POV: your hour on the family computer

Why the fuck would you do this? That’s so fucking embarrassing.

New graffiti spot at least.

1) Bald eagle

2) German fairytale castle

3) Is he rubbing lotion on his hands?

4) Please tell me you're not paying someone who typed a mural prompt. Please tell me you at least understand that the whole argued point of AI is that "anyone can make this shit."

5) ...Is this whole article AI?

Why would the article be AI?

me when i see an alcoholic: this is just like disco elysium.

me when i see misogyny: this is just like revolutionary girl utena.

me when i see a large goat in a trench coat and hat walk up to the counter at the gas station on its hind legs and order cigarettes: woah

we seriously need to have a conversation about how evil, slow, and lifeless january is

no mondays in the cambrian era

How effective is ur ✨ offline analog digital detox ✨ if u record every second of it for youtube content. Ur still performing for the internet u fuckin goofball!!!!!!!

This is all part of the problem and i feel like i cant find the words to describe how obnoxious i find this and why

I can't explain it but it all feels like this

Hey, former gifted kids? Stop holding onto that label.

I’m so glad that a key part of your identity is that you used to be better than everyone else. Congratulations! It sounds more than a little arrogant.

I understand that there are particular ways you were failed by the school system, and that they ignored your disabilities until you no longer could. That is awful. But you still choose to call yourself “gifted.” Better. You should stop doing that.

The door to the time where you were “special” is never opening again, yet you choose to stunt your growth as an individual and never choose something else to incorporate into your sense of self. The door to the rest of your life is still open. Stop clawing after the one time you felt superior to others, your childhood, and learn to find pride in yourself.

I am not asking you to something easy. I am asking you to do something that will challenge you, that will make you feel stupid a million million times before you can look back and say you made it. But your life is yours to live. Choosing to spend it in the mausoleum of the accomplishments you had while 7 years old and slightly ahead in mathematics surely can’t be what you want.

The door is open and nobody is going to strike you. You will not be hurt, though it will hurt. Learn to be a person. Not just “gifted.” Not just better.

This thread is really unkind. Rude, even. And it speaks more to the way the op sees gifted kids, not gifted kids themselves.

Look at the core claim:

• If you were a gifted kid or called yourself a former gifted kid, you're arrogant and stunted and never learned how to be a real person. You've just coasted by on the sense of superiority it gave you.

And the op's suggestion:

• Don't talk about your childhood experiences again, just get over it and try to be a normal person like everyone else.

The only thing that makes it sound reasonable at first glance is that it's talking about gifted kids, making their experiences sound like endless privilege and arrogance. Even though listening to people talk about the programs they went through you'll hear stories that range from academic abuse to massive imposter syndrome, to being unable to socialize in a healthy way because of how they were isolated from their peers.

This thread implies that gifted kids were/are arrogant, that they've been stunted by the experience, and that they just need to get over themselves and stop acting superior to everyone else.

You've heard this argument before:

"Participation trophies have made kids arrogant and stunted, wanting handouts for everything."

Sure, you can find a former gifted kid that's arrogant and stunted, but you can say that about literally any group of people. When you start describing an entire group of people that have a different life experience from your own as arrogant or conceited, you're probably telling people more about how you see the world than the people you're trying to describe.

Here's what it comes down to:

None of what the op has claimed is true. She's giving you her opinion and her opinion of gifted kids is pretty poor. I don't think she was being cruel, I don't think this is a super shitty thing to do, but it's still wrong and it's still unkind.

Some people were former gifted kids, subjected to intense pressure, expected to perform, punished when they didn't, and abandoned when they weren't able to meet someone else's expectations.

It doesn't mean they were arrogant. It just means they had a different traumatic upbringing than other people did. Deal with it.

I kind of think you mostly read the first two parts and extrapolated the rest of what I said. I’m not saying any of those things.

I’m also a former gifted kid. I’m speaking from my own experience.

What I’m trying to say is that you can’t define yourself by that sort of upbringing. And there’s reasons for this:

• You are doing yourself a disservice by continuing to shape your identity around the way you were treated growing up. Clinging to the idea that you were supposed to be special is going to be damaging to your ability to continue to grow as a person.
• There are other kids, ones that didn’t grow up with the label “gifted,” that got mistreated the same way you did. The “special needs” kids; the kids whose parents demanded to know why they couldn’t be what you were growing up; and many others crushed by expectations that were impossible to meet. The thing that you all had in common was being neurodivergent. Neurodivergent children are failed systemically at all levels of education. It’s not just you. That might come off as an attack, but it’s both true and should be empowering, I think. There’s nothing particularly different about you compared to them. You just tested well.

Like I said, I am speaking from experience. I was raised basically to fill a specific task for The Family; everything that came after was in service of that.

I needed to learn how to be a person, not just a functional object for my parents to parade around. So should anyone else with that kind of trauma.

