19 Adults Who Were "Gifted Kids" Are Revealing How "Accelerated" Programs Impacted Them In The Long Haul
November 21, 2025
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“Oooof. I was a high-achieving perfectionist child because my home life was trash. I was actively being traumatized at home, and the only way I knew how to cope was to do exceptionally well at school. This came with very little effort on my end. I was naturally good at test-taking. Then I got to college and realized I never learned how to study, realized that my parents abused me…





