Were YOU gifted and talented? What's your experience.

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Just interested really, bunch of bespectacled girlie swots that we are on Mumsnet. Were you "G&T" before it was cool?

I wasnt particually G & T, My reading age was adult when I was 7 though and I took some GCSE's a couple of years early... then I had kids and all the knowledge just disappeared....

I sort of was, and then threw it all away by becoming a SAHM!

Couldn't possibly say.

WOW, how many people do you think are going to stand up to be tarred and feathered?

I certainly thought I was

but looking back I was probably just precocious

What are the criteria used, or do they vary from school to school?

I'd never heard of this before, find it v. intersting.

God no - appeared clever, being in an unclever year at primary school, and then it all went wrong

Precocious/G&T - fine line

No, I don't think I was. Well above "average" - yes.

Apparently an exceptionally talented singer, but then so are loads of people and I just didn't like opera enough to be blaring it out day in day out.

I was certainly a bespectacled swot but not sure that would count as G&T.

I wish I could sing effortlessly and in tune (in an arethra or ella style voice) .. that would be my dream

aretha

Well above average at primary - then it all went pear-shaped. So no, not G&T.

Could someone explain to me in as few words as possible what all this G&T stuff is about anyway, why do they have it and what qualifies kids to be labelled it?

Then I'll know

Yes, I was, FWIW. I spoke, read, counted, etc. early.

In the States, it was the way to test into an incredibly academically prestigious secondary school. In my school district, you got into top schools on merit, not where you lived.

I didn't 'throw it all away'. Well, at least I don't like to think like that, it's a pretty negative mindset.

I like to think I'm just a late bloomer, b/c it all works out how it's going to work out eventually, with a little tweak and nudge where and when we feel inclined.

I am deffo NOT GT but DS is

So he has my beauty and DH brains

Cos I am DDG {drop dead georgeous!!!!!!}

Maybe I was until I was 11 - then it all went downhill!!!

Come on admit it ladies

You are always saying you were top of the class - surely the same thing nowadays?

I don't know about G&T but I did the reading/writing v early too.

When I was in 1st year of high school, the school decided i'd been put in the wrong class and moved me up to the top streams for every subject. My parents had a meeting with the Head who told them I was expected to achieve all A's at GCSE, do really well in A levels, choice of university etc etc.

My Dad was really pleased and piled on the pressure for me to do well (making me study on my birthday whilst on holiday during school holidays!!!) My Dad formed a masterplan of what I would do and I felt my life had already been planned out for me.

Needless to say I rebelled, smoked weed and drank all the way through my GCSE's (still passed them but much lower results than had been predicted).

Dropped out of sixth form and ended up on a YT scheme working in shops for £27.50 per week

Not the academic career that had been planned for me at all

Using the current criteria I wasn't at primary, I was in secondary.

Dh's parents were told (while living in the US) to put him in a school for the gifted. He has exceptional A levels but a crap degree and a tested IQ of above 150. He is the most 'normal' guy you could ever wish to meet.

My life in school was hell, and I learned to hide my interest and ability. Once I did , things got getter.

I am still very good at a few things, and there are 101 things that I am totaly crap at

I am still suffering from my genius today

Lol at Urethra Franklin.

Serious and totaly non condemnatory question Strabs.....could the school have done anything to help you stay on track?