@RickiTarr Gifted until the curriculum catches up with you, round about GCSE level. Then everything becomes too complex and draining. Your parents get mad and ask why you can't apply yourself anymore when you used to be so good.

Or in my case, even when I got diagnosed my mother used my special interests as ammunition to belittle them and me. "If it was about anime and manga you wouldn't have a problem!" She said this knowing full well my diagnosis and what special interests mean.