected of me, while also learning how to find my own way in the quest for knowledge. It took me a long time, and a lot of trials and error, but I am finally feeling like I am starting to piece the puzzle together. The best won battles are often hard fought, and I think the right degree of adversity can make a big impact on a gifted individual’s ability to express their unique talent. In short, I believe in gifted students’ ability to “make their own way” precisely BECAUSE one is not readily given to them.
I'm already an adult. Lots of wasted time. These kids make me feel truly understood though I may not be as brilliant as I've already atrophied. The seven-year old blonde kid, lol, I hope he mellows out in the future.
I, like many of you in the comments was tested, and found to be intellectually gifted. When I was around 1 and a half, I taught myself how to read. When I was 3 I taught myself how to do math. I went to a private school, which meant they didn’t have a standardized testing system in place. I had to repeat kindergarten due to being sent a year early, and that “I had to be with kids my own age” I’m now almost graduating, and I can honestly say it’s frustrating. Half of the teachers and adults you meet seem convinced that you’re some sort of young Sheldon. I have had teachers on multiple occasions change my marks because “we’re gifted, so we obviously do things easily, and we pick on the normal kids because we’re so much smarter than them “ I can’t even explain how downgrading it feels when your teacher, an adult you should be able to trust, changes something as vital as a mark due to a petty grudge. The gifted community where I go gets picked on quite frequently, and it seems to the teachers that we’re the ones harassing the “perfectly normal kids” I flunked French because we didn’t impress the teacher enough due to being gifted, so we obviously needed higher standards We were like any other person, except some things came easier to us. I apologize for ranting, I just really wanted to get this off of my chest.
Being gifted is not easy in kindergarten I started reading chapter books and I felt embarrassed because I felt like everyone was staring at me or talking about me behind my back because I was the only one in all of kindergarten who was reading chapter books
As a mother of four exceptionally gifted children, what would I give for such an institute! In this country, mediocrity and egalitarianism are upheld, we are in the Middle Ages when it comes to giftedness.
@@hant679 My children are not going to school at the moment because they cannot cope with the back and forth of the covid coercive measures and their socio-political effects. We then decided together with them to enroll them in homeschooling again. Here in Austria there is a compulsory education, those who do not go to school have to take an examination of the entire year's material. At the beginning of the school year we were still told that we were allowed to choose the exam schools, but then they were suddenly made compulsory selection for us. Since two of my children have already endured real martyrdom when it comes to school, I certainly don't allow such coercive political measures to be carried out on the children's backs. Three of my children have been homeschooled before, but the exam procedures were a disaster. They are more or less traumatized by the school, two of them can hardly bear to walk past a school today. Bullying was basically the main problem on the part of some classmates, but also various teachers. Instead of our system valuing and nurturing bright kids, they are largely opposed by it. Various educators do not even shy away from "punishing" students who are more competent in their own subject, who know more than they do, or who even point out mistakes, by giving worse grades. In this country, cowardice is still in the bones, mediocrity and egalitarianism are promoted, all things that highly intelligent people in particular resist.
@@michatheresiaprimus9972 that sounds rough! I live in the US where homeschooling is easier. We tried putting my oldest in school as a young kid. He didn't even make it to the doors. We met with his teachers and walked out of the meeting knowing we wouldn't ever go that route. Both of my older boys are 2e and the schools just couldn't accommodate them. So we decided to homeschool.
My son never experienced this at all, most of his teachers were fantastic, and totally connected that he got bored with work that was too easy, as did other children who found that subject easy. He’s extremely smart, but what matters most to me, is the fact he’s deeply compassionate and empathetic and an excellent friend. 1000 times more important than being smart. The pressure placed on intelligent kids is horrific and most have experienced mental health issues because they are held to such high standards of success. Your kids are far more, hopefully than just smart.
@@river8760 I do not know what exactly your perceptions refer to, or you have even understood the statements of the video, but after experiences on the subject of giftedness / high sensitivity also with regard to such parenthood your text does not read. While writing about "compassion," you ruthlessly condemn gifted/highly sensitive people in many ways. As if high intelligence went hand in hand with a lack of interpersonal skills, terrible pressure was put on every gifted/highly sensitive child and most sufferers had mental health problems.
