One aspect that people seem to rarely talk about regarding the 'gifted kid' stereotype, is how ingrained it becomes within you to not celebrate your successes. Or even worse, to beat yourself up over getting less than 'excellent'.
You spend your whole time at school keeping to a standard, pushing yourself to not slip because you know your peers are NEVER going to let you forget it if you do. These 'gifted kid' standards becomes an expectation, a constant of your existence. It is tiring. It is traumatising. The constant pressure eventually comes not from your parents or your school. It starts to come from you. Eventually, as a gifted kid, you start to be disppointed with any grade that isn't in the high nineties. You start to only identify your self worthy by the grade on a page. You start to not believe in the worth of anything but that grade - not genuine compliments, not praise from people close to you - just the grade.
One thing us 'gifted kids' need to relearn, and what the rest of society needs to realise, is that being a 'gifted kid' does not negate the work. You put blood, sweat and tears into that final product. It didn't just happen, that essay didn't automatic poof into existence. You worked for it, put your heart and soul into, you strove for it and decided to accept nothing less from yourself except your best effort.
Dedication is not a flaw.
Being gifted does not equate directly to success.
Learn to celebrate your successes because that isn't you keeping to a standard, that is the direct result of all your hard work, so gosh darn it throw yourself a party.
