• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      exactly. way too many people here conflate being told they were smart in kindergarten with that they should have won a noble prize or something.

      It’s nothing more that egotistical delusion. They also totally forget… that their teachers/parents were simple wrong. I used to get all this ‘gifted’ praize when I was a kid… but I never really believed it because I knew most adults were morons. I realized my own parents were idiots when I was like 6, one of my earliest memories and I learned to never trust their commentary about me or the world.

      I never met a halfway smart adult into high school, and never met a legit intelligent one until college.