smart kid

I'm fourteen and I've been in a really weird situation my entire life. I don't know what to do. — trigger warning for sensitive content such as abuse (only financial abuse is really explicitly stated), alcoholism, s icidality (in the past, censoring in case it gets the post removed or something)?…

I was going to be incredible — I was such a smart kid. A gifted child, kind and clever and great at academics. Everyone said I was going to change the world. I could have done so much. Instead I am thirty and I am frozen with terr…

Just feel so disappointed in myself all the time — I just can't help being so disappointed and sad about myself all the time. I constantly feel like I've been a disappointment, and that no matter what I do, I won't be able to escape that, and I'll end…

Parents failed to realize I had ADHD — Part of me doesn’t fully blame them because I realize it was out of pure ignorance. Part of me does blame them cuz why couldn’t you have been a little more observant and educated?! I started strugglin…

burnout gifted kid guilt, from resurfaced trauma — I used to be a really smart kid. In my childhood, I was in many gifted programs, and I even got into a very nice high school for a biomedical science scholarship. I had a 4.0, I constantly did extra c…

When everyone around you knows the narcissist is wrong but keeps pushing you to forgive them — Growing up, my father was never affectionate or close to me. We rarely talked, and he never let me make my own decisions. He criticized everything about me, my grades (even though I was a smart kid), …

My mother read TONS of parenting books. Basically anything, she could get her hands on. They were all displayed on the bookshelf as well. "Terrible 2s" "Your teenager should be coached and not raise…

It sucks when you’re a smart kid who gets branded as “mature” and everybody expects you to just sort yourself out. It’s like you’re being punished for trying your best to survive while all the adults …

What city in iowa? You're a smart kid.

Yesss exactly!!! It's a pressure to constantly being seen as the "smart kid" but you're right I should take my time and not speed up the process. Thank you so much!

when you picture where you want to be, is it actually that school and that path? Or is it the feeling of being that smart kid who was going to change the world? Because if it's the feeling, there's mo…

I definitely hear that first one. We did standardized testing every year and I always scored PHS (Post High School, which was the highest score) so I guess they figured they had a smart kid. I would t…

Oh this. Got pushed ahead, then discarded to the fistfight class until they remarried. New district tested me and now I'm 3rd in my grade. Support? No, I'm just supposed to become Valedictorian agains…

I'm highly allergic to cats. i have an asthmatic reaction so breathing can be questionable. A few years back my parents got two cats. When I expressed hesitancy and coming my mom had "forgotten" my a…

Maybe you were just a smart kid who got deeply into his projects? My nephew was very bright and he could spend a day making a cardboard box into a spaceship with masking tape and string--huge things …

Can relate. The "You're  a smart kid, figure it out!" To "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Pipeline is real. 

First, you cannot control other people. Not sure if therapy is available as widely as other places, but therapy does help if you find a good therapist. You are a smart kid, if you cannot find a good…

Forced to go into math classes way beyond my ability level (because being the smart kid was the only personality trait they cared to cultivate in me), and then punishing me for bad grades. I was beggi…