Not dumb, average. It's not a bad thing to be average, intelligence isn't the only thing that matters in the world. Ultimately, the metric any of us should measure ourselves by is how we improve the world and the lives of those around us. And if nothing else, you can take solace in the fact that half of the people in the world are below average.
I think I may have too much in common not saying I’m smart but saying internally I’m just thinking and thinking and thinking so I can find a logical answer and I need extra long time to think I’m never with my peers and it’s really annoying but also I’m relating a lot to the ones read. But I do have a few friends and of course they talk about things that some kids would not understand it on grade. I know about the grammar
When the professor talked about kids finding alternative ways to do things honestly I related a lot. I had a teacher from 5-7th grade he kept moving up with us for some reason. When I first got into his 5th grade class I was in his top class. In 6th grade he put me in his lowest, at the end of the year they were deciding who would go into pre algebra for 7th grade and I really wanted to. However I was and still am dyslexic and I like to think that because if that I saw math problems forwards and backwards. Almost like I could see things both backwards and forwards. So there would be times when he would do a problem and cover the entire white board and I was simply ask if I could show I different way and I wouldn’t even cover a fourth of the board. When they were deciding who would go into pre algebra like I said I really wanted to and practically begged him. He made me write a 5 page essay and do a test to prove I was smart enough. When my mom went to the parent teacher conference he told her “if she takes this class she will not make it”. He left the decision up to me telling me it would fail if I took the class. I took it anyways. There were even math competitions that I always wanted to go to but he would tell me I couldn’t because I wasn’t good enough. Our school had never gotten a first place and we didn’t even bring back seconds or thirds I don’t think. I passed and for 8th grade he finally didn’t move up with us and I was now taking algebra. My teacher that I had actually accepted how I did math. I never worked with the class when they worked through the packet together. I would always do it by myself and have it done a lot faster than them. Infact there were many times when the class wouldn’t be able to solve something and she would ask if I already had the problem done and if I could show it. When the math competitions were coming around I was the first person she asked to go. I didn’t have to write an essay or take a test or anything she just asked me while I was walking into class. I won the first first place medal my school had gotten. I’ll tell you seeing the look on my 5th-7th grade teacher face when he saw was the best feeling in the world. I am now a sophomore in highschool about to take algebra 2, chemistry, and biotechnology. Not the coolest classes but considering what I went through it means the world to me. Sometimes it’s nice to see things backwards or upside down
Been there myself. I went through high-school being bullied like mad, having the teachers tell me im just a naughty boy and that im going nowhere. Went to university and at 22 I was diagnosed with dyslexia, dyspraxia and aspergers. I have an IQ significantly over 140 and im now studying theoretical physics in my spare time. (My uncle is a physicist in Switzerland). I returned to my own school after the diagnosis and the teachers refused to believe it. The education system is set up to fair those capable of free independent thought. Most of the greatest entrepreneurs around are all eccentric characters who dropped out of school.
@@adambaxendale3654 I watch Todd White an evangelist on YT, he was dyslexic and couldn't read, after he was healed the first book he could read was the Holy Bible.
@@adambaxendale3654 , I would have found out some dirt on the bullies AND the teachers and exploited the fuck out of that if I were in your situation. I actually did that once in the third grade when I was in a school in Mississippi, USA, and, needless to say, a LOT of arrests of people happened there, including the vice principal, who committed a fuck ton of child abuse, and he also did some kiddie diddling as well.
@@paxhumana2015 good on you. I figured my best revenge was to make a success of myself and earn a lot of money rather then going all legal or physical on people's ass. I mean it annoys me knowing how far I've been set back from numerous aspects of life but I figured there's not much I can do and now I'm old enough to find the solution to problems myself and progress that way.
When I was a kid, my 2nd grade teacher said I would never graduate into middle school or even get to go past 2nd grade because of my learning disabilities. I'm autistic and I had ADHD, but I still went through school with relative ease. The only subject I struggled on a lot was Math.. which is probably funny to some people considering that I'm part Asian. Honestly, even though I'll never accomplish anything close to what those kids will, it still makes me happy to prove that asshole teacher wrong.
Wtf how is a teacher allowed to say that that. And what does ur autism affect the most (concentration, learning, understanding and taking in things, learning easyly)
You may not be the classic sample of smart people but you are humble and very happy with what you can do and this already makes you smarter than others
My sister told me her daughter has gone through 2 years of coding classes. She's turning 7 this year. She saw the art edits I do of Pokemon on the computer and wanted to try to make one, I was aware her eye for art might not have been the best because that usually takes practice, but what got me is that she picked up all of the little tricks and keybinds and key combinations for working the art program almost immediately, "To undo a mistake, you press Ctrl and Z" I told her once and never had to remind her, this was the same for almost every trick I taught her with the program, including zooming in and out with the mouse wheel with ctrl, and scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel by itself, and left and right if you press shift at the same time. There were times she accidentally hit the wrong button and made mistakes because she didn't learn how to use that feature yet but after I helped her redirect back the first time, she was able to redirect herself back without help after that, and would sometimes ask me what certain features do or how to do something else that she had in mind, I don't think I've ever really experienced pride in someone so young before because I'm usually uncomfortable around kids.
stuff u said on the comment seems basic but idk for a 7 year old. Ask her if she wants to do more and become a "professional" in coding. Cause as i said that stuff is more a common basic beginner stuff
@@randomperson8994 But thing is, she had an advantage because of her fresh age. As kids, they are at the prime age for learning because they can absorb anything & everything almost without any limit. But it takes brilliant kids to know what they want to do with what they're taught & how they apply their knowledge irl. Basic stuff sometimes is hard even for adults, especially the ones that can't or won't understand technology.
I’m sorta like that because I never really watch/read tutorials for things like video games or programs because most of the stuff you have easily find out and are explainatory
That sounds like me tbh. I always was interested in computers and stuff, and played lots of games, I learned English easily from just playing video games, learning new words/phrases and the grammar itself with a little more time. I used to watch TH-cam a lot as well, as I also do these days, and thanks to it I learned a foreign language passively. To put that simply, passively learning something is when you dont put a lot of time to it, but rather the key factors are known to you, and you continue on from there. It is like a second nature at this point, it has gotten to the point where I dont even think when writing or speaking English, it sorta just happens naturally, just like it would If it was your first language. As for computers and tech, I tend to be a nerd and understand quite well how they work and the way they work, that teaches all sorts of new stuff, and also I have discovered a lot of useful features that I may not have known before, and occasionally I find out some glitches and or bugs in sites or video games, those stuff are really interesting when you discover them on your own.
I am somewhat familiar with the topic of spirits. I have noticed people with an Indian bloodline generally have more spiritual ability. I have around 6% or higher Indian blood. I have Astral Projected twice, go years sometimes without seeing a single spirit though have seen around a dozen in my lifetime, I saw a Shadow Person once which is a three dimensional shadow, I also sense there is something there though can not exactly figure out what uncommonly. My spiritual ability is like a broken radio which decides when it wants to work basically.
@@lanceknightmare Wow, apparently people who know their great-great-grandparents' ethnicity are more gullible than usual, who knew? Keep up the posts though, and one day you'll be Stephen King. I assumed the "dead people" thing was a reference to something. You know the one with Bruce Willis and that spooky kid, "I see dead people", was big in the '90s. Did he do whatever that poster was talking about? I dunno I still haven't seen it. The Sixth Sense! That's what it was called! I think.
I’m good at math and know everything in my math book and hardest tests are easiest for me and I’m having test to get into best math school in my country as a 3 year old I could read on my language and knew English letters and as an 4 year old I knew how to do many things in computers and was into techs and I’m learning programming of python and then gonna learn c# and be good at both and as an 2 year old could count to trillions and do basic math and I can learn everything by reading it once or maximum twice
I thought I was smart, I get all A’s and go pretty above and beyond with projects. But these people are next level. Like Hello? I didn’t know what half this stuff meant.
The grading system is aimed at the average person. If you're straight As, you're above average, but the grading system alone can't really gauge how much. In the end, though, grades are poor metric of measuring intelligence anyway.
I know that feeling. Teachers said I was above average but lazy, so they put me in a special group for gifted kids in my last year. That class made me feel like a total troglodyte. In comparison to the other students I was barely sentient. It was kind of an ego killer.
How the hell do these people remember shit that went down in 3rd grade? I don't even remember who my teacher was, what I was studying, or who the other students in my class were. All of my elementary years are pretty much a big blur.
This is me. We're just built differently so it's not unusual. I only remember bits & pieces where the memories profoundly impacted my psyche in certain ways & shape me how I am today. Most I remember excelling at just a bit above everyone else though were the fact that I like to draw & read.
@@olymolly3637 Yep that's for all humans though. We easily remember the things that emotionally impact us. This is because emotions stimulate the "amygdala" (almond in greek) in our brain, and we secrete adrenalin. Consequently, the hippocampus (center of memory function) is stimulated and bam! We remember the memory 😊 so, thanks to emotions/ well psyche
It sucks to remember cause I remember all the pain I felt when I was younger. I am abnormal in that sense as I can accurately remember things that no one else would remember. Know that normally the brain forgets useless information as it is designed to focus on more important tasks or tasks that have been repeated, forgetting is a blessing as you don't have to remember all the time.
@@themushroominside6540 Same, I remember the exact words people say to me a lot of time later, It's really bad because if something bad happens or someone says something bad to me, I will be anxious and scared that this is going to happen again and I will keep thinking about this moment
I had a college level reading comprehension in third grade, started talking in fragmented sentences by nine or ten months, and always caught onto concepts and patterns extremely quickly. However, I noticed a lot of us who are ahead early on tend to fall back as we get older. From pressure or not learning how to study or any number of other things. I wish those of us kids without a lot of resources behind us could have been given a helping hand to make the most of what we're good at, because it's one thing to be smart and another to get good chances to use those smarts instead of feeling stuck in a loop of over perfectionism and lack of practical skills to help us utalize talents.
Eyyyy a fellow accidental over achiever! Never have never will study. Was always like 8 or 9 years ahead in reading. And 98th percentile for grades in our continent! And yes. I too fell behind too much pressure. Still ahead but like am sad wasted my potential..... Okay u made me sad...
@@ronancoster8910 Accidental over-achievers unite! The problem with asynchronous development in gifted individuals is that when we're seen as smart we're also seen as mature, no matter the age. This, in turn, results in that loop of over-perfectionism due to being held to such a high standard from a young age, then we end up not being able to use that potential due to the burnout. I wish the gifted programs would actually teach us about being gifted so we could understand how our minds work instead of just giving us extra work.
yeap this happened to me. i started reading when i was 2 (literally an entire year before i could write) and by the time i was 10 i probs exceeded college level reading (in terms of actually reading the thing). my only issue is comprehension of some non literal shit like figurative language lol. im also autistic so im 99% sure thats why (i take shit ppl say literally, constantly lol). im also apparently insanely good at basic math but i start falling behind on algebra a bit but im still good at it. also my pattern recognition is through the fucking roof somehow lol. like allegedly when i was 2 my mom got a doctor to test my pattern recognition and they did literally every test there and i s t i l l didnt fail a single one. yea. now at 14 ive kinda plateaued at most of the things im good at and i think its simply bc i just didnt do said things enough and forgot how to do some of it.
The kid came out of his mother saying “Momma, I am not a person. My body is just a flesh vessel, for an immortal being whose name, if you heard it, would make you lose your mind." Now that’s a smart kid if I’ve ever seen ond
Even the greatest geniuses werent inventing stuff before puberty, barring very very few exceptions, no matter how smart you are you are going to spend the first 15 years of your life learning from others, intelligence doesnt mean you can create somwthint out of nothing, einsteins theory of relativity stands on the foundations created by great minds that came before him
I was the "gifted kid" in my school. Perfect marks every time, always put into the "advanced" classes. Always reading at a level that was like 5-6 years higher. Offered to skip grades many times but I usually refused (until highschool where I was doing college+HS at the same time and graduated early so I could transfer into Uni with 2 years of college). Spent most of my time in class reading books, since I learned the material and finished the work pretty quick. Taught myself the basics of neuroscience and computer science in middle school. Went to uni for information and computer science and graduated early. Never managed to get hired anywhere. Ended up digging into quantum physics, philosophy, and spirituality/religion. Perhaps not amazing as some of the stories here, but I'd figure I'd provide my input. Not all "gifted" kids you see in schools end up in traditionally successful places. Some of us run ourselves into borderline psychosis chasing answers to unsolvable questions after teaching ourselves the details of a variety of fields.
@@aruakabane2077 Yup. I had an existential crisis starting in highschool and through uni. First time I got a B I pretty much broke down. I'm a pretty different person now (over a decade later), but yeah still not traditionally successful in any sense.
Your comment reminds me that mental health tends to be very common in extremely intelligent people. Personally, I was going to become a Chemical Engineer and made it up to Junior year, became super depressed finding no joy in my work and Covid was truly awful, watched Squid Game, and switched to Finance. 22 and a senior, but still had a bunch of Engineering credits. Turns out if I take some 400 level Social Studies course, I get two bachelors and an associates degree. What am I doing with my knowledge of Organic Chemistry and Electromagnetism? Delivering pizzas
Fine. So tell me where the damn positron comes from in Beta + decay? Its not part of the nucleus. And its not part of the lepton, muon or gluon. So where, does it come from?
"I just... I can't do it." "Miles, there is no way I'm helping you read that word." "It's too much letters!" "It's too *many* letters, and use them. Look at the letters." *huffing* "En-cyclo-pedia" *looks at me as if he's wrong* "No, buddy. That's right. That's why I won't help you." He's 6, and English is not his first language.
Lol felt that. I skipped 7th grade but all throughout high school, I did terrible grade-wise... was still in all the honors classes though so idk how that happened 😭
Same here. I didn't turn stupid or anything. Just got lazy and I make about 2/5 of my homework. Pretty used most my intelligence outside of school. Gaming and internet stuff basically. Though I love Science but hate Math, ironically. Edit: This comment originally had 2 typos. I ended up editing it 7 times lmao
Me at 8th grade, got all A's, 9th grade meh, 10-12 plenty of honors and ap tricky but manageable (esp. algebra 2 & pre calc/ calc, but manageable with my genius cousin explaining it), majoring in science at University felt I barely made it out alive in rigorous courses, physics, ecology (has a lot of math surprisingly) and especially organic chemistry with no multiple choice
@Nathan Barraza good point. I have a sibling that had the lowest IQ score among us, and another sibling that has the highest IQ in the family. Guess which one is making bank. The sibling with the lowest IQ is a brain doctor now, because she knows how to work hard. The genius sibling is... probably going to become some company's code monkey. He doesn't really do anything at home.
