after elementary school, the only thing you got for being in gifted classes was extra work
Oliver Jackson
You didn't pass the real test. You don't understand what you were even being tested for.
Carter Powell
If you were truly gifted, you wouldn't shy from work. In fact, it actually stimulated you and gave you profound purpose. An ability to learn new tasks quickly and yet masterfully has always been a determining factor throughout your life. You enjoy acing a test you never studied for. You take risk and seek a reward set by your own metrics.
covertness? ability to handle situations without burning myself? I believe my tester didn't realize I already knew the questions and calculated accurate responses that I standby.
The truth as taught by another is worthless, true understanding must come from within.
Gabriel Gomez
Whats the burn rate on that? It has to be pretty high if i guessed on the ratios
Jaxon Martin
we are "inter-dependent", we depend on each other to exist in the same way you need two sides to have a coin. The left side of a coin needs a right side in order to be a coin. I need an exterior to compare myself to in order to label myself an "I". So without the dream I don't exist, without me the dream doesn't exist
Asher Harris
Wow, what is this MENSA faggot shit?
Tyler Mitchell
I already have developed an encoded language. No i wont share it until SHTF
Joseph Perry
ITS LIKE A CLASS REUNION BUT ONLY AUTISTS ARE INVITED
What prevents our liberation is ourconceptions ofinherent existence. Thingsappearto us as though they exist from their own side, independently, and we assent to this appearance by conceiving of them in this way. Meditation that analyzes the way things exist will destroy this falseconception,and we can be liberated from it and from the samsara it causes.
However, because of the way we have been conditioned, which is a process without beginning, things stillappearto exist inherently. The liberated person is someone who no longerassents to this appearance, who is always doubtful of the evidence of the senses and resistsconceivingof them in the wrong way. He or she is like someone who wears sunglasses, well aware that the green tint pervading all visible objects is just the effect of the lenses. It takes a very long time for the appearance of inherent existence itself to fade. Those taints of appearances are the obstructions to omniscience.
You are responsible to yourself. The root of understanding is love for yourself, which then extends to others and from others to all beings. Having said that please do those who love you dearly a favor and take good care of yourself, if you would be so kind.
Talk to you later user. Be well.
Anthony Gomez
I'm here but can we move to x?
Brandon Thomas
Idk, I've been burning every shill that's even come close. I play the game like 4d cheese. Some glowniggers think a whore's bath can wash away the stink.
I was in GT when I was a child living near an army base in Colorado.
I lasted until middle school where I burnt out, ended up barely scraping by in IB classes before dropping out of high school.
The only thing I really remember of GT was the ‘hearing tests’ we’d do every Friday.
Zachary Torres
Our goal is to correct this balance. It has been far too long and the scales are tipped. Standoff is better. Don't flip the board when stalemate in 3.
Juan Brooks
I was tested for this program in South Florida in 1992. I had to change teachers and move to a classroom in what they called a portable behind the school. I remember really liking my new teacher. Now that I think about it I do remember playing a game with the stock market and an imaginary $100,000 to start that lasted many weeks and I remember doing mock interviews where we could choose between being interviewed or interviewee one on one with the teacher and the topic was "our old life in the CIA." I admit at the time I didn't really know much about the Cia but I remember my teacher being very strange about it. I remember other things too but that stands out in my mind the most. What say you user? I'm curious. Also, many of the friends I made in that class are doing horrible now if that is significant.
Cameron Wilson
If you are authentic, we all speak the coded language. Had an interaction tonight where I was confronted and I stood strong. I will not fold on this. Find your personal strength.
I had a shit alcoholic mom that chased loser drug addict abusive jobless felons. She put me in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile shelter care to get me out of the way. 23 different schools in 12 years. I didn't make it bros.
Thomas Brown
What was this shit anyway? I was in it for 2 years in elementary before I moved states and looking back, I just remember more advanced reading and more puzzles.
