Teachers, what is your "This Student is SO SMART... IT'S SCARY" Story? - Reddit Podcast

[@amithegenius]

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[@nancysmith2874]

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[@juliashireen6195]

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[@samsammmmmmmmmmmm9693]

Every story mentioned in this video is every asian parent's dream

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

as a filipino american, this is so true

[@ash07892]

My stepdad's half Japanese, can confirm

[@volllollpsxd5978]

Nah in their eyes they are still failiures because their cousin bobby did all of that when they were 9 and had 15 years of work experience when they were 10

[@dimitrescu182]

Don't ever let them hear these stories.

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

@@dimitrescu182 they're going to ask anyway. So it's better to let them hear/read about it first.

[@douglasw9624]

Lucky to have smart kids in very different ways. One was a little freaky. By middle school he knew the car (make model color) and license plate number of every one of his teachers from 1st to 6th grade. Once when walking through a room he noticed a slight flicker on the ceiling...so faint that no one else would likely notice. He climbed on a rail next to the door to look out the window and saw that the cover on a neighbors boat had caught fire (discarded cig). Called for me and I ran across the street and put it out. Neighbor was so grateful that he bought him a little pair of binoculars. Lastly when in middle school his grandparents passed away. I was in charge of settling matters and was talking to the wife about the value of their van. I stated I wish I knew what they paid for it and he spoke up giving the price down the the cents. I looked at him incredulously and asked how he knew that and he said that the price sheet was in a pocket on the back of the drivers seat and he read it often.

[@MsSavagechef]

Obviously a born genius. I wonder what he is like now as an adult?

[@douglasw9624]

@@MsSavagechef Still smart as hell and very intuitive. But more that that...he is a great person who really looks and listens to people.

[@iMrp1]

Sounds like good memorization and awareness.

[@serpentinious7745]

That sounds a lot like Asperger's Syndrome. I recommend taking him to a therapist for a professional evaluation. Knowing will not only help you direct his studies and overcome inherent challenges, but it will also make him eligible for financial aid in college. I'm an Aspie myself (diagnosed at 16), and learning the reason for my peculiarities changed my life for the better. Plus, the financial aid allowed me to complete college without any loans.

[@douglasw9624]

@@serpentinious7745 I dont think Aspie perhaps mild adhd. I know several folks with Aspie and he is nothing like...besides he is an adult now. He did well in school...certainly better than I ha ha. Glad you are getting what you need. Best

[@jessicabixler1658]

My daughter at 6 mos when I went to teach her baby signs just said the words instead. 5 word sentences and count to 20 by 18ms. Cut her toys hair before I even realized she knew what a sicsors was. Took 1.5 years to potty train that girl who pretened she didn't know what to do....she would talk "baby" to teachers at church when she wanted to ignore them and they would be surprised when we picked her up and she addressed us in full clear sentences.

[@gh05tparkourfreerunning31]

Could speak in 5 word sentences and count to 20 after 18 milliseconds of being born? Impressive! (I know it's supposed to be months)

[@shayanadavis4554]

That's so funny about the church nursery!

[@shieldgenerator7]

@@shayanadavis4554 "i dont want to talk to you so ill pretend to be a baby" xD

[@MsSavagechef]

Clever girl! I don't remember anyone talking baby talk to me and I didn't do that either to my girls. Maybe that's why they were and are so high verbal. Got a bit of attitude when my eldest and I were shopping for books when she was a toddler and I spoke to her about her books as though she were an adult, and the teenage boy clerk sneered at me. The look on his face when she replied to me in the same manner made my day. Silly boy should not have been selling books, obviously.

[@MIDNIGHT__MEDIA]

Cool kids and all but I feel stupid right now 😂

[@collinbeal]

I'm not so smart it's scary, but I saw a video from a psychologist here on KZbin that really resonated with me. He explained how "gifted" children are special needs due to how they don't learn the methodology to studying early and then struggle later on. It brought me back to my high school math classes, where I was required to show my work but was so used to completely visualising and solving the problem in my own head that I wasn't able to. I got in a lot of trouble for that and was constantly getting bad grades due to the grading criteria. I struggled a lot in school in general past 5th grade, graduating high school with a GPA of 2.64. I think a large part of that was unaddressed mental illness and being in an abusive home environment, but it didn't help that I had no motivation to do homework, couldn't take notes, and didn't know how to study. Only one teacher ever really pushed me, my fourth-grade teacher. She noted my interest in reading and had me read a new book every week for class. I wish I had an education that better catered to my needs, but I didn't ever get the help I needed because I did passably well at school and scored in the 100th percentile on standardized tests. It heartens me to hear these stories of teachers going the extra mile to push their students despite them not conforming to the curricula. I wish my education was the same, but I was treated as a nuisance rather than someone who needed help. I spent half of sixth grade in in-school suspension. No child left behind is sound practice, but the public school system needs to also account for those who need more of a challenge to succeed as well. I'm sure that if I had been challenged more when I effortlessly succeeded, it wouldn't have been so hard on me later in life. Being told, "I know what you're capable of. I've seen your test scores. You'd be able to score well if you just applied yourself," is no substitute to helping someone succeed, yet that was the line that I was told several times a year throughout my schooling.

[@joshportal2808]

The problem is how schools are set up. If you are a genius in a specific topic/ class, the system will use all it’s resources to get you passed the BS. If you are bad a that specific subject the school system throws you into the disability classes even if you are above average. I could read since I was 6 but I could not spell or write well. I was also poor at selected school activities. I was marked as a child with Autism/ Asperger‘s. Ironically I was good at almost all subjects if it didn’t fall into a specific group most grades were too focused on. I had straight A’s from 4th grade to 8th grade, every year had a “special education English” class. All my Tiers of knowledge would seem to look like Genius or prodigy except for writing and speaking vocabulary. In High school I would get an A in every subject except reading and Writing class. What was really annoying was I was kept in the special learning for English and writing and normal classes for everything else. In the other subjects my teacher protestant me to be moved to an advanced or more difficulty class. But the system held me back. I was in algebra class and could do it all in my head, could not on paper. Spanish class and history was like everything was in front of me but no one saw it. I still remember the standardized test that made extra steps to hold me back. Every year there was a state ran test you had to take, if you failed it you were either held back a year or took summer classes until you passed it. All 4 years of high school the same thing. 4 subjects Reading, writing, Math, and history or Science. I would get a 100% on math, History, and Science but get a 60 to 70% on reading and writing. Go to summer school, forced to take Math with English even though I always got a 100 on math test, and then pass the writing and English with a 75% in summer. For Senior year they gave the graduation test early in the year and I actually passed everything but the school said otherwise for the state records until the end of the year. I think the thing that said it all was that the school had everyone to take the SAT’s and ACT’s 2 times each. I would do poorly on English and writing but be one of the 5 students that got perfect scores in Math. Just to make the school look smarter they would not give mine results and 2 other students results. At least college was easy and the smartphone finally came out. Everything that technically held me back in public school is replaced with the abilities to understand and use a smartphone.

[@fernandofor98]

Nice, Dr K

[@PyroNine9]

I'll bet if any of those teachers or administrators was subjected to 12 years of nothing but circle the shape that doesn't belong worksheets, they would lose interest and the ability to concentrate on it in a year or two as well.

