Originally Posted by
joypulv
I watched an hour long show interviewing 'gifted' children now in their 20s and 30s. Most of them regretted the term and the way they were hustled into special classes and lessons and watched and pampered. There's more tendency now to learn from those mistakes of the 80s and 90s, and to still provide the tools to learn more at a faster rate but not to categorize it and push it so much.
I am a little dismayed that you are dismayed that a top student who doesn't know some facts you know is somehow indicative of something. It isn't!
I also can't figure out what you are asking a lot of total strangers online about something only you really know the answer to. I'm sure you are smart, and you say you don't study or work hard - that's all we have to go on, along with a few stories of what you figured out when. But what you don't seem to care about is what it all means (absolutely nothing). It won't get you through life, relationships, a career, more schools, onto a space ship to Mars or into the French Foreign Legion.
Maybe your talents will shine in some area of the arts, music, literature, design, acting, inventing, where academics aren't as vital. Good luck.