I am intellectually gifted and it was very hard for me to make friends. No one understood me and they perceived me as this whiz kid genius. They seemed almost intimidated by me. I didn’t understand what I did wrong. Why didn’t people get me? It all started to make sense when I was tested for a gifted program. I tested positive and I was ecstatic to finally meet people who were like me. When I found out that my cousin was gifted too, I was so happy to know someone like me. Then my mom told me that my elder sister was gifted too and also my uncle. Giftedness runs in my family I suppose. We are often misperceived as stuck up snobs or whacko freaks and we are neither. We are simply humans whose brains work slightly different than others. I hope that this cleared giftedness up for people who didn’t understand it. -much love, Eva 💖
My problems in school was because I out sick more then I was in. I'm very gifted but because of my health and other issues no one besides my bestie and my mum has seen these gifts. Others have but they aren't around me everyday or already passed away. You see by the time I was 3rd grade I was reading at 9th grade level and when they test me again just 2 years later I was at 12 grade level. Yes, some areas in school I was weak but in others I was very strong.
I am 65 they did not have kindergarten when I went to school. I was reading on a college level by the time I was in 1st grade and was a "problem" from the day I walked into public school til the time I could drop out of high school at 16. The only teachers that treated me good were my art and music teachers. I still don't fit in any where and have very little common ground with people. I am still learning but nobody is interested in knowing about what I am doing.
@FlyingMonkies325 The ones in control of these things know that genius is more likely to emerge in the masses than in the elite. So they are dumbing down society so their children won't look like idiots. The strong and the intelligent really do survive it is written in the laws of nature. No matter how the elite try they can't over come the laws of the universe. Their lack of true intelligence shows by the fact that they think they can. They are basically just plain old criminals.
use ur gifts for good and make difference.music art inventions doc so on whatever God gifted u to do or be sour with it nurture it.don't listen to dream breakers.
I agree with you. But I have a tragic life. I suffer from neurological Lyme disease, once I had many dreams and imaginations, I was gifted in some areas- music, academics, art. I cannot take this anymore.
My 4year old, turning 5 end of july is super shy, like super super shy. He could read letters and number from 0-100 at age 1year 4 month, 2years old he could read books, read fluently and spell by the , he knew all the flags of the world, before h, he knew all the planets including dwarf planets, he could give each one of them a discription on how to identify all of them, he could read the map, he knew dozens of landmarks of the world and could tell you which country to find them, at 4years old, he knows the entire human skeleton, and the system, knows the phases of the world. He struggles with making friends, he had speech delay, so he could read and say all those things, but couldn't communicate, like tell you how he feels, what he got up to, what he wants to eat, you couldn't have a conversation with him, even now his learning to find his words, with his speech delay he learned to talk from reading and watching TV which has subtitles, so he speaks English and English only, we from Africa, English is like 3rd language for us, so his often bullied by that, i learned months later, as he only started school this year January that hebwas bullied by even his teacher, who told him to shut up wnd even pushed him at one point, because of his shyness he couldn't tell me anything anything about what's happening in school, he hates being taught, he want to sit with books read study and knows things, he literally taught or teach himself everything he knows or wants to know, even writing he taught himself to hold a pen and write and his comfortable being in his study zone, Africa really doesn't have any system or organizations or anything to help me and my child, after being bullied i took him out of school, i really can't afford to take him to a good school because i am currently unemployed , so I sit with him at home qnd watch him study, go out and play a little bit like he always does and prefer.
I have autism, but I'm definitely not gifted-a little slow. I went through complete hell in those public schools. The kids were really mean and I got bullied by my teachers for being gay🙄
Would be nice if politicians saw this video but the USA is a country where foundations make millions. There are foundations for low income education therr should be a foundation for genious kids.
I did my entire years language arts and literature in grade 5 in a week and so the teacher just sent me into a room all by myself and said read some books for the entire rest of the year. My college entrance exam I got 100% in english arts but they said I couldn't get that so they gave me 99% and math I got 98%. No one ever noticed and I became hugely lazy and undirected for a long time. My 3 year old grand daughter is gifted, I think. She knows her numbers and letters and speaks full conversations. I hope God gives her the ability to navigate this world. I find people don't understand.
I didnt See a psychologist but ive been told many times that i am gifted. Im Very Sure thats because i was exposed to certain Things during my childhood a lot. So i would say in my case its practise, not a difference in my brain or sth. But of course im Not Sure. Would be interesting to Know how much These Kids Were exposed to the Things they are considered "giftet" in
They say these kids are gifted but to me their most obvious characteristic is Americaness. Their values, ambitions, their use of language, these kids are *so* unbelievably American.
