To wonder if child prodigies are happy with their lifes

[Flyingfish2019]

I just read an article about a boy who started university age eight and wonder what that must have been like for him and if he is happy with his life or unhappy because he is so different from everybody else.

BTW how can I enable voting here?

www.amazon.com/Off-Charts-Lessons-American-Prodigies/dp/1101947292?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

This was an interesting book on various prodigies, it generally didn’t end well for the children involved. My overall impression was that prodigious ability when coupled with parental over involvement/enmeshment is a disaster. Children who are prodigies still need a childhood.

I also think some adults who aren’t their parents contribute to poor mental health outcomes in these children. They are feted when they are young for the novelty and almost the entertainment value of their skills then receive less attention as adults when they may still be great and gifted but aren’t as interesting.