[@daboss640]

Yeah, there isn't really much support for people way above the curriculum level. I was the same way, always able to visualize the problems and do them in my head. Even though I was in all the advanced classes, it still felt like they were teaching the same thing for weeks. I was always sleeping or doodling, and never had any books out, but I was pretty much a straight A student, so my teachers didn't really bother me. Luckily, I was mostly able to substitute my total lack of study skills with my ability to teach myself material at university. Unfortunately, I ended up dropping out after 3rd year because the student loan fucked me over, and were withholding the money because they kept losing documents and forcing me to re-mail them; then wait 2 weeks to find out they either didn't get it or are missing something else that they definitely received with the application. It took 3 months to get it, and that was only because I made a big scene at the physical location and forced them to take them despite their insistence that it had to be mailed. Never again. TLDR: Canada's student loan services are trash

[@Just1Nora]

I think I watched the same video and I had testing with disability services in college because my grandpa was reported to be dyslexic, they probably found out when he was in the military, but I didn't receive help in any but one class in primary or secondary education, public school for kids, and it was Pre-calculus Honors my junior year, high school year 3 of 4. So I get testing done in college and not only do I have dyslexia, but have reading comprehension issues (state testing always said that come to think of it), learning delays, and it actually said I was behind my peers intellectually! Thing is this was my 3rd or 4th yr of 5 yrs of college and that 3rd year of high school pre-calc was the last time I'd done any math classes, and the evaluator FORGOT TO BRING ME A FRIGGIN CALCULATOR! No using phones! I just looked at the page with log, sine, cosine, tan, and a bunch of number sets on it and it was like, "Work this out manually." Because most people took calculus freshman year...I took some sort of ass-backwards logic class with the rest of the art majors because it didn't require numbers and it juuuust covered our math credit. Yay art. Only the kid who never made any sense was any good in that class. I'm sorry, but if you tell me to prove that blue cows live on the moon and the grass is green are both true facts...I can't FRIGGIN do it! It's not true! But in that dumbass class it was! Ugh. Almost felt I'd have been better off 4 yrs later jumping into the icy pool of calculus. It may have had imaginary numbers, but at least the rules made fudgin sense! After that I did end up getting time and a half to take my tests in the quiet little testing center, usually before my classmates. The stress was so much lower knowing I had time to read and re-read. And I found out last year I've got inattentive adhd and my psychiatrist just said I do have traits of autism (I really see it looking back...) so yeah, fun things to discover in your 30s and wonder if your life could have been so much better with proper accommodations.

[@allysonlamba2960]

My son is 12 now but since about 4 hes been fixated on space, quantum physics, microbiology , immunology and lego. I did chemisty and biology at university level and never learnt anything like what this kid knows and drops facts about every day.

[@JackieOwl94]

You sound like my mom when I was little. She read from the encyclopedia to help me fall asleep when I was young, and I got so frustrated with her not reading certain books that I taught myself to read at 4. Some kids are just total geeks like that. Keep encouraging it!

[@SuperTux20]

Get him a copy of Outer Wilds, I bet he'll love the quantum phenomena in that game

[@Runivis]

Systematic learning is never as effective as passion-based learning.

[@muridtahmatgnas2184]

The times are now old man

[@joshportal2808]

I am going to list off a few books your son should read before or during High school. Your child is either going to be on the top of the school’s hierarchy and bored or the bottom of the system and also bored. The education system has an annoying bias on study and focus. It is hard to find a school or at least a teacher that will bring the challenge. In no particular order here are the books: (1) Breath, The New Science of a lost art by James Nestor (2) World War Z by Max Brooks (3) Starry Messenger, Comic Perspectives on Civilizations by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (4) Parallel Worlds by Michigan Kaku (5) Proof!, How the World Became Geometrical by Amir Alexander (6) Will Save The Galaxy For Food by Yahtzee Croshaw (7) Fear of a Black Universe and Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander (8) Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky (9) The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars (10) Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[@JackieOwl94]

I was one of those thing but with biology and animal husbandry in particular. When I was 9, I had no prior real-world experience as a farmhand, but I attended a camp with an animal husbandry course. I ended up telling the counselor about the skeletal features of horses, how horses don’t throw up, and asking about various vitamin and mineral content of feed for the goats and rabbits. She ended up training me to take her place 7 years later when I turned 16 and was hired on as a counselor myself and was the only head counselor under the age of 21, my first year working there. And I was the only one who could calm the goat who liked the headbutt everyone to the ground. I also scared my counselors and parents as a kid by picking up snakes and scorpions, mimicking my idol Steve Irwin. They had no idea that I vetted all the animals I grabbed to ensure they were non-venomous. Only the director noticed when he asked if I knew what I was picking up, and I mentioned the species by common and Latin name. Would have been a wildlife veterinarian but I didn’t have the college grades for it due to mental health issues.

[@lydiat5819]

It must be tough on you being super smart because of the childishness of your peers while the adults don't take you seriously. If only the society knows how to provide a more condusive environment for you ... but then we are not smart enough so we don't know how, sigh ...

[@djcrobo2877]

Hmmmm. Very interesting. I can attest to this being an issue in life. Mental health issues, family drama and crisis. Interrupting every facet of your life. Every step forward is soon joined with 5 steps back. I'm still trying to figure things out and find out where I can thrive. Sucks cuz I'm running out of time in the mental capacity. And being trying to find a specific therapist through my health insurance since last late September, so about 5 months now. And dealing with the mental health department of my insurance only made things worse by how difficult it was to even get the basic level of guidance I was looking for. Eventually working my way up to a manager to speak with and explain what I had gone through in order to try and get the help I was looking for and needed. She realized how bad it was, and put in 2 formal complaints, as she agreed that was on their end, as I had mentioned not only was I, the patient paying the price but there are many others that have this insurance probably having the same issues. About 5 months later, this still haven't found a therapist that meets my parameters. I know what I need and want, and I'm not gonna settle for less.

[@comparatorclock]

Why is it that grades for getting into college for a degree mean literally EVERYTHING for anything that is interesting? Why must government impose a broken system on the populace, and expect them to perform? It's honestly quite sad, and I wish that the education system (as is) is seriously revamped so as to be more conducive to actual learning about that which is genuinely interesting to kids on a case-by-case basis. Maybe some sort of mentorship system wherein professionals who have mastered specific disciplines can take kids under their wing as apprentices? I don't know for certain what a good system is for certain though.

[@KRYMauL]

Why not work for the Fish and Wildlife?

[@KRYMauL]

@@comparatorclock I mean you can get into a college with a low GPA, say 2.0.

[@ElvisPresleyTouchedMe]

From experience as a teacher; almost all of these stories that don’t state it, are kids who are probably also on the ASD spectrum. Ppl always view it like a RainMan thing, doing the Math. I had an 11yo who was 90% non-verbal but basically invented a new form of pointillism in Art club. At parent teacher night his guardians bragged about how he studied Architectural Design with a university professor every weekend. I tried to explain how that was further evidence. I was teaching in a country where any disability is considered taboo. I don’t know if he didn’t come back next year because they took my advice & found a better school for him, or if they removed him coz I’d offended them. Wherever you are & whatever you’re doing Totti, I wish you the best. Again…no offence, but high functioning in a specific field is one of the big signs.

[@tinakerr8163]

Agreed and teachers need to help them with areas that are harder for their particular flavour of spectrum, being different makes the a target for bullies.

