Former Gifted Kid Hats

Gifted kid burnout is a named, long-running internet phenomenon: the kid who got pulled out of class for the advanced reading group, told constantly that they had potential, who grew into an adult who is tired, a little behind on ordinary things, and done performing the role. This collection runs both halves of that story. FORMER GIFTED KID states the identity plainly, and GIFTED KID BURNOUT names the exact phenomenon the identity is known for. FORMER GIFTED KID CURRENT TIRED ADULT puts the before and after in one line, and ACADEMIC WEAPON DECOMMISSIONED takes the old ironic praise-label and retires it outright. I STILL HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL keeps the line teachers used to say, now said about yourself, half-joking. THE GIFTED KID RAN OUT OF GIFTS and MY TEACHERS SAID I WAS GIFTED MY BOSS DISAGREES both test the childhood credential against adult life and let it lose. GIFTED KID IF I CAN'T DO IT PERFECTLY I WON'T names the perfectionism the discourse keeps coming back to, directly. STRAIGHT A'S ZERO LIFE SKILLS closes the set as the sharpest version of the gap joke. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The two strongest lines, GIFTED KID BURNOUT and STRAIGHT A'S ZERO LIFE SKILLS, each get a second colorway. Pick the one that matches your report card, or the one that matches your current life.