Angie Anthony no I'm saying neither, I'm just saying as a non-American, even when British culture really isn't that different compared to some more exotic cultures to American culture, what really stands out for me about these children is much more their cultural differences on account of being Americans than anything to do with their intellect. As it happens we don't really do "gifted" in the uk (well I think the kind of parents who send their kids to private schools might but the general population not so much). UK culture is very antagonistic to intellectual difference. It is seen as utterly gauche to suggest it even exists. I think it's because we still have such an entrenched class system that there is almost a mental backlash against the idea because it's associated with the idea some people are better than others. But the reality is the vast inequalities in British society exist despite not because of intellectual difference and pretending everyone is equal, even in the face of those disparities is entirely unproductive.
Dynamite Dancers I don’t understand where the embarrassment comes from. I’m not judging it’s accuracy either way. I just don’t understand how it makes gifted people look bad.
Therefore only white people are gifted. Just kidding... Who cares? What does being white have to do with them being gifted. Are you assuming bias? Maybe it was one preparatory school dominated by whites as an inner city school dominated by blacks and when they started selecting the gifted kids for the interview, since white skin is all there would be to select from, therefore only white gifted kids the same if you did the same selection im the inner city. Your line of thinking is ridiculous. Must everything be race? Black gifted kids are overlooked sure but it seems like you are accusing this video of racial intent with no factual evidence to back it up other than an obvious observation that does not logically flow to your conclusion.
@@contemplativetheology actually she's quite right to point this out. White teachers have been accused of purposely not identifying black and Hispanic students as gifted. I transfered to a school in another state and inquired about their 5th grade gifted program. I was told they already had a black boy in the class 😑. Luckily my papers transferred from my previous school.
In grade three I was reading at a grade 6 level , in year 6 I was reading thick adult fiction books ( nothing sexual ) and understood it completely . In English this year my teacher gave me over 225 questions on the analysis of Romeo and Juliet and I nearly got halfway through it but I wasn't able to finish it because of a time limit. In prep my teacher said to my mother " in all my 25 years of teaching , I have never met a child with such an imagination" I'm not very good at math but I do pass my subjects and next year I'm taking 5 OP subjects so I can go to university.
If you really were as smart as you claim, you wouldn’t feel the need to comment it 😑 and secondly, you wouldn’t be going to a public school (and attending a university isn’t rare, so to speak)
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Why are these kids acting like they are these special people with superpowers. Bruh, you like learning I get. Everyone is gifted in their own way and that is the truth. Some people discover it early some people don’t period
The thing about gifted kids is they're not just intelligent -- it's that their development doesn't follow the same path as others. Like maybe they're 9 and reading at an adult level, but maybe they have the social skills of a 5 year old. Treating them as "just smart" makes them feel they don't have a right to struggle with anything or that they need to dumb themselves down to belong, since belonging is a very necessary human thing. They need special support to be able to be healthy adults.
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One of the most important insights a gifted person can acquire -- beyond high performance in the academics and the arts, is to actually be able to relate to others in a sensitive, empathic, and supportive way. This skill took me years to acquire. To be able to set aside impatience with others, and relate to them in a context of mutual understanding and sincere communication, is one of the ultimate achievements of a highly gifted person.
I agree, but I actually think this is harder if you have to go to a normal class with kids your own age. Then you might grow up seeing them as the roadblocks holding you back and get annoyed at them not communicating at you level. I think a well-adjusted child with friends with the same intellectual capabilities will also be more patient with normal children.
I picked it up kind of easily honestly. My problem is keeping it on, it shuts off really quickly if I'm upset it any way or feel the person needs to be punished and I can shut it off myself. But my mother is incredibly empathetic so I learned how to fake empathy very well and how to play the part very well, to the point where my mother actually believes I'm empathetic and caring when really I only play the part unless it harms me, and when it harms me I can do a complete 360 and harm other people in order to re assure that I'm not harmed.
100%!
Some so called ungifted people may be far more able minded and good at intelligent thinking than you think!
Exactly, l noticed that my niece is gifted because she had so much compassion at two years old, she noticed when people are hurting and tried everything to comfort them. It occurred to me that l was in college when l first realized that l need to pay attention to other people's needs. Also at two years old she kept trying to show a physiotherapist how to do his job while working with my mom 😂 all as she kept saying "it's ok" to her grandmother
The fact that our society has chosen to defund programs for intelligent individuals is a clear sign that our leaders do not have the same goal in mind that most citizens would expect as a natural course of direction.
@FlyingMonkies325 I like to think of it as awareness of one’s evolution. It’s one thing to evolve through the natural process but it’s another experience altogether to participate in it and watch yourself become stronger within and appreciate the possibility of what might be if one continues this direct approach rather than the haphazard form that most people experience.