[@msairs]

So now genius is a mental disorder huh. Lol

[@ElvisPresleyTouchedMe]

@@msairs Way to misread/misunderstand a comment & pole vault to conclusions. Lemme guess…never taught a lesson? Zero qualifications in education and/or psychiatry/psychology. But you’re gonna be a smug jackass? Feel free to lie in your reply 🤷‍♂️

[@warrxnt]

Maybe in some of them, but some kids just pick stuff up quicker or with different materials. Or, simply they are just really intelligent. being on the spectrum is not a problem, but assuming every gifted kid is, isn't a kind sentiment.

[@ElvisPresleyTouchedMe]

@@warrxnt Like I said to the last person (who since deleted their comment); I was very specifically & unequivocally talking about children excelling in ONLY one area. Accompanied by other behaviours. Nowhere in the teeniest tiniest manner did I say smart = ASD. Not once, you can check. But you & the chucklefuck who deleted did 🤔

[@tomowens7301]

My ex wife's son was on the verge of being put in a school for troubled kids, was far behind his peers, and was being bullied by other students when I came into the picture. He watched some programs about the theory of time travel, Steven Hawkins theory's, shows about dinosaurs, and others. He was able to understand, grasp, and explain a lot of what he had seen.I realized this kid wasn't as dumb as everyone was making him out to be. We moved school districts and I started working with him and the teachers, and he started excelling quickly. His worst enemy was his own mother. She was convinced that he could not learn, or do any work just because she couldn't understand the work to help him at home. I felt bad for him when his mother and I split up, and it seems he is selling himself short like his mother. But I tried my best to help him and give him the confidence in life to succeed, I just hope one day he can see how his mother's attitude about life has and will hinder him before it is too late.

[@danielmichalski94]

Yup. That's quite common problem - if not for my stubborness and bloody thirst for freakin' revenge on everyone I wouldn't have any chances to succeed in life. I was a gifted child, I was reading and writing fluently when I was five, I could do maths years ahead in comparison to my friends, I had terrifyingly good memory. Everyone around told me to learn subjects in school, to have only best grades, abused me mentally when I would fail, and when I was drawing detailed machines and ways to assemble them irl, I was told to stop wasting my time. I had nobody to learn from. Nobody. Everyone treated me as an asset, a monkey for creating good grades, not a human being with passion, interests. KZbin, and creators like Colin Furze, Peter Sripol, Wintergathan, 8-bit guy, Cody's Lab, NileRed have helped me. I've recently graduated an mechanical engineering degree and I'm starting masters degree about Automation and Robotics.

[@tomowens7301]

@@danielmichalski94 my parents were very hard and pushed me to hard at times too. I am glad you are successful in a field you enjoy. I try not to worry about the grades themselves with my daughter's. Just whether or not they are doing their best, or if they need extra help learning a subject. I just tell them to strive for excellence in all they do, and it's ok to fail ( not fail a class but in life itself). Failure is the best teacher, and when you fail you try again.

[@Motion-man455]

@@danielmichalski94 What's wrong with revenge well yeah i agree you gotta ask urself questions on if taking revenge will hinder your success and ect but there's different ways to take revenge.

[@danielmichalski94]

@@Motion-man455 by revenge I mean to choose best way to show people around me, that they were wrong about my dreams. I decided to take my life route and to show everyone, that I am right, not them.

[@m2goofy760]

This is not an uncommon problem with single mothers. They are typically single for a reason...

[@ACZor86]

Had a niece who just ... never had to learn to read? I don't really know how to explain it any other way. She just instantly understood letters and sounds from (I assume) educational cartoons she watched at 3 or 4, and just ... got it? She was reading street signs and billboards before she started preschool. Sometimes she'd have to ask you what words were, but only after she tried to sound them out (logically accurately, mind you, just not accurate in English.) I remember her riding in the car seat saying, "What is that word? H after P is a weird sound to make ... Pa-har-macy?" And I said, "Oh, that's Pharmacy. The P and the H together make the F sound." She thought for a second, said, "Hmm, that's weird. Almost like the waste of a perfectly good letter." (lol) And I never recall her ever getting stuck on the PH sound again. Kid was reading Harry Potter at age 6 and finding grammar errors in textbooks at age 12. Sadly she passed away at 13, but no doubt she would've been a world class editor.

[@bouboulroz]

Did her parents used to read her bedtime stories ? Because I remember learning by remembering what my parents said for each page, then going back to look at the words alone and try to deduce which were which.

[@SilentHotdog28]

I'm sorry for your loss, she was a genius.

[@parisgreen4600]

They raised a good point about reading - just because you're smart enough to understand the words, doesn't mean you are necessarily mature enough to deal with the content.

[@ciousli]

This was when I was a 10 year old kid in school. I was always really bad at drawing and also had horrible handwriting. Since it was apparently a big problem for my new teacher, I had to do special art assignments once a week after class, like writing some letters a hundred times or copy drawing. One day my teacher wanted me to copy draw a painting called "the falling angel" by Marc Chagall. I clearly remember how I thought that it'd be impossible for me to do this. I was only allowed to leave after either finishing the assignment or 1 hour passed. I went into full self pity mode, started crying and thought I was mentally challenged since I'm the only kid in the world who isn't able to draw well. Then a rush of creativity hit me and I started to daydream about some weird story which took place in the painting. I started to write it down on another paper. I was so absorbed into the story that I completely forgot about everything until my teacher reentered the classroom. He looked at what I was doing and immediately became furious because I hadn't even started drawing. He took the paper I was writing on and then didnt say a word for the next minute or so while he read it. His demeanor changed and he asked me, if I had copied that from somewhere. I told him no and that I had come up with it by myself after being inspired by the drawing. He nodded and then let me go home early. Turns out, the story I had written was even more shit than my handwriting and the teacher thought there was no more reason to invest any more time or energy in me since I was even stupider than he had initially assumed. To this day my handwriting is still very bad and my 4 year old niece draws better pictures than I ever could. The end.

[@Motion-man455]

Thas your strong imagination,School and modern life be against that but use it man.

[@LordSeal7]

The plotwist

[@ITSTIMETOSAYGOODBYE]

same except for I have decent art skills i can draw shoulders better than I can write "Uh, Suma-luma-duma you assumin' im human?"

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

As a piano teacher I had an 11yo student who could seamlessly switch hands while playing, like in the middle of a song without losing speed or accuracy. So he'd go from playing in the conventional manner to having his hands crossed, playing the top/treble/right hand section with his left, and the bottom/bass/left section with his right hand. He could do this on rather complex pieces too, sometimes even on new pieces, without significant time to practice. I honestly don't think I could do that anywhere near as well/easily, and I've been playing for over 2 decades. Truly blew me away. His parents seemed to just think it was a fun little gimmick, but they don't play piano, so I don't think they fully understand why this is so impressive.

[@butter_is_holding_on]

I'm a student teacher (I do art for the younger students in my school once a month) there's this girl in my class whos orginal language isnt english and is quiet (for a 6 year old). Her English was SO good and more fluent then mine, my first language is English and I am also older then her. She got the art project we were doing that other kids were struggling with INSTANTLY. I love my kids, all my kids. But shes so impressive.

[@Dark_Tesla]

The story about the 18 month old speaking clearly is a similar story to mine. I was born 2 weeks late, and depressed. My mother thought it affected my development because I would only cry but never laugh, never spoke, no baby babble or anything. But at 9 months or so when I first spoke, it was a full sentence, “No don’t do it” in proper context only, not just mimicry. Soon after that, as I learned new words I kept using new sentences all in proper context, at terrifyingly alarming rate for my mother to the point where I made adults extremely uncomfortable, and linguistically kept pace with toddlers as an infant. Today I write newspaper columns, have a full draft of a novel, and won multiple poetry awards in college.

