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Confessions From Former Gifted Kids

1. I was labeled gifted and talented in school way back. Most adults would tell me that I am very gifted and intelligent. I was given fine opportunities in art, music and business. I thought that I could do anything very quickly and efficiently. I also have ADHD and ASD.

I got into a pretty good university at 20 years old. During the second year I started falling behind. I was quite heavily bullied in school so I started to get socially anxious. I ultimately dropped out after 4 years. I started smoking weed to my anxiety and depression not understanding that it made everything worse.

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Living With Perfect Recall: A Gift, A Burden, and Everything Between

I do not remember a time before remembering.

My earliest memory is not a moment or a place, but a page. I was five, sounding out the words in Goodnight Moon, and as soon as I reached the end, the pages were simply there. Not as images exactly, but as something I could turn over in my mind with the same clarity as turning the physical page. It did not feel special. It felt like the way reading was supposed to feel.

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24 People Reveal the Subtle Sign That Someone Is Very Intelligent

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1. When they take the time to filter through any possible misunderstandings in an argument by asking questions to help them better understand the idea that’s being presented, instead of immediately assuming their first interpretation of the argument is the correct one. Something that’s always bugged me is when my argument gets misunderstood and then attacked from angles where supposed “errors” exist, when those errors rose out of the listener’s own misinterpretation.

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A Raw, Honest Look at Life With a Low IQ

I do not remember the exact moment I realized I was not like everyone else. It was not one big moment. It was dozens of small moments that accumulated over the years until they became impossible to ignore. A teacher giving me a confused look. A classmate sighing with impatience. The way everyone else seemed to instantly understand things that made my mind freeze. Not just a feeling of not getting it, but a feeling that my brain could not form the pathway to understand it. Like trying to grasp smoke.

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What It Actually Feels Like to Lose Touch With Reality

The strangest part about losing your mind is that you don’t feel like you’ve lost anything. If anything, you feel like you’ve finally found the thread that has been tugging at the back of your consciousness your entire life. When psychosis comes for me, it doesn’t announce itself with some dramatic cinematic collapse. It arrives quietly—like a shift in the weather. A small off-ness in the air. A sense that something is “different,” that symbols mean more than they should, that strangers are glancing at me because they know. For a few days, I can still tell something is wrong. I’ll even say it out loud sometimes: “Something feels off. Something is happening.” But the people around me can’t see the machinery turning inside my head yet. It’s all internal at first.

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19 People Reveal the Moment They Realized They Married the Wrong Person

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1. “On the wedding day…. She spent a fortune on unnecessary things, and I knew I’d be the one fitting the bill on the credit card she ran up. So I told her no more, she said she wanted an ice cream vendor there (we already had two dessert bars) told her it was not needed. She fought me on it but finally agreed. Wedding day comes, I’m standing with my groomsmen, in comes the ice cream truck. Knew right then, sadly.”

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15 Parents With Children Who No Longer Speak To Them Reveal Their Side of the Story

Children Who No Longer Speak To Them

1. My kids still speak to me, but not much. I’m better than I was, but I was a crap parent. Poverty was part of it. Hooking up with the wrong men, just to have a little more income, or not to pay for child care. Bed chemical decisions. I got myself cleaned up, got out of debt, got rid of the guy who was harassing my boy, and acting like the girl (our kid together ) could do no wrong.

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5 People Who Revived a Dead-bedroom Reveal How They Did It

1. My wife and I went over a year without. It was rough. Neither one of us were communicating what we needed, and ended up resenting the other. The key factor here was communication. Once we opened up and acknowledged what the other needed, things have been much better all around. It’s not easy to fix, but like most problems, talking to the other person is the only way.

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