It was very hard for me when I was sent to kindergarten because I could already read and most of the classroom books had pictures but no words. I went to the school library and checked out a 5th grade book on European art. I wanted to study this instead of the math that I already knew for that age. I'm a visual learner and didn't pick up on motor skills early on. I needed the teacher to show me what to do not just tell me when it came to certain activities. So, when I didn't make a paper yellow duck correctly my teacher said I had not been paying attention and punished me. I think it's very sad my teachers didn't notice or care that I did want to learn. I wanted to learn many things! But I was the square peg in their classrooms and they had no patience for me. I was rescued from this prison when my parents decided to homeschool me when I was 8. I could finally learn and be free to learn! The world became my classroom. But children deserve schools, any school they go to that will embrace them for who they are! Not label them!
***** Thank you
Rachel A. That is the same thing I do but I read 5th grade books in pre k
I liked impressing my classmates
How old are you right know ?.. are you still homeschooled?
@@burgerking4237 "Shut up, fool." - - Mister T.
This video makes me feel like Tarzan felt when he discovered there were other creatures like him.
same
Berenika Wos yeah
Berenika Wos same
Yes, for my whole family especially my five year old.
Same
Gifted children tend to feel alone, until they find others like themselves..
when u can’t relate to this video or people in the comments at ALL but it’s just nice to watch this because why not
I never realized I was gifted until I was a janitor working at a college. One day I saw this nearly impossible math equation on the black board and was able to figure it out.
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My 6 year olds 1st grade teacher just asked me if she could enroll him in the testing for gifted and talented program...I always knew he was "different" but in an amazing way...he speaks all the time, has idea's, imagination and loves reading, he reads way above his grade level. I'm going to let them test him. He's one, if not, the most sensitive, intellectual little beings I've met in my life ❤️
iwas labeled ocd odd bipolardepressed schzioprhenic for enforicnga masters level understanding of human rightshumanitarian criminal refugee law I am the state winner of new jkersey in geography bee inj 2004 published writer i can speak arabic chinese english french russian spanish portuguese afrikaans xhosa and zulu
Testing him gives you more insight than just a single number. And, with the test comes the ability to advance him into classes where he belongs. Testing out kid early, and having the ability to advance them was the best thing we could've done.
ive been diagnosed with intellectual giftedness. but i havent found a specific maths or science or arts or language thing. im just weird. ive never been the wizz kid, get the a's be the smart kid. im just weird and generaly phycologicaly advanced from a general linguistic, social, and emotional level as well as having the sensory extremities that some kids have. hence why so many people have decided im on the autistic spectrum. nobody agnologes me as smart or clever exept for my parents but thats typical parental behavior. so idk what im exactly trying to say, for all the gifted kids who arent acknowledged because they arent the typical einstein kid, the rest of us are out there.
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Walter 5850 I don't think you understand the way girted poeple work.
Oh my God. For the first time in my life, I feel seen. I broke down crying when I first started watching this video.
In Kindergarten the goal was to read a book a day and record what book it was. I'd read the same book over and over, always pausing for abnormally long periods of time to stare at the pictures. The teacher thought I was only staring at the pictures and not doing the work (I should have finished multiple books by now and I knew that). What I was ACTUALLY doing was, at home, having Harry Potter read to me every night, learning to read along with my mom. I easily read the dinosaur book cover to cover every day. I just loved to stare at the pictures and use my visualization capacity to imagine the world as being real. I was essentially creating my own world simultaneously while reading. It's how I passed the time whenever I was bored, which was often.
I have so many stories of my past that act as indicators to why I was improperly diagnosed as aspergers and ADHD as a young child. And now that I've come to understand my own apparent giftedness that had remained a mystery to me for years I've noticed that word being tossed around much more frequently in my life, more often than not as directed towards me. It's strange how life can do that.
What's the worst is when teachers expect the "math whizzes" get to be tought on their level, but if you can write an intellectual, inttelagent, wise poem you will be criticized for slacking off, and daydreaming because being creative isn't as much of an intelligent trait as writing or being creative. They do not realize how hard it is to see the world differently and not be treated to the part you would like to play. There was one teacher who had to make me believe because of the educational system I thought all I had done was played a role of a gifted child, but no I had only convinced myself that I had. Being a different kind of Gifted does not make you not gifted, it makes you a different kind of gifted.
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Wow! I ( as an eleven year old child ) can actually relate to this for once. Don't bash me for having a TH-cam channel like everyone else, I like to comment on meaningful things and my parents are perfectly fine with it.
