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  • Rated by bustajox on Oct 09, 12:51am

    Gifted or cursed?

  • Reviewed by clytie on Oct 04, 8:40pm

    "I think I would be drastically more open to the concept of intellectual giftedness if nearly all the anonymous internet people who happened to review this page did not claim the title for themselves."Nothing more need be said.

  • Rated by MoogleFan on Oct 04, 5:44pm

    This is quite interesting!

  • Rated by rockum37 on Aug 20, 4:28pm

    From the page: "In such depression, gifted children typically try to find some sense of meaning, some anchor point which they can grasp to pull themselves out of the mire of "unfairness." Often, though, the more they try to pull themselves out, the more they become acutely aware that their life is finite and brief, that they are alone and are only one very small organism in a quite large world, and that there is a frightening freedom regarding how one chooses to live one's life. It is at this point that they question life's meaning and ask, "Is this all there is to life? Is there not ultimate meaning? Does life only have meaning if I give it meaning? I am a small, insignificant organism who is alone in an absurd, arbitrary and capricious world where my life can have little impact, and then I die. Is this all there is?" Such concerns are not too surprising in thoughtful adults who are going through mid-life crises. However, it is a matter of great concern when these existential questions are foremost in the mind of a twelve or fifteen year old. Such existential depressions deserve careful attention, since they can be precursors to suicide." Me and everyone I ever liked as a kid.

  • Rated by ComradeSnarky07 on Aug 20, 12:41pm

    This is very true.

  • Rated by TCSMaine on Jun 02, 6:17pm

    From the page: "When gifted children try to share these concerns with others, they are usually met with reactions ranging from puzzlement to hostility. They discover that others, particularly of their age, clearly do not share these concerns, but instead are focused on more concrete issues and on fitting in with others' expectations. Often by even first grade, these youngsters, particularly the more highly gifted ones, feel isolated from their peers and perhaps from their families as they find that others are not prepared to discuss such weighty concerns." Speaking as a man who has cared for children for 5 years and counting, this really rings true. It's sad to see the gifted ones give up.

  • Reviewed by mysticalspork on May 30, 6:19pm

    I think I would be drastically more open to the concept of intellectual giftedness if nearly all the anonymous internet people who happened to review this page did not claim the title for themselves.

  • Rated by Xybob on May 03 2009, 5:29am

    Honestly, with the amount of people talking about how they're so happy now or how they were so apathetic "back then" makes me yearn for more creative liars. I was called gifted and took classes 4 or 5 grades ahead of me during middle and elementary school, and have been experiencing this since the age of 8 or 9. Not to say that I have no room for improvement, (I mean, please, I'm only 13) but I feel no anger towards anyone outside of my views. I believe that I have the clarity of mind along with the amount of intelligence to see past the outside of people and look into what they could become. To anyone saying that gifted people hate other people because the other people aren't gifted, you're giving us a bad name. Or at least me. Being mean doesn't help the world and therefore is nearly obsolete in my mind for it solely deprives the earth of better thoughts. I'm sure that nobody on this page who wrote a review insulting someone has anything nice to say other than what was stated. I don't dislike people because they're mean or because they're not like me, I dislike some because they refuse to change. The fact that the ignorance of most of the people on this page causes them to waste the time reviewing a page only to bash it blows my mind. If you were gifted, you were gifted. Making other people feel bad won't influence the past. Adults surprise me at times like this when they act superior while being completely malevolent for no reason. I may be stereotyping, there are some genuinely nice adults, but I shouldn't have to be mentioning them out of a group of so many opposites. Dont you have anything better to do?

  • Rated by Ravenor on Mar 22 2009, 7:31pm

    The notion of 'gifted' children irks me no end. And really, who doesn't get the odd bout of existential depression? It is important for people to realise they are in no way special, that they have no inherent value, and this just gives people another way to think themselves possessed of a complexity and personality they don't really have.

  • Reviewed by iamsomejerk on Mar 22 2009, 10:26am

    i have to align with SarahMelecki - pretty much summarized my teen age punk rock, lsd laced years of disconnection.