ouch wrote:autism wrote:
I don't think theres a dichotomy to people who are good at everything and people who are bad at everything. It's probably just a combination of income and certain kids getting more support and praise at a young age because they learned faster, since the learning methods were made for them, which resulted to them being motivated and good at many things. Kids from high income families can also have more hobbies and more expensive hobbies than low income kids. Some things that lead to poverty are also neurological and genetic which affect the way we learn, so at least some of the neurodivergent kids are also from low income families.
I also think that the people who seem to be good at everything have huge pressure on beeing seen as people who are good at everything. So they're probably pretty good at hiding the things they're bad at. Or they just have skills that make them good at making themselves seem like they're good at everything (very complicated sentence, apologies!). People who are openly bad at something are probably openly bad at other things as well. And maybe they don't brag about the things they're good at so much.
We should also consider on what we see as things you can be good and bad at and which things wee se as more valuable than others. Sorry for the long reply, this topic is very interesting!
No I just mean me n my best friend, very similar backgrounds etc etc, n I absolutely do not feel pressure to b good cus I will own it if what I do is bad, but like at school for example, if we r doing smth neither of us has done before, she will always suck n I will always do it good (generalized but u get), like idk why is that. Also it is hard to talk to her lol cus she doesn't know any words or general knowledge but ig that is a different discussion, but idk. Its just a recurring theme w everything. Tho she is still miles better than some of the other ppl in my class tho thank god
Interesting! However I do believe that everyone has the potential to be good at things. Some people take more time to learn than others. And the way we're teached is made for certain kind of brain. It's not even meant to be understood by everyone, so obviously there's people that are going to learn slower or in some cases, not at all. But in those cases I do think the fault is in the education and not in the one being educated.