growing up as a gifted and talented student made me ridiculously ashamed of being wrong. like being wrong about the littlest things makes me want to cry and hate myself and i turn back into the big baby i actually am.
FINALLY SOMEONE PUT THIS INTO WORDS FOR ME
#realizing and accepting that I am a fucking idiot after a childhood of thinking I was brilliant #has been a slow and painful journey
YES
Growing up as a gifted and talented student gave me expectations of success as an adult that really weren’t fair; I feel I was set up for disappointment.
Oh. Hi. Yeah, this happened to me too.
