To be clear, the shrink did not help. What helped was finally graduating and leaving child-prison. For me, moving forward in adulthood required breaking a pattern where my motivation just stalled out for anything labeled "work," mostly by doing lots of weird, interesting jobs
Ugh. Too relatable. Never had access to a gifted program, but had a shrink by 14. I can't even remember when I started just phoning it in, and it's taken most of my adult life to learn how to stop. https://twitter.com/sknthla/status/988848219898642432 …
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I'd like to see a follow-up longitudinal study to see if youthful excess of existential angst turns into a better adult grasp of perspective, helped along by the giftedness coming up with more creative lenses with which to turn nihilistic ugliness into stoic rainbows.
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