My parent always told me that i started walking at 1 year but started talking at 9 months. Im not sure which one is supposed to be the first one i learn
I feel like Autism is so thoroughly misunderstood. It's always good to see someone with it, especially in a more extreme case, being able to show their intellect. I have high functioning Autism myself, I was diagnosed with Asperger's but that term isn't used anymore. I could do basic long division in my head when in late elementary school, always have been ahead when it comes to mathematics, especially angular stuff like trigonometry. Autism isn't a blanket term, and the movie "The Accountant" shows how our minds work very well. I've met a few autistic people over the years and I've learned that each of us tends to hyperfocus on something. For me, it's design, engineering, and mathematics. Stuff relating to that just... clicks for me, I grasp it easily. Other subjects take a bit more work. Others focus on history, or music, or biology, and every single one of these people i've met are just amazing.
Hello [mathematics], I'm [language and grammar] and to me the two are exactly the same save the syntax of each (I excelled in both topics of study). Mathematics is based on formulas made from symbols upon which an agreement was made, and the same is true of every language on the planet. I was able to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet and then to read Russian words in the span of an hour, though I couldn't translate anything
Very true. My youngest is high functioning autistic. He was fascinated by words as a toddler. Would have us replay the end credits of movies. Was reading at 4 with no formal training. Had other repetitive traits, always picked up from movies. Got him a used computer when he was 2, because I found out he was moving the files around on my computer. I homeschooled all my kids. When he hit 8th grade started a new math curriculum for him because what worked with my older three kids didn't work for him. Ultimately almost all his high school work he did on the computer. He's making straight A's at the community college and works part-time. He wants to be a filmmaker. He's uber-creative. It blows me away. He still has some challenges from the autism, but it doesn't affect his academics and he is such a sweet and social person that he makes friends everywhere he goes. We're very close.
@@g4mmalotus937 Thanks! He actually wrote the screenplay for a short film that he's working on. Partly for the love of doing it and partly for his portfolio to get into film school. When I say he constantly amazes me I mean it. He can just absorb knowledge about anything to do with filmmaking and theater.
Can I just say that these "teachers" are awesome for encouraging these gifted little squirts while others might feel threatened. I would usually say brats but I'm trying not to do this but old habits die hard.
The teacher really makes or breaks the class. This is especially true with math. A few times in my life I figured out alternate/easier ways to solve math problems where I wouldn't even need to show work. 1 of the math teachers I had realized this and just had me demonstrate my thought process then was totally fine grading without work. Meanwhile 2 of my other teachers forced me to show work and would mark the answer wrong if I used a different method even if I got the right answer. They would then teach the method I had used the next week. Really screws with a kids motivation if you are telling them to not try to learn just to save yourself a little effort and its really shoddy.
Similar happend to me. Had one teacher for chemistry, math and physics. And hw doesn't like me and did the same. When I was in 7th grade he didn't answer one of my questions for a whole year... I sat there, waiting for my turn and he ignored me. He ran past my table the whole time and just said nothing. Literally nothing. I cried so often. I have Asperger. I'm not dumb. Today I understand everything if I can SEE an example. If I maybe watch a documentary, I understand quickly. But the 6 years with that teacher... Ruined my life. Asperger, abusive parents and bullying from teachers and other kids. I can tell you that those years were horrible. My IQ is 146 and I didn't make anything of it bc of my social anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, etc...
My daughter started uni at age 15 in a program that watches/guides/counsels underage kids that are gifted enough for college. She was very smart but there was a boy in her group who was genius level. He taught himself Algebra in 3rd grade with a book he bought at the book fair. He had excellent parents who hired tutors, but also made sure he had an almost normal life. By the 2nd semester of uni he was a student teacher in advanced math classes. Presently he is a full professor at a leading uni in our state. I think he's 23/24 yrs old now.
This honestly makes me feel sad to know I’ll never have accomplished anything big or be proud of myself while all these kids are doing great things by being gifted:/
It's even more bad if you ate gifted an no one realized it until you went to therapy bc of depression and get diagnosed with asperger autism at age of 32.👀
I got a call in to my sons preschool class because he was “being disruptive” he wouldn’t sit still while the kids were learning their colors, and kept pulling the books off the teachers desk. I asked him, he says it’s all so boring. He walks over to the teachers desk, opens her magazine and asks, well why cant I just read like at home. The teacher snidely says, “well if you were old enough to read...” he promptly opens the magazine and starts to read it. Two days later he is in kindergarten. Two weeks after that he is in 1st grade. in like 4th grade out of boredom, he would take the 10 vocabulary word he had to learn each week and write a 10 sentence paragraph in the order the words were given to him. At the end of the fall semester he had written a full story. He’s a software engineer now and has worked for Google, Tumblr, and a few other tech companies. He sent me the link for this video, after we had a conversation about he felt he was a very lazy student...in spite of getting straight As.
I'm really similar to him. I think we find ourselves lazy because we are. We find the easiest way to do everything, even if finding the easiest way takes longer that the way itself, then it prepares us for a similar situation In the future so that that situation can be efficient. This way we have lots of time left to learn new things on our own, for me it's music and higher level math mainly
Same, I'm a "lazy" person in general, i can already tell that when i get to the point where I'll need to study it will ruin me, but I always look forward to something that will challenge me and be very intellectually stimulating. I'm in particular no genius, besides teaching myself to read at 2 years old, how to draw fairly well, and teaching myself some of the higher level math, i haven't done much.
Nobody is stupid, people are just good at different things. And for a lot of kids like this, their peers eventually catch up to them in skills or talent which can be a huge blow for kids who were basically raised to see their talents as their sense of self worth.
Guess I don’t have many places to share this, BUT, this fall I’m starting college to become an elementary school teacher and I’m SO excited!!!! Can’t wait to potentially chose my classes tomorrow! Though covid is an extremely sad and difficult situation, it does pose one advantage. Which is the fact that classes will all be online. I struggled a lot on high school, but I switched to do 2 days a week and the rest online, at that point I actually graduated an entire year early. I’m hoping for the same. Okay thanks for reading have a nice day :)
Just believe in your ability to change a kids life, and let that motivate and pull you when you're tired. Before you know it, a student from your distant past will come every Saturday and pick your gooseberry bushes, gladly sit with you and talk/play board games. I may have had a teacher that affected me in that way. :)
Props to the teachers that pushed these students. I’m not a genius but I wish they did the same for me since school was pretty much a joke for me back then
Karma Akabane No it’s normal actually. Have you never done that? It might have to do with your age. Like for example a friend you used to hang out in elementary? Look them up on Facebook or something. It’s quite cool to see people who you used to know and how there life is doing. You could even chat or get back in contact. In my eyes it’s not that weird!
Honestly there are a lot of kids who are auditory learners most of these people are those kids, they learn the slowest, but have the most effective learning rhythm, you can tell a real genius apart not by knowledge, but by curiosity, quick wits, and usually higher reading levels, or higher brain function (usually acting above the other kids, or solving their problems).
The thing about knowledge is accurate, a kid is not gifted by their knowledge, is by how fast they can learn and process things and from that learn new things. I remember reading the diary of a wimpy kid and greg said about a boy who would do all of his homework in minutes even tough he's just 6 years old ig. But at the end is just his parents who forced him to wake up at 5 am and learn about geography.
When I was in kindergarten I was reading books meant for third graders. I could only go up to a third grade level at the time because my mom was really pissed at my dad for giving me the advanced books in the first place. She's not a bad mom and wanted me to be ahead of my class at least as I got older, I don't know why she got mad though.
When I was in second grade, after Christmas, my mom figured out how I couldn't read at all (memorizing assignments, imagening fantasy/new content along the few short words (and, so, he/she/it) I recognized)... It took a year to get diagnosed, 3 to catch up with my age groups reading level (writing still won't work without digital assistance) and 5 years to get helpful tuition.
None of these are as interesting as when my teacher realized I was a genius, I'm kind of disappointed. Not just because of entertainment value, but because this means most teachers are actually decent people and I've just been super unlucky. My story in case anyone cares: See the thing is I've always breezed through academics. K and 1st teachers noticed I was above the current level, but just didn't care enough to test me. 2nd grade teacher actually was threatening to fail and hold me back. Not because of classwork; of which I was getting 100% correct on everything, which she didn't care about; but because I was so incredibly bored in class after finishing the work in seconds that I would spend the time entertaining myself. Like roleplaying / playing make believe, drawing, et cetera, instead of just being silent and staring at the wall like she demanded. So she told my mom I was retarded and forced her to put me on ADHD drugs that stripped me of any emotions, turning me into a lifeless drone that did whatever she said. That made her happy so she started giving me the As I was already earning. This also made the school take a special interest in me, and then the staff realized I was a genius because of my 100% on everything I did, and actually had an IQ test arranged. Some people flew in from NYC to administer the test at the local community center. I tested at an IQ of 184 (age 7) and they took me out of her class and put me into one of the 3rd grade classes immediately. That class was super easy for me too but they didn't care to do more than that. After that I was in GATE, so my grade was still 3rd, then 4th, then 5th, but they were giving me algebra, trig, and other advanced sciences and English and such. Never actually ran into any difficulty in that program though.
Why did you say your age? Like IQ does not change based on age... OH yeah they did the same for me with the testing thing. I was in 3rd grade. Got up to 10th grade(In English) before a question wrong Lmfao.....
When my littlebrother was like 3 he would watch english videos about the shape, colors, letters and numbers. English is not our native language but he fully understood and would point at different things and name the corlor and shape. When he went to school he was bullied a lot and no one understood him. We later got him iq-tested and he had 146 in iq. Normally you have 90-110 so that is a very very high number. He also have almost always understood our jokes and humor, like since age four. I'm the closet to his age (five years older) He loves building Lego and is such a fast builder. I really hope he gets better. He's still having a very low self esteem and doesn't belive in himself😔
The further from average you are, the harder it is. It IS easier to have a higher IQ than a lower one, but it is still difficult. When your IQ is so far above normal, it makes it harder to function. Having an IQ of about 100 (average) is easiest to function with other people. As your brother gets older, it should be easier for him, as in school and work he should end up doing higher level subjects/schools/work, with people more like him. Good luck, God Bless, and Namaste to you and your family.
There was a story by Orson Scott Card (the same guy who wrote Ender's Game) which was initially called Hot Sleep because of how the hibernation drug worked in the story (it was later renamed because the title sounded too much like a porn story). In the story, one of the protaganists finds the genius / mind reader boy who is the main protaganist by using a program which looks for "any student who has received more than 2 bad reports from their teachers in a year" or something like that. He tells the boy that he searched for this because geniuses almost always annoy people of normal intelligence. Their egos just can't accept that there's someone smarter than they are, and they react by trying to put down the person who they recognise as being smarter than they are. They often even don't believe that the person is really that smart and use that as their excuse for such discriminatory behaviour. It's often all too true in real life.
@@atpcliff people with avarage IQ have it just as bad , ive seen people who are dumb abd depressed and ive seen people with a high IQ and depressed , it depends on way more things then IQ , yes IQ is a factor , not the only reason , you said it in such a way as if it is normal to be depressed or bullied because you have a high IQ , its not , its just how the coin fell
@@melkiorwiseman5234not all ''normal intelligence people'' act like what you described . Kids tend to bully what differs from them , dont make it seem as if the world is full of trash , its not . Kid are not wise enough to realise the difference betwenn high IQ and avarage IQ , and they cant and dont know about the fact that life births human with diferent qualitis . Some traits that nature gives you are in this point in time superior to others (2020 , high logical IQ , beauty , charm , leader traits , etc ) . As for the teacher in your story , my dude did you pay attention to this video, pretty much every teacher in the video was happy at seing someone with a brighter future then them , if you didnt mean this , next time tell a story that doenst mean to convey the fact that avarage IQ people treat high IQ people like garbage
My family knew I was gifted when I managed to learn 7 languages by the age of 8. Two of these languages are dead meaning that less then 100`000 people are able to use them proficiently. And my parents discovered that my German was better then theirs, even on pair with the German guests during a conversation that I casually started with them. It took me years to understand why my parents looked so socked at me, as I was only 8 :P
These make me happy because the teachers always sound so excited once they figure out how to motivate and support these students. Like, some stories had the teachers jealous of whoever gets to teach the kid the following semester! I wish we could always get every child the motivation, support, and education they need. Seeing children flourish like that makes me all warm inside. They get to grow into well-adjusted adults able to help boost the following generation.
I generally ask "Will this be on the test" so that I know what to study for/memorize. I am fortunate enough to never really have to study too much for two reasons. 1st: I have a talent to memorize stuff that I hear and see demonstrated, no matter what (except things like code that require more practice than reading or learning) despite being in all Honors classes and in College Prep English in 9th grade B: I am like an encyclopedia of useless information so I generally know a little bit about most topics people talk about. I know that DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid and I have never really learned that nor have I needed to know (yet) I can't wait for that question to be asked in Bio :) (Btw I am in 9th grade for the year 2020-2021, taking Geometry 10th grade class, Biology 10th grade class, Honors US History, and College Prep English lol) Also I have been called a walking calculator before because of my useless skill to do complex math in my head. So far I have learned Algebra 1 and I can still do most of it in my head pretty easy. I cannot wait to see what I can do next :D
I don't believe that story. This kid in 5th grade said that moving distances without any time having elapsed is teleportation skipped 2 grades. I explained both theories of relativity in 3rd grade science class and got nothing more than praise. Edit: A letter.
I once thought this kid was a genius because I was in second grade in the same class as him. The teachers would always give us this math worksheet with around forty or fifty questions. Every single time he would finish one or two seconds before me, and I’d finish mine in around twenty seconds (that’s what happens when my dad is a math teacher). I aimed to finish before him one day, and since the two of us were so competitive, we’d often argue on who’s smarter (typical kid stuff) until I saw him writing down half of the answers before we were about to start ;-;
When i was a kid i HATED reading...because they wanted me to read picture books and i just wanted the story. My gram then bought me the british english edition of the first harry potter book and i LOVED it. I got caught reading it in class one time and my teacher took it away, i complained and said "i was reading that, give it back" she laughed and said "no youre not, you hate reading! If youre actually reading it then explain to me what youve read so far." I then proceeded to explain in depth and detail everthing i had read up to that point, which was like halfway through the book, and she just wide eyed stared at me before slowly handing me back the book and said that i could keep reading it, and actually started using it as a bribe to get me to do certain classwork that i found too boring as it was below my level. Other students started getting mad that i didnt have to do hardly any of the english reading and writing classwork and could just read instead, till the teacher pointed out i was reading a book that had no pictures and was a high enough level that adults and high school kids were reading it, and i could understand it easily. I was able to pronounce words id never seen before just by looking at them and was able to pick out the meaning/definition of the word based solely on the context of the sentence. Ive always been very gifted in reading and comprehension as a child, as well as geography (no idea why, i didnt really study it, it just comes to me pretty easily), and by the time i was in 3rd grade i had a college level reading and comprehension understanding. Ive always learned very quickly and have a mild photographic memory when it comes to reading, giving me a sort of encyclopedic knowledge of things. What took other students weeks to learn in class i would learn in about 20 minutes just from reading. I wish they wouldve let me test out in school, id have skipped several grades. Its very hard being in a class that doesnt challenge you any and having to move at the slower pace of your classmates and get nagged at by the teacher for trying to go ahead and teach yourself material from further in the school year or even whole grades ahead of you just to give yourself the challenge. I dont care much for being in school, but i love the challenge of learning new stuff
My family made me think I was the smartest person in my entire country when I was young so I started teaching other persons including older students. When I started teaching my cousin I understood that I was much more average than I thought, she managed to.dominate what I learned in 10 years in just 2. I gave up science despite really liking it because my cousin was just that much better and followed all my steps but much much faster. Now I'm into computer programming and information systems so that I'm not compared whit her. I still teach her what I know and She don't know, but now she became kinda like I was before, procrastinating, since no one is there to teach her anymore LOLOLOLOLOL.
