![]() I didn’t show any particular promise as a kid, and I haven’t failed especially egregiously as an adult: My life isn’t a tragedy of unfulfilled potential - thus far, it’s been a mostly tolerable procession of various ruts and lulls. I think I’m in a position to take a somewhat objective view of the Gifted-Kid Burnout meme. The “burnt-out gifted kid” is really just someone who needs to start working harder: they can thrive, but only once they embrace the fact that they’re no better than anyone else is. I hate gifted kid memes omg let it gooo use some of them internal validation skills or idk pay a bill truly no one is exceptional, you fuckin nerds- im rebranding August 27, 2018įor these people, “Gifted-Kid Burnout” is just an excuse, a way of failing to come to terms with the fact that you’re failing, not because you were too talented - you never were - but because you’re too lazy to cope in a world that doesn’t share the good intentions your parents, and maybe some teachers, held towards you when you were growing up. But they will both have an expertly curated folder of depression memes. Matilda will never be prime minister Lisa Simpson will never be president. Under present conditions, these characters would be lucky not to spend most days huddled under their weighted blankets, scrolling dead-eyed through social media, neglecting to reply to emails from their PhD supervisor or their parents or their boss. Matilda will never be the prime minister for that matter, Lisa Simpson will never be the president either. We all know what happens to sensitive, precocious millennials like Matilda: they end up suffering from Gifted-Kid Burnout. But the fact is, none of these futures rang even remotely true. The proposed futures ranged from Matilda becoming a stand-up comedian to finding success as an author even to becoming the prime minister (in this version, Matilda apparently came to power in a sort of anti-Brexit coup). The article featured six children’s authors, all sketching their suggestions for what Matilda herself would be up to now, at age 30 (before you ask: (1) she loses her powers at the end of the book, so no she wouldn’t just obviously be doing magic shows, or working for the military (2) yes, I do realize she would be 35 now not 30 but this is The Guardian’s mistake, not mine). ![]() Just over a month ago, The Guardian ran an article commemorating the 30th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel Matilda which, in case you don’t know, is about a precocious five-year-old who uses her powers of telekinesis to escape her neglectful parents and get her sadistic headteacher fired.
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