I was the gifted kid who burned out at sixteen and now I am thirty-two working retail and my parents still ask when I am going to live up to my potential like it is not a knife in my chest every time.
More people experience this than they realize.
Early intellectual identity has calcified into a prison of unmet expectations and shame.
“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.