u/TrogdorUnofficial

So many posts, here and otherwise, are people lamenting that they didn't meet their potential, or what they felt the world expected of them as a "gifted kid".

This can either come as a jab or a relief, but chances are you reached your potential whether you like it or not.

What I have seen anecdotally is that children - mostly in the US - are identified for gifted programs, assume the gifted label, have an average life, and mourn what could/should have been.

Most of the time, schools and districts had established programs that drew extra funding. Teachers selected kids that seemed to behave or do well, or who they wanted out of their class, to go into the programs. There may have been an aptitude test, but most were based on observation and nomination.

This has very little to do with giftedness. You were probably misidentified for nefarious purposes then lived up to your actual potential. If you're carrying around guilt or remorse for a life not lived, you shouldn't. You're the only one putting that burden on your shoulders.

Actually gifted people know there is no 'formerly gifted', and there is no 'I was gifted as a child'. There's also no shame in being average, and it's not your fault that you were mislabelled. Let go of the chip on your shoulder and you'll see how much it was weighing unnecessarily on your self worth.

I'm wondering if the role play team objective is for people who actually role play, and if so, what do those people do?

I mean, do you have a back story and a mindset for your character, put on a voice and go doing things in the wasteland that align with their job or whatever?

I attend a lot of fundraising quizzes and dinners etc. I've got a stack of gift cards and whatnot from silent auctions and raffles that I need to start using.

I looked at one today that I'd forgotten about. A voucher for an overnight cruise for 2. I'd gotten it at a function in July 2025.

The voucher says it is void without refund if not "activated" within two months from the date of the event.
Under Australian Consumer Law, gift cards must have an expiry date of no less than 3 years from the date of purchase.

The main question here is:

is this a gift card under the law, or does it only become a gift card once it is "activated"? The means of activating it are filling in an enquiry form on their website. The document provides the date of the event, the event name etc.

Is the "activation" clause their way of skirting around ACL?

I've been doing infestations on a private server. Occasionally I'll get bigfoot but I can't kill it solo. What are the most effective weapons against it?

PCMR

Per the title. I've had my HP Pavilion for a couple of years. The A drive, which I have thrown a few things onto, just because there's space, is much larger than C, which has gotten progressively fuller over the years.

Firstly, why is OS installed on C when A has so much more space?

Secondly, is it possible/advisable/worth it to have OS installed on A?

Assuming that C is full because that's the default install location for everything, can that be changed to A? That is, if the OS as it were remained on C, could everything feasibly be relocated to A?

My uni has 2 factor authentication that logs out after 5 minutes or so, which makes it really frustrating to use.

I’ve tried downloading papers and using them that way, but I end up with multiple copies saved under different names and I can’t keep track of what I’ve read or haven’t.

I’m liking the idea of having paper copies, at least for summaries and my notes. For anyone that has done/does this, how do you keep and organise them?

Australia | Education

Australia | Education

I made another post earlier that my confirmation of candidature seminar is coming up. My supervisors want to have a practice run through tomorrow (Wednesday morning). I’ve been focusing on writing my project and haven’t focused much on my presentation. My supervisors have sent me two examples, but I’m looking for a few more to get a better idea of the format etc.

Can anyone link me a url to some other presentations that I could look at?

Thanks (getting nervous)

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.

My understanding is that in the US, 20-something states mandate having gifted programs in schools, although what I was reading last night was about half of schools in Minnesota did not have a gifted ed teacher nominated.

It is my understanding that many school programs rely on teacher nomination. This is often the case in the UK and Australia as well.

IQ-wise, jurisdictions tend to either use Gagné’s threshold (90th percentile) or the 2sd threshold (130). I discovered last night a really weird checklist that was developed in the 80s that some schools have used over the years to differentiate between “gifted” and “bright” students. It’s very subjective and based on teacher observation.

If the teacher is using the checklist or something similar, they are likely to choose only the compliant/well-behaved/high achieving students. This misses out on the gifted children who meet the IQ criteria but are flying under the radar or are underachieving. It’s also likely those teachers define the criteria and are the gatekeepers to the programs and supports.

It is my opinion that it is this selection for support programs rather than identification that leads to the idea of “former gifted” by people that were selected for programs in schools, developed an identity based on that label, set expectations for themselves or had them foisted on them by others, which they then didn’t meet, and so leads to an identity crisis.

Do you think this is the case?

Do you think identification > selection or vice versa?

I’m going to be cautious to not dox myself, but here’s the basics:

I live with severe trauma - mental and physical - from service in the ADF.

My ex (de facto), who I have a child with, was emotionally, financially, and psychologically harmful to me during our relationship which ended in 2023.

We’ve just finished property settlement and she’s taken most of my remaining compensation from Defence, which was supposed to compensate for my injuries and let me have something to live off for the rest of my life. I have no capacity to work full time. She has a qualification that I helped her get, works in a stable job and has capacity to move up, get higher quals etc. she’s also repartnered and so has far lower future needs than I do.

That aside, because it’s all been settled in court, she perjured herself many times in her affidavits and court documents. Needless to say, the protracted legal process, the drain on my funds, and the ludicrous amounts
She demanded have exacerbated my health issues incredibly, to the point I thought about ending myself, which I haven’t done for years, and have only resisted because of my child.

In the discovery documents, it was also found that she was claiming single parenting payment when she was in a de facto relationship, and she and her parent have been in cahoots defrauding the ATO - the parent has a salary sacrifice novated lease, the ex has been the sole driver of the car since day 1, that was the plan.

Do I have any legal recourse for mental damages?

Is there any legal means to pursue on the perjury, Centrelink fraud and ATO fraud? Technically it’s her parent committing the tax fraud.

The latter issues might just be to get my own back and it would bring me some joy seeing her get a comeuppance.

I was in a role on probation. At the end of the probation period, I was removed from the job citing performance issues and lacking skills. No ROCs, no PDP, no NTSC. I reported to 2 O5s and an O6. As there’d been no PA for the entire time (12 months), there was no mentoring and no direction on how to improve. At that point I didn’t want to continue in the position, but I wanted to clear my name so I responded to the notice with many rebuttals. Those officers have been backed up by 2 reviews, 1 by a O5, then one by a 1-star. While they agree my complaints were not vexatious, they found no grounds for unacceptable behaviour. I cited leadership doctrine, ADF values, ethics, but they appear to be given no weight whatsoever. In civvie street, they’d be taken to fair work and found to be in the wrong. How can senior officers and star officers believe this is good people management and allow it to continue?