[@AS-ng5pi]

I love how they got all my teachers to respond. Pretty incredible.

[@ethanfrench9111]

As an Autistic kid who had a lot of time on his hand, I read a ton of Science/National Geographic/Mechanics magazines that my grandmother had on her dusty bookshelf as early as four years old. It was (and still is) a fascinating set of topics I love to learn about. I remember talking about things that, at the time, we’re very new to science in general like particle physics, black hole theory, studies about animal consciousness, ect. Things a first grader really shouldn’t know. In first grade, I struggled with math for that year before it just clicked. I went from struggling to understand basic multiplication to suddenly having it click into place and doing exponents, graphing, and probability functions. My grandparents soon passed and I remember shutting down and just not trying at school anymore. I regret that so much nowadays. I could have been so much more gifted than I know I am now. My fault completely.

[@terminus9897]

It is never too late to keep learning, even if not in the education system.

[@djknit]

There are some really fascinating math channels on KZbin. I would suggest maybe "3 blue 1 brown," but there are many good ones. I think it's a nice easy way to get yourself thinking about math again where you skip the boring stuff and just look at the interesting stuff, and if you want to take it more seriously, there are usually exercises you can try I believe.

[@KRYMauL]

I mean you could probably go into getting a Psychics PH. D.

[@singinwithceline]

I used to watch my previous landlord’s granddaughters. These girls were 1 year old and 5 years old when I met them. They’re cousins and the older girl was being raised by my landlord (her grandmother and grandfather) At 5 years old, this little kid spoke Swahili and English perfectly and attended her private school’s gifted program. Her 1 year old cousin was walking, talking and both girls were very excited to learn ASL. I was teaching my nonverbal roommate at the time. Within one weekend, I taught both these girls the whole alphabet in ASL. By third grade, the oldest had landed herself a scholarship for the year-saving her grandparents $6k in tuition. She’s nine. The scholarship was for academic achievement. I swear that girl’s headed for Harvard one day.

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

I guess I also have my own similar story, in 3rd grade they gave us reading comprehension tests. Afterwards, they selected a few students and gave us a second test. Then they gave a third test to me and one other student. By the end of it all, it was just me, and I had taken multiple of these little test back-to-back. They had my parents come in that afternoon and explained that I had just passed every reading test from 3rd-12th grade (because that's the highest grade in US standard schools). Which was probably the only time my parents ever had to meet with my elementary teachers over good news.

[@collinbeal]

I wish I was comprehensively tested like that instead of the much less useful "you're better at doing stuff than your peers" of standardized testing. It was a real shock to me when my ACT score was in the 96th percentile, since I wasn't used to scoring so low. I did have one of those meetings in high school, though, but it was moreso a "I've never seen math scores this high on this standardized test before" into "you could do so much better in school if you applied yourself". I did get awards every year of elementary school for my reading prowess, but that was just because I did nothing but read.

[@jonathonfrazier6622]

Back in 8th grade the science teacher had a bonus point question on the end of the test. It was name the Great Lakes. I had all but one and couldn't recall it. I looked up at him as he passed by and said " There's a city up north called Flint, what state is that in? He paused a moment and said Michigan. A few moments later he gave me additional extra credit for being clever. Then he pointed it out to the class and said everyone gets Michigan as a freeby.

[@Ariel_thenotsolittlemermaid]

My parents have friends whose son and I are the same age, and we went to kindergarten together. When he turned 4 (shortly before my 4th birthday), I wrote him a birthday card and gave it to him... wrote it with mirrored letters- but I'm left handed so it makes sense. His parents showed mine and my parents were super confused because they didn't teach me how to read & write. Eventually they realized that there was a banner in the kindergarten with the alphabet, and 3 years old me just sat there and taught herself how to read.

[@serpentinious7745]

In college, my programming professor was having us tell him what the next line of code in an algorithm would be as he wrote it on the board. At one point, I sat back in my chair, closed my eyes, and started rattling off line after line of code without stopping or making any mistakes. After about 6 lines worth, I opened my eyes in time to see the professor slowly turn around and look at me like, "What are you?" (I'm an Aspie. I think in code, so coding is easy for me)

[@KRYMauL]

What language? Because is this was sudo it wouldn't be super hard as you could basically write anything.

[@serpentinious7745]

@@KRYMauL Visual Basic

[@arwo1143]

I wrote my bachelors thesis (early childhood education) about the evolutionary and anthropological origin of learning in children (or basically all things with a brain but especially mammals) One of the books mentioned that it only takes roughly 100h for a child to learn math and reading if the kid really wants to and isn’t discouraged by overly “encouraging” or forceful teachers and parents I find it literally painful to see what the educational system is doing to children…..

[@chetatron901]

1:07 bro already has played the level he new exactly what to do

[@thalloutboy]

My younger brother learned to read when he was two years old, before he could even speak. He would pick out the same bedtime story for our mother to read to him for a couple days in a row so he could memorize the story. Once he memorized it, he’d go back to read it the following day and match up words. After doing this for a couple of stories, he had a working vocabulary of words he could read, and he began reverse engineering the words to figure out which letters made which sounds. We never even realized that he did this until years later, when he was in school learning how to read and the teacher realized he already knew all the words.

[@KRYMauL]

That's hilarious. I hope that the teacher handed him some YA novels.

[@angelastumbaugh2870]

Not a teacher, but that type of student. Devoured every book that I could find as a kid. Have Asperger's, but was viewed as a "slow"kid. Found math, some sciences, and most conventional academic boring, but found history, social studies,drama, and creative writing fascinating. Got low grades in always half of my classes, but super expelled in the others. Even with that, my mother would beat me up for my report cards calling me retarded since 3 years old. Now at 44, I NOW have 3 book deals.

[@blazekeaveny]

Are you a writer, if so what are the books called?

[@angelastumbaugh2870]

@@blazekeaveny well the 3 books are still in the works. I have only barely signed the deals a year ago to achieve the deadline in 5 years from now. Book 1 is a auto biography that I am naming Surviving a Jerry Springer family. Book 2 is a fan fiction dedicated towards the television show Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Book 3 is more or less a deal for Dark Horse Comics to write an Alien vs. Predator series that is 100% my idea called Predatorial. The last one will take longer due to demographic testing. Am working on all 3 basically at the same time. 1 week dedication on 1 project each and round robin. The first book is the most cathartic. 27 years of severe DV and CPTSD to unload.

[@charles24852]

I was a terrible student in elementary school I would play around and be disruptive and annoy my teachers. It got so bad my mom was called for one of those dreaded parent teacher conference. I thought I was in trouble so during the conference I would walk around the classroom and throw out random facts to try and lessen the blow. It turned out I was explaining the entire curriculum the teacher was trying to teach me days earlier word for word. The teacher was shocked she thought my mom coached me. she had the idea I was autistic it turned out I had ADD with the ability to recall almost any memory. I ended up in a special needs school for a few years they taught me how to hone my gift. I'm 38 now and doing fine I found I can use my memory recall for just about anything including reading people and predicting their actions.

[@kasuraga]

I'm glad I never lost my thirst for knowledge. I'm always looking up videos on history, science, electronics, machines, anything to learn something new that I didn't know yet. If I get really interested in something I can spend hours and hours learning. I'm also big on troubleshooting and problem solving so my job (refurbing laptops) is awesome cause I get to spend all day diagnosing and testing old laptops. I might not know tons of math or calculations but I feel like the accumulation of knowledge on random and wide spread topics helps a lot when it comes to fixing random things around the house or diagnosing problems with stuff I haven't messed with a lot before. Works best with mechanical things since i can picture everything in my head to start coming up with places to look at to find the problem.

