Beethoven and Barbies

Smart Kid Characters From the Perspective of An Ex-Smart-Kid

Whenever someone’s complaining about the attitudes of small children, and says something along the lines of:

well, you know what kids are like…

— my brain has a moment of confusion where it’s like:

…Beethoven fans?

And then I realise that they don’t mean that at all.

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I’ve made no secret of the fact that I was a weird, precocious, little kid.

At the age of six, I loved fine art and classical music and reading reading reading.

My parents had only the barest knowledge of classical music, and none of fine art. So it’s safe to say it was a learning experience for them 😅

You know that meme that’s like, ‘you weren’t gifted, you were just White and middle-class’?

F**k that meme.

I’m sure in many cases it stands true — educational racism and classism is 100% a thing.