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The whole reason I went to college was to better my life and to live a more comfortable life than the one I experienced growing up.  It's six years later and I am still living where I always lived and haven't advanced at all.

 

When I was a kid, all I wanted was to meet other kids who acted like me, who behaved well in school, who got good grades, who didn't emphasize sports and fighting, stuff like that.

The gifted and talented litereature I read refers to "true peers,"  They mean people who aren't merely the same age as the kid in question, but are people who are truly similar to the kid on various levels.  I never had "true peers" during my elementary school years, and when I did have the chance in high school, somewhere along the way I lost any real idea of who I am and who would qualify as "someone like me."  If you can't truly identify who and what you are, how can you spot some one like you?

That's where I am now. Not sure who I am, not sure what kind of group I would fit into and truly feel at home.

I wish there was a forum that addressed all the things I feel like I have to deal with in one place. The SA, the fact that I was a gifted child, the fact that I was bullied, the fact that I was and still am an only child.  And how those all interacted to make my growing up less than desirable and how it negatively affected my social development

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or whatever kind of doctor this researcher is, to know that bully harms kid's mental health

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23035686

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Bullying harms kids' mental health

NEW YORK - A new study provides strong evidence that being bullied can cause children to develop depression and anxiety.

Among identical twin pairs in which one experienced bullying between the ages of 7 and 9 and the other did not, the bullied twin was significantly more likely to have symptoms of internalizing problems at age 10, Dr. Louise Arsenault of King’s College, London, and her colleagues found.

Internalizing problems are psychological problems in which negativity is directed inward toward the self, such as depression, as opposed to outwardly, such as conduct disorder.

This research “really supports the assumption or the belief that being bullied is bad for children’s health,” Arsenault told Reuters Health. And the fact that children were having these symptoms, which include frequent crying, fear of being alone, and stomach aches — at such a young age strongly suggests that they need help, she added.

Bullied children are known to be more likely to have anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide, as well as to experience social isolation, Arsenault and her team note in their report.

But the question of whether bullying itself is the cause of these mental health problems remains open. It’s possible, the researchers explain, that bullying and mental health problems stem from the same risk factors, such as living in a poor neighborhood or parental neglect, or even that a child with mental health problems is more likely to draw bullies’ attention.

To investigate, Arsenault and her team looked at 1,116 twin pairs from a nationally representative sample of twins born in England and Wales between ....

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23035686/

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At this time 3 months ago I thought I would be spending Valentines Day with someone who I told I was in love with and who told me she was in love with me.  It didn't work out that way though