The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller might resonate (I hate the title but the content is incredible).
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I don’t know any books, but if it helps, I’m in the same boat.
imeven on
The Kingkiller Chronicle if you’re into epic fantasy is about a *very* gifted kid who went on all sorts of adventures and became a legend, only to end up on the run, creating a new identity as a burned out tired & bored innkeeper ‘patiently waiting to die’.
Fair warning that it has been 12 years and still no finale to the series, that may never come. But the first two books are worth reading in and of themselves in my opinion.
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I don’t think you get a better trope with this than in A Christmas Carol.
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It’s YA but a very good YA, called It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini.
I’m about halfway through it but “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman is insanely relatable and so comforting to me (as someone who continues to struggle with imposter syndrome and burnout from my college years)
BeauteousMaximus on
Ender’s Game is a classic Gifted Kid story. He’s an adult in Speaker for the Dead and I’m not sure burnout is the right way to describe it but he definitely deals with the aftermath. I haven’t read any of the other sequels.
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I’ll send you my memoir. :/
*Catcher in the Rye* by Salinger?
*Catch-22* by Joseph Heller?
I wish I had another “Catch” book to add.
I’m writing an autobiography…
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller might resonate (I hate the title but the content is incredible).
I don’t know any books, but if it helps, I’m in the same boat.
The Kingkiller Chronicle if you’re into epic fantasy is about a *very* gifted kid who went on all sorts of adventures and became a legend, only to end up on the run, creating a new identity as a burned out tired & bored innkeeper ‘patiently waiting to die’.
Fair warning that it has been 12 years and still no finale to the series, that may never come. But the first two books are worth reading in and of themselves in my opinion.
I don’t think you get a better trope with this than in A Christmas Carol.
It’s YA but a very good YA, called It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248704
J. D. Salinger’s stories about the Glass family, e.g. “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters”.
The DSM-V.
Wow! There is obviously a market here that needs filling!
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
I haven’t read this yet, but it’s well reviewed on goodreads… if you’re at all into music, maybe you’d enjoy Jeremy Denk’s *Every Good Boy Does Fine*: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58690857-every-good-boy-does-fine
My Dark Vanessa
I’m about halfway through it but “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman is insanely relatable and so comforting to me (as someone who continues to struggle with imposter syndrome and burnout from my college years)
Ender’s Game is a classic Gifted Kid story. He’s an adult in Speaker for the Dead and I’m not sure burnout is the right way to describe it but he definitely deals with the aftermath. I haven’t read any of the other sequels.