My parents put me in these gifted and talented classes as a kid they used that term for me back then too. I never understood what it meant until much later on. The other kids teased me mercilessly for being in that class, they told me that's where the stick the "special" kids. I made my parents pull me out of it because I wanted to fit in not be singled out. I still wonder how things might have been if I had ignored the teasing and stayed in.