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I don't think that it's just the gifted kid programs that are causing these issues, I think it's more foundational than that.
So much of school is focused on rote memorization, test scores, and grades that kids who do well end up having their entire sense of self-worth tied to their grades. Then they get out into the real world and no longer have those academic scores to tell them that they have any value.
It's how we get stuff like this:
There's so much more in this discussion like how kids who never are challenged by schoolwork don't actually learn how to learn and therefore give up on something at the first hint of difficulty or challenge because their brain is conditioned to believe that either you're instantly good at a thing or you're a failure forever, or how there's a real lack of teaching collaborative work in school despite that being like 90% of work in life, but that's all too much for my tired brain to try to piece together into a comprehensible message. So instead I'll just end with my usual meme on the subject: Beware, the "gifted kid to burnout trans girl with a praise kink" pipeline is real.