My mom told me a analogy (prepare for a humble brag) describing really smart people using sports as an analogy. She said when she met my dad he was a cab driver. She was initially attracted to his voice, but one time they were talking and she had this moment... it felt like they were both watching the same channel on the same TV at the same time, but it was like they were watching completely different games, and it never occurred to him that the thing wasn't obvious. He would occasionally let slip a detail or pattern in a casual tone, as if it was obvious to anyone watching the same game, and this would keep happening until my mom would just stop because she was trying to figure out how he was Gregory Houseing these really high ideas out of simple premises. Even when he was wrong about something, its because he had missed a fact, not because his logic was flawed. Maybe he didn't know the exactly how a program managed memory, but if you did the math with the assumed figures he would be spot on. He logicked out the existence of the Bush/911 papers before the MSM reported the "you covered your ass" story. It wasn't like he had skipped to the end of the book, it was like he knew what the writer was thinking. My spouse and my mom both claim I occasionally give them that "not watching the same ballgame" feeling, but when I get that feeling it mostly comes from people society would consider "stupid" or "deficient"; for that reason I usually take the words of mentally ill people very seriously, because I can't tell from first blush if the person is spouting "alternative facts" or if we are simply looking at the same TV but watching different ball games. RIP dad, your daughter misses your insight.
I am a gifted person, so was my dad and my granddad My grand dad was a very genius accountantant that could solve issues that people took weeks in a single day My dad was also a genius, but he never studied much besides a bachelors. He would know the whole answers but just write enough to score passing marks and leave, no one was there to guide him Anyways, he made it big in stock market, became a millionaire and also became bankrupt since someone cheated him. I personally spent my entire 9th and 10th grade reading dostoyevsky, dan brown, etc. and used to study for just an hour before exams and used to score 80% on average I can do pretty, graduated in commerce about to give CA finals (kinda like CPA) but since I have ADHD I find it very difficult to concentrate in one particular thing and that's why I never excel academically
All my teachers told me I was too smart to not apply myself, and I always thought I was just full of useless facts that I found interesting and that doesn't make you smart. It makes you a pretty short thesaurus with slightly inaccurate information. I've only recently realized that I'm not smart at all, I was just abused as a child and sought refuge in useless facts about the world around me. I literally never lived in my own world, because it sucked. That meant never having a ideology bubble, but also now I don't really feel like I have an identity.
3:24 how does grown ass adult teacher need to CALL IN a 5th grade teacher to give them 5th grade work? isn't the teacher smart enough to know 5th grade maths??
To make it official & have a second or more opinion & observation. Also, you don't usually do above your own scope of task/job unless you opt to upgrade.
Interesting... The story at around 4:10 parallels my personal situation growing up. I remember being called to principals' office in 1st Grade after Standardized Tests and told I scored at a 6th Grade Level across the board, which was higher than my sister currently in the 4th Grade. The theme continued, and my parents did their best to put me into the best elementary schools they could afford. I did college-level independent reading and language arts assignments in 8th Grade, and also took the SATs that year. We were broke/poor in a rough part of the city, so I went to one of the roughest schools in the state. Got a perfect score on 3 of 4 parts of the ACT. My score lifted the school ACT average by two points from 11 to 13 [national average was 19 at the time]. Teachers and administrators plotted to sabotage me and accused me of things that didn't fit my character. Nonetheless, I was a three-sport athlete, class president, captain of the football team for four years [strongest, most academically accomplished kid in the history of that school]. Got recruited to an elite university and attended one on the East Coast. Excelled academically in college, joined a fraternity, and played Division 1AA Football. That's when my severe depression and history of emotional/family trauma set in. My father was also a genius who dealt with the severe depression of being grossly underpaid due to racial glass-ceiling issues that derailed him his entire life. He took this out on me, and night terrors plagued me into my late 30s until years of therapy and consistent Zen meditation practices allowed me to level out. I needed to force myself to gain full control of my mental faculties, or else it'd be like driving a Ferrari recklessly... Almost became a monk at a point, dealt with massive heartbreaks, failed business ventures, and had a few instances where training in Traditional Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate saved my life... Now I've come full circle and design Science Curriculum for children with Genius IQs in an East Coast school system. High IQ people often have difficult lives and are prone to severe depression and other issues people on the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum deal with if they don't receive assistance. My work in education has saved people's lives, and I want to tell anyone going through a rough spot that all storms are temporary. Circle back to the solution. See it through... You got this...
As a kid who lives in the inner-city/hood, i really do hope i end up with some of the opportunities you ended up with, my life is going on sort of the same track with the tests and false accusations, and the encouragement from my parent to do the best and all.
First story resonated with me. I found school extremely boring because of the standardised curriculum. I graduated high school just after my 14th birthday, gained my Bachelor in Civil engineering at 17 and my Bachelor in Structural Engineering at 21. Currently working for the Queensland government as a Structural/Civil Engineer befpre i start my masters in Structural Engineering. Anyone can be clever in school, but its after high school is when the real challenge begins. Biggest tip i have to be successful is just use common sense, doesnt matter how intelligent or unintelligent for that matter, common sense trumps intelligence
1:59 this sounds like me... I was reading Harry Potter in kindergarten, and I taught myself how to read at the age of about 3. it took my twin brother until age 6 to be able to read on his own. He's still really smart though! (he's my brother and I love him and don't you dare say otherwise in the comments I will physically fight you.)
u remember when i was younger i got to go to another class with other kids to get books from there cause i was above my grades reading level and read a lot
Same goes with me, Mom said I'd often skip class when I was in first grade and was just 4, (skipped kindergarten because kids my age didn't know how to read, so I was a lot younger than my classmates in 1st grade) because I thought the lessons were easy and without a doubt I'd go to the principal's office, because they had books with the full paragraphs and I enjoyed reading books that way (and yes, we do have a library, but it was full with picture books and that didn't satisfy me) But now, it is very hard for me and I feel very useless, so different from what I was before, if only I could turn back time to the times. PS. Sorry for my bad english, it isn't my first language.
Damn I tought I was pretty alright, never got a B, learned english fluently in 2 years with a shitty teacher, and learned basic japanese writing, reading, and learned to speak and understand japanese. I can also use ASL. I'm turning 15 this year, but damn, these kids are some next level geniouses
I just get flashbacks to when i was called the "gifted child" during my elementary days. Was an honor student, was my HS valedictorian It made me happy and I was so proud of myself, It turned into the point where it became my entire personality It did not end well, i tried so hard to retain that status in my senior HS, I used to understand topics so fast, used to ace exams without too much effort, and then suddenly not anymore The first time I got the lowest score for an activity in my new senior HS, i broke down and started spiraling, changed schools, i suddenly felt like a phony, a fake Took me a while to overcome my imposter syndrome but damn, was being labeled a gifted kid in elementary warp my personality so bad
This is textbook gifted kid, the downside of learning everything fast is that when you start to learn something that is actually challenging for you, you will struggle immensely with it because you haven't developed the learning skills to understand it.
When I told my sons first grade teacher that he wasn’t paying attention in class because we’d been doing physics experiments all the previous summer . She then realized he was just bored. He was reading a 7 th grade science book by the end of the year. And was trying to decipher a child’s book written in French by himself. I just handed him a french dictionary and a book on grammar to figure out the verbs. When you get kids that smart you know it before they can talk . I had 2 like that
I feel like I'm one of these kids, Idk why, but I'm almost on top of every class. Something for the people struggling: keep trying, you're in the rough part right now, it'll get easier later on!
i give you points for being confident but being top of your class (i.e, having good grades), does not necessarily equate to intelligence, per se. im not saying that this is never the case, as there are definitely exceptions, but, predominantly, grades are a rather poor metric for human intellect.
I have a friend that has a processing speed disorder and during K-12 grade; He wasn't lightning quick and talked slow but always had the correct answer. His thirst for knowledge was/is astounding. We eventually went to the same university and were roommates. This man had a library in is room of high level science and mechanical manuals. He got his doctorate in Micro-Biology in four years while I was working on my B.S degree. I asked him why he didn't skip grades in K-12? His answer, "I didn't want to be a outcast in high school and have a normal life."! I unfairly asked him if he was faking his disorder the whole time. He took a moment to process my line of thinking and said, "No, I'm sorry it seems that way.". He writes painfully slow but can read really heavy content books in hours. Smartest person I know.
I mean, last year in math (8th grade, it was a big jump from that to high school teaching for me) , we were doing the volume unit, and all throughout it we had to put a three exponent on the end, or ‘cubed’, to show that it was volume, but one day, we were using the same formula, but calculating the height instead, so I didn’t put the cubed symbol, and it was marked wrong, until I explained why, and I got cheezits cuz apparently she’d never thought of that
Being a genius can be hard from a social perspective. I'm a math prodigy and when I was 7 I was struggling because I couldn't relate to any of my peers so I was left out and socially awkward. At this time I was moved from public school to a gifted children's school. During that time I attended several college courses on mathematics and physics. It was scary because everyone else was grown up and I was just a kid who knew no one. One day as I walked to class a student accidentally hit me in the head with a big globe. Afterward, he was friendly to me, especially since we both could play piano; he was brilliant playing modern contemporary while I was gifted at playing classical. But since I was just a kid he didn't want to hang out with me. That summer my mom went to Florida and to Disney world while I stayed with the founder of the school for gifted children so I could attend the Odyssey of the Mind. It was there that I accidentally upstaged a world- renown math prodigy during a math-Olympics type competition. He resented me for it but eventually we became friends. By the next year I was friends with several gifted kids and I no longer felt isolated and ostracized because of my intelligence.
I was put into a test class to see how well id do in elementary school when I was 6, we start elementary at 7. I finished the test in 10 minutes and started wandering the hall and the teacher called my mom to have a sit down.. thought I was in trouble or did something wrong.. what apparently happened was that I knew english at my age at a level that was 6th grade and that was unusual and the speed I finished too. Mom asked if I wanted to start school now in a special school and I just said "no, I want to be same age as the other kids" Note, I knew how to speak conversational english before knowing how to read or write it. Purely picked up from frustration of not being able to read subtitles in movies fast enough.. so I decoded the english language by watching movies and playing video games. By 6th grade I had gained every bit of knowledge of the english language that I just stopped paying attention in class. It annoyed my english teacher but getting a 100 in every test made sure she did not reprimand me for it. I also was a wiz in the sciences but terrible at math because the methods used did not compute to me. Like solving for a distance a wheel travels in x revolutions with the radius being y. So the solution to me looked like, distance = (y * Pi2) * X But that solution was not the one taught so I did not get the points. I simplefied all my solutions and they were all correct.. but not the one the teacher asked to use.. never understood why it mattered.
yeah it seems like all these crappy elementary/middle school teachers wanted us to solve problems the way they taught them, if I can get an answer a different way, let me! Math for me was really easy through like 6th grade, i would say i just "logic'd" my way through it. I was always one for the tried and true guess and check method. Even yesterday i took an alg 2 test and didnt know how to solve these set of 4 problems and after i did everything else i think i got 2-3 of them and guessed on the others before time rang
Math will be so much easier and so much more fun if you teach yourself, I had always been pretty neutral about math until I decided to get ahead and learn algebra a year only, I learned to love math
When he was in first grade my brother he said "well if I show how smart I am they will make me do more work" he's a little smart ass but refuses to any work
I wish I had teachers who gave a crap when I was a child. I entered kindergarten reading at a high school junior level, knew the multiplication tables to 12 X 12, and was doing quadruple digit multiplication. I was so bored by third grade I told my teacher that "I know the material, she know that I know the material so why the hell are you wasting my time forcing me to write it all down on paper." I could finish the timed math tests (5 minutes to do 100 multiplication problems) in less than 2 minutes while the rest of the class never finished half of the test in the allotted time. She was so pissed that I made her look bad that she failed me and forced me to repeat 3rd grade. I had a different teacher the second year but was so bored because no one of my teachers would give me a challenge for school work that I gave up and was never really bothered to care about my grades from then on. I was so pissed at wasting my time that I tested out of my senior year of high school, and went to a trade school for concrete construction and engineering. I started working with my grandfather in demolition after trade school and did well and made great money until I broke my knee and my back at age 27 and have struggled to make a decent living since. I can't stand for longer than 10 minutes, nor can I sit down at a desk for longer than 15 minutes. I am unable to walk more than 100 feet without serious pain so it has been impossible to keep a job for longer than a few weeks. I spent almost 7 years going through the process and was finally declared permanently disabled 5 years ago and I still suffer from severe depression as I can not stand to be sitting around doing nothing but I am trying all that I can do to stay out of a wheelchair. I am in constant pain from my injuries and cannot do much to relieve it as I am allergic to most pain medication and the ones I can take I don't take as much as I should because they are highly addictive and my family is genetically predisposed to addiction. Therefore I make a bottle of 60 which is only supposed to last 30 days last between 60 to 90 days. I once made a bottle of 60 last 113 days. I won't take the pain medication until the pain has kept me awake for over 24 hours because I am too afraid of getting hooked on it.
In my 10th grade chem class the teacher would often ask questions during a lesson, and my hand and the hand of my friend would always go up first. And only the boldest one other person calling his or her bluff would raise theirs seconds after, knowing they dont know the answer. The teacher appreciated that we always knew the answer and always raised our hands, but he would usually tell us to let someone else guess. I guess that it makes sense for other students to learn so they didnt get put on the spot for no reason. That is when I knew I am something special. But also, I know roughly 60 digits of pi and can recite them from memory. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592 and the next few digits are fuzzy.
I only remember 8 digits of pi, but that's because I don't want to remember more. 8 digits is normally enough for practical purposes. I remembered the digits by reciting them in my head while looking at a calculator displaying them. I can't remember exactly when I did that, but it was many long years ago.
@@okboing Pi is an irrational number. Once I realised that one-third stops being an irrational number if you express it in base 3 instead of in base 10 (it's 0.1 exactly in base 3), I realised that probably, if you select the correct number base, you could express Pi as a rational number. Unfortunately, I don't know enough mathematics to go any further.
Once a troublemaker in school, my life changed at 11 years old when my teacher caught reading a military engineering study book.. I was quietly surrounded by astonished teachers, they discovered my passion for math way ahead of my age. From then on, my mischief turned into a drive for learning and problem-solving. A true example of how unexpected moments can shape our futures! 📚✨ Up until that point, I was thought to have ADHD and even Dyslexia.. I remember the physics teacher rushing me away to talk to me, he was asking me all sorts of questions making sure I actually understood the formulas in the book, I did and I asked for something more advanced because that was all they had to offer and I was bored of it.
I hope I find myself on this list My teachers were always astounded with my level of smort For the longest time I would tell people the equator is 23232000 feet but it turns out I had the wrong numbers in the math. I still haven't redone the math.
Wasn’t a teacher but I had a classmate at London met. We study a animation course with everyone except him having previous experiences with media for at least 3 years. He previously came from a football/Soccer academy with that being said he was the youngest. We had a end of year assignment were we had to make a full 20 second animation (walking and talking), teacher recommended to use the stop motion technique has it was easier to use. (Keep in mind a high quality animation for professional would usually take months) He stared at the teacher and said no he’ll do frame by frame because he didn’t want to be like the rest and felt like it will limit his creativity. We laughed, the teacher laughed and said he wouldn’t be able to do even if he was paid a million and given 1 year. 3 weeks later he came in a presented his work, watched a 1 min animation clip that was good enough to be shown on Cartoon Tv shows. From the voice acting to the animation. Ended up getting 100% on his grade. HE HAD 0 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE. Finishing his graduating year early to sign for a professional club.
When I was in college, I had a job teaching computer programming to kids; typically 10 to 12 years old. One day I got a new student. He happened to be 5 years old. Not being a parent, I didn't realize how advanced a 5 year old that could read and write was. The first lesson went pretty much as expected for your typical 10 to 12 year old. On the second lesson I was to teach him variables -- which would make or break the person for programming. I had taught it so often, I could almost go into a trance while teaching it. Just before the lesson was supposed to start, my boss said that Brian's dad wanted to watch. I admit that I hated when the parents watched; it always changed the dynamics. I also had no choice. So I'm in the middle of my spiel of what variables are and how to use them when Brian says "Oh, I get it!" and proceeds to give me the rest of the talk. Brian's father looked at me, looked at Brian, shook his head and walked away. Brilliant kid.
This just brings back memories of me sleeping all the time during school and still getting A's and B's. Lol Also funny that I got put on a science team to compete with other schools, when in reality I was ahead of my class in mathematics(6th-8th grade) but they put people that miss the simplest question in that team.
I am a teacher, but this is a student I was working with in private tutoring. I was tutoring him in calculus in 9th grade. This is already extremely impressive. But there were two incidents that I will never forget. One day when we had some extra time I taught him how to solve systems of linear equation using Gauss-Jordan reduction of matrices. I learned later that he used this process to solve systems of equations in school. A teacher saw him and told him: "You are one of 5 people in the whole school who knows how to do that, including teachers." There is one other thing that brings me joy whenever I think about it. I was teaching him integration techniques. I went through the first example of a technique called "u substitution." After that one example I set up the second problem. But he says to me: "Do we need to do all those steps? Those factors are just chain rule. I could just reverse it." I have never been more impressed and proud of a student in my 15 years teaching college math at community college and university. Context: Personally, I have a strong dislike for u sub because it simplifies the integral by about 90%. As a math prodigy (I taught myself calculus 2) I can see how all the pieces fit together and don't need it simified. After doing hundreds of such integrals someone might be able to skip the u sub steps. My brother is a genius with a masters in electrical engineeting, I tried to show him how to skip the u sub steps, but he told me he needed them. This tutoring client is one of only 3 people I have ever met, including myself, who could see though u sub from initial instruction. This client was one of the few people I have ever met who has the capacity to be a mathematician.
Yeah, that chess story is hard to beleive, unless the person who posted was just truly awful at chess. If you have been playing for years, its almost impossible to lose to even the smartest new player.
Bruh I'll never be as good as them My best subject is English In Malaysia Im ahead , very ahead but then boom 60in everything else. I'm gonna become a translator
When I was in second grade and my brother was in kindergarten a family gave him a math book on the third grade level for Christmas. My mother thought it was meant for me but he begged for her to teach him so she taught him using Cheerios and fruit loops. When he was in second grade after finishing a spelling test he asked his teacher, “what’s 100 divided by 1/2?” His teacher replied, “50.” My brother told her the answer was 200. When she put it in the calculator he was right. When I was a junior he joined me in my Trigonometry class, he never did the homework but he passed with flying colors. He was a feshman. The next year he took calculus. The kid is terrifying when it comes to his math knowledge.
My nephew has just turned one year old. Since he has been three months his biggest friend has been poetry books. He doesn’t play with toys. He won't even sit down for one minute but if you read poems he will sit there for hours. I dont know if he is gifted or not. But he sure is smart.
I was in kindergarten doing work and then i started being lazy my teacher asked why i wasnt doing work, i told her "Why have fractions when decimals are more accurate" boosted two grades then went to 1st grade because i was only like 7
My nephew was extremely gifted as a child. He had enough credits to graduate from high school at age 13, graduated from Brown University School of Law at 19, and passed the Bar exam to become an attorney. At 20 he was employed by a Fortune 500 company as a company attorney with a salary of over $500,000 a year. He is now 31 years old and is making an 8 figure salary (over $10 milion dollars) yearly.
To paraphrase the late, great, Robin Williams, "I used to, there was a time when I thought myself smart, but today you have proved me wrong, thank you."
when I was in 5th grade I wasn't put in a math group and instead worked on the curriculum several weeks ahead and made presentations that my teacher then later used to teach the class. In second grade I also reached the end of the phonics reading system my school had and finished the series I was reading with a small group before the teacher did. I was put in the gifted class before they usually let you start and worked with the grade above me. I also was able to surpass most of my classmates in my orchestra in middle school even though I never practiced. Overall my siblings and I are very gifted and have been very blessed to have a teacher as a mom.
I had just moved in from out of state and my first day of class we were given a simple math worksheet. It was supposed to be subtraction but it was poorly printed so I thought it was division. I finished it faster than anyone in my class and I remember being pulled out of the room and all of the 3rd grade teachers convening around me. Ended up scoring in the top 1% of standardized tests throughout school. Now I have an engineering degree from Vanderbilt.
I had a friend in high school who was a math genius. A fucking human calculator, during one semester me and him sat at a table in the front and we answered almost every question during class. He was much smarter then me when it came to math but we were also the best in our class at problem solving. The teacher ended up banning us from answering questions about half way through the semester because we were the only ones who did. We played chess during class and the teacher was fine with that because he didn’t want us answering all the questions not to mention we got our work done. But anyhow he was insane when it came to mental math, I only ever beat him once in chess and that was by luck. Sadly he blew his own brains out and I feel like I’m partially at fault because he always talked to me about stuff that was on his mind and I ended up in the hospital for chemo for a long time. So I feel like if I wasn’t away for so long I would of been able to prevent it. If anything he had the brightest future out of our entire class. I thought he’d grow up to be an engineer or something like that. RIP man, wish we could talk again just one last time. Sorry for the depressing comment.
I once had a student in USN Surface Survival School (19 years old) who fixed a small patrol boat motor. He substituted broken parts with pieces of an old vacuum cleaner. The motor worked and saved us three days of repairs. When I asked him “Where’d you learn that?” he just shrugged “Made sense I guess.” He’s now a diving equipment engineer for deep sea divers at NATO.
My son started speaking when he was six months old and was speaking in three languages at one year old. He used to come with me to my university classes sometimes and my professors loved him. His understanding of the material frequently surpassed my classmates. Unfortunately, due to a severe neurological condition in his adolescence, he has never been able to make much of his life.
I used to babysit my two granddaughters because my daughter works nights at the hospital so I'd sit the kids during the day so she could sleep. So one day I was playing with my 3yr old gdaughter while her 5yr old sister was napping. We were playing with a little spring drive toy car that came in a happy meal; I had set up a ramp using an envelope and some wooden blocks and we were 'ramping' the car off the coffee table into a paper bag set on the floor. After several attempts and misses she take the envelope and adds another block to change the angle, I asked her what she was doing she very casually tells me: "Since we can't change the velocity of the car, (spring driven toy) we have to change the angle of the trajectory to gain more distance". To say I was stunned was an understatement, her favorite 'cartoon' was this program called the 'Magic School bus' where they covered all kinds of science and biology, while I thought she just enjoyed the animation she was actually learning stuff that was way over her age bracket. By the time she was 4yrs old she was reading and even writing her own short stories, she had learned all about the dinosaurs, she could name them and tell you what they ate. She knew about all the planets their composition (what they're made of) size and distance and relative position from earth. She was a whiz in 'anatomy of the human body' knew all the bones and the functions of the various organs. When she got to first grade the teachers had a difficult time with her because she would constantly interrupt the teacher to tell her the they had omitted some vital fact or other to which the teacher would tell her that she had yet to 'cover that'. When she got to second grade her teacher set up different learning packets so she could work on her own, she is reading/writing at 10th grade level . While her older sister is happy playing with toys and arm wrestling with and beating the boys. She asks for books which her mother is only too happy to buy for her, she has memorized the 'elemental table', she is eager to learn about atoms, molecules, and x-rays and CT scans which is what her mother does at the hospital....... She is eager to learn about most everything and we support her in doing so at her own pace without pushing her (not that we would ever need to). She says she wants to be a 'Veterinary Surgeon' specializing 'Hummingbird surgery' because she has little hands and thinks she could do it well.... She's brilliant but she's still a child. We believe she will do great things in the future, I just hope to live long enough to see it happen....
I used to be a kindergarten English teacher in Taiwan. One 3 year old was already pretty fluent in English and Chinese, lots of kids pick it up pretty quick, but one day he took the week off to go to Japan with his parents. I speak some Japanese, so when he came back I asked him if he learned any Japanese... in Japanese. To which he responded that he learned to say "Hello?" "What is this?" "Good night" and a few other small phrases... all in Japanese. He could also hold a full conversation with me in English and with my boss in Chinese. Also, he was delightful.
I love the one about the kid who was a whizz at chess, but lousy at sport. I was reminded of Mikhail Tal, a former chess world champion. One day his wife got sick - and it was revealed that Tal didn't even know how to make tea.
This just made me realize, that I am dumb
Not dumb, average. It's not a bad thing to be average, intelligence isn't the only thing that matters in the world. Ultimately, the metric any of us should measure ourselves by is how we improve the world and the lives of those around us.
And if nothing else, you can take solace in the fact that half of the people in the world are below average.
@@jacksonayres6326 noice thanks man
I always taught i was smart guess not haha
@@FastFierce I mean, depends. Some people are amazing at certain subjects.
I think I may have too much in common not saying I’m smart but saying internally I’m just thinking and thinking and thinking so I can find a logical answer and I need extra long time to think I’m never with my peers and it’s really annoying but also I’m relating a lot to the ones read. But I do have a few friends and of course they talk about things that some kids would not understand it on grade. I know about the grammar
There is people good at school and people good at life
And then there's me in the middle. Bad at life and school
Technoultimategaming Saaaame
School is extremely easy. Being good at life? Difficult.
Thats means if you are good at school you will be bad at life huh?
Thats means if you are good at school you will be bad at life huh?
Are you ok, Reddit voice. You sound kind of sick
*Corona* 🥴
Idiot!1!1 that isent reddet voicee!11! that is a camputer saund!!!11
@@ari3903 u brian ver smol no edocatim stoopid
Noel jr Ponollera uh wtf
PericIesI same with you wtf
When the professor talked about kids finding alternative ways to do things honestly I related a lot. I had a teacher from 5-7th grade he kept moving up with us for some reason. When I first got into his 5th grade class I was in his top class. In 6th grade he put me in his lowest, at the end of the year they were deciding who would go into pre algebra for 7th grade and I really wanted to. However I was and still am dyslexic and I like to think that because if that I saw math problems forwards and backwards. Almost like I could see things both backwards and forwards. So there would be times when he would do a problem and cover the entire white board and I was simply ask if I could show I different way and I wouldn’t even cover a fourth of the board. When they were deciding who would go into pre algebra like I said I really wanted to and practically begged him. He made me write a 5 page essay and do a test to prove I was smart enough. When my mom went to the parent teacher conference he told her “if she takes this class she will not make it”. He left the decision up to me telling me it would fail if I took the class. I took it anyways. There were even math competitions that I always wanted to go to but he would tell me I couldn’t because I wasn’t good enough. Our school had never gotten a first place and we didn’t even bring back seconds or thirds I don’t think. I passed and for 8th grade he finally didn’t move up with us and I was now taking algebra. My teacher that I had actually accepted how I did math. I never worked with the class when they worked through the packet together. I would always do it by myself and have it done a lot faster than them. Infact there were many times when the class wouldn’t be able to solve something and she would ask if I already had the problem done and if I could show it. When the math competitions were coming around I was the first person she asked to go. I didn’t have to write an essay or take a test or anything she just asked me while I was walking into class. I won the first first place medal my school had gotten. I’ll tell you seeing the look on my 5th-7th grade teacher face when he saw was the best feeling in the world. I am now a sophomore in highschool about to take algebra 2, chemistry, and biotechnology. Not the coolest classes but considering what I went through it means the world to me. Sometimes it’s nice to see things backwards or upside down
Been there myself. I went through high-school being bullied like mad, having the teachers tell me im just a naughty boy and that im going nowhere.
Went to university and at 22 I was diagnosed with dyslexia, dyspraxia and aspergers. I have an IQ significantly over 140 and im now studying theoretical physics in my spare time. (My uncle is a physicist in Switzerland).
I returned to my own school after the diagnosis and the teachers refused to believe it.
The education system is set up to fair those capable of free independent thought. Most of the greatest entrepreneurs around are all eccentric characters who dropped out of school.
@@adambaxendale3654 I watch Todd White an evangelist on YT, he was dyslexic and couldn't read, after he was healed the first book he could read was the Holy Bible.
@@adambaxendale3654 , I would have found out some dirt on the bullies AND the teachers and exploited the fuck out of that if I were in your situation. I actually did that once in the third grade when I was in a school in Mississippi, USA, and, needless to say, a LOT of arrests of people happened there, including the vice principal, who committed a fuck ton of child abuse, and he also did some kiddie diddling as well.
@@paxhumana2015 good on you. I figured my best revenge was to make a success of myself and earn a lot of money rather then going all legal or physical on people's ass. I mean it annoys me knowing how far I've been set back from numerous aspects of life but I figured there's not much I can do and now I'm old enough to find the solution to problems myself and progress that way.
