Anxiety and the G:2E Child

[@Diverse_Interests]

Some of the worst bullying I ever experienced came from teachers and often teachers have an angry approach towards giftedness especially in relation to not wanting it to be real or any differences to matter. Even now as an adult I have to hide because it makes people feel threatened or bad about themselves and most come to the conclusion that no such thing exists and giftedness is just people wanting to better than others. It doesn’t matter about what word is used for naming people , the associated feelings will be exactly the same. The worst is being outed in the work place as the bullying can be severe and combined with intent to use the person as a sort of magic wand to get promoted. There is very little out there for gifted adults and it is like they stop being gifted as soon as they are adults.

[@M-dv1yj]

Your seeing things from your perspective and your and outlier. Your not seeing your situation from the view of the human organism. Which does not care about your mind but humanity breeding in many senses. The mind of the human organism is made up of its constituents which are all way slower than your. But to them any deviation from the expected might lead to doom unless it’s been socially accepted as that is how they find indication something is safe and therefore acceptable. The more deviations you are from the norm the worse that gets. You are literally a threat to them in ways only they can perceive. It is sorry to say dumb entitlement that you would expect anything else. Bar forced increase of the general population iq this will always be our struggle. They see your smarts as a resource to extract toward their small views. It’s why the smartest of us often don’t do what we think they could and would. They are siphoned off into nothingness by a world that only sees them as a resource and not even see what they can we can really offer. By adult hood your are supposed to be contributing then dying not building and conditioning as such they stopped caring about your merits of mind. Well not stop caring they can not see what it means for you or them or us all. They just react to pre conditioned stimulus and reject anything t strange which means new and often smarter. We are lucky the world has grown enough to only ignore and use us some. In the past we were murdered for speaking what we saw and thought. Out simply being alive and in their space is bullying them. 🤷🏽‍♂️ We are bound by their limits in this social construct that sustains us.

[@Diverse_Interests]

@@M-dv1yj What you said helps. The whole idea of be yourself comes with consequence. I tried not hiding and the results were terrible when it came to other people. Everything different is taken as a threat even if there is no intent or interests in harm. I can tell you being yourself fully is a joy, it’s just not the right environment for being out numbered. Workplaces in adulthood are worse for bullying. I wish I had someone tell me this earlier. Here, in. This environment, people will seek to take your work and simultaneously discredit you and have you unable to continue in your field. Any difference in problem solving or creativity is crushed and claimed for promotion. There is a total misunderstanding and it is centred around people to edit out what doesn’t fit their conception of reality that lets them believe they are obtaining goals or getting more for themselves or their closest people. It is all “more for me” and “lose nothing” mentality and done in zero sum gaming. You can be kind, you can be true, you can still be not a zero sum gamer, but you have to be be highly selective of who knows you as you are and who is able to be close to you. It is true and sad, that the first to be murdered in political power changes are the gifted people because they would speak against what creates worse situations and is unjust. Killed first because the reasoning and care can bring out the best in others and unite them. Taken from the gene pool permanently, it is/was such a loss to humanity. Reason enough to focus on building one’s own group of loved ones to fight for, rather than dying for people who never cared. It is so harsh, but in the end all of the NTs look after themselves first, and do better for it. It’s ugly, but is the reality of the majority. It’s not even personal.

[@Idellphany]

This is so helpful, thank you

[@WingZeroDuality]

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[@michaelvandenheuvel317]

I’m tired of waiting