When did you realize that you are gifted

[Black Rose]

I've gots the ADD. (sad emoticon)

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

I've gots the ADD. (sad emoticon)

add it to your pokedex

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note: I'm poking fun at the concept of diagnosis, not at you

 

[2babylon]

By the time I was 8, I could troubleshoot most PC hardware and software issues and was fixing computers everywhere I went. Standard "old people don't know anything about computers." I was probably better with computers then than I am now because I would just practice and explore, and computers and software used to come with big fat manuals that I would pore over. You had to read over many pages to get a single solution because it seemed to never work perfectly, and you learn so much doing that. Nowadays all you need is Google (and strangely enough many people STILL don't even get that!) and its accessibility has made me lazier.

I didn't think anything of it then because this was just my hobby. My mom worked in IT so I could get lost in the college computer labs of the 90's. But I was typing over 100wpm by the time I was 10, and during that timeframe I was also reading dictionaries for fun. At the same time, I was an AWFUL student with bad grades, but even my honor roll friends would jump on me for help in class and say I was smart, but didn't apply myself in school. Which meant nothing because a C or lower still feels like failure, even if it's arbitrary.

If I knew a kid like myself now, I would be impressed and unsurprised at the poor school performance.

 

[kora]

my budgies are really gifted they know how to open their cage by themseves, sometimes I wake up and they're sitting on the bed like "are u feeding us yet."

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

for a moment i thought higs must have some very interesting buddies :S

 

[Intolerable]

As a child I was in a word: distracted. Teachers punished me for it, my own mother never truly understood it and to this day people think I'm weird for it. It was only later when I met more people and grew a larger social network that I found people who appreciated it.

It's not quite a comatose state. Just being so withdrawn that to people on the outside looking in I'm in a trance. The reality is I'm just devoting all my energy to thought over something which may or may not be relevant to the outside world. Then it all comes spiraling out at once which does the observer no favors.

But if I had to put a finger on when I realized I had gifts was when I was a very young boy and drawn to comic book art. I could very easily follow the work of someone 20+ years my senior. I knew what chiaroscuro was before I knew the word. I studied things at an atomic level, the parts and how they relate to one another on a body, etc. I did all of this at a very young age and grew so talented that it could have easily been a profession.

It wasn't that Art was my calling. I have always been very good at whatever pulls my eye. That's really the key. The ability to do anything and the desire to do nothing. That should probably be on my tombstone.

 

[ChainsofAssery]

I was at a tutoring center when I was around 6/7. I couldn't read out loud and no one would figure out why. I spent months there, I was a wild child and would do ridiculous things like bite my tutors. Got an IQ test done to try and see if anything else was going on. It came back as high. The head child psychologist, a PhD award winning one at that, told my mom he has never seen any child like me and that I believed I was gifted--but wasn't sure how exactly.

All of my grade school teachers would tell my mom I was "different" or "quirky"(ugh).

I'm not actually sure I am gifted though. Unless being gifted in the art of BS, arguing, and getting lucky counts.

 

[QuickTwist]

I was at a tutoring center when I was around 6/7. I couldn't read out loud and no one would figure out why. I spent months there, I was a wild child and would do ridiculous things like bite my tutors. Got an IQ test done to try and see if anything else was going on. It came back as high. The head child psychologist, a PhD award winning one at that, told my mom he has never seen any child like me and that I believed I was gifted--but wasn't sure how exactly.

All of my grade school teachers would tell my mom I was "different" or "quirky"(ugh).

I'm not actually sure I am gifted though. Unless being gifted in the art of BS, arguing, and getting lucky counts.

Getting lucky def counts. It means you have "it."

 

[TheManBeyond]

When she still wanted more after four in a row
And next day she talked about wedding

Its crazy the amount of one night lovers that want me forever
Then after 2 months or so it goes away, I got used to it. Perhaps its smth common so im actually not gifted
And I'm not talking about that
I'm talking about the magic

 

[AndyC]

When I took Ritalin, I learned about this thing called focus and my world changed.

 

[ChainsofAssery]

Getting lucky def counts. It means you have "it."

Huh thanks. I think my intuition is smarter than I am; it does all the work. While my conscious self is quite the airhead.

 

[baccheion]

I've never realized how gifted I am, though as I got older, I began to realize just how dumb everyone else really is. The more time that went by, the dumber they would seem (they got older, but stayed the same or got even dumber).

I've always aspired to learn more, be better, invent, innovate, etc, but there was always something or someone getting in the way.

I'm into nootropics now, and I'm figuring some combination of them (N-acetyl semax amidate + P21) will put the final piece in place. That said, I also magically went insane (though I say I'm a Targeted Individual) 6+ years ago just I was once again ready to go.

 

[QuickTwist]

I agree with baccheion. Its not even that I am smart. Its just that I notice how stupid everyone around me is.

 

[Valentas]

I was best in my school and suspected that being good at stuff means I might stand out among my peers.

Then I went to university and met a bunch of people who are as smart and even exponentially smarter than me.

Since then, having my ego bruised, I accepted that in the end, the world has a lot of smarter people than me and I am grateful for being among moderate minority of people with regards to intellect.

 

[Ex-User (14663)]

My ego got fed way beyond any healthy dosage in elementary school.

 

[cezette]

I always had the uncanny ability to correctly judge and analyze a person's character accordingly within a few seconds of meeting them. Most of the time I don't even have to meet them, I can just tell "who" they are from the text that appears under their usernames. I believe its my super-observant & hypercritical nature that leads me to see people in this light. With a few exceptions I can't much remember, I am right in all of these judgments.

My favorite part is peeling the outer layers of people's characters & testing their limits just to see if I was right in my first impressions of them.

I also have "visions", if you will, of certain events or things that usually relates to my personal life. I have a thing with predicting deaths of famous people but I think it's just a mere coincidence. I am not into fantastical or esoteric thinking.

I'm pretty good at learning multiple subjects and taking in knowledge of them at once and emerging myself in the study. Yeah.

I don't think it's exceptional or particularly gifted but just one of the few things I'm not extremely pessimistic about myself for once.

 

[ZenRaiden]

I dont know exactly what you mean by gifted, but I did see few text that suggested higher giftedness in INTPs. I assume that means IQ or learning skills in academical settings.

The fact is I am rather average INTP. I have IQ of 98 and memory that needs lot of focus and work to actually have any results. So if I want to learn something I have to think hard and long before it commits to my memory. I have intuition, but so do other types. I do have the patience do think about trivial things though.

I think that the word gifted is a good word. Its a gift from nature or god and thats all. Whether you take some responsability to turn into something of value is always up to you.
I dont think all people do. Many dont and thats sad.

 

[BurnedOut]

So i guess its more like a trend to be called as smarts but not test themselves due to the apprehensions they have about their intelligence.


To be honest, when i was 11 months old, i knew what the keyboard keys did. Started using the PC when i was 1.5-2 years and i have a happy married pc life. Better than the relationships I've had. Im extremely hungry for intellectual stimulation. Ive been tested high on every IQ test i have given.I used to be very scared of IQ tests earlier. My friends and teachers have been calling me smart (the ones I've been close with) but the fact remains. I still do not feel smart enough for myself despite of my skill set. I still feel Im not intelligent no matter how much reassurance i get. This is not because i like validation but more likely of a belief that i simply think a little bit more naturally and that i have the same giftedness as the other. Nevertheless, I find myself foraging for articles on high iq xD FYI, Im an INTP too