If your that smart, I am guessing that your parents recognize that. That’s probably why they let you have a TH-cam channel, you have the intellect to understand the perks and pitfalls of the internet. No one should bash you or your parents. Just be safe, the internet can be a tricky place ❤️
this made me cry. i always thought i was defective...
I feel you
i understand exactly how you feel
ive been diagnosed ASD, ive been forced to learn, u cant cant be urself, forced myself learn hide and lies, for survival, in normal human world, ive been stopped staying in libraries for too long, been conned, abused by peers and teachers all my young life. So pretend to be normal & unnotice , only be urself secretly alone, unless some ASD lucky enough living in a good place. sadly im not gifted with IQ 68. All depends where u born into including ur family ur care takers
I was really gifted and had a photographic memory etc. but now I suffer from Lyme disease and the amount of disbelief I experience is incredible.
Can you clarify please
Jimmy Fortef Daria Kokozej, BAphil neurological lyme/encephalitis
I'm also gifted but then i got a whole lot of illnesses throughout my life from my autoimmune conditions. it was probably the most devastating thing for me. i hope you goodness
@@larassiere I wish you also only the very best... I wish and pray for your and our miracle
Thank you for this video. Now I can see how I must've been like as a kid. I was misunderstood in school and in my family. I was seen as a mouthy child ending up in powerstruggles with my mom and teachers. I am 48 years old now 😢. How different my life could've been if I was given the right support.
It seems to me, one of the difficulties of taking gifted students into account in a public school setting, is the divergent nature of their patterns of understanding. Luckily, in this day and age, it is easier than ever to be an autodidact. Many of the most influential minds of the past have been self taught, and have based their hypotheses, theories, and actions off of things they had read and learned on their own.
When I was in elementary school, I was diagnosed with ODD and ADD in part because I thought it was silly to rewrite the spelling and vocabulary words 10 times each when I learned them after a single repetition, but also because I was always asking questions and wanting to know more than what teachers were prepared to administer. Frustratingly, they gave me an IQ test to determine if I needed special Ed in order to redirect my study habits. After which, they determined that the solution was more (not better directed) work. I was put in a group with kids who were doing higher level process activities, but it was not tailored to individual ability to progress-nor do I believe that should, necessarily, reasonably be expected.
When my kids were younger, standardized testing automatically funneled them into the school’s gifted program, and it was a good opportunity to engage with and identify those that could communicate on the same level. On the other hand, they learned nothing of their actual fields of interest. The gifted label seemed more of a badge of honor, and an excuse to leave class.
In my experience, I thought that I was somehow defective because other kids didn’t understand me and thought I was weird. It was a double-edged sword, though. Out of necessity, I learned how to be what society expected of me, while also learning how to find my own way in the quest for knowledge. It took me a long time, and a lot of trials and error, but I am finally feeling like I am starting to piece the puzzle together. The best won battles are often hard fought, and I think the right degree of adversity can make a big impact on a gifted individual’s ability to express their unique talent. In short, I believe in gifted students’ ability to “make their own way” precisely BECAUSE one is not readily given to them.
Wait... standardized testing funneled your kids into gifted? Are you saying they did not take the iq test?
I'm already an adult. Lots of wasted time. These kids make me feel truly understood though I may not be as brilliant as I've already atrophied. The seven-year old blonde kid, lol, I hope he mellows out in the future.
This made me feel really excited that I wasn't one of the only gifted kids in the world that like math
Emily A most gifted kids like math... or are good at it
I, like many of you in the comments was tested, and found to be intellectually gifted.
When I was around 1 and a half, I taught myself how to read.
When I was 3 I taught myself how to do math.
I went to a private school, which meant they didn’t have a standardized testing system in place.
I had to repeat kindergarten due to being sent a year early, and that “I had to be with kids my own age”
I’m now almost graduating, and I can honestly say it’s frustrating.
Half of the teachers and adults you meet seem convinced that you’re some sort of young Sheldon.
I have had teachers on multiple occasions change my marks because “we’re gifted, so we obviously do things easily, and we pick on the normal kids because we’re so much smarter than them “
I can’t even explain how downgrading it feels when your teacher, an adult you should be able to trust, changes something as vital as a mark due to a petty grudge.
The gifted community where I go gets picked on quite frequently, and it seems to the teachers that we’re the ones harassing the “perfectly normal kids”
I flunked French because we didn’t impress the teacher enough due to being gifted, so we obviously needed higher standards
We were like any other person, except some things came easier to us.
I apologize for ranting, I just really wanted to get this off of my chest.
Its fine.
