Semi-same on that one. The kid becomes tremendously entitled, and acts as if everyone below their IQ are literal rockbrains and that they’re better than everyone. And they usually go up to random people and be all like “You’re doing smartphones wrong, you see, you need to connect the CPU to an external battery, then reconnect the frame-wire conduction algorithm and reactivate the fencebox code in the mainframe (yes, i know none of these are a thing, I’m making an example). Really, it isn’t that hard! *I* did it myself without outside help!” and confuses the shit out of this person that didn’t even ask for their input or information on how to do something they really don’t give a shit about.
The only time I actually like it is when the kid uses their smarts for good purposes instead of trying to gain popularity and a higher reputation (eventually screwing themselves over because no one likes a know it all).
I also hate real child geniuses but that’s a seperate issues
I just hate how you have so many characters who are child aged (and id say even up to mid teens) who are super geniuses. Because children are dumb and it just sets unrealistic standards. I also feel sorry for any character who is a child genius because by the time you’re 20 no one gives a fuck and you won’t be special anymore.
Although that is a slightly more personal point.
I was a “gifted child” and now I’m a complete disappointment with anxiety, executive dysfunction, perfectionism and disturbingly low self-esteem.
I hit the peak of my natural ability at 14/15 and since I’d coasted on getting As without really trying when i couldn’t do my lessons I imploded and would miss almost a lesson a day because even being in the room made me feel like such a failure i would break down.
When I was 8/9 I was put up a year because my school didnt have the space in the class for my actual year and they stuck me in the top maths set so i broke down because of the stress being placed on me to be good at maths.
I am 20 now and all this has done has crippled my ability to ask for help and made my life hell because no one taught me basic skills because they assumed i had them
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
Ayyyyy
But on the positive side I’m at university and sometimes i can function like a human being and not someone whose brain is made of tape and string.
Although i do still occasionally stop being a person and go home and lay in the dark reading webcomics.
I’m floored because I experienced the complete opposite.
I used to envy so called “gifted” and “smart” children because when I was three a child psychologist very bluntly classed me as a gone case and told my parents I’d have the mentality of a five year old for life. This was before it was known that children younger than six could get PTSD, so they thought I had some kind of developmental impairment when I actually didn’t.
Pretty much all my life people treated me as stupid and most people seriously doubted I’d get anywhere in life all because of what that one person said back in ye olde 1998 when I was practically a baby. Needless to say it made feel like intelligence was the most important thing and it gave me serious brain envy.
And then when I went to college I realised most of these “gifted kids” were just good at cracking exams. And in my school and family a lot of the pretentious intellectuals have now crashed and burned because they got too cocky.
Well now I got an internship in a good company and I’m on the way to getting my masters so… suck on that, psychologist.
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