There’s no reason to cling to an old accolade or label you got while you were a child. You need become yourself, not those expectations that young, neurodivergent you could never fulfill.

(And yes, it does come off as arrogant to others. I’ve been the special needs kid and gifted; it very much does sound like that to others. I was likely a bit rude about how I conveyed that, though.)

I didn't have to extrapolate, everything is in your initial posts for everyone to read. You're talking to former gifted kids and telling them all that they were arrogant and that holding onto their status of being a former gifted kid is stunting their growth.

And now you've clarified your position. You were in a gifted program yourself and you believe these things because this is how you've processed being a former gifted kid. That's what I mean by saying that posts like these tell us more about you than they do the people you're talking about.

But your experience isn't everyone's experience. Your sentiment is a good one, you want to share your experience to help others, but you didn't actually do that. You just assumed that every former gifted kid feels the way you do, and needed to be told that they were arrogant and conceited and that they needed to do something hard and learn to be a real person.

And that's a lot of assumption that you shouldn't make if you want to help people. You shouldn't assume that other gifted kids were arrogant or were seen as arrogant, that they had a stunted development. Because that is what you're doing.

Your experiences can be helpful for people who processed things like you did, but to every other former gifted kid, you're basically just telling them they're an asshole. Because you're treating your experience as the experience.

"So should anyone else with that kind of trauma."

This is what I mean. This is your assumption talking. People don't come out the same because your traumas are similar. We can develop all kinds of different coping mechanisms and survival strategies to deal with trauma. So you can't assume other people lived through this the way you did.

Because they didn't. They all had their own paths.

Maybe you can help people who were on a similar track to yours, but you can't do that if you're talking about it like your experience is universal.

When you say that they hold onto that label to make themselves feel superior to other people, that's what you're doing. You're projecting what you had to work through onto other people when you don't know what their life was like.

It's just like your comments about being neurodivergent. Sure, it isn't an attack, but it's extremely dismissive. You're telling a lot of people what they experienced, that they came out wrong, and that they were arrogant and ignored how special needs kids went through the same thing. And you're holding up your own experience as proof that this is what they went through. But your experience isn't universal.

Like I said, I don't think you're being terrible in saying this, but your thread is you talking about your own issues, not other people. The part that makes it unkind and rude is that you're projecting that onto other people.

People you don't know, people who lived a different life from you, people who may not need someone else telling them they were arrogant and superior because they got put in some special classes in school.

Hey prev why are you talking to op like she's a child thats pretty fucking arrogant and rude.

Asking someone to not stereotype people and universalize their own experiences isn't rude or arrogant, it's just normal adult human behavior.

You may want to revisit what you think arrogance and rudeness is, if you think asking someone to not be arrogant and rude is in and of itself arrogant and rude.

You have woefully misinterpreted OPs argument and been nothing but condescending and infantilizing while doing so. I see no point in engaging with you on the points you have made because others have done so better and you have just continued to misinterpret them and box at shadows.

But I will ask you: why are you doing this? You have been deeply hurtful to a woman I love. Is that what you want? Does it bring you joy to belittle people who are trying to argue in good faith?

They’re probably not the ‘formal gifted kid/peaked in highschool’ person they’re making themselves out to be as they clearly have poor to no reading comprehension.

Hey, former gifted kids? Stop holding onto that label.

I’m so glad that a key part of your identity is that you used to be better than everyone else. Congratulations! It sounds more than a little arrogant.

I understand that there are particular ways you were failed by the school system, and that they ignored your disabilities until you no longer could. That is awful. But you still choose to call yourself “gifted.” Better. You should stop doing that.

The door to the time where you were “special” is never opening again, yet you choose to stunt your growth as an individual and never choose something else to incorporate into your sense of self. The door to the rest of your life is still open. Stop clawing after the one time you felt superior to others, your childhood, and learn to find pride in yourself.

I am not asking you to something easy. I am asking you to do something that will challenge you, that will make you feel stupid a million million times before you can look back and say you made it. But your life is yours to live. Choosing to spend it in the mausoleum of the accomplishments you had while 7 years old and slightly ahead in mathematics surely can’t be what you want.

The door is open and nobody is going to strike you. You will not be hurt, though it will hurt. Learn to be a person. Not just “gifted.” Not just better.

For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things "secret good finale" conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock "secret good episode" thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.

The stranger things finale is going to drop on Martin Luther King Jr Day because Stranger Things embodies the values of MLK

Close enough. Welcome back Johnlock truthers!

The subreddit also has a 60 page masterdoc of all their evidence, if anyone wants to archive that for the inevitable youtube video that's going to be made.

we poppin the BIGGEST bottles when Secret Good Finale happens in half an hour!

something something about v1 being able to play music like how the terminals can whenever it needs to or wants to

songs in order: were you foolin, katamari

a classic gamer

There's construction (well, mostly destruction) going on next door and I have turned into menwatchingworkers.jpg for highs like these.