I am so proud of you.
Jesus christ my intellect is literally the equivalent to a tub ice cream
At least people would buy it
Yes that’s a pun
Don't worry this video made me feel like a dumbass and I speak 3 languages....
Thank god I already accepted that I was an idiot before watching this video lol
But like, strawberry or something like rum & raisins? There's a difference.
When I was a kid, my 2nd grade teacher said I would never graduate into middle school or even get to go past 2nd grade because of my learning disabilities. I'm autistic and I had ADHD, but I still went through school with relative ease. The only subject I struggled on a lot was Math.. which is probably funny to some people considering that I'm part Asian. Honestly, even though I'll never accomplish anything close to what those kids will, it still makes me happy to prove that asshole teacher wrong.
Wtf how is a teacher allowed to say that that. And what does ur autism affect the most (concentration, learning, understanding and taking in things, learning easyly)
You may not be the classic sample of smart people but you are humble and very happy with what you can do and this already makes you smarter than others
People often make the mistake of confusing conditions like autism, dyslexia, and (to a lesser degree) ADHD with a lack of intelligence.
Jackson Ayres people with extremely high IQ tend to have autism
ATB people with extremely high IQs tend to have autism
My sister told me her daughter has gone through 2 years of coding classes. She's turning 7 this year. She saw the art edits I do of Pokemon on the computer and wanted to try to make one, I was aware her eye for art might not have been the best because that usually takes practice, but what got me is that she picked up all of the little tricks and keybinds and key combinations for working the art program almost immediately, "To undo a mistake, you press Ctrl and Z" I told her once and never had to remind her, this was the same for almost every trick I taught her with the program, including zooming in and out with the mouse wheel with ctrl, and scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel by itself, and left and right if you press shift at the same time. There were times she accidentally hit the wrong button and made mistakes because she didn't learn how to use that feature yet but after I helped her redirect back the first time, she was able to redirect herself back without help after that, and would sometimes ask me what certain features do or how to do something else that she had in mind, I don't think I've ever really experienced pride in someone so young before because I'm usually uncomfortable around kids.
stuff u said on the comment seems basic but idk for a 7 year old. Ask her if she wants to do more and become a "professional" in coding. Cause as i said that stuff is more a common basic beginner stuff
@@randomperson8994 But thing is, she had an advantage because of her fresh age. As kids, they are at the prime age for learning because they can absorb anything & everything almost without any limit. But it takes brilliant kids to know what they want to do with what they're taught & how they apply their knowledge irl. Basic stuff sometimes is hard even for adults, especially the ones that can't or won't understand technology.
I’m sorta like that because I never really watch/read tutorials for things like video games or programs because most of the stuff you have easily find out and are explainatory
Is this my female incarnation?
That sounds like me tbh. I always was interested in computers and stuff, and played lots of games, I learned English easily from just playing video games, learning new words/phrases and the grammar itself with a little more time. I used to watch TH-cam a lot as well, as I also do these days, and thanks to it I learned a foreign language passively. To put that simply, passively learning something is when you dont put a lot of time to it, but rather the key factors are known to you, and you continue on from there. It is like a second nature at this point, it has gotten to the point where I dont even think when writing or speaking English, it sorta just happens naturally, just like it would If it was your first language. As for computers and tech, I tend to be a nerd and understand quite well how they work and the way they work, that teaches all sorts of new stuff, and also I have discovered a lot of useful features that I may not have known before, and occasionally I find out some glitches and or bugs in sites or video games, those stuff are really interesting when you discover them on your own.
"Started talking to dead people not long after that."
*Ok*
yeah i was like... wait, what??
I am somewhat familiar with the topic of spirits. I have noticed people with an Indian bloodline generally have more spiritual ability. I have around 6% or higher Indian blood. I have Astral Projected twice, go years sometimes without seeing a single spirit though have seen around a dozen in my lifetime, I saw a Shadow Person once which is a three dimensional shadow, I also sense there is something there though can not exactly figure out what uncommonly. My spiritual ability is like a broken radio which decides when it wants to work basically.
@@lanceknightmare Wow, apparently people who know their great-great-grandparents' ethnicity are more gullible than usual, who knew? Keep up the posts though, and one day you'll be Stephen King.
I assumed the "dead people" thing was a reference to something. You know the one with Bruce Willis and that spooky kid, "I see dead people", was big in the '90s. Did he do whatever that poster was talking about? I dunno I still haven't seen it. The Sixth Sense! That's what it was called! I think.
I'm good at reading and I taught myself to swim in 10ft deep water when I was 3 but that's it lol
That's pretty smart. Teaching yourself things is a good indicator of intelligence.
Skippy19812
That just boosted my ego
I’m good at math and know everything in my math book and hardest tests are easiest for me and I’m having test to get into best math school in my country as a 3 year old I could read on my language and knew English letters and as an 4 year old I knew how to do many things in computers and was into techs and I’m learning programming of python and then gonna learn c# and be good at both and as an 2 year old could count to trillions and do basic math and I can learn everything by reading it once or maximum twice
@@dubiousproductions4815 way to make me feel bad :'(
@@dubiousproductions4815 nice username
I thought I was smart, I get all A’s and go pretty above and beyond with projects. But these people are next level. Like Hello? I didn’t know what half this stuff meant.
The grading system is aimed at the average person. If you're straight As, you're above average, but the grading system alone can't really gauge how much. In the end, though, grades are poor metric of measuring intelligence anyway.
Jackson Ayres yup... American schooling is total shit
I know that feeling. Teachers said I was above average but lazy, so they put me in a special group for gifted kids in my last year.
That class made me feel like a total troglodyte. In comparison to the other students I was barely sentient. It was kind of an ego killer.
@@Skippy19812 jeez- that must have been really bad
I know right??
How the hell do these people remember shit that went down in 3rd grade? I don't even remember who my teacher was, what I was studying, or who the other students in my class were. All of my elementary years are pretty much a big blur.
Cause they young?
This is me. We're just built differently so it's not unusual. I only remember bits & pieces where the memories profoundly impacted my psyche in certain ways & shape me how I am today. Most I remember excelling at just a bit above everyone else though were the fact that I like to draw & read.
@@olymolly3637 Yep that's for all humans though. We easily remember the things that emotionally impact us. This is because emotions stimulate the "amygdala" (almond in greek) in our brain, and we secrete adrenalin. Consequently, the hippocampus (center of memory function) is stimulated and bam! We remember the memory 😊 so, thanks to emotions/ well psyche
It sucks to remember cause I remember all the pain I felt when I was younger. I am abnormal in that sense as I can accurately remember things that no one else would remember.
Know that normally the brain forgets useless information as it is designed to focus on more important tasks or tasks that have been repeated, forgetting is a blessing as you don't have to remember all the time.
@@themushroominside6540 Same, I remember the exact words people say to me a lot of time later, It's really bad because if something bad happens or someone says something bad to me, I will be anxious and scared that this is going to happen again and I will keep thinking about this moment
I had a college level reading comprehension in third grade, started talking in fragmented sentences by nine or ten months, and always caught onto concepts and patterns extremely quickly.
However, I noticed a lot of us who are ahead early on tend to fall back as we get older. From pressure or not learning how to study or any number of other things. I wish those of us kids without a lot of resources behind us could have been given a helping hand to make the most of what we're good at, because it's one thing to be smart and another to get good chances to use those smarts instead of feeling stuck in a loop of over perfectionism and lack of practical skills to help us utalize talents.
I pretty much just gave up by 8th grade. I'd only turn in the bare minimum amount of assignments to pass. I still feel aching regret for that.
Eyyyy a fellow accidental over achiever! Never have never will study. Was always like 8 or 9 years ahead in reading. And 98th percentile for grades in our continent! And yes. I too fell behind too much pressure. Still ahead but like am sad wasted my potential..... Okay u made me sad...
@@ronancoster8910 Accidental over-achievers unite! The problem with asynchronous development in gifted individuals is that when we're seen as smart we're also seen as mature, no matter the age. This, in turn, results in that loop of over-perfectionism due to being held to such a high standard from a young age, then we end up not being able to use that potential due to the burnout. I wish the gifted programs would actually teach us about being gifted so we could understand how our minds work instead of just giving us extra work.
yeap this happened to me. i started reading when i was 2 (literally an entire year before i could write) and by the time i was 10 i probs exceeded college level reading (in terms of actually reading the thing). my only issue is comprehension of some non literal shit like figurative language lol. im also autistic so im 99% sure thats why (i take shit ppl say literally, constantly lol). im also apparently insanely good at basic math but i start falling behind on algebra a bit but im still good at it. also my pattern recognition is through the fucking roof somehow lol. like allegedly when i was 2 my mom got a doctor to test my pattern recognition and they did literally every test there and i s t i l l didnt fail a single one. yea. now at 14 ive kinda plateaued at most of the things im good at and i think its simply bc i just didnt do said things enough and forgot how to do some of it.
Amen to that..
The kid came out of his mother saying “Momma, I am not a person. My body is just a flesh vessel, for an immortal being whose name, if you heard it, would make you lose your mind." Now that’s a smart kid if I’ve ever seen ond
Were they reading Lovecraft?
I love how “genius” nowadays is defined as learning quickly, as opposed to actually inventing/creating something novel.
This
It's the start.
Even the greatest geniuses werent inventing stuff before puberty, barring very very few exceptions, no matter how smart you are you are going to spend the first 15 years of your life learning from others, intelligence doesnt mean you can create somwthint out of nothing, einsteins theory of relativity stands on the foundations created by great minds that came before him
You should also be very analytical and a critical thinker to be considered a genius
that’s because being a genius is a measure of your intelligence, not what you do with that intelligence
I was the "gifted kid" in my school. Perfect marks every time, always put into the "advanced" classes. Always reading at a level that was like 5-6 years higher. Offered to skip grades many times but I usually refused (until highschool where I was doing college+HS at the same time and graduated early so I could transfer into Uni with 2 years of college). Spent most of my time in class reading books, since I learned the material and finished the work pretty quick. Taught myself the basics of neuroscience and computer science in middle school. Went to uni for information and computer science and graduated early. Never managed to get hired anywhere. Ended up digging into quantum physics, philosophy, and spirituality/religion. Perhaps not amazing as some of the stories here, but I'd figure I'd provide my input. Not all "gifted" kids you see in schools end up in traditionally successful places. Some of us run ourselves into borderline psychosis chasing answers to unsolvable questions after teaching ourselves the details of a variety of fields.
I'm basically inferior to you
This. The first time i felt true failure i just broke down, the feeling of suddenly having an identity crisis was horrible
@@aruakabane2077 Yup. I had an existential crisis starting in highschool and through uni. First time I got a B I pretty much broke down. I'm a pretty different person now (over a decade later), but yeah still not traditionally successful in any sense.
Your comment reminds me that mental health tends to be very common in extremely intelligent people. Personally, I was going to become a Chemical Engineer and made it up to Junior year, became super depressed finding no joy in my work and Covid was truly awful, watched Squid Game, and switched to Finance.
22 and a senior, but still had a bunch of Engineering credits. Turns out if I take some 400 level Social Studies course, I get two bachelors and an associates degree. What am I doing with my knowledge of Organic Chemistry and Electromagnetism? Delivering pizzas
Fine. So tell me where the damn positron comes from in Beta + decay? Its not part of the nucleus. And its not part of the lepton, muon or gluon. So where, does it come from?
"I just... I can't do it."
"Miles, there is no way I'm helping you read that word."
"It's too much letters!"
"It's too *many* letters, and use them. Look at the letters."
*huffing* "En-cyclo-pedia" *looks at me as if he's wrong*
"No, buddy. That's right. That's why I won't help you."
He's 6, and English is not his first language.
Me before: Skipping grade II and III, completely destroying the work
Me now: Average student, getting worse continously
Lol felt that. I skipped 7th grade but all throughout high school, I did terrible grade-wise... was still in all the honors classes though so idk how that happened 😭
Same here. I didn't turn stupid or anything. Just got lazy and I make about 2/5 of my homework. Pretty used most my intelligence outside of school. Gaming and internet stuff basically. Though I love Science but hate Math, ironically.
Edit: This comment originally had 2 typos. I ended up editing it 7 times lmao
Me at 8th grade, got all A's, 9th grade meh, 10-12 plenty of honors and ap tricky but manageable (esp. algebra 2 & pre calc/ calc, but manageable with my genius cousin explaining it), majoring in science at University felt I barely made it out alive in rigorous courses, physics, ecology (has a lot of math surprisingly) and especially organic chemistry with no multiple choice
The janitor in MIT college seems like a start of an autobiography of a famous guy
Lol it's just the plot of good will hunting
He needs counseling. Maybe he was orphan.
@@germchang Ya don't say?!?
"She started walking at 6 or 7 months"
Me: god damnit I started walking at 2 years
@Nathan Barraza you mean the tortise and the hare?
@Nathan Barraza good point.
I have a sibling that had the lowest IQ score among us, and another sibling that has the highest IQ in the family. Guess which one is making bank.
The sibling with the lowest IQ is a brain doctor now, because she knows how to work hard. The genius sibling is... probably going to become some company's code monkey. He doesn't really do anything at home.
i did it at exactly 1 year
My parent always told me that i started walking at 1 year but started talking at 9 months. Im not sure which one is supposed to be the first one i learn
@@foldingwishes can she fix her brain then?
I feel like Autism is so thoroughly misunderstood. It's always good to see someone with it, especially in a more extreme case, being able to show their intellect. I have high functioning Autism myself, I was diagnosed with Asperger's but that term isn't used anymore. I could do basic long division in my head when in late elementary school, always have been ahead when it comes to mathematics, especially angular stuff like trigonometry. Autism isn't a blanket term, and the movie "The Accountant" shows how our minds work very well. I've met a few autistic people over the years and I've learned that each of us tends to hyperfocus on something. For me, it's design, engineering, and mathematics. Stuff relating to that just... clicks for me, I grasp it easily. Other subjects take a bit more work. Others focus on history, or music, or biology, and every single one of these people i've met are just amazing.
Hello [mathematics], I'm [language and grammar] and to me the two are exactly the same save the syntax of each (I excelled in both topics of study). Mathematics is based on formulas made from symbols upon which an agreement was made, and the same is true of every language on the planet. I was able to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet and then to read Russian words in the span of an hour, though I couldn't translate anything
Very true. My youngest is high functioning autistic. He was fascinated by words as a toddler. Would have us replay the end credits of movies. Was reading at 4 with no formal training. Had other repetitive traits, always picked up from movies. Got him a used computer when he was 2, because I found out he was moving the files around on my computer. I homeschooled all my kids. When he hit 8th grade started a new math curriculum for him because what worked with my older three kids didn't work for him. Ultimately almost all his high school work he did on the computer. He's making straight A's at the community college and works part-time. He wants to be a filmmaker. He's uber-creative. It blows me away. He still has some challenges from the autism, but it doesn't affect his academics and he is such a sweet and social person that he makes friends everywhere he goes. We're very close.
@@annebodee that's so wonderful to hear! I'd love to know if he succeeds in making a film!
@@g4mmalotus937 Thanks! He actually wrote the screenplay for a short film that he's working on. Partly for the love of doing it and partly for his portfolio to get into film school. When I say he constantly amazes me I mean it. He can just absorb knowledge about anything to do with filmmaking and theater.
@@annebodee can you send the link to the short film?
Can I just say that these "teachers" are awesome for encouraging these gifted little squirts while others might feel threatened. I would usually say brats but I'm trying not to do this but old habits die hard.
The teacher really makes or breaks the class. This is especially true with math. A few times in my life I figured out alternate/easier ways to solve math problems where I wouldn't even need to show work. 1 of the math teachers I had realized this and just had me demonstrate my thought process then was totally fine grading without work. Meanwhile 2 of my other teachers forced me to show work and would mark the answer wrong if I used a different method even if I got the right answer. They would then teach the method I had used the next week. Really screws with a kids motivation if you are telling them to not try to learn just to save yourself a little effort and its really shoddy.
Similar happend to me. Had one teacher for chemistry, math and physics. And hw doesn't like me and did the same.
When I was in 7th grade he didn't answer one of my questions for a whole year...
I sat there, waiting for my turn and he ignored me. He ran past my table the whole time and just said nothing. Literally nothing. I cried so often.
I have Asperger. I'm not dumb. Today I understand everything if I can SEE an example. If I maybe watch a documentary, I understand quickly.
But the 6 years with that teacher... Ruined my life.
Asperger, abusive parents and bullying from teachers and other kids. I can tell you that those years were horrible.
My IQ is 146 and I didn't make anything of it bc of my social anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, etc...
I'm a stay-at-home-mom now and I still feel betrayed.
To clear things up: I'm German, and the German school system is a bit different than yours.
My daughter started uni at age 15 in a program that watches/guides/counsels underage kids that are gifted enough for college. She was very smart but there was a boy in her group who was genius level. He taught himself Algebra in 3rd grade with a book he bought at the book fair. He had excellent parents who hired tutors, but also made sure he had an almost normal life. By the 2nd semester of uni he was a student teacher in advanced math classes. Presently he is a full professor at a leading uni in our state. I think he's 23/24 yrs old now.
This honestly makes me feel sad to know I’ll never have accomplished anything big or be proud of myself while all these kids are doing great things by being gifted:/
Same, this only makes me feel terrible, but fret not, intelligence comes in multiple pathways
Same
I needa respawn and choose the right perks 😭😭
@@noripengu3188 it's the vip perk you need real money for it
It's even more bad if you ate gifted an no one realized it until you went to therapy bc of depression and get diagnosed with asperger autism at age of 32.👀
I got a call in to my sons preschool class because he was “being disruptive” he wouldn’t sit still while the kids were learning their colors, and kept pulling the books off the teachers desk. I asked him, he says it’s all so boring. He walks over to the teachers desk, opens her magazine and asks, well why cant I just read like at home. The teacher snidely says, “well if you were old enough to read...” he promptly opens the magazine and starts to read it. Two days later he is in kindergarten. Two weeks after that he is in 1st grade. in like 4th grade out of boredom, he would take the 10 vocabulary word he had to learn each week and write a 10 sentence paragraph in the order the words were given to him. At the end of the fall semester he had written a full story. He’s a software engineer now and has worked for Google, Tumblr, and a few other tech companies. He sent me the link for this video, after we had a conversation about he felt he was a very lazy student...in spite of getting straight As.
I'm really similar to him. I think we find ourselves lazy because we are. We find the easiest way to do everything, even if finding the easiest way takes longer that the way itself, then it prepares us for a similar situation In the future so that that situation can be efficient. This way we have lots of time left to learn new things on our own, for me it's music and higher level math mainly
Bro same. Straight A's but I have never EVER studied. I am about to get rekt by exams I bet. Hopefully ADHD Hyperfocus can save me tho.
Same, I'm a "lazy" person in general, i can already tell that when i get to the point where I'll need to study it will ruin me, but I always look forward to something that will challenge me and be very intellectually stimulating. I'm in particular no genius, besides teaching myself to read at 2 years old, how to draw fairly well, and teaching myself some of the higher level math, i haven't done much.
Same
ok this is starting to make me depressed. how stupid am i???? :(
Nobody is stupid, people are just good at different things. And for a lot of kids like this, their peers eventually catch up to them in skills or talent which can be a huge blow for kids who were basically raised to see their talents as their sense of self worth.
Not stupid. You can find something you are good at too. It just might not be school! You might be the next Picasso or Mozart without even knowing it!
Don't be depressed. Trust me, and I speak from experience, being "gifted" sucks. Just he happy with what you DO have.
@@Silencio_boy but if I was gifted then I feel a lot happier then now or if my body stopped being tired all the time.
I agree with these replies. Find something you're good at and enjoy, and run with it. Intelligence can be measured in so many ways.
These kids are like freaking Matilda
3 year old kid: Wow, he must have been famished
Me: been wUt?
What does that even mean XD
@@riabliobe2944 hungry - like in famine
Outdated =/= smart
2:20 don't give the poor kid depression and a horrible sleep schedule so early in their life!
Guess I don’t have many places to share this, BUT, this fall I’m starting college to become an elementary school teacher and I’m SO excited!!!! Can’t wait to potentially chose my classes tomorrow! Though covid is an extremely sad and difficult situation, it does pose one advantage. Which is the fact that classes will all be online. I struggled a lot on high school, but I switched to do 2 days a week and the rest online, at that point I actually graduated an entire year early. I’m hoping for the same. Okay thanks for reading have a nice day :)
An entire year early!! You’re amazing! Good luck on your journey :)
Keep it up im going to school to be a high school teacher.
Congrats! Hopefully you become a great teacher.
Just believe in your ability to change a kids life, and let that motivate and pull you when you're tired. Before you know it, a student from your distant past will come every Saturday and pick your gooseberry bushes, gladly sit with you and talk/play board games. I may have had a teacher that affected me in that way. :)
good luck
Props to the teachers that pushed these students. I’m not a genius but I wish they did the same for me since school was pretty much a joke for me back then
How do all these teachers know where these genius kids end up
Idk
They keep in contact, Baby.
Don’t you ever hear a story about someone you used to know, and look them up?
@@Milkythefawn that's just creepy....
Karma Akabane No it’s normal actually. Have you never done that? It might have to do with your age. Like for example a friend you used to hang out in elementary? Look them up on Facebook or something. It’s quite cool to see people who you used to know and how there life is doing. You could even chat or get back in contact. In my eyes it’s not that weird!
Honestly there are a lot of kids who are auditory learners most of these people are those kids, they learn the slowest, but have the most effective learning rhythm, you can tell a real genius apart not by knowledge, but by curiosity, quick wits, and usually higher reading levels, or higher brain function (usually acting above the other kids, or solving their problems).
The thing about knowledge is accurate, a kid is not gifted by their knowledge, is by how fast they can learn and process things and from that learn new things. I remember reading the diary of a wimpy kid and greg said about a boy who would do all of his homework in minutes even tough he's just 6 years old ig. But at the end is just his parents who forced him to wake up at 5 am and learn about geography.
These students: Smart
Me: Gets a A without studying.
Also me: Stonks
When I was in kindergarten I was reading books meant for third graders. I could only go up to a third grade level at the time because my mom was really pissed at my dad for giving me the advanced books in the first place. She's not a bad mom and wanted me to be ahead of my class at least as I got older, I don't know why she got mad though.
When I was in second grade, after Christmas, my mom figured out how I couldn't read at all (memorizing assignments, imagening fantasy/new content along the few short words (and, so, he/she/it) I recognized)... It took a year to get diagnosed, 3 to catch up with my age groups reading level (writing still won't work without digital assistance) and 5 years to get helpful tuition.
Your mother was probably afraid you would not fit in with the rest of the kids that way.
None of these are as interesting as when my teacher realized I was a genius, I'm kind of disappointed. Not just because of entertainment value, but because this means most teachers are actually decent people and I've just been super unlucky.
My story in case anyone cares:
See the thing is I've always breezed through academics. K and 1st teachers noticed I was above the current level, but just didn't care enough to test me. 2nd grade teacher actually was threatening to fail and hold me back. Not because of classwork; of which I was getting 100% correct on everything, which she didn't care about; but because I was so incredibly bored in class after finishing the work in seconds that I would spend the time entertaining myself. Like roleplaying / playing make believe, drawing, et cetera, instead of just being silent and staring at the wall like she demanded.
So she told my mom I was retarded and forced her to put me on ADHD drugs that stripped me of any emotions, turning me into a lifeless drone that did whatever she said. That made her happy so she started giving me the As I was already earning. This also made the school take a special interest in me, and then the staff realized I was a genius because of my 100% on everything I did, and actually had an IQ test arranged.
Some people flew in from NYC to administer the test at the local community center. I tested at an IQ of 184 (age 7) and they took me out of her class and put me into one of the 3rd grade classes immediately. That class was super easy for me too but they didn't care to do more than that. After that I was in GATE, so my grade was still 3rd, then 4th, then 5th, but they were giving me algebra, trig, and other advanced sciences and English and such. Never actually ran into any difficulty in that program though.
Man, that teacher shouldn’t be a teacher at all. I hope you’re okay, did you talk about it to your parents or did they actually notice in later years?
Why did you say your age? Like IQ does not change based on age... OH yeah they did the same for me with the testing thing. I was in 3rd grade. Got up to 10th grade(In English) before a question wrong Lmfao.....
When my littlebrother was like 3 he would watch english videos about the shape, colors, letters and numbers. English is not our native language but he fully understood and would point at different things and name the corlor and shape. When he went to school he was bullied a lot and no one understood him. We later got him iq-tested and he had 146 in iq. Normally you have 90-110 so that is a very very high number. He also have almost always understood our jokes and humor, like since age four. I'm the closet to his age (five years older)
He loves building Lego and is such a fast builder.
I really hope he gets better. He's still having a very low self esteem and doesn't belive in himself😔
The further from average you are, the harder it is. It IS easier to have a higher IQ than a lower one, but it is still difficult. When your IQ is so far above normal, it makes it harder to function. Having an IQ of about 100 (average) is easiest to function with other people. As your brother gets older, it should be easier for him, as in school and work he should end up doing higher level subjects/schools/work, with people more like him. Good luck, God Bless, and Namaste to you and your family.
There was a story by Orson Scott Card (the same guy who wrote Ender's Game) which was initially called Hot Sleep because of how the hibernation drug worked in the story (it was later renamed because the title sounded too much like a porn story).
In the story, one of the protaganists finds the genius / mind reader boy who is the main protaganist by using a program which looks for "any student who has received more than 2 bad reports from their teachers in a year" or something like that.
He tells the boy that he searched for this because geniuses almost always annoy people of normal intelligence. Their egos just can't accept that there's someone smarter than they are, and they react by trying to put down the person who they recognise as being smarter than they are. They often even don't believe that the person is really that smart and use that as their excuse for such discriminatory behaviour.
It's often all too true in real life.
@@atpcliff people with avarage IQ have it just as bad , ive seen people who are dumb abd depressed and ive seen people with a high IQ and depressed , it depends on way more things then IQ , yes IQ is a factor , not the only reason , you said it in such a way as if it is normal to be depressed or bullied because you have a high IQ , its not , its just how the coin fell
@@melkiorwiseman5234not all ''normal intelligence people'' act like what you described . Kids tend to bully what differs from them , dont make it seem as if the world is full of trash , its not . Kid are not wise enough to realise the difference betwenn high IQ and avarage IQ , and they cant and dont know about the fact that life births human with diferent qualitis . Some traits that nature gives you are in this point in time superior to others (2020 , high logical IQ , beauty , charm , leader traits , etc ) . As for the teacher in your story , my dude did you pay attention to this video, pretty much every teacher in the video was happy at seing someone with a brighter future then them , if you didnt mean this , next time tell a story that doenst mean to convey the fact that avarage IQ people treat high IQ people like garbage
@@verigumetin4291 Unfortunately, I write from experience but I accept that my view of reality may be somewhat... coloured... by my experience.
My family knew I was gifted when I managed to learn 7 languages by the age of 8. Two of these languages are dead meaning that less then 100`000 people are able to use them proficiently. And my parents discovered that my German was better then theirs, even on pair with the German guests during a conversation that I casually started with them. It took me years to understand why my parents looked so socked at me, as I was only 8 :P
I taught myself how to read and write at age 3. The only thing I got was bullying in the kindergarten and school. 13 years of horror.
@@AlexandraVioletta Yes i can agree to that part as well.
Yet you don't know calculus, cringe.
These make me happy because the teachers always sound so excited once they figure out how to motivate and support these students. Like, some stories had the teachers jealous of whoever gets to teach the kid the following semester!
I wish we could always get every child the motivation, support, and education they need. Seeing children flourish like that makes me all warm inside. They get to grow into well-adjusted adults able to help boost the following generation.
I generally ask "Will this be on the test" so that I know what to study for/memorize. I am fortunate enough to never really have to study too much for two reasons.
1st: I have a talent to memorize stuff that I hear and see demonstrated, no matter what (except things like code that require more practice than reading or learning) despite being in all Honors classes and in College Prep English in 9th grade
B: I am like an encyclopedia of useless information so I generally know a little bit about most topics people talk about. I know that DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid and I have never really learned that nor have I needed to know (yet)
I can't wait for that question to be asked in Bio :)
(Btw I am in 9th grade for the year 2020-2021, taking Geometry 10th grade class, Biology 10th grade class, Honors US History, and College Prep English lol)
Also I have been called a walking calculator before because of my useless skill to do complex math in my head. So far I have learned Algebra 1 and I can still do most of it in my head pretty easy. I cannot wait to see what I can do next :D
Good luck
@Sarafina Summers yeah the amino acid sequences and A goes to U C to G G to C and T to A I believe
2:42.
Knew a girl that skipped 2 grades. Her younger brother also skipped 2 grades.
I only skipped one.
gifted kid complains about really gifted kid lol
I don't believe that story. This kid in 5th grade said that moving distances without any time having elapsed is teleportation skipped 2 grades. I explained both theories of relativity in 3rd grade science class and got nothing more than praise.
Edit: A letter.
I knew a girl that skipped 2 grades as well, she was best friends with my cousin.
Imagine only skipping 1 grade lol.
I was supposed to skip 2 grades. I never got the letters or anything.
