Bright Pupil Syndrome?

Question

I recently heard someone being referred to as having 'Bright Pupil Syndrome' - where they don't work as hard as they should because they know they are smart.
I'm really interested in this, but I cannot find any reference to it anywhere.
It might be an anglicized version of an American term but I've tried searching for 'Best pupil...' 'Top pupil', 'Smart pupil...' etcetra and drawn a blank.
Anyone know any more about it and where I can read up on it?
PS No Lisa Simpson jokes.

OK, I admit, I was told I had it.
I'm a 33 year old man doing an MA. I really don't think it is Asperger Syndrome.
I was an odd kid, but not that unusual.

Answer 1

I don't think it's a formally named syndrome, probably just used as a catch phrase somewhere.

Here's a couple of links that give info on the type of thing you're talking about:

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/Archived/e478.html

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/underachievement.htm

Answer 2

I was schooled in Belgium. They streamline children at the age of 14 into academic, technical and vocational.
I got put into academic and found it very boring. My mother wanted me to get to go to uni and personally i didn't even have an idea what a university was and neither had i an inclination to find out.
I must have been smart cause all my end of term reports would say was thing like "Could do better if she tried" or something similar.
I didn't want to try.
So what if i was smart and could do better? By the time I was 12 i had decided i wanted to be a long-distance lorry driver. By the time i was 13 i had found out i would never be a lorry driver before 21 because that is when you can get the licence.
So i had decided i wanted to study the third year of secondary in a technical school and do car mechanics so by the time i got to 21 i would not only be able to drive my lorry but also would be able to fix the engine if it broke down.
But my parents would never allow it. They wanted the best for me (their words).
My only chance was my year teacher who had the final say on the end of year grade.
I begged him for a 'B'. Told him my reasons and could he please give me a 'B' with a reccomendation for a Technical education.
He said i would regret it later. I was clever and could do better than technical. I got an 'A' and left school in third year of secondary.
Being smart was irrelevant to me. I had a dream. It wasn't good enough for my parents. It wasn't good enough for the teachers.
I couldn't care less. No one was listening to me anyway.

I never got my HGV in the end. But did spend my 20's being a despatch rider in London and i loved every minute of it :-). I'm 42 in a few weeks. I still love driving and riding.

Shift the blame to the pupil. It's what's being done. Whilst i doubt if anyone is actually even considering that teachers and parents are not listening to what the pupil wants in the first place?

Answer 3

Our kids all did very well in school but our youngest son was different.

He would read his text books cover to cover in the first week of school. He would read the encyclopedia stay on the Internet for hours researching anything and everything.

He got good grades but never really had to try that hard. It all seems to come to easy for him.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

Asperger syndrome
This is the correct name for Bright Student Syndrome
Einstein Suffered from it.

Answer 5

you might try using the word student in your search instead of pupil. you might also search under 'high intelligence' or combine underachiev(ing or ment) with high intelligence or high IQ.

Answer 6

that is talking about those big circles that doctors where on their heads that have a hol ein them and they wil look at you throught that hole and dream ofmeeting their maker

Answer 7

yes, that applies to geniuses and over-confident people, who are arrogant. Kinda like me