https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 07:38:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-31116 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:07:36 +0000 MH.Abroad 31116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do. I knew him since birth, he was a tiny genius. They took him in to have his IQ tested after someone noticed him reading a window sign from the inside of the store (so backwards) at normal speed at age 3. Yeah...<br /> He went to college at 15 or 16 I think, but we've lost touch now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-31099 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:30:04 +0000 Rubies 31099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My good friend from high school is a freakin' genius. Every year our city's big newspaper runs a story of the highest averages achieved my students and back in the day, my friend made news when she had something ridiculous like a 99.2% average (she got like 100% in calculus, English, and biology). Anyway, she's an engineer now and makes parts for NASA. And she has a side business in jewellry-making. AND she sews. AND she is a great artist.</p> <p>I almost hate her. Just kidding, she's my buddy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-31091 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:06:19 +0000 Mrs Sorbet 31091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I definitely remember the smartest kids, there were 3 of them. 1 was the smartest at EVERYTHING all through elementary school and then I lost touch with him in high school. He went to one of the best colleges in our state and dropped out freshman year. He's now working at a supermarket and from what I get from his FB posts, does little more than smoke pot all day.</p> <p>I, too, feel sad for his wasted talent. </p> <p>Regarding the other 2 kids I mentioned... one was my best friend growing up, we lost touch but she became a teacher and seems to be doing very well with her life, and the other is....my HUSBAND! He's doing pretty well himself! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-31082 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:04:45 +0000 Mrs. Armbender 31082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do, there were three of them. Darin, Bart, and Jennifer. Darin was the smartest, he is a neurologist on the east coast, Jennifer was the actor/singer who was always the star, I heard she did a few off broadway shows but I don't know what after that. Bart, truely talented. He moved to Europe and is a concert violinest and plays with big symphonies all over Europe. They are trying to get back to the states to live but immigration doesn't recognize same sex couples :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-31073 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:26:39 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 31073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do because I was always secretly competing with them! They were both in gifted with me and we were all close friends. They are both in college. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-30988 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:35:56 +0000 Maysprout 30988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In my elementary school there was one guy who was way smarter than everyone else. His dad was an abusive alcoholic and he became a drug dealer. He did get himself to college at some point and might be clean now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-30979 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:29:59 +0000 mrsjazz 30979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is funny to me because apparently at my first elementary school that kid was me. When I was that age I thought the smartest kid was someone else until he contacted me a year ago on a social media network to tell me that he both liked me and was jealous of me when we were kids because I always scored a few points above him on our projects. He became the student with the highest grades at that school--but he said he knew if I had stayed in the school it would've been me. I was pulled out of that school to attend a special program for the "gifted and talented." And that boy, well, he's not so successful :(</p> <p>When I got to my new school I was a nobody and I don't know what happened to those smarts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-smartest-or-most-talented-kid-you-grew-up-with#post-30969 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:17:35 +0000 mrbee 30969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will never forget the smartest kid in my fourth grade class. He was so clearly smarter than me, it wasn't even funny. It was such a humbling moment, to realize that there were people out there that could wipe the floor with me if they wanted.</p> <p>It turns out though, that he didn't want to. He moved to Europe in high school and came back a raging alcoholic. Instead of feeling relieved though, I just felt so sad for all that wasted talent. It was the first time I saw immense talent squandered to an addiction. I hope he turned things around at some point...</p> <p>Do you remember the smartest or most talented kid you grew up with? What did they end up doing with their lives? </p>