Do your intellectual and creative pursuits usually involve Craigslist or perezhilton.com? Re-expand your horizons with the 12 Steps to Combating Ex-Gifted Child Syndrome:
1. Create some art, play an instrument, or read a really old book.
2. Go to an obscure museum (The Gallery of Himalayan Art, anyone?)
3. Apply for Mensa, and tell everyone that you're doing it, so later they will all inquire if you got in, and if you didn't you will feel bitter, bitter shame, and this will motivate you to do really well on the Mensa test, so well that you will no longer tolerate long, run-on sentences on blogs or elsewhere.
4. Compose a brilliant letter to an intellectual you admire and kindly request a response.
5. Spend an entire day speaking in a foreign language (or some kind of historical dialect...pirate-speak doesn't count).
6. Contact a former teacher or mentor to say thanks.
7. Become a teacher or mentor and hope that one day your brilliant pupils will dedicate their memoirs to you.
8. Write a well-reasoned letter to the editor on a topic you’re passionate about. Avoid swearing.
9. Download a podcast on a topic you know nothing about and actually listen to it.
10. Attend the nerdiest activity you can find (this includes chess tournaments, swing dances, university lectures on string theory, and comic book conventions).
11. Constantly remind your peers of the amazing feats you accomplished 16 years ago.
12. Send $39.99 a month to this website as a token of your appreciation.
But don't take my word for it...WWLBD?
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