Like, I kinda have a hard time believing that basically everyone online used to be "gifted kids" tbh. It just doesn't line up with what I saw when I was young. There's a lot of people who were dumb as kids, myself included, but I never see anyone ever admit to that online and it makes me wonder if it's just taboo on the internet to admit you weren't always smart.
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in reply to @Exameter's post:
personally, when I was in fifth grade and they had us do the uh... Accelerated Reader program where you would read books and get quizzed on them.
I tested at a college level of reading, and I was constantly in books. Hell, even in high school I got yelled at for reading my copy of Paolini's finale book, Inheritance, and I had all sorts of TOR scifi books i was pickin up to read as well.
...there were two separate adolescent attempts to write a novel.
I frequented library sales for a while, before everything caught up to me, and the amount I read tapered off greatly.
I think this is a thing where the people you're running into most often online are gay nerds who might've had adhd or autism and thus got placed into that "gifted/talented" program because that's... definitely a lot of people I know nowadays, the burnouts from "you have so much potential, why can't you do the work, you're so smart!!!!"
Lately, I try to read more, to get back into it after falling off hard. I've got a few for beach reads if i wanna take the bus to cocoa beach and sun a bit. I read the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report recently for... i wouldn't call it "fun," more "enrichment."
People probably like to mythologize themselves a bit, maybe remember themselves reading more than they actually did... but I suspect this effect is mostly just selection bias at play.
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