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[quote=Anonymous]I was on the young end for my grade - August birthday with a September cutoff. I was also gifted, and grew up in a smaller, not well off school district where the “gifted” solution was some combination of more worksheets, skipping a grade, and one half-day a week at a special “gifted class” at another school for grades 3-5 only. My parents sent me on time, and I don’t blame them, because I was independently working on stuff that was way ahead of my peers (I don’t even say that to brag, but to give context - my parents are working-class too. At that point no one on either side of my family had ever graduated from college so they probably thought I was from another planet). But I could have benefited from another year in pre-K. I had a hard time keeping up socially and had few friends. I was also really immature. I was interested in medical textbooks and foreign languages, but couldn’t advocate for myself to do should-be easy stuff like ask the teachers to go to the bathroom outside of bathroom break times. Or say that I wasn’t feeling well and needed to go to the nurse’s office. It was a pretty tough time and eventually I feel like my opinion on school and learning was soured.[/quote]

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