Imagine how much karma I’ll be able to make off of these r/iamverysmart posts
so many gifted people in the comment section its almost unbelievable. I feel like im the odd one out that doesnt seem right
Being gifted is not easy in kindergarten I started reading chapter books and I felt embarrassed because I felt like everyone was staring at me or talking about me behind my back because I was the only one in all of kindergarten who was reading chapter books
I know how you feel
As a mother of four exceptionally gifted children, what would I give for such an institute! In this country, mediocrity and egalitarianism are upheld, we are in the Middle Ages when it comes to giftedness.
I have two gifted, three very smart (very smart is far easier). Do you homeschool?
@@hant679 My children are not going to school at the moment because they cannot cope with the back and forth of the covid coercive measures and their socio-political effects. We then decided together with them to enroll them in homeschooling again. Here in Austria there is a compulsory education, those who do not go to school have to take an examination of the entire year's material. At the beginning of the school year we were still told that we were allowed to choose the exam schools, but then they were suddenly made compulsory selection for us. Since two of my children have already endured real martyrdom when it comes to school, I certainly don't allow such coercive political measures to be carried out on the children's backs.
Three of my children have been homeschooled before, but the exam procedures were a disaster. They are more or less traumatized by the school, two of them can hardly bear to walk past a school today. Bullying was basically the main problem on the part of some classmates, but also various teachers. Instead of our system valuing and nurturing bright kids, they are largely opposed by it. Various educators do not even shy away from "punishing" students who are more competent in their own subject, who know more than they do, or who even point out mistakes, by giving worse grades. In this country, cowardice is still in the bones, mediocrity and egalitarianism are promoted, all things that highly intelligent people in particular resist.
@@michatheresiaprimus9972 that sounds rough! I live in the US where homeschooling is easier. We tried putting my oldest in school as a young kid. He didn't even make it to the doors. We met with his teachers and walked out of the meeting knowing we wouldn't ever go that route. Both of my older boys are 2e and the schools just couldn't accommodate them. So we decided to homeschool.
My son never experienced this at all, most of his teachers were fantastic, and totally connected that he got bored with work that was too easy, as did other children who found that subject easy. He’s extremely smart, but what matters most to me, is the fact he’s deeply compassionate and empathetic and an excellent friend. 1000 times more important than being smart. The pressure placed on intelligent kids is horrific and most have experienced mental health issues because they are held to such high standards of success. Your kids are far more, hopefully than just smart.
@@river8760 I do not know what exactly your perceptions refer to, or you have even understood the statements of the video, but after experiences on the subject of giftedness / high sensitivity also with regard to such parenthood your text does not read. While writing about "compassion," you ruthlessly condemn gifted/highly sensitive people in many ways. As if high intelligence went hand in hand with a lack of interpersonal skills, terrible pressure was put on every gifted/highly sensitive child and most sufferers had mental health problems.
I am intellectually gifted and it was very hard for me to make friends. No one understood me and they perceived me as this whiz kid genius. They seemed almost intimidated by me. I didn’t understand what I did wrong. Why didn’t people get me? It all started to make sense when I was tested for a gifted program. I tested positive and I was ecstatic to finally meet people who were like me. When I found out that my cousin was gifted too, I was so happy to know someone like me. Then my mom told me that my elder sister was gifted too and also my uncle. Giftedness runs in my family I suppose. We are often misperceived as stuck up snobs or whacko freaks and we are neither. We are simply humans whose brains work slightly different than others. I hope that this cleared giftedness up for people who didn’t understand it. -much love, Eva 💖
im a visual learner too.I thought I was dumgrowing up cause couldn't understand maths.I loved art and music that was me.
I'm a very visual and hands on learner as well I was always great at math, I was always the smartest kid in math.
Ashley ASHLEYM HAHAHA and you weren’t very modest in the way
My problems in school was because I out sick more then I was in. I'm very gifted but because of my health and other issues no one besides my bestie and my mum has seen these gifts. Others have but they aren't around me everyday or already passed away. You see by the time I was 3rd grade I was reading at 9th grade level and when they test me again just 2 years later I was at 12 grade level. Yes, some areas in school I was weak but in others I was very strong.
I'm sick of all this quick stuff where you see a picture for five seconds and then it goes to something else. This whole video is like that.
I am 65 they did not have kindergarten when I went to school. I was reading on a college level by the time I was in 1st grade and was a "problem" from the day I walked into public school til the time I could drop out of high school at 16. The only teachers that treated me good were my art and music teachers. I still don't fit in any where and have very little common ground with people. I am still learning but nobody is interested in knowing about what I am doing.