[@norman2684]

I used to be that kid. I was always done before everyone else, helping the teacher grade papers, and talking about something new that I learned. It didn't last long though, being bullied and seeing students being rewarded for being a nuisance put a stop to that and I became an average student with minimal motivation. I still know a lot of stuff but it's rare that I actually show how much I know.

[@aneko31]

i really hate bragging about myself but i am extremely proud of having aspergers because it actually makes me feel a literal genius in some very specific things my mom told me when i was around 7 months old, she was cooking and i was looking to a journal (its kinda like a paper supermarkets put on your mail with some discounts) and she gave it to me, she was cooking and didn't realize it was upside down, and i turned it upside up to read right, after that she took me to the doctor and discovered i had aspergers! ngl even to this day it sounds just creepy a kid who couldn't even crawl turning a newspaper on the right orientation there are also a few other things but i don't like bragging or making people think i have a high self steem so i just said the most impressive one

[@renemiko123]

I think you did it not because the text was upside down,but because the photos of the products were upside down.

[@mustwereallydothis]

I babysat a two-year-old in the early 2000s who loved watching videos. I was too cheap to buy a dvd player and used kids videos were a dime a dozen on vcr at the time, so I had a massive collection. We kept all the kids pretty busy but he loved having movies playing in the background any time we were indoors while we did other things. They almost never actually sat and watched them so I just let him put them on. A few months after he began coming I suddenly noticed he seemed to know the names of almost every video I owned. (He may have turned three by then but I can't say for sure) We could ask him to find any one of my over 50 movies and he would go get it effortlessly. Keep in mind, the 5 other preschool kids had access to those things. Some were on shelves and others were piled in baskets beside the tv. They would often use them as building blocks. They were certainly never put back in the same place twice, yet he could always find the one we asked him to get within a minute or two. That was my first indication that he was extra smart but certainly not the last. I lost track of him when he was in highschool but up to that point he had lived up to my expectations. I think about that kid often. He and his parents were so much fun.

[@GoofySillyGuy]

5:42 This is like the most true statement, I'm only a kid but over the past year or so I've gotten really into history and geography and am now great at both things and know a ton of random facts about history that I probably would never have cared about if I didn't get into that stuff.

[@BMoney8600]

That one girl’s poem about how the American system of learning kills creativity is something I 100% agree with. I used to draw but now I can’t every draw anything.

[@KRYMauL]

The purpose of the American system of learning is to create factory workers, and the purpose of the American high education is to create desk workers.

[@DontNoahLot]

The first kid is super smart, and I must be super stupid because I would actually just need pen and paper in order to work it out Smart kid fr edit: nvm they're all savants, and 3, and probably made up

[@nerdyplush_]

I was that kid. What's funny is my Pre-K teacher literally had to be warned by my mother that if I was yelled at I could manipulate the conversation so smoothly that she'd be apologizing to me even though it's my fault. Luckily, I'm a goody two shoes so it never happened but I still use those skills to keep them sharp. Additionally as a child, I was allegedly used as a threat while my dad was teaching to-be carsalesmen as long as they were holding a poptart.

[@KRYMauL]

Oh, that would be hilarious having your daughter out maneuver a car salesman and you just sit there laughter. Please tell me you're practicing law now because with a tongue like that you could probably do some damage.

[@loverrlee]

I’m so impressed by all the kids who can do complex math in their heads. I’m embarrassed to admit I sometimes struggle to still remember my most basic multiplication tables…

[@AngieEnder]

There was a kid like this at my school once. It was the kind of school where there were so few students in each grade level that we had 3-14 year olds in the same building. I only really noticed him a lot once he got to fourth grade and I got to eighth. This kid was insanely impressive, and everybody loved him. He was doing math four grade levels above his classmates, so the same level as me; he wrote beautifully; he spoke four or five languages; he sang fantastically; he loved to help; he had tons of friends; and there were probably plenty of other things I didn't pick up on because the fourth graders and eighth graders didn't spend a lot of time together. I wish I had gotten to know him better, because he seemed really great. There were some not-so-great characters in his class, so I'm glad he didn't let them bring him down to their level. That kid thrived!

[@ACGreyhound04]

I can picture the tiny talkative girl, and that is beyond adorable!!

[@rogerramjet6429]

13:01 it's called an eidetic memory. It's another autistic trait. People are so judgy when they have no idea what they're talking about.

[@HeavenlySharted]

12:33 dawg tryna make infinite energy at 15 years old 💀💀💀

[@juliestevens6931]

My mom taught fifth grade for several years and had a few really smart students. She would give them special projects or have them teach other kids the subjects they were the best at. One of the projects was to review a new teacher's guide to a soon to be released math book. She asked them to go thru the book, do the problems and check the answers at the back and see if they were correct. They had to write a report on what they thought of the book and what errors, if any, they found, and if they felt if was worth using. They really kept her on her toes!

[@comeflynextome94]

My little cousin is on the spectrum (AS). When she was 3 years old, she would look up into the sky and correctly tell us what phase the moon was in. I sometimes wish astronomy was still her special interest because it was so amazing to have a child who wasn't even in preschool yet telling me all about the dwarf planets outside our own solar system. (Edit: I agree with the others in the comments - most of these kids who haven't been stated as being autistic, specifically AS, are probably undiagnosed or didn't disclose it w/their teachers.)

[@Jerekul]

That is a nice story, I just wanted to point out that we haven't discovered "dwarf" planets outside of our solar system. The smallest exoplanet found is just slightly smaller than Mercury. "Dwarf planet" is a celestial body that -orbits the sun, has enough mass to assume a nearly round shape, has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit and is not a moon. That term isn't used for exoplanets.

[@comeflynextome94]

@@Jerekul Dammit you get my point 😜 I'm sure my little cousin would've been quick to correct me, too!

[@KeeperofShadows-gd9bb]

When I was in fifth grade I was one of three students to skip class three times a week to go and tutor other students ranging from kindergarten to other fifth graders. In the very first week, I got stuck with what the teacher called the 'dumbest student she had ever seen'. So I sit down with him in the hall to avoid distractions from the other kindergarteners. We start with math, and the teacher once again warned me that the kid didn't understand it at all. She had tried giving him situations like you have three cookies and I add four more cookies or take away one cookie, and just giving him problems to solve, but it didn't stick. So I try something different. I brought some assorted coins out of my pocket and give him a problem. I don't remember what it was, but he solved it almost instantly. Repeat these nine or ten times with increasingly complex problems, and he's still not having any issues solving them. Next, we go to writing simple sentences. Nothing too special, but he doesn't have any trouble spelling or writing. I have him start reading other sentences. The kid was super smart. The issue with teaching him was, you couldn't use nonsensical examples or just toss problems at him. Real-world examples and logic were what he worked with best. And the teacher got fired for her 'dumbest kid ever' comment. It was apparently far from the first comment like that she had made about students over the years apparently, and that was the last straw so she got fired.

[@dharvell]

12:30 - They haven't given up on Thorium reactors, but there are definite challenges. If that kid can figure out a way to deal with Tritium storage/handling, I think he could do great things.

[@kellymurphy1098]

Ugh. Don't get me started on how poorly our school system handles the profoundly gifted kids.

