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   Anne of Green Cables (anneofgreencables@noc.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 01:15:40 JST Anne of Green Cables

   The education I received as a former #gifted kid:

   "Let's stimulate your already exaggerated intellect and ignore the known underdeveloped parts of you."

   What I feel would have been more helpful from this vantage point much later in life:

   "Here's how to build rapport with people you have nothing common with."

   "Here's how to relate socially to children your own age."

   "Do this hard thing unrelated to your talents and be OK with it being somewhat imperfect."

   (Learned these all the long way)

   • Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Anne of Green Cables (anneofgreencables@noc.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 01:15:40 JST Anne of Green Cables

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     I think this boils down to 2 topics:

     How to be confidently different
     How to fail successfully

     I have actually taken gifted education certs in the past when I taught middle school and high school long ago, and 1) we know these things, they're given lip service in training and we know them from our own experience, and 2) no one seems to actually incorporate them into real lesson plans. It veers too far into the social realm but it's sorely needed, just like concentration and relationship skills.