Wow I wish you well, I can't relate but u seem pretty amazing
@FlyingMonkies325
The ones in control of these things know that genius is more likely to emerge in the masses than in the elite. So they are dumbing down society so their children won't look like idiots.
The strong and the intelligent really do survive it is written in the laws of nature. No matter how the elite try they can't over come the laws of the universe. Their lack of true intelligence shows by the fact that they think they can. They are basically just plain old criminals.
use ur gifts for good and make difference.music art inventions doc so on whatever
God gifted u to do or be sour with it nurture it.don't listen to dream breakers.
I agree with you. But I have a tragic life. I suffer from neurological Lyme disease, once I had many dreams and imaginations, I was gifted in some areas- music, academics, art. I cannot take this anymore.
The Pearl S Buck quote is fantastic.
Schools are often like the factories they prepare the kids to work in.
ive been in the gifted program since 2nd grade and these kids make me feel stupid
FINALLY! My childhood precisely. Wow better late than never finding my social group of gifted persons.
My 4year old, turning 5 end of july is super shy, like super super shy. He could read letters and number from 0-100 at age 1year 4 month, 2years old he could read books, read fluently and spell by the , he knew all the flags of the world, before h, he knew all the planets including dwarf planets, he could give each one of them a discription on how to identify all of them, he could read the map, he knew dozens of landmarks of the world and could tell you which country to find them, at 4years old, he knows the entire human skeleton, and the system, knows the phases of the world. He struggles with making friends, he had speech delay, so he could read and say all those things, but couldn't communicate, like tell you how he feels, what he got up to, what he wants to eat, you couldn't have a conversation with him, even now his learning to find his words, with his speech delay he learned to talk from reading and watching TV which has subtitles, so he speaks English and English only, we from Africa, English is like 3rd language for us, so his often bullied by that, i learned months later, as he only started school this year January that hebwas bullied by even his teacher, who told him to shut up wnd even pushed him at one point, because of his shyness he couldn't tell me anything anything about what's happening in school, he hates being taught, he want to sit with books read study and knows things, he literally taught or teach himself everything he knows or wants to know, even writing he taught himself to hold a pen and write and his comfortable being in his study zone, Africa really doesn't have any system or organizations or anything to help me and my child, after being bullied i took him out of school, i really can't afford to take him to a good school because i am currently unemployed , so I sit with him at home qnd watch him study, go out and play a little bit like he always does and prefer.
I have autism, but I'm definitely not gifted-a little slow. I went through complete hell in those public schools. The kids were really mean and I got bullied by my teachers for being gay🙄
Would be nice if politicians saw this video but the USA is a country where foundations make millions. There are foundations for low income education therr should be a foundation for genious kids.
I did my entire years language arts and literature in grade 5 in a week and so the teacher just sent me into a room all by myself and said read some books for the entire rest of the year. My college entrance exam I got 100% in english arts but they said I couldn't get that so they gave me 99% and math I got 98%. No one ever noticed and I became hugely lazy and undirected for a long time. My 3 year old grand daughter is gifted, I think. She knows her numbers and letters and speaks full conversations. I hope God gives her the ability to navigate this world. I find people don't understand.
maybe try to get her into a school specifically for gifted kids
You know it happens to me in 2nd grade I wasn't interested any books except the Human Body which I read, and see pictures? I'm not sure why?
Took years to figure myself out because of some mistake that was made by a school board administrator in kindergarten
I have most of this except for the intelligence part.
Is there a way to be tested for this??
I'm gifted in math, but I'm terrible at everything else
Same
So excel in it. Don't hold back. Challenge yourself. Buy yourself some math books and just learn and perform
Im glad i took up BSNED.
Thank You.
I am gifted, who else is?
😂 🤡
I actually feel guilty for not being gifted
dont be we are a bunch of smug assholes, youre not missing out on anything special
Thomas Murphy not necessarily, now fuck off, bum
don’t worry man, even when you’re gifted you just want to be smarter. you’d be guilty either way, rather focus on how you are now
Thank you for this video! I have one .
I didnt See a psychologist but ive been told many times that i am gifted. Im Very Sure thats because i was exposed to certain Things during my childhood a lot. So i would say in my case its practise, not a difference in my brain or sth. But of course im Not Sure. Would be interesting to Know how much These Kids Were exposed to the Things they are considered "giftet" in
They say these kids are gifted but to me their most obvious characteristic is Americaness. Their values, ambitions, their use of language, these kids are *so* unbelievably American.
