gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

• the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative
• a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud
• never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to
• reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now
• dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this
• feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)
• being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit