honestly the whole thing around gifted children in america is so weird to me

it’s a mixture of parents desperate to see their children making it under neoliberalism (especially through gifted programs) and psychologists having a really hard time setting boundaries between the ordinary and the exceptional (while being financially incentivized to make those boundaries even murkier)

that said, there’s always time. just because the person went through the gifted child into underachieving adult pipeline doesn’t mean they have to stop there