was anyone else here bullshitted into being told that you were a prodigy when younger?

[overthrone]

i'm seeing a pattern that people will tell their average kids that they're "prodigies" and "gifted" when they're actually just slightly above the norm. Did anyone else have this experience?

I remember being told in 2nd grade and upwards that I was gifted in writing, I bought it. Then, in 8th grade, in a writing competition, I didn't even make top 50. Shattered me.

 

[itsgone2]

I was always picked for gifted groups but then would be weakest one. Not sure why I was picked tbh. Except math. I was a top performer in my state. But otherwise kind of dumb.

 

[starboy2k]

parents who do this shit are definitely setting their offspring up for failure.
they yearn to live vicariously through the children they have no business having…..if they feel like their children are "gifted", then they will feel "gifted" by proxy.
that's such a pathetic way to raise kids, but that never stops them.

 

[overthrone]

I was always picked for gifted groups but then would be weakest one. Not sure why I was picked tbh. Except math. I was a top performer in my state. But otherwise kind of dumb.

Yeah. Another problem with that is that people seem to think "good at one thing = good at everything"