[@Elvenpath]

I teach two languages. I had a 14 year old who had developed their own language. Fully functional with grammar and a large vocabulary. I think the language was based on Greek, Ukrainian and something else. And the kid themself spoke multiple languages I know of English, Swedish, Greek, Finnish and Ukrainian. They always had good questions and they were really determined to learn how languages work. Not just how to use them but how the whole system of the language is structured.

[@monroerobbins7551]

I remember one teacher telling me how smart I was during a meeting with my folks. Me, being me, asked “what do you mean, I struggle with your class all the time!” And it was true, he was my math teacher, and I struggled with math like no one’s business, plus i didn’t have much self confidence back then. I thought he was trying to make me feel better, but he just gave me a look. “You May struggle with math, but you’re scary good at stats. I’ve heard you break them down for your classmates, without breaking a sweat. I’ve seen you draw, you’re a talented artist, and you have a lot of determination. [insert English teacher’s name] has shown me your writings, you have a lot of potential! You’re really smart in different ways, and I don’t think you give yourself enough credit.” It took me a long time before I actually believed him. I’m doing well in college now, and I’ve started digging down into stats and my comics. It was nice to hear, from one of my teachers, how I was smart. Not just that I was, but how, and hearing praise about my skills outside of regular school stuff. My sibling is the golden child of academia, and I struggled a lot, so it was reassuring to hear that someone thought I was actually good at something that wasn’t general topics like math or science, but something specific, that I could actually get. I’m not saying this to brag… this just genuinely rattled me. I feel like kids don’t get praised enough for their skills, like particular ones. “Oh, you seem to be understanding marine biology really well!” “Hey, that analysis on our latest reading was really insightful!” Things that are more specific than “you’re good at math” or “you’re good with literature”. Otherwise, it feels kinda dismissive, like they can’t focus enough on their strong suits to praise them.

[@TheRealSpiderMew]

12:24 That boy is half right about Thorium reactors, people gave up on it because you cant weaponize Thorium, its only good for making clean cheep energy. Boy is on to something with his mini-reactor!

[@slycooper1001]

Technically you can weaponize thorium But only indirectly Ie: a industrial cutting laser powered by a thorium reactor Technically it's a weapon that uses thorium but isn't a nuclear weapon like a bomb

[@sevrono]

when i was in grade school i was consistently above grade level for reading and comprehension, any conversation with me about what i had read would show it, but i was SO bad at writing in high-school i finally had a teacher describe it accurately, she said that my train of thought is so busy that its more of a ball of thought, and when i speak, its a little more natural, but when i write i often get long winded and will loop back to previous thoughts this understanding has helped me to better organize my thoughts as i put them down, but it has also resulted in me writing a little formally

[@alkv7604]

Am i the only one who absolutely loves that these kids are going to have a bright future (hopefully) but feels horrible that i cant do anything close to them, and feels a crisis of worth coming?

[@whatismylifeanymore]

same-

[@fabianstiefel1586]

Wish i could share that optimism but sad truth is: Unfortunately intelligence is one of the least deciding factors in the future success of a kid. Unless the intelligence is paired up with other factors like money and a good amount of luck, it could be even detrimental to them. As our real stupid society is especially cruel to everything that doesn't fit the norm or can't be understood. So according to statistics I am afraid that most of them will actually end up with clinical depression while serving some borderline stupid rich kid in a low wage job. Society is stupid... 😫

[@factsdontlie4342]

@@fabianstiefel1586 my friend was a genius. He was very lonely. I think i was his only friend, judging by who came to his funeral. I used to have discussions with him for hours. He took his own life in 2019. I think about him every day.

[@alkv7604]

@@fabianstiefel1586 Damn it society, why do you have to ruin nice things? *Sigh* But i do hope that at least some of these kids ends up with minimal scarring...

[@NightclubPegasus1]

These prodigies are never given the propper environment come their pre-adolescents, and it pisses me off.

[@darnov01]

Just stumbled on this. The 15yr old who was looking to build a thorium reactor, it was done. Look up the Nuclear Boy Scout. That guy created a feeder reactor in a potting shed in Michigan. Truly scary stuff.

[@mastick5106]

Got one from both sides. As a teacher: Taught statistics in college, and had one student who got 100% on everything the entire semester, would blow through tests in half the time of everyone else. Then for the final, he was the last one to finish. I was surprised so I checked his paper first, and he had all the answers correct, but on one problem he had not followed the methodology taught in the book. Turns out he had forgotten which statistical test to use for that kind of problem, so he created one on the fly during the 2-hour final. Took me more than four hours of work to prove that it was indeed a valid test for that kind of problem (to get full credit it wasn't enough to get the right answer, you needed to get there via a valid method). As a student: My calculus teacher in college later told me that in the three semesters she had me in class, she always graded my papers first so she could find out if her answer key had any errors.

[@ilonafleischer924]

I'm reminded of the time I took real analysis over the summer, and there was a high school student in our class. This class was considered to be one of the hardest undergraduate math classes; usually the only people who took it were math or biostatistics majors. A number of the students had tried to take the course a previous semester but had to drop it, and were taking it during the summer so we could focus on just that one class. And this high school kid was not only smart enough to take the class, but decided that was what he wanted to do with his summer. The rest of us were a bit in awe of him.

[@nicerisu]

Sadly not all kids retain that kind of thinking or knowledge. My mom and I used to study geography a lot before I was even attending school. I was 3 years old. I memorized all existing country flags, capitals, cities, landmarks, and even what languages they speak in those countries

[@ArdyneusTheGod]

I felt so relatable to the kids while watching this video.

[@tno895]

So many of these stories are just observing young autism. Who asked a bunch of normies to point out scary smart kids? They just autistic, leave us alone

[@end_musix1636]

When i was in elementary school - middle school my teachers always hated me in the beginning of the years because i would never do there homework but by the time the crcts and the big test would come by i would ace them and they would usually act very suprised with me this was all unmotivating to me tbh but i remember always having to goto "special" classes on the side because im guessing i was slower than the other kids mainly in math and reading i had a hard time answering problems as fast as the other kids, worrying and thinking to much is something i struggle with even today.

[@nosam1998]

It's VERY rare that I find a comment that I can 100% relate to like yours. I usually can relate to bits and pieces but this is LITERALLY me!

[@Skenjin]

While not quite so fast, back in high school I was asked how many seconds there were in a year but instead of writing down an equation or using a calculator I just held the numbers in my head and slowly did the math while we ate and chatted.

