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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
If you were "gifted and talented" in elementary school and then burn out when you get to high school/college, maybe you just weren't actually gifted and talented.
gpt
Nah, the label itself is problematic. No matter how gifted, you will eventually face challenges and struggle. If you think being gifted is a personality, then there is a lot of pressure to perform and challenges you face conflict with the identity of being gifted. If I find something really hard to do academically, maybe im not gifted. Really easy to burnout that way. I wasn't really labeled as gifted in school (outside of high reading ability), but had friends who were and saw them hit this same wall.