Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
Question for all those previous child prodigies, honor students, and kids with "lot's of potential" out there. You doing okay?
Nov 5 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadstudio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈Nov 5
@catsalad Unemployed and barely making rent. However, I am so talented.
Show threadAnna MiriamsdochterNov 5
@catsalad
Show threadjakllschNov 5
@catsalad hahahah *sob*
Show threadSluether  Nov 5
@catsalad hahaha no
Show threadK.C. BuddNov 5
@catsalad not really.
Show threadStacey Cornelius 🇨🇦Nov 5

@catsalad I'm assuming that's rhetorical.

And, uh, no.

Show threadJuliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 5
@catsalad You already know we're not.
Show threadPeterNov 5
@catsalad yep, I've got really good at not living up to my potential
Show threadnoodlejetski Nov 5
@catsalad on the surface, not too bad, all things considered
Show threadMTPNov 5
@noodlejetski @catsalad I feel that image far to much!!
Show threadChilly  🛡️ Nov 5
@noodlejetski
I will not stand for this clearly personal attack against me
@catsalad
Show threadFlatbush Gardener 🌈Nov 6
@noodlejetski @catsalad
Adult Coloring Book!
Show threadoldfartjmb says FREE PALESTINENov 17

@noodlejetski @catsalad

All the best people are weird. 🤪

Show threadHannah (With a snake problem 🐍)Nov 5
@catsalad no.
Show threadHeathen 🐈Nov 5
@catsalad
Ummmmm...
I have a cat?
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Nov 5
@heathen_cat You've succeeded in life! :3
Show threadJonathan LamotheNov 5

@catsalad

*looks at this thread*

Glad I'm not alone, at least.

Show threadmidnight postingNov 5
@catsalad Just you wait until I apply myself someday
Show threadElectropictNov 5

@catsalad

Collecting diagnoses.

Show threadghosttieNov 5
@catsalad it took a long time, but I have resigned myself to never achieving
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Nov 5
@catsalad Yeah. Still wondering what they do with kids in the US in gifted programs.
Show threadLog 🪵Nov 5
@GreenSkyOverMe @catsalad Escalator with no upper landing. Also no parachutes.
Show threadAmber Nov 5
@catsalad no, i grew up without proper support and constantly feel inadequate and like i had my potential taken away from me prematurely
Show threadAmber Nov 5
@catsalad i mean woof
Show threadOriginalboy2Nov 5
@puppygirlhornypost2 @catsalad for me it's a constant cycle of narcissism into imposter syndrome :c
Show threadLot⁴⁹Nov 5
@catsalad Scholastic advantages of skipping a grade <<< athletic disadvantages of being a year younger than all the other boys
Show threadThe TurtleNov 5
@catsalad well, i guess so. Didn't die last year, and I have a bunch of cats who have very limited brains.
Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦Nov 5
@catsalad
Show threadsamir, a terminally deprecated methodNov 5

@catsalad Absolutely not, but I’m working on it.

I hope you are, though.

Show threadBart Champagne ON6BC Nov 5
@catsalad
This isn't the future I signed up for.
Show threadFlesh & bone by the telephoneNov 5
@catsalad Yeah... Mostly okay. Mostly.
Show threadPhie Lux Nov 5
@catsalad 
Show threadQuinn NortonNov 5

@catsalad FWIW, I was a special ed kid, thrown out of high school, didn't have the money for college. My guidance counselor just wanted me to get a low wage job and stay out prison.

...I have a lovely home with cat and partner and a thriving community of friends here (France) *and* back in the USA. I'm struggling with career a lot of the time, but I'm a journalist so that's kind of inevitable right now. I also co-run an IT company and develop tools for web forensics with my partner.

Show threadQuinn NortonNov 5
@catsalad Oh! one more thing, I was, for obvious reasons in the room when we named out company. I managed to get it named Yoyodyne IT. As in:
Show threadCharlotte WalkerNov 5
@catsalad Well I managed to progress to doing a PhD but about 30 years after it was expected of me. Been too busy being mad as a box of frogs.
Show threadTired SpongeNov 5
@catsalad Nope.
Show threadLog 🪵Nov 5
@catsalad About as well as could be expected for someone barraged with lies ever since learning human language.
Show threadSoftwarewolfNov 5
@catsalad I'm okay for now, but avoiding burnout is hard.
Show threadSolarbird Nov 5
@catsalad only thing that’s kept me alive so… arguably?
Show threadLily StarNov 5
@catsalad I am sure I would have done more with a 170 IQ if I hadnt been raised by an homeless alcoholic.
I am not ok, but at least I am not homeless anymore.
Show threadJuniper 🏳️‍⚧️🌲Nov 5
@catsalad some days are better than others
Show threadPiper has movedNov 5
@catsalad Nope. Not on any level.
Show threadschrotthaufenNov 5
@catsalad
Show threadCésar Pose 🇦🇷Nov 5
@catsalad Do you really want to know? It's better not to ask.
Show threadLana The RavenNov 5
@catsalad ...sort of? Now that I know I'm trans/non-binary and have AuDHD and anxiety things have gotten better. Next step is getting out of tech, hopefully to be a full time streamer 🤞
Show threadMillyNov 5
@catsalad Starting to... just taking a decade more than planed ...and counting. x)
Show threadGayDeceiverNov 5
@catsalad What a silly question to ask ... of course we're not ... I mean ... after the crashout? Who would?
Show threadMOULE Nov 5
@catsalad
Show threadHappyCrow13Nov 5
@catsalad I'm alive anyway
Show threadAdara AstinNov 5
@catsalad Pretty sure you just more or less tagged the entire Fediverse.
Show threadDizzy 0069 Stiff Assed Crip Nov 5
@catsalad Probably not. My work days are often spent like this…
Show threadNuclear OatmealNov 5

@catsalad

No. Thanks for asking!

Show threadMulticlass GeekNov 5
@catsalad
Not as well as they thought I’d be!
Show threadCraigNov 5
@catsalad All of my cohort I’m in touch with are fine, I think due in no small part to largely ignoring our “potential” and doing what we wanted to.