I once thought this kid was a genius because I was in second grade in the same class as him. The teachers would always give us this math worksheet with around forty or fifty questions. Every single time he would finish one or two seconds before me, and I’d finish mine in around twenty seconds (that’s what happens when my dad is a math teacher). I aimed to finish before him one day, and since the two of us were so competitive, we’d often argue on who’s smarter (typical kid stuff) until I saw him writing down half of the answers before we were about to start ;-;
When i was a kid i HATED reading...because they wanted me to read picture books and i just wanted the story. My gram then bought me the british english edition of the first harry potter book and i LOVED it. I got caught reading it in class one time and my teacher took it away, i complained and said "i was reading that, give it back" she laughed and said "no youre not, you hate reading! If youre actually reading it then explain to me what youve read so far." I then proceeded to explain in depth and detail everthing i had read up to that point, which was like halfway through the book, and she just wide eyed stared at me before slowly handing me back the book and said that i could keep reading it, and actually started using it as a bribe to get me to do certain classwork that i found too boring as it was below my level. Other students started getting mad that i didnt have to do hardly any of the english reading and writing classwork and could just read instead, till the teacher pointed out i was reading a book that had no pictures and was a high enough level that adults and high school kids were reading it, and i could understand it easily. I was able to pronounce words id never seen before just by looking at them and was able to pick out the meaning/definition of the word based solely on the context of the sentence. Ive always been very gifted in reading and comprehension as a child, as well as geography (no idea why, i didnt really study it, it just comes to me pretty easily), and by the time i was in 3rd grade i had a college level reading and comprehension understanding. Ive always learned very quickly and have a mild photographic memory when it comes to reading, giving me a sort of encyclopedic knowledge of things. What took other students weeks to learn in class i would learn in about 20 minutes just from reading. I wish they wouldve let me test out in school, id have skipped several grades. Its very hard being in a class that doesnt challenge you any and having to move at the slower pace of your classmates and get nagged at by the teacher for trying to go ahead and teach yourself material from further in the school year or even whole grades ahead of you just to give yourself the challenge. I dont care much for being in school, but i love the challenge of learning new stuff
My family made me think I was the smartest person in my entire country when I was young so I started teaching other persons including older students.
When I started teaching my cousin I understood that I was much more average than I thought, she managed to.dominate what I learned in 10 years in just 2.
I gave up science despite really liking it because my cousin was just that much better and followed all my steps but much much faster.
Now I'm into computer programming and information systems so that I'm not compared whit her.
I still teach her what I know and She don't know, but now she became kinda like I was before, procrastinating, since no one is there to teach her anymore LOLOLOLOLOL.
9:02 I did this when I was in 2nd but only with tens 10x2 10x3 ect I never even thought of expanding it to include more zeroes back then
I love these ones about gifted people. If anyone knows any please recommend them to me.
My mom told me a analogy (prepare for a humble brag) describing really smart people using sports as an analogy.
She said when she met my dad he was a cab driver. She was initially attracted to his voice, but one time they were talking and she had this moment... it felt like they were both watching the same channel on the same TV at the same time, but it was like they were watching completely different games, and it never occurred to him that the thing wasn't obvious.
He would occasionally let slip a detail or pattern in a casual tone, as if it was obvious to anyone watching the same game, and this would keep happening until my mom would just stop because she was trying to figure out how he was Gregory Houseing these really high ideas out of simple premises.
Even when he was wrong about something, its because he had missed a fact, not because his logic was flawed. Maybe he didn't know the exactly how a program managed memory, but if you did the math with the assumed figures he would be spot on. He logicked out the existence of the Bush/911 papers before the MSM reported the "you covered your ass" story. It wasn't like he had skipped to the end of the book, it was like he knew what the writer was thinking.
My spouse and my mom both claim I occasionally give them that "not watching the same ballgame" feeling, but when I get that feeling it mostly comes from people society would consider "stupid" or "deficient"; for that reason I usually take the words of mentally ill people very seriously, because I can't tell from first blush if the person is spouting "alternative facts" or if we are simply looking at the same TV but watching different ball games.
RIP dad, your daughter misses your insight.
Why do you love these videos
@@emperorza5777 motivation, learn something or 2, see what people are capable of,,... many more
Me too
Ilyas Boudelal I am as well, I was just curious on their thoughts
I am a gifted person, so was my dad and my granddad
My grand dad was a very genius accountantant that could solve issues that people took weeks in a single day
My dad was also a genius, but he never studied much besides a bachelors. He would know the whole answers but just write enough to score passing marks and leave, no one was there to guide him
Anyways, he made it big in stock market, became a millionaire and also became bankrupt since someone cheated him.
I personally spent my entire 9th and 10th grade reading dostoyevsky, dan brown, etc. and used to study for just an hour before exams and used to score 80% on average
I can do pretty, graduated in commerce about to give CA finals (kinda like CPA) but since I have ADHD I find it very difficult to concentrate in one particular thing and that's why I never excel academically
All my teachers told me I was too smart to not apply myself, and I always thought I was just full of useless facts that I found interesting and that doesn't make you smart. It makes you a pretty short thesaurus with slightly inaccurate information.
I've only recently realized that I'm not smart at all, I was just abused as a child and sought refuge in useless facts about the world around me. I literally never lived in my own world, because it sucked. That meant never having a ideology bubble, but also now I don't really feel like I have an identity.
3:24 how does grown ass adult teacher need to CALL IN a 5th grade teacher to give them 5th grade work? isn't the teacher smart enough to know 5th grade maths??
They probably called in the 5th grade teacher to give her some 5th grade math worksheets. Faster then making them on your own.
To make it official & have a second or more opinion & observation. Also, you don't usually do above your own scope of task/job unless you opt to upgrade.
@@Rashinnu oh ok
Interesting... The story at around 4:10 parallels my personal situation growing up. I remember being called to principals' office in 1st Grade after Standardized Tests and told I scored at a 6th Grade Level across the board, which was higher than my sister currently in the 4th Grade. The theme continued, and my parents did their best to put me into the best elementary schools they could afford. I did college-level independent reading and language arts assignments in 8th Grade, and also took the SATs that year. We were broke/poor in a rough part of the city, so I went to one of the roughest schools in the state. Got a perfect score on 3 of 4 parts of the ACT. My score lifted the school ACT average by two points from 11 to 13 [national average was 19 at the time]. Teachers and administrators plotted to sabotage me and accused me of things that didn't fit my character. Nonetheless, I was a three-sport athlete, class president, captain of the football team for four years [strongest, most academically accomplished kid in the history of that school]. Got recruited to an elite university and attended one on the East Coast. Excelled academically in college, joined a fraternity, and played Division 1AA Football. That's when my severe depression and history of emotional/family trauma set in. My father was also a genius who dealt with the severe depression of being grossly underpaid due to racial glass-ceiling issues that derailed him his entire life. He took this out on me, and night terrors plagued me into my late 30s until years of therapy and consistent Zen meditation practices allowed me to level out. I needed to force myself to gain full control of my mental faculties, or else it'd be like driving a Ferrari recklessly... Almost became a monk at a point, dealt with massive heartbreaks, failed business ventures, and had a few instances where training in Traditional Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate saved my life... Now I've come full circle and design Science Curriculum for children with Genius IQs in an East Coast school system. High IQ people often have difficult lives and are prone to severe depression and other issues people on the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum deal with if they don't receive assistance. My work in education has saved people's lives, and I want to tell anyone going through a rough spot that all storms are temporary. Circle back to the solution. See it through... You got this...
As a kid who lives in the inner-city/hood, i really do hope i end up with some of the opportunities you ended up with, my life is going on sort of the same track with the tests and false accusations, and the encouragement from my parent to do the best and all.
7:54
Definitely School of Rock. Lol.
First story resonated with me. I found school extremely boring because of the standardised curriculum. I graduated high school just after my 14th birthday, gained my Bachelor in Civil engineering at 17 and my Bachelor in Structural Engineering at 21. Currently working for the Queensland government as a Structural/Civil Engineer befpre i start my masters in Structural Engineering. Anyone can be clever in school, but its after high school is when the real challenge begins. Biggest tip i have to be successful is just use common sense, doesnt matter how intelligent or unintelligent for that matter, common sense trumps intelligence
1:59 this sounds like me... I was reading Harry Potter in kindergarten, and I taught myself how to read at the age of about 3. it took my twin brother until age 6 to be able to read on his own. He's still really smart though! (he's my brother and I love him and don't you dare say otherwise in the comments I will physically fight you.)
u remember when i was younger i got to go to another class with other kids to get books from there cause i was above my grades reading level and read a lot
Otherwise and what
I knew a lot of words as a kid cause of books, Pokemon, and other gamed and anime. XD
So I guess you got an O in reading?
Same goes with me, Mom said I'd often skip class when I was in first grade and was just 4, (skipped kindergarten because kids my age didn't know how to read, so I was a lot younger than my classmates in 1st grade) because I thought the lessons were easy and without a doubt I'd go to the principal's office, because they had books with the full paragraphs and I enjoyed reading books that way (and yes, we do have a library, but it was full with picture books and that didn't satisfy me)
But now, it is very hard for me and I feel very useless, so different from what I was before, if only I could turn back time to the times.
PS. Sorry for my bad english, it isn't my first language.
Damn I tought I was pretty alright, never got a B, learned english fluently in 2 years with a shitty teacher, and learned basic japanese writing, reading, and learned to speak and understand japanese. I can also use ASL. I'm turning 15 this year, but damn, these kids are some next level geniouses
This is really nice to hear god knows we need some wholesome stories
I just get flashbacks to when i was called the "gifted child" during my elementary days. Was an honor student, was my HS valedictorian
It made me happy and I was so proud of myself, It turned into the point where it became my entire personality
It did not end well, i tried so hard to retain that status in my senior HS, I used to understand topics so fast, used to ace exams without too much effort, and then suddenly not anymore
The first time I got the lowest score for an activity in my new senior HS, i broke down and started spiraling, changed schools, i suddenly felt like a phony, a fake
Took me a while to overcome my imposter syndrome but damn, was being labeled a gifted kid in elementary warp my personality so bad
This is textbook gifted kid, the downside of learning everything fast is that when you start to learn something that is actually challenging for you, you will struggle immensely with it because you haven't developed the learning skills to understand it.
2:21 everybody gangsta till the 3 year olds start going to college
The map guy sounds like someone in my class.
When I told my sons first grade teacher that he wasn’t paying attention in class because we’d been doing physics experiments all the previous summer . She then realized he was just bored. He was reading a 7 th grade science book by the end of the year. And was trying to decipher a child’s book written in French by himself. I just handed him a french dictionary and a book on grammar to figure out the verbs. When you get kids that smart you know it before they can talk . I had 2 like that
I feel like I'm one of these kids, Idk why, but I'm almost on top of every class. Something for the people struggling: keep trying, you're in the rough part right now, it'll get easier later on!
i give you points for being confident but being top of your class (i.e, having good grades), does not necessarily equate to intelligence, per se. im not saying that this is never the case, as there are definitely exceptions, but, predominantly, grades are a rather poor metric for human intellect.
@@gassug2 yea, i never studied yet i was passing with straight b's. Only god knows what will happen if I start studying for once..
I have a friend that has a processing speed disorder and during K-12 grade; He wasn't lightning quick and talked slow but always had the correct answer. His thirst for knowledge was/is astounding. We eventually went to the same university and were roommates. This man had a library in is room of high level science and mechanical manuals. He got his doctorate in Micro-Biology in four years while I was working on my B.S degree. I asked him why he didn't skip grades in K-12? His answer, "I didn't want to be a outcast in high school and have a normal life."! I unfairly asked him if he was faking his disorder the whole time. He took a moment to process my line of thinking and said, "No, I'm sorry it seems that way.". He writes painfully slow but can read really heavy content books in hours. Smartest person I know.
I feel as though a lot of the times, the people with the learning difficulties are the smartest
I love the fact these teacher's are so humble at it.
Knowing adults hate to be upped by kids
I mean, last year in math (8th grade, it was a big jump from that to high school teaching for me) , we were doing the volume unit, and all throughout it we had to put a three exponent on the end, or ‘cubed’, to show that it was volume, but one day, we were using the same formula, but calculating the height instead, so I didn’t put the cubed symbol, and it was marked wrong, until I explained why, and I got cheezits cuz apparently she’d never thought of that
Being a genius can be hard from a social perspective. I'm a math prodigy and when I was 7 I was struggling because I couldn't relate to any of my peers so I was left out and socially awkward. At this time I was moved from public school to a gifted children's school. During that time I attended several college courses on mathematics and physics. It was scary because everyone else was grown up and I was just a kid who knew no one. One day as I walked to class a student accidentally hit me in the head with a big globe. Afterward, he was friendly to me, especially since we both could play piano; he was brilliant playing modern contemporary while I was gifted at playing classical. But since I was just a kid he didn't want to hang out with me. That summer my mom went to Florida and to Disney world while I stayed with the founder of the school for gifted children so I could attend the Odyssey of the Mind. It was there that I accidentally upstaged a world- renown math prodigy during a math-Olympics type competition. He resented me for it but eventually we became friends. By the next year I was friends with several gifted kids and I no longer felt isolated and ostracized because of my intelligence.
When did you master calculus?
@@SierNotsruht when I was 2
I was put into a test class to see how well id do in elementary school when I was 6, we start elementary at 7.
I finished the test in 10 minutes and started wandering the hall and the teacher called my mom to have a sit down.. thought I was in trouble or did something wrong.. what apparently happened was that I knew english at my age at a level that was 6th grade and that was unusual and the speed I finished too. Mom asked if I wanted to start school now in a special school and I just said "no, I want to be same age as the other kids"
Note, I knew how to speak conversational english before knowing how to read or write it. Purely picked up from frustration of not being able to read subtitles in movies fast enough.. so I decoded the english language by watching movies and playing video games.
By 6th grade I had gained every bit of knowledge of the english language that I just stopped paying attention in class. It annoyed my english teacher but getting a 100 in every test made sure she did not reprimand me for it. I also was a wiz in the sciences but terrible at math because the methods used did not compute to me. Like solving for a distance a wheel travels in x revolutions with the radius being y. So the solution to me looked like,
distance = (y * Pi2) * X
But that solution was not the one taught so I did not get the points. I simplefied all my solutions and they were all correct.. but not the one the teacher asked to use.. never understood why it mattered.
yeah it seems like all these crappy elementary/middle school teachers wanted us to solve problems the way they taught them, if I can get an answer a different way, let me! Math for me was really easy through like 6th grade, i would say i just "logic'd" my way through it. I was always one for the tried and true guess and check method. Even yesterday i took an alg 2 test and didnt know how to solve these set of 4 problems and after i did everything else i think i got 2-3 of them and guessed on the others before time rang
Math will be so much easier and so much more fun if you teach yourself, I had always been pretty neutral about math until I decided to get ahead and learn algebra a year only, I learned to love math
“Started talking to dead people after that” 💀
When he was in first grade my brother he said "well if I show how smart I am they will make me do more work" he's a little smart ass but refuses to any work
Hahaha, he gets it.
