Untill last month,I didnt know what gifted is!
And this is how I found out:
I am a sophomore in college and I moved to America three years ago.I am struggling with school, I cant learn in class. I hate due dates so I fail to check them all the time. I cant concentrate on homework or in class. Usually I am reading a book or daydreaming when teacher talks.I get really frustrated when someone teaches me about something I know already.I spend most of my time at the library,i did so ever since 3rd garde, ever since first time I skipped school.I never had a proper education,I skipped about 70% of school days. I hated my teachers(not all of them),and I never really cared about my school grades.
But there is always reason why!
This is how my story begins:
I was a premature baby (at 7 month)I was the healthiest baby in the hospital that afternoon or morning(12:00). My mom tried to teach me how to walk but no luck.She was really frustrated and she felt a resentment. Her friends had babies the same age, except their children could walk and talk already.On my first birthday she had a discussion with her friends, she assumed that I couldn't walk yet because I was a primeture.she picked me up
to fix my tights, she set me on my feet expecting me to sit on the floor but
instead I walked to the kitchen(That must've been cute):) It left my mother and her friends speechless. Ever since them my learning went way beyond of what Doctors told to my mother. At age of 1.5 I spoke clearly, on the level of 5 years old.My mom had to work, so her decision was to put me in
kindergarten. Of course in my country a child has to be three years of age to be accepted and I was almost 2 years old but they accepted me anyway. Because of the fact that I spoke clearly and ate on my own. I was treated as the oldest one
in a �group� because of my abilities. I learned how to read and write by myself before first grade. My mom never pushed me to do anything, she also said I used to ask to many questions and sometimes too fast, without even giving people a chance to answer. I was always creative, loved to draw and have taken dance classes ever since 3 years old. In
kindergarten they had a preschool class, and they insisted that I should go there. It was like a torture that I had to go through. I still remember like it was yesterday. One day I refused to go and it was it. I only had two friends, we used to get in trouble a lot. Like ones: Galena, Max and I left
kindergarten and went to Galena�s house, the teacher found us at the bus
station, waiting for the bus. I went to first grade at age of 6 and again I was the youngest there. After two
years the director decided to create a extra class �G�.
School Classes was divided as A,B,V. �A� smart �B� less smarter, �V� not smart and �G� you guess. I was assigned in to �G� class because the teachers thought I had trouble learning. They gave us tiny room that had only one window, it was one very depressing room. My Mother decided to sent me to a different school. I was tasted and my result was 100% out of 100%. Questions that was on the test, was nothing I�ve
learned in class(we didnt get to that yet) but everything I�ve learned on my own. But it didn�t end there, it is where its all began. I didn�t fit in that school, I had no friends
and I didn�t trust teachers. Kids was making fun of me because I used to dress in pretty dresses to school, and it made me irrelevant. Ones I wrote an essay one page long, 20 minutes was given for it. I made no mistakes and it was the longest one in class. The teacher gave me a half of point for it, the teacher didn�t like my spaces because she thought I could make them smaller. And If kids would still my stuff, kick my book bag (living foot print on it) and brake my stuff, the teacher will always come up with a story of how I could loose it or
brake it myself. She knew it, but did nothing. That�s when I started to skip school. I used to hang out at the
library and talk to librarian who was probably the only friend I had. After 6th grade I turned in to a BAD child, causing trouble, stilling, drinking and hanging out with friends that were bad influence . At least I was no longer bullied.
But I never left the library. I was always an individual learner, Iv learned how too walk(1), to ride a bike (age 5,uncles bike), skiing (age 6), swimming(14), horseback
riding(15),English(17) and a lot more, all on my own. The teachers was not fair so I�ve never been interested in school but I did a lot of after school activities that I was successful at: Gymnastics, Dance class, Ballet,Choir,Accordion, Poetry club, History club, Korean, Drama Club. I have many awards from Drama club. I won a lot of competitions in Gymnastics and Dancing, My poems was published many times
and I always had 1st place everywhere. But I still had time left to play �Bad child�.
I don�t know how I managed to graduate!
I went to college at age 14 majoring in hotel business,
got kicked out 4 month later, I couldn�t get along with my adviser, and teachers. But I didn�t want to do hotel business anymore. At age of 17 I moved to America, went back to school, I didn�t know any English. I was taking an ESL
class, at first I couldn�t understand the teacher at all but few month later, I started to correct him a lot(he wasnt American), he didn�t like it and I was moved in to a
different class with a teacher who could actually speak English(I got an A in that class, 've learned nothing but Spanish,'cause the teacher didnt teach well at all) . Since its not that easy to skip school in America (its not like I haven�t done that) I actually started to do my homework. My grades where A�s and B�s, in English, Math and D
in History class (cause it was boring).I was still getting in trouble, for talking back and living class room. But it wasn�t that bad. I knew almost everyone in school but I didn�t really hang out with them. Just with my best friend. Sometimes she gets mad at me because I correct her a lot and because I don�t like people to sit on my bad, pillow or anything I have to keep clean. I don�t know why, but even I don�t sit on my own
bad, unless I ware clean clothe. I started college in August of 2008, my placement test was low so I was place into low math and English, I had no interest in class because it was to easy, I asked for permission to take a placement test again, next day I was placed into a college level classes. I have no interested in any of my classes, and usually I�m finding myself either day dreaming, reading a book or simply staring at the ceiling in classroom. When I do my homework, I get destructed a lot, once I even read a different chapter because it was interesting. I cant concentrate. I am being destructed by everything, I just learned how to skateboard, play pool, play guitar instead I could have done something more important, like home work.I cant even check if I have it because I hate due dates. Apparently it shouldnt be a problem.Because of all this I went to talk to my adviser who couldn�t help me, I went to academic learning center but not much help from them. So I thought maybe I have ADHD after a long research I found an article about gifted being misunderstood and diagnosed with ADHD and etc.. I personally dont believe in to ADHD.I�ve researched on gifted and also took an IQ tests, my IQ range was 141-170.I still had doubts so I decided to ask someone that knows better.I was told that only gifted could get such high IQ. I never knews, Even though I�ve been told that I am very Intelligent person.
I have ability to learn very quickly,I have many talent,and people see it. But I can deal with school, so I spend most of my time at the library. I was always on my own ever since 3rd grade, I can just change in one day
What do you think?
Does anyone has a similar story?