Posted in the other thread that's up, does anyone remember lessons on paradigm shifts? Iceberg graphics to teach "thinking about thinking"? Do you remember the lesson about think tanks? Did you ever get snacks and a little waxed paper cup with a sweet drink in it before class because "the brain needs fuel"? Remember how they shut off the lights and had you close your eyes for about 10-15 minutes before answering the prompt on the board in your journal? What were the prompts like, did they ask you to solve a problem? Did you ever notice something out of your journal manifesting from another source within a couple years? The advisor said we're not the one who was going to read your journal. Did you ever ask who was?
user I remember some of what you said. Please, any user please brief me about what we know about this program now. Thinking back, I remember a lot of things that seem strange.
Isaiah Sanchez
Yes authenticity is key.
Liam Bell
I feel relief. I feel foolish for letting my emotions get the best of me. I understand now. I projected my fears and doubts.
user I'm sorry but I am not the man to ask questions about this. I am seeking answers also. I already shared the things I remember that stand out in my mind. Can you please help me?
Connor Miller
Go back to /x/ larper
Justin Thompson
As a matter of fact im pretty sure 99.9 percent of humans, and 99.9 percent if muh time will end up doing nothing.
Wyatt Clark
I saw the sign.
God Bless you.
Nathaniel Butler
In Elementary it was so easy for me I ended up getting in trouble every other week. When they tested me to get into the gifted program, I remember explicitly not taking a piss and having to piss so bad I just rushed the test to piss. I failed the test by 3 points, but they still put me in the gifted thing anyway.
Elijah Foster
Best comment in the thread. Know thyself.
Jordan Diaz
I did stock market game as well, would've been 2007/8. Posted about that several threads ago. Many strange things about the program, not the least of which being the web has been scrubbed of almost every record of the local version of it, except for a forum with moms asking about good schools. Of course no valuable data there. Managed to remember one of the 3 advisors I worked with from K-6th, ran some OSINT and discovered a minimum of three aliases.
Hunter Sanders
Maybe your school did. Mine just took me away from normie friends and had me write research papers.
Landon Price
I WONDER IF MOOT WAS IN GATE THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING
Grayson Johnson
However, I never went to the full classes. Since I wasn't part of the system, I only went to the classes where the teachers came to my school, since there was a separate school for all the GATE kids.
Jace Martinez
At my school all the stupid kids were sent to gate
Oliver Butler
Thank you for sharing with me user. It's comforting to know that even 25 years after the fact that there were still new people experiencing what I did. What did they do to us? Do you feel it was malicious?
Austin Wood
15 years. Sorry, fat fingered it.
Nolan Perry
I don't exactly understand the people who are suggesting the malicious things. I know my program wasn't exactly GATE, is was called CARE or something, and I wasn't fully inducted, but my little cousin was and when I asked her what they did, it just seemed like fun shit like popsicle bridges and science posters.
Blake Howard
shit okay I'm freaking out I have limited memory from my early education years but what I do remember is being tested for some gifted program at around age 7 and going to strange classes on my own I remember getting letters of acceptance for schools my mother had not applied for she decided to send me to a normal school nearby but even still I've managed to get top grades all my life without having to try in the slightest I seem to have a deep inbuilt understanding of almost everything numbers/music/languages/coding/art my friends often joke how doing certain things with me is no fun because I "get it" too quickly and become too good
am I one of the chosen or just plain autistic?
a bit about me 6'2 white male great foresight frequent déjà vu (mostly re-experiencing what was in my dreams) easily manipulate people if I need something often notice things well before others. sometimes I see things just before they happen or I'll already know the words to a song I've never heard before
Logan Morris
I understand but I am unfamiliar with CARE program. I still appreciate you sharing.
Owen James
it wasn't outwardly malicious and anyone who says otherwise is larping. its just weird that a majority of the "work" was basically new-age psychic tests. thats the real mystery
Lincoln Allen
You're alright m8. You're welcome here
Wyatt Perez
am is are was were be being been have has had do does did shall will should would may might must can could
Carson Nelson
I had penis inspection day right after GATE period, super awkward, the doc pulled down my pants because I resisted at first.. and there’s it was.. my fingerbox.. stuck on the end of my dick. She confiscated it and I never got it back. It was my grandmas. At least I learned I can dull jack fingerboxe
Justin Garcia
I tend to be very cautious about assigning malicious intent. If you look into the man who created the basis for gifted Ed in the states, he wrote an article about how gifted children are resources, and that they should be cultivated for good/order to prevent what he seems to think is an image tendency to be destructive/chaotic. I don't know enough about what the purpose of it was and who was behind it to say if it was malicious or not. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a MK offshoot meant to check the student population for high intuition/psychic people in order to make them an asset, and burn out uncontrollables in order to deny the enemy of resources.
I can recognize OP by his images (ace of base is dead giveaway), he should have a collage of responses he picked out from previous threads, worth reading if he can post it.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I will heed the knowledge you shared.
Brandon Gray
none of us did, not really
Jacob Foster
My brother was three years older than me he was in what they called GT. This was in texas around 2001 When I got older I got into the same program but it was called TAG then I remember feeling awkward when the TAG teacher would pull like 2 of us out of class to go to the other classroom. One time specifically I was playing with pic related (to give you an idea of age, this was elementary school.) in my normal class and my TAG teacher came in and I was a little annoyed I had to leave because I was in like a building competition with a buddy. I remember almost nothing about the class, we walked in line to get there, the teacher gave us quizzes without anything to study (I suspect IQ or personality tests, aptitude tests or something) I remember we started the year by planting an eggplant in the ground, and then at the end of the growing season we pulled it out and cooked it and ate it, it was really delicious, the teacher put butter and pepper on it. I vaguely doing a mock election about gore vs bush. Later on in HS there was a similar program, but it was less sinister and in my mind seemed more legitimate, I had a teacher who really wanted me to join it but I declined, I think that I declined because of whatever experience that I had in TAG. I was young, I didn't remember much back then to be fair.
Charles White
>If you were truly gifted, you wouldn't shy from work.
Tannenbaum, A. J. (2001). Giftedness: The ultimate instrument for good and evil. In N. Colangelo & S. G. Assouline (Eds.), Talent development IV: Proceedings from the 1998 Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development (p. 89–120). Great Potential Press.
Jonathan Watson
I am gonna say, the goal of this thread is to get all the smart superautists, and general geniuses that lurk this board together to do something. I have the same feeling. I have nothing to do in my life since it all comes so easily. What better to do than to find like-minded people and do something big?
Tyler Torres
Similar story here. '88 took the entrance test to what was then called L.E.A.P. for Soph. year. I had no idea when the testing,(one set of language based story problems/metaphor interpretation and the the Ravens P.M.) was supposed to take place, and It just happened to be on the very first,(and ONLY, i might add,) day that I was talked into smoking a joint in the school parking lot with a few friends before 1st period. High at school for the first time, ten minutes into 1st, my name comes out over the intercom system to please report to the office... Fuuuuuuuu. You may well guess what I was thinking. I passed the tests for entry with no problems apparently, but I've often wondered about that day. I've been in weird experimental and gifted programs all my life,(well from first grade until senior year,) and most never seemed to be all that. My peers and I would often shoot each other WTF?? glances since it really did seem as if the teachers didn't really know what to do with us. Anyone remember World Class, where the school districts pulled 1 or 2 students to combine into a regional classroom? That's where the paradigm "lessons" popped up in my area. Olympics of the Mind? Serendipity Spot?
Apologies for the verbose reply, But I lurked on this thread around the same time as the Virginia 2A igloo threads, and some of the posts had tears rolling down my cheeks from the painful nostalgia. I wanted to post then but was still maintaining hyper web-hygiene. The pain of being confronted with willful nescience multiple times daily... user...