[@MADMac]

I was never a teacher, but I did a co-op as a student assistant for a Grade 1 class a number of years ago. One day I was doing my usual routine of walking around the class making sure the kids did their work, were orderly, had someone to help if they had a question (sometimes), typical stuff. I see that one of the kids, having finished the assigned work, is writing down and solving his own exponents. He usually finished his work early, so I thought nothing of it and just kept on walking around. I got to the other side of the classroom before it hit me that this grade 1 student fully grasped the concept of exponents, to the point that he was solving every equation in seconds. I double take, walk back over, and sure enough, there he is, solving what I’m struggling to work out in my head. Never mind better judgement: I literally couldn’t help but engage him about it in a friendly way. It was all I could do not to be freaking out over how smart this kid was. He was such a sweetheart, so polite and mild-mannered, he just spread positivity. Sadly he seemed to pay for his math knowledge with his knowledge of everything else, because he really struggled with just about every other subject. I think about that placement a lot, and that part is what always comes to mind first. I miss those kids

[@Just1Nora]

I was put in "advanced" classes starting in elementary school. Math was hard because I'm dyslexic, plus I have anxiety disorder and adhd so I freeze in stressful situations unable to make a decision. It's funny in high school I ended up getting a few cool teachers who really let me spread my wings and push my own boundaries. Art was, is, my love and forte. Photography was my drug of choice back then, and we had a small but very workable darkroom and it was a heyday...a group of four of us were very dedicated. We'd set up our equipment to shoot as kids were still filing in, double check with the teacher and be out the door asap. Half an hour later we'd be processing film, and we somehow turned a 40 minute process into just 10 minutes. We had lunch break after that class and we'd usually spend lunch working on printing more photos and nibbling on snacks. Kids, don't be like me...don't eat near hazardous chemicals. The evaluators at college tours always got excited about a few of my photos and wanted to know how I'd done them. Special processing we invented. Honestly I couldn't replicate it today, but that creativity had art schools interested. The other thing I got to experiment with in high school was researching whatever topic I wanted in physical science my freshman year. We just had to pick a few books, read, and write about the subject. My peers all went to the school library and half probably wrote similar papers that my teacher had been reading for decades...but I went to the public library main branch. Two sprawling stories and all of the science I wanted! Genetics? Plenty. Plant genomics? Nuclear energy? Medical technology, chemistry of all flavors! I felt like Charlie in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory! I kinda forgot about that, and that it's still available just half an hour away. I don't have to be a student to read random books on science, art, architecture, building, etc. There is great joy in learning just for learning sake, and I hope younger people who read this have or get to experience this. Never stop learning!

[@MarsJenkar]

Story #13: On the one hand, clever, but on the other hand, I would not have been at all lenient with the student who pulled that. Honestly, I was seeing red with that story because I would have been _not_ best pleased if I were in the first student's position. Story #17: I got the same vibe from that story that the OP did--that the student felt that the education system wasn't serving her as well as it probably should have. I wonder if mentor's backlash against her poetry assignment was at least in part to cover that he was likely part of the problem, and he didn't like being called out on it. Meanwhile OP took a more constructive lesson from it, and tried to do better for her. Story #27: I get where this student is coming from, to some extent. There were times when I recognized that we were going over concepts in our classes that had been taught in previous years. I didn't complain, though, as I figured there were other students who didn't have the same level of retention that I did. (Turns out I had--and still have--a much higher level of retention than most of my fellow students.)

[@ashconner2293]

Give the kids more challenging tasks. Also, teach personal development. You can have all the knowledge, but without wisdom you won't go anywhere as far as you think.

[@SilentHotdog28]

Another one is actually my brother, he knew how to do fairly complex math sums from about 8 and would correct his teachers on occasion to their amusement/frustration/annoyance, the class would laugh thinking he was just being the class clown, but he would explain to the teacher, then the teacher would have to apologise.

[@christineshah7330]

Having a savant-type ability doesn't always translate to an advantage. Especially when you are the weirdly smart kid in class.

[@tno895]

Exactly. So many of these stories are just autism. Who asked normies to ogle us?

[@thomasschossigmeister435]

I had this friend in highschool, who had a hard time undertanding maths, physics and such. But when we were learning compound interest rates, he could do those calculations (which involves exponentiation with comas of percentages) by head, in seconds, it was awesome

[@3Initials]

When my son was 6 I bought him a puzzle. It was only like 30 pieces because I figured since it was his first puzzle he wouldn’t know how to really do it. He dumped all of the pieces on the table, threw the box aside, and put the puzzle together without looking at the picture on the box for guidance. I’m less than 3 minutes. I was stunned.

[@Lothrean]

When I graduated the university, the principal said in his official speech that I was the best and simultaneously the toughest student they have ever had. He later told my parents that he hated every minute of me being at his university but that he thinks that I will change the world in the future. I lost 3 jobs since and job-wise my life is pretty unfulfilled honestly.

[@slowvagabond]

I hang out in my friend's algebra 1 class at school during my off period. Her teacher knows that I'm also a freshman, but he didn't know that I take Integral Calculus (Calculus 2), so when I was doing some of my own math homework, he walks over and looks at my notebook. The look on his face was absolutely priceless, because he was about to ask if I wanted help with my worksheets.

[@annachronistic]

The kids teaching themselves languages sounds like my cousin, he’s a chemist and author now. He taught himself to draw realism in pencil because he wanted to do his own illustrations.

[@Mavendow]

Oh yeah, almost every one of my teachers thought I was an arrogant better-than. I had (have) a genius I.Q. and autism. So, at the time I literally never picked up on others' ill-will. Over the years, most of (a percentage majority of) my teachers would sabotage or backstab me, because although I understood deception, I could not recognize it until late high school. Teachers destroyed my work, marked me down for nonsensical things, accused me of cheating, lying, or breaking rules they invented on the spot. They would pit me against other kids specifically so they could justify putting me in detention or suspension. One even manipulated me into pointing a drawn bow and arrow at her. I legitimately had more difficulty with teachers and staff than with kids.

[@Motion-man455]

They just jealous your light,god's gift or whatever irritate's their demons fuck em

[@Aleksandar6ix]

I'm just happy that I have some elements of what these kids can do. Comprehension, sharp eyes, and awareness. Growing up, however I was the opposite.

[@timothyblazer1749]

As in my youth I was one of these students, I can tell you that the basic response is STFU or "stop asking annoying questions" or "I'm the teacher, not you." I could read at age 3. It went downhill from there :-) these teachers are capping. Notice, not a single story of a kid pointing out errors ( or oversimplification ) in a history class, and why they exist. It's all arithmetic, memory, etc. No analysis.

[@Xoruam]

Honestly, if that's your kid, get them homeschooling. Or at least look really hard into the school you're enrolling your kid into. They are going to have _SO_ many problems in their 20s if you don't get them a good teacher that will properly overlook their development. Speaking from experience.

[@Bee-g4s]

There was this one kid in my class named Jordan when I was younger. He was good at math, reading and writing. It was terrifying.

[@RaindropsBleeding]

3D spatial cognition is definitely a very different skill from problem solving, numerical calculation, or pattern recognition. I had a physics professor pull me aside after class and tell me I had better 3D cognition than any other student. He'd apparently noticed that as long as the questions he asked didn't require numbers, like "where is the highest point of tension on this bridge model?" Or "which two forces in this model are equal?" I got the answer instantly every time. But any time an answer required math, I was much slower, and often did not find the answer, despite being able to describe which calculations were needed and where. He recommended a math tutor to me and said I had the potential to be his best student. I did my best but I only managed a C+ in his class, which he had explained was actually generous because he didn't want me to give up. By strict measures I would have failed the class. I am now a successful gemcutter

[@NuclearCharm]

My little brother (2 at the time) loved me and, by proxy, loved videogames So one time, I left him with my DS with a Mario kart race, jokingly telling him to "drive the car" Come back a couple of minutes later after getting a drink and having a conversation and he has not only finished the race but came 2nd No one believes me

[@imma3knee]

One of my classmates in high-school had really middling math grades, but when it came to mental math, this dude was instant and accurate.

