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Smart kids often have a tough time in school, but smart kids w/ learning disabilities, cognitive or behavioral eccentricities have to contend w/ a system that bundles them into a category defined by deficiency, expects little of them, forces their attention onto self-suppression
John Holt, speaking about children considered cognitively deficient: "They must lead lives something like the heroes of stories of impersonation, who, pretending to be someone else, must continually remember to walk, talk, whistle, sing, scratch, move a certain way, always..."
Ultimately — here's the tragedy — very few kids spend much time around adults who want them to be their best. They spend quite a lot of time, perhaps all of it, around adults who want them to be "normal," defined quite narrowly.
Imagine what your life would be like if everyone around you expected you to behave exactly like a typical 6-year-old girl in all things, at all times, with failure eliciting looks of concern & horror. Imagine trying to think through anything properly while holding that mask up.
It should obviously be easier for an adult to pretend to be a big child than for a child to pretend to be a little adult, and yet it's not difficult to see how much cognition & attention that task would continuously drain. To fail is to be seen as dumb, to succeed is to *be* dumb
...and then requires them to be medicated because they can't self regulate. So proud of ourselves as we disrupt (Insert legacy ____ here) And yet, it's our Post-Industrialized education system that needs the most disruption of all. Irony surrounds.
As a kid with severe dyslexia but still considered "gifted", it was a lonely way to grow up. Very weird mixed messages. No matter if I was in the gifted class or in the learning lab, I was the weirdo. On the plus side it taught that trial and error, not IQ,, is what matters.
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