So I was labelled highly gifted as a child,

[Anonymous]

I have to laugh. If I had a dime for every time I heard that I may be gifted but I have NO common sense, I'd be a wealthy woman. Stuff that comes easy to other people, the stuff of life... I struggle with. My major was in Finance, I can do spreadsheets and financial analysis with my eyes closed. Do you think I can balance my freakin' checkbook? No, I no longer even bother to attempt it.

I try to give my HG son a pass on his ability to multi-task, as well as his common sense quotient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was labelled highly gifted as a child, and today I was baking 25 cupcakes for my kid's school party and just flipped the whole darn lot of them upside down!

I swear, if they had been testing me for manual dexterity (or orienteering for that matter), I would have been in the "special ed" class!

Don't flame me, but neither you nor the OP can spell labeled...

Sorry, I just couldn't help it!

I'm not flaming you, BUT you should maybe check these things before correcting others.

Labelled is an accepted variant spelling for labeled. See here:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labeled

and here

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labeled

[Anonymous]

I was also labelllled highly gifted as a child, and was in gifted classes. Because of that, my parents pushed me into making career choices I didn't want. I wanted to be an artist, but they steered me away from that. "People as smart as you don't become artists, they become doctors or lawyers." So, I'm not a doctor or a lawyer, but I'm in a career I hate. I feel too old to start over and move to a creative career, so I satisfy that urge with artsy projects in my spare time. But I'd much rather be doing something I like for a career.

No only can the gifted types be lacking in common sense, it's certainly no guarantee of future career happiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was also labelllled highly gifted as a child, and was in gifted classes. Because of that, my parents pushed me into making career choices I didn't want. I wanted to be an artist, but they steered me away from that. "People as smart as you don't become artists, they become doctors or lawyers." So, I'm not a doctor or a lawyer, but I'm in a career I hate. I feel too old to start over and move to a creative career, so I satisfy that urge with artsy projects in my spare time. But I'd much rather be doing something I like for a career.

No only can the gifted types be lacking in common sense, it's certainly no guarantee of future career happiness.

That's interesting. I was pushed towards the arts because I was too "weird" for other stuff.

[Anonymous]

I was gifted and left-handed. Can you imagine what was expected of me!? My art teacher never let up on me for a minute in two years of high school. I loved him dearly, but it was a case of mistaken identity, imo.

Was anyone else an underachiever? I only got into what I liked. If it didn't interest me, I was a total boat anchor. For this reason, I *loved* college. My HS was a TJ-like magnet school in the midwest, and was just like college in the latitude given to kids to pick their own classes and teachers. I also cut classes regularly, and was a pro at working the system to never get caught skipping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they used to say that breastfeeding raises kids' IQs? If so, where exactly do you think they are getting those IQ points FROM? I think each kid cost me 10 points....

LOL! I totally relate. Unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

and now instead of helping society with my oh-so-mighty brain, I waste all my time on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and now instead of helping society with my oh-so-mighty brain, I waste all my time on DCUM.

Wait, DCUM doesn't count as society? Oh, crumb.