The gifted kid âDISCOURSEâ is one of the wildest of the relatively harmless effects of Tumblr being so impossible to use for non Americans bc like⌠I and many other people might have reblogged a couple vent/support post coming from the mindset that âgifted kidâ just means âgood to exceptional gradesâ so all it meant was you didnât have to put much effort and people bragged about it and had unhealthily high expectations for you, and MAYBE some kids are encouraged to focus there and disregard fun/social development/hobbies but for me that came from an independent source.
THEN accusations of âyouâre not gifted youâre just white and richâ pop out and ok on one hand the social factors definitely influences who gets good grades but thatâs really not relevant here. THEN It turns out these people have a point actually bc there are gifted kids PROGRAMMES and SEPARATE CLASSES and his started right as school where started to get desegregated.
And I wonât comment on the effects of having this kind of programmes on the institutional level NOW independently of the original purpose bc itâs out of my experience and of my field of study. But it does give me this hilarious-guilty feeling to think I was like âa yeah a nightmare isnât itâ to so many posts detailing a - specific, structural! - social issue when I was thinking âah it sucks i struggle to focus if I donât immediately excel and I still feel like my parents are bummed I didnât go to med schoolâ.
So what I was gonna say is: itâs okay if the personal isnât political for you sometimes, itâs okay if your âpoliticalâ doesnât align with most peopleâs on a cultural standpoint, but maybe itâs better for everyoneâs sanity to make your own posts about this bc heaven knows what the fuck op means when he uses those apparently commonplace words and itâs probably not what youâre thinking and itâs nice to not invalidate people without wanting to and also not to get called racist.
