i love how every year someone tweets this same thing again, and then a new screenshot of the new tweet circulates….
i still don’t understand the point of screenshotting a tweet….
its text, just copy the text.
how many millions of pounds of coal are burned, wasted on sending a .jpg of a couple dozen words?

I’m a former gifted child, and I can honestly say I somewhat redeemed myself. Wasted my 20s with undiagnosed ADHD and bipolar, spent my 30s getting diagnosed and medicated, and changing my hated career by going to grad school, and now in my 40s I own a business in an industry I truly enjoy. Most importantly, I’m happy.

Moral of the story: sometimes things get better with age, and it’s never too late to start.

My thing is there are levels of gifted. In regular classes I was A/B cut in accelerated I was B/C. I used to joke with another nerdy friend in college that it felt like the class would look at us for answers like. All right poindexter whats the answer and we were always looking like. We don’t have the highest grades in this class???

Donald Westlake used this idea in a short story, seems vaguely applicable.

Wear all black, with a black balaclava. Get a pair of black safety goggles and a shatterproof mirror. Glue the mirror to the goggles, low enough so you can see over it.

When people look at you they see their own reflection.

Congratulations, you’re the ugliest person at the party!