please not again for the love of godhttps://twitter.com/Khoshtistic/status/1257533195689607169 …
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gifted kid discourse is gonna be my joker moment i think. im gonna go full fuck these millennial snowflakes on this shit
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i think it's far more interesting to ask what might be other reasons a whole generation of ppl feel burned out & somewhat purposeless, and why we let them all believe it's bc their mom called them smart once
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My two least favorite Twitter things are gifted kid and "Asians who absorbed other cultures because they sought social validation are BAD and I am MORE ENLIGHTENED" discourse
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oh man second one is a whole can of worms lol
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It is eery. always exculpatory, never reflective.
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i just don't get why everything always has to come down to the same thing! like everything in the thread — it's not bad that your parents called you smart, parent-child relationships do naturally change, have you considered literally any other causes
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Capitalism (‘flexible’ work, consumer culture, glorification of the hustle) and therapy culture where suffering/pain is subject to treatment rather than embraced
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I do think reducing that discussion down to “being called smart” often is problematic, but the whole performance of calling kids smart overall is still not the best move imo
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I don’t think that’s possible in the US. I think you would need to live somewhere with a higher floor. A lack of significant commercial success in the US generally = misery and insecurity.
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