- Anybody else out there go through GATE or something similar? Mine was called ‘Space Lab’ but it was all the same. It seems like our memories of it are starting to creep back.

-- teens who burned out or were turned off by achieving after that. Who struggled as adults are probably recognizably classified as autistic or socially stunted. Who don’t trust when people are being nice to them because they think they’re being conned or will be let down, like we were as kids. 🧵

- who went on field trips they don’t remember, who were basically told they were special but then were dropped from it in like 5th grade and went from being kid geniuses to unmotivated teens 🧵

Same