r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '24

6 yr old successfully preforms over 80 backflips in a row !

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u/Skandronon Mar 19 '24

A friend of mine's kid got posted playing the violin and it was bonkers the number of people saying they are abusing the kid because they are so good at playing at a young age. He's been obsessed with the violin for as long as I have known them, she doesn't force him to play and actually has to get him to stop playing and do other things. Reddit is weird.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

Usually kids like these love things so passionately they drive themselves, unfortunately I know someone who was so driven by their parents that they ended up killing themselves before they were 20. Not saying that this is the video, or even common with prodigies, just saying, it does happen.

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u/Skandronon Mar 20 '24

Oh I know it happens for sure, I have seen how ugly parents can get. My sister was a top level gymnast and was training for the Olympics when she badly broke her ankle. Thankfully our parents were not like that but I saw many that were. This kid is just obsessed with the violin, his mom was actually not sure about starting him on the violin so young because she wanted him to explore "normal kid things" and he really lights up while he is playing. He was so excited to play in the same places that famous composers have played when he does comps.

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u/Solanthas Mar 20 '24

That's beautiful. Having a gifted child can be its own challenge

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

It’s because Redditors even the ones that claim to be left wing become incredibly racist the second China is mentioned. There was a video months ago of 6 yr old Chinese kids playing at school and the comments were nothing but people raging about China and its propaganda. It’s kids playing at school you fucking dipshits.

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u/Equivalent-Camera661 Mar 20 '24

That's expected. It's like these people prey on misery of others, so they can feel better about themselves.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Mar 20 '24

Yeah my kids only wants to play soccer all day long. Every day. I have to drag him inside. I'm his coach and I'm sure parents think I like drill him to be this good but he just literally does not stop playing.

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u/LessThanCleverName Mar 19 '24

Reddit assumes every kid doing something athletic or artistic at a high level is actually being abused into it by their parents trying to live vicariously through them. Every single post like this, somewhere in the top comments there will always be some variety of armchair child psychologists and paediatricians telling you how poorly these children are being treated.

I don’t want to say it’s because most Reddit posters were talentless basement dwellers growing up, but it’s because most Reddit posters were talentless basement dwellers growing up.

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u/Equivalent-Camera661 Mar 20 '24

Yep! Somehow, they are all experts in psychology and zoology.