Sophia Marsden say more about that; can one not be gifted and American? Do you think this is solely an American phenomenon?
Angie Anthony no I'm saying neither, I'm just saying as a non-American, even when British culture really isn't that different compared to some more exotic cultures to American culture, what really stands out for me about these children is much more their cultural differences on account of being Americans than anything to do with their intellect. As it happens we don't really do "gifted" in the uk (well I think the kind of parents who send their kids to private schools might but the general population not so much). UK culture is very antagonistic to intellectual difference. It is seen as utterly gauche to suggest it even exists. I think it's because we still have such an entrenched class system that there is almost a mental backlash against the idea because it's associated with the idea some people are better than others. But the reality is the vast inequalities in British society exist despite not because of intellectual difference and pretending everyone is equal, even in the face of those disparities is entirely unproductive.
Sophia Marsden they are Canadian
Sophia Marsden lmfao
They are not Americans.
Everyone is gifted in some ways ...I learnt that ps I'm in mensa an organization for smart kids search
Marion Gayle r/iamverysmart
I love been who iam now.
If there's one thing I know in this world, it's that I don't want to be classified as one of these people.
ok
My brother and father are gifted in Mathematics, but I'm not sure why I wasn't?
You might have developed a different gift.
As a gifted kid myself can I please just say this is the WORST representation of gifted kids. Ever. This makes me feel embarrassed to be gifted.
Dynamite Dancers i know these two boys always playing i can't believe they are accurate in work
Dynamite Dancers i letting you know you are not the only embarrassed one
Dynamite Dancers I don’t understand where the embarrassment comes from. I’m not judging it’s accuracy either way. I just don’t understand how it makes gifted people look bad.
YES
Who's here because of TIP?
What a lovely woman
They are all white
Therefore only white people are gifted.
Just kidding...
Who cares? What does being white have to do with them being gifted.
Are you assuming bias?
Maybe it was one preparatory school dominated by whites as an inner city school dominated by blacks and when they started selecting the gifted kids for the interview, since white skin is all there would be to select from, therefore only white gifted kids the same if you did the same selection im the inner city.
Your line of thinking is ridiculous.
Must everything be race?
Black gifted kids are overlooked sure but it seems like you are accusing this video of racial intent with no factual evidence to back it up other than an obvious observation that does not logically flow to your conclusion.
@@contemplativetheology actually she's quite right to point this out. White teachers have been accused of purposely not identifying black and Hispanic students as gifted. I transfered to a school in another state and inquired about their 5th grade gifted program. I was told they already had a black boy in the class 😑. Luckily my papers transferred from my previous school.
God bless ya. Just a slang?
Richard Chartier more of a demand
Yes, we are neurodivergent. Yes, we function at a higher level. But I HATE the term “gifted.”
is gt like this
In grade three I was reading at a grade 6 level , in year 6 I was reading thick adult fiction books ( nothing sexual ) and understood it completely . In English this year my teacher gave me over 225 questions on the analysis of Romeo and Juliet and I nearly got halfway through it but I wasn't able to finish it because of a time limit. In prep my teacher said to my mother " in all my 25 years of teaching , I have never met a child with such an imagination"
I'm not very good at math but I do pass my subjects and next year I'm taking 5 OP subjects so I can go to university.
If you really were as smart as you claim, you wouldn’t feel the need to comment it 😑 and secondly, you wouldn’t be going to a public school (and attending a university isn’t rare, so to speak)
Billy Shepard *youre
I have no fiernds i dont know if because im just wierd or gifted
Salvador Sanchez weird
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5:59 Pretty avarage kid in my opinion.
Yeah, nobody wants to sit in a desk all day, every kid in elementary school says that.
2:26 hi blimpy
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Why are these kids acting like they are these special people with superpowers. Bruh, you like learning I get. Everyone is gifted in their own way and that is the truth. Some people discover it early some people don’t period
no
The thing about gifted kids is they're not just intelligent -- it's that their development doesn't follow the same path as others. Like maybe they're 9 and reading at an adult level, but maybe they have the social skills of a 5 year old. Treating them as "just smart" makes them feel they don't have a right to struggle with anything or that they need to dumb themselves down to belong, since belonging is a very necessary human thing. They need special support to be able to be healthy adults.
everyone thinks they are gifted. haha
Pei Lin no kidding, right?
Lmao there is a state test you have to take and if you pass it you are technically gifted
{luminal moonlight} no shit, the point is that everyone in the common section has an inflated ego
Asbergers is never gifted they are disables
t ashley Socially, yes but many people who are on the autistic spectrum are highly intelligent.