Everyone in my childhood told me I was gifted and ahead of other kids which made me not pick up challenges that would defy my identity or shatter my ego. It happened in 4th grade. Everything was too easy. I never paid attention to putting myself into the habit of working hard or studying, and now everything has changed because of that. I have low self-esteem because my grades deteriorated, which totally changed my personality. I went from being my friends' first choice to just everyone's extra friend, and I don't have very good social skills now. I used to be a chatterbox, but because of my friends pointing that out and ignoring me, that changed about me and now I can't undo it…before, everyone would become good friends with me after talking once or twice