Guess I wasn’t smart, there is so much to learn and so little time to learn it.
I wish I had teachers who gave a crap when I was a child. I entered kindergarten reading at a high school junior level, knew the multiplication tables to 12 X 12, and was doing quadruple digit multiplication. I was so bored by third grade I told my teacher that "I know the material, she know that I know the material so why the hell are you wasting my time forcing me to write it all down on paper." I could finish the timed math tests (5 minutes to do 100 multiplication problems) in less than 2 minutes while the rest of the class never finished half of the test in the allotted time. She was so pissed that I made her look bad that she failed me and forced me to repeat 3rd grade. I had a different teacher the second year but was so bored because no one of my teachers would give me a challenge for school work that I gave up and was never really bothered to care about my grades from then on. I was so pissed at wasting my time that I tested out of my senior year of high school, and went to a trade school for concrete construction and engineering. I started working with my grandfather in demolition after trade school and did well and made great money until I broke my knee and my back at age 27 and have struggled to make a decent living since. I can't stand for longer than 10 minutes, nor can I sit down at a desk for longer than 15 minutes. I am unable to walk more than 100 feet without serious pain so it has been impossible to keep a job for longer than a few weeks. I spent almost 7 years going through the process and was finally declared permanently disabled 5 years ago and I still suffer from severe depression as I can not stand to be sitting around doing nothing but I am trying all that I can do to stay out of a wheelchair. I am in constant pain from my injuries and cannot do much to relieve it as I am allergic to most pain medication and the ones I can take I don't take as much as I should because they are highly addictive and my family is genetically predisposed to addiction. Therefore I make a bottle of 60 which is only supposed to last 30 days last between 60 to 90 days. I once made a bottle of 60 last 113 days. I won't take the pain medication until the pain has kept me awake for over 24 hours because I am too afraid of getting hooked on it.
In my 10th grade chem class the teacher would often ask questions during a lesson, and my hand and the hand of my friend would always go up first. And only the boldest one other person calling his or her bluff would raise theirs seconds after, knowing they dont know the answer. The teacher appreciated that we always knew the answer and always raised our hands, but he would usually tell us to let someone else guess. I guess that it makes sense for other students to learn so they didnt get put on the spot for no reason.
That is when I knew I am something special.
But also, I know roughly 60 digits of pi and can recite them from memory.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592 and the next few digits are fuzzy.
*Rainbow
I only remember 8 digits of pi, but that's because I don't want to remember more. 8 digits is normally enough for practical purposes. I remembered the digits by reciting them in my head while looking at a calculator displaying them. I can't remember exactly when I did that, but it was many long years ago.
@@delanjello that was intentional so shh
@@melkiorwiseman5234 50 digits are sufficient to find the perimeter of a circle the size of the universe to within the width of a hydrogen atom
@@okboing Pi is an irrational number. Once I realised that one-third stops being an irrational number if you express it in base 3 instead of in base 10 (it's 0.1 exactly in base 3), I realised that probably, if you select the correct number base, you could express Pi as a rational number. Unfortunately, I don't know enough mathematics to go any further.
Once a troublemaker in school, my life changed at 11 years old when my teacher caught reading a military engineering study book.. I was quietly surrounded by astonished teachers, they discovered my passion for math way ahead of my age. From then on, my mischief turned into a drive for learning and problem-solving. A true example of how unexpected moments can shape our futures! 📚✨ Up until that point, I was thought to have ADHD and even Dyslexia.. I remember the physics teacher rushing me away to talk to me, he was asking me all sorts of questions making sure I actually understood the formulas in the book, I did and I asked for something more advanced because that was all they had to offer and I was bored of it.
I thought I was smart, scoring A's and B's every year. now i feel dumb
24:32 What a lucky dude to have a parent feel like that...
I hope I find myself on this list
My teachers were always astounded with my level of smort
For the longest time I would tell people the equator is 23232000 feet but it turns out I had the wrong numbers in the math. I still haven't redone the math.
Lmao
Wasn’t a teacher but I had a classmate at London met. We study a animation course with everyone except him having previous experiences with media for at least 3 years. He previously came from a football/Soccer academy with that being said he was the youngest.
We had a end of year assignment were we had to make a full 20 second animation (walking and talking), teacher recommended to use the stop motion technique has it was easier to use. (Keep in mind a high quality animation for professional would usually take months)
He stared at the teacher and said no he’ll do frame by frame because he didn’t want to be like the rest and felt like it will limit his creativity. We laughed, the teacher laughed and said he wouldn’t be able to do even if he was paid a million and given 1 year.
3 weeks later he came in a presented his work, watched a 1 min animation clip that was good enough to be shown on Cartoon Tv shows. From the voice acting to the animation. Ended up getting 100% on his grade. HE HAD 0 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE. Finishing his graduating year early to sign for a professional club.
I would brag about how im 12 but learning almost 10th grade physics, science, technology, and biology, but im lazy.
I’m*
When I was in college, I had a job teaching computer programming to kids; typically 10 to 12 years old. One day I got a new student. He happened to be 5 years old. Not being a parent, I didn't realize how advanced a 5 year old that could read and write was. The first lesson went pretty much as expected for your typical 10 to 12 year old. On the second lesson I was to teach him variables -- which would make or break the person for programming. I had taught it so often, I could almost go into a trance while teaching it. Just before the lesson was supposed to start, my boss said that Brian's dad wanted to watch. I admit that I hated when the parents watched; it always changed the dynamics. I also had no choice.
So I'm in the middle of my spiel of what variables are and how to use them when Brian says "Oh, I get it!" and proceeds to give me the rest of the talk. Brian's father looked at me, looked at Brian, shook his head and walked away. Brilliant kid.
This just brings back memories of me sleeping all the time during school and still getting A's and B's. Lol
Also funny that I got put on a science team to compete with other schools, when in reality I was ahead of my class in mathematics(6th-8th grade) but they put people that miss the simplest question in that team.
I am a teacher, but this is a student I was working with in private tutoring.
I was tutoring him in calculus in 9th grade. This is already extremely impressive. But there were two incidents that I will never forget.
One day when we had some extra time I taught him how to solve systems of linear equation using Gauss-Jordan reduction of matrices. I learned later that he used this process to solve systems of equations in school. A teacher saw him and told him:
"You are one of 5 people in the whole school who knows how to do that, including teachers."
There is one other thing that brings me joy whenever I think about it. I was teaching him integration techniques. I went through the first example of a technique called "u substitution." After that one example I set up the second problem. But he says to me:
"Do we need to do all those steps? Those factors are just chain rule. I could just reverse it." I have never been more impressed and proud of a student in my 15 years teaching college math at community college and university.
Context:
Personally, I have a strong dislike for u sub because it simplifies the integral by about 90%. As a math prodigy (I taught myself calculus 2) I can see how all the pieces fit together and don't need it simified. After doing hundreds of such integrals someone might be able to skip the u sub steps. My brother is a genius with a masters in electrical engineeting, I tried to show him how to skip the u sub steps, but he told me he needed them. This tutoring client is one of only 3
people I have ever met, including myself, who could see though u sub from initial instruction.
This client was one of the few people I have ever met who has the capacity to be a mathematician.
Yeah, that chess story is hard to beleive, unless the person who posted was just truly awful at chess. If you have been playing for years, its almost impossible to lose to even the smartest new player.
or he could be playing chess for years but always loses
who knows
Intelligence isn’t about how smart you are, it’s adaptability and control.
Im in school and Im one of the smartest in my grade (straight a's sometimes 100% or more) and all this is making me feel like an idiot lmao
Elemental Of Dark
“Sometimes 100% or more.”
What?
@@raccoon5019 I mean that sometimes I get over 100% in my classes
@@elementalofdark5555
Lol you seriously think I don't know what you're talking about?
@@raccoon5019 Hey, Im assuming you know how dumb some people can be, I wasnt sure if you were one of em, aint like I know you
@@elementalofdark5555 is 100 the full mark for your subjects ?
Makes you wanna wish that teachers saw all students like this to an extent
Bruh I'll never be as good as them
My best subject is English
In Malaysia
Im ahead , very ahead but then boom 60in everything else.
I'm gonna become a translator
Samalah lol
Only time I studied for an english exam is for my IELTS test lmao.
When I was in second grade and my brother was in kindergarten a family gave him a math book on the third grade level for Christmas. My mother thought it was meant for me but he begged for her to teach him so she taught him using Cheerios and fruit loops. When he was in second grade after finishing a spelling test he asked his teacher, “what’s 100 divided by 1/2?” His teacher replied, “50.” My brother told her the answer was 200. When she put it in the calculator he was right. When I was a junior he joined me in my Trigonometry class, he never did the homework but he passed with flying colors. He was a feshman. The next year he took calculus. The kid is terrifying when it comes to his math knowledge.
Be careful; those who consider themselves smart may be victims of the Dunning-Kruger effect >:D
My nephew has just turned one year old. Since he has been three months his biggest friend has been poetry books. He doesn’t play with toys. He won't even sit down for one minute but if you read poems he will sit there for hours.
I dont know if he is gifted or not. But he sure is smart.
I was in kindergarten doing work and then i started being lazy my teacher asked why i wasnt doing work, i told her "Why have fractions when decimals are more accurate" boosted two grades then went to 1st grade because i was only like 7
My nephew was extremely gifted as a child. He had enough credits to graduate from high school at age 13, graduated from Brown University School of Law at 19, and passed the Bar exam to become an attorney. At 20 he was employed by a Fortune 500 company as a company attorney with a salary of over $500,000 a year. He is now 31 years old and is making an 8 figure salary (over $10 milion dollars) yearly.
To paraphrase the late, great, Robin Williams, "I used to, there was a time when I thought myself smart, but today you have proved me wrong, thank you."
when I was in 5th grade I wasn't put in a math group and instead worked on the curriculum several weeks ahead and made presentations that my teacher then later used to teach the class. In second grade I also reached the end of the phonics reading system my school had and finished the series I was reading with a small group before the teacher did. I was put in the gifted class before they usually let you start and worked with the grade above me. I also was able to surpass most of my classmates in my orchestra in middle school even though I never practiced. Overall my siblings and I are very gifted and have been very blessed to have a teacher as a mom.
I had just moved in from out of state and my first day of class we were given a simple math worksheet. It was supposed to be subtraction but it was poorly printed so I thought it was division. I finished it faster than anyone in my class and I remember being pulled out of the room and all of the 3rd grade teachers convening around me. Ended up scoring in the top 1% of standardized tests throughout school. Now I have an engineering degree from Vanderbilt.
I had a friend in high school who was a math genius. A fucking human calculator, during one semester me and him sat at a table in the front and we answered almost every question during class. He was much smarter then me when it came to math but we were also the best in our class at problem solving. The teacher ended up banning us from answering questions about half way through the semester because we were the only ones who did. We played chess during class and the teacher was fine with that because he didn’t want us answering all the questions not to mention we got our work done. But anyhow he was insane when it came to mental math, I only ever beat him once in chess and that was by luck. Sadly he blew his own brains out and I feel like I’m partially at fault because he always talked to me about stuff that was on his mind and I ended up in the hospital for chemo for a long time. So I feel like if I wasn’t away for so long I would of been able to prevent it. If anything he had the brightest future out of our entire class. I thought he’d grow up to be an engineer or something like that. RIP man, wish we could talk again just one last time. Sorry for the depressing comment.
Did he learn calculus
I once had a student in USN Surface Survival School (19 years old) who fixed a small patrol boat motor. He substituted broken parts with pieces of an old vacuum cleaner. The motor worked and saved us three days of repairs.
When I asked him “Where’d you learn that?” he just shrugged “Made sense I guess.”
He’s now a diving equipment engineer for deep sea divers at NATO.
I really don't understand HOW a FOURTH GRADE KID can teach themselves CALCULUS! I am just graduated high school and barely understand it lol
My son started speaking when he was six months old and was speaking in three languages at one year old.
He used to come with me to my university classes sometimes and my professors loved him. His understanding of the material frequently surpassed my classmates.
Unfortunately, due to a severe neurological condition in his adolescence, he has never been able to make much of his life.
Sadly, there's a difference between good memory and intelligence
Some of these teacher truly loves teaching. ❤️
I used to babysit my two granddaughters because my daughter works nights at the hospital so I'd sit the kids during the day so she could sleep.
So one day I was playing with my 3yr old gdaughter while her 5yr old sister was napping. We were playing with a little spring drive toy car that came in a happy meal; I had set up a ramp using an envelope and some wooden blocks and we were 'ramping' the car off the coffee table into a paper bag set on the floor.
After several attempts and misses she take the envelope and adds another block to change the angle, I asked her what she was doing she very casually tells me: "Since we can't change the velocity of the car, (spring driven toy) we have to change the angle of the trajectory to gain more distance".
To say I was stunned was an understatement, her favorite 'cartoon' was this program called the 'Magic School bus' where they covered all kinds of science and biology, while I thought she just enjoyed the animation she was actually learning stuff that was way over her age bracket.
By the time she was 4yrs old she was reading and even writing her own short stories, she had learned all about the dinosaurs, she could name them and tell you what they ate. She knew about all the planets their composition (what they're made of) size and distance and relative position from earth. She was a whiz in 'anatomy of the human body' knew all the bones and the functions of the various organs.
When she got to first grade the teachers had a difficult time with her because she would constantly interrupt the teacher to tell her the they had omitted some vital fact or other to which the teacher would tell her that she had yet to 'cover that'.
When she got to second grade her teacher set up different learning packets so she could work on her own, she is reading/writing at 10th grade level .
While her older sister is happy playing with toys and arm wrestling with and beating the boys. She asks for books which her mother is only too happy to buy for her, she has memorized the 'elemental table', she is eager to learn about atoms, molecules, and x-rays and CT scans which is what her mother does at the hospital.......
She is eager to learn about most everything and we support her in doing so at her own pace without pushing her (not that we would ever need to). She says she wants to be a 'Veterinary Surgeon' specializing 'Hummingbird surgery' because she has little hands and thinks she could do it well.... She's brilliant but she's still a child. We believe she will do great things in the future, I just hope to live long enough to see it happen....
I used to be a kindergarten English teacher in Taiwan. One 3 year old was already pretty fluent in English and Chinese, lots of kids pick it up pretty quick, but one day he took the week off to go to Japan with his parents. I speak some Japanese, so when he came back I asked him if he learned any Japanese... in Japanese. To which he responded that he learned to say "Hello?" "What is this?" "Good night" and a few other small phrases... all in Japanese. He could also hold a full conversation with me in English and with my boss in Chinese. Also, he was delightful.
I love the one about the kid who was a whizz at chess, but lousy at sport. I was reminded of Mikhail Tal, a former chess world champion. One day his wife got sick - and it was revealed that Tal didn't even know how to make tea.
As someone who has no idea how to swim or ride a bike..... this feels bad.