[@WladBlank]

I could walk and talk when I was around 10-12 months old. Only know about it because relatives were complaining that I just wouldn't stop talking. Growing up with such toxic people you would imagine why I prefer to be alone

[@kkqksomkds6274]

I was that kid in 4th/5th grade. Our class (gifted education btw) had class presentations and I whipped out a full lecture on 2D projectile motion complete with all the equations (which involved quadratics and trigonometry), worked examples, and a demonstration. Scared the hell out of the teacher. Teacher came up to me after school and told me it was a 12th grade topic and asked me how long I'd been learning the topic. Told her I had been learning stuff at this level for about a year but had only been doing kinematics for about a month or a bit more. FYI: 2 months was how long it's supposed to take 12-graders to master this topic.

[@martinthabang9621]

This is the best video I'd ever seen. Makes me feel the best feelings. I always wanted to be this smart. Definitely above average. It was only after varsity that I'd meet anyone of my peers as smart bur alas... Never this smart

[@MsSavagechef]

The word skills and conversation skills are par for the course for my family. But don't ask me to do any abstract mathmatics such as algebra. And no my dear teachers, I have had no use for anything other than arithmetic since I became an adult. And yes, I was considered so smart that I spent several school years doing independent study projects in grade school and high school and pretty much skipped most of high school. I learned by reading and preferred working and making money to attending high school in the later grades. College was dead dull, so I left to work full time.

[@josiahjackson3757]

I'm not a teacher but I have a few stories. 1. Related to the kid with the wireless keyboard. When I was in a computer tech class one of our assignments was to group up into teams and create a problem in a computer and another team would have to fix it. The computer my team had to fix would randomly turn off at random times with no pattern at all. It turns out one of the guys was just hitting the switch on the plug with his foot. 2. In the same class as the story above there was a special needs girl that always had an assistant with her. Somehow she could easily recite everyone's birthday without hesitation. I don't even remember ever mentioning my birthday so I don't know how that was possible. 3. I have a little brother that is about 9 years old. I explained a bit of what I understood about time dilation and he Somehow understands these concepts and even ponders on them and comes up with his own theories. He is also way ahead of his age group with math and reading.

[@ajguevara6961]

I'm a native spanish speaker, and I was a kid like the one from the third story. My mom even says that the first time she heard me talk, I didn't babble "mama" or "papa" like any other kid, it was a full blown sentence, and a question nonetheless. She says my first words were "Mamá ¿Dónde estás?" Spanish for "Mom, where are you?". I was eleven months at the time. I was having full conversations well before I was 2 years old.

[@kimoramicheal8353]

A boy who was 3 years old knew his numbers 1-100 backwards! Same boy, when he was 5, he knew all the reporters such as Lester Holt, Diane Sawyer, Scott Pelly, etc A girl who was 4 memorized a whole episode of Peppa Pig and even repeated it in Peppa's accent lmao. Same girl again loll... When she was 5 she asked her Mom can she go to school by herself since she knows how to get there. Mom didn't let her, but she said we can go together but you tell me where to go (as far as make a right, make a left etc). Same girl again, she went out with her Mom. Mom got lost in an unknown area, but daughter remembered how to get back... talking about follow me lmao.

[@kimoramicheal8353]

BTW the boy and girl are siblings!

[@eirdonne_]

@@kimoramicheal8353 damn guess smartness runs in the house

[@MrMcMisfit]

I like being autistic, bc videos like these give us positive recognition. when people find out, they always are super excited and impressed.

[@RedBaroness]

I anticipate most of these poor kids will be burnt out or not "LiViNg uP tO pOtEnTiAl" according to their peers/adults by the time they hit their 20s. The American School system fails a lot of kids like these. When things come easy to the smart kids, and they don't learn the resilience/how to study, when things get hard (and they will) - they won't have the ability to confront it and get over/through the adversity. It sucks.

[@alphabetsoup6837]

I love that these are all basically stories of teachers meeting children with savant syndrome/perfect recall.

[@tno895]

Exactly. So much of this is just autism. Who asked a bunch of normies about smart kids? They don't understand anything

[@lindyditmore1880]

Matilda: finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

[@Mikailjaffer]

No

[@marykeegan2606]

I was a kindergarten teacher for 18 years, and taught other early childhood classes for another 9 years. I had one very sweet, highly intelligent boy who also had a great deal of common sense. One day, while we were practicing for our “moving up” ceremony at the end of the year, he spoke to me at the end of the practice and told me that he thought that it might work out better if we did some portion of our presentation a different way. So, we tried it his way, and it did work out better. As things would happen, I would be teaching first grade the next year, and had this boy in my class. I also had a girl in my class whose father had taught her multiplication over the summer. I would send th 22:08 e boy to the 3rd grade class for math 2 or 3 times a week, but the little girl didn’t want to go with him . One day, while the rest of the class was occupied with other math activities, I asked the 2 of them I if they would like to figure out how many tiles there were on the classroom floor. I had one child count the tiles going in one direction, and the other child counted tiles in the other direction. When they were done, I showed them how to set up and solve a three digit by three digit problem. It kept them busy for a while, and they did come up with the correct answer.

[@bagofnoob6293]

0:27 this is called a photographic memory, and it basically means that most of what their brain remebers can find it instantly, but this doesn't always stop the subconscious from deleting 95% of the first 2½ years of your life

[@frojoe2004]

The hilarious thing about the mental math story: the kid was just using very basic common core math and is now very normal for children to do that sort of mental math. I wonder if that teacher is one of those crazy "common core is confusing so it's evil" people.

[@tno895]

A lot of these stories are just autism. Normies getting shook at autism. Please.

[@Mercury.VideoStar]

These kids are smarter than me 💀

[@SHADOW_EDITS21]

My father is INSANLEY smart. My grand-father and my father both have told me that when my dad was in pre-school he was reading Stevan King books. My dad went to a Catholic school (Catholic/Christian schools generally teach 1 or 2 years above general public school teaching curriculum.) so when he went to a public high school he already knew everything they were teaching. He ended up dropping out because of this. On the test that the government makes you take to make sure you're smart enough to drop out, he got EVERY SINGLE question right except for the essay portion where he missed a comma.

[@eirdonne_]

He... he missed a COMMA?? What a crime! But WOW is your Dad cool!

[@bombdotcom2168]

Some of these, especially the ones about math, remind me how much I hated math because the teachers made really simple things overcomplicated by adding extra steps to quote "show your work" The main reason I failed was because I didn't understand the method to quote "show you're not cheating" and just wanted to do it the easier way

[@terminus9897]

Some autistic people are incredibly good with arithmetic and complex functions. Their brains simply work in different ways than normal people. I think this is often somewhat of a curse because it gives expectations that they cannot live up to, causing them stress and distress aswell giving them a lack of challenge where they really need it in the education system.

[@ilikemetoo3088]

Exactly That is what I’m going to say

[@coldnhot369]

The puzzle one i feel would happen to anyone who notices an odd piece that doesn’t match and it would bother them but they’re too lazy to put in the correct box

[@davidfryer9218]

Emily Bear the composer first published piano composition was at 4 years old. Alma Deutscher the child prodigy composer composed an operetta Don Alonso the pirate at five years old. Then a sonata at 6. Both of them started playing piano at age two. Alma started playing violin at 3.

[@lonewolf3109]

and sadly all this brilliance of mind in these young souls gets lost when they don't find a place for them in the world

[@lakecityransom]

Sad when you hear about jealous teachers trying to put gifted kids down. Yikes.

[@davidgiles4681]

This supports the theory that current teachers are lazy and want to have equity not equality. If a student is too smart, give him extra work. Intelligence is a God given gift. Said student will be given mind altering drugs to bring him down to the equity level. Entertain and embrace this Intelligence.