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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They get locked out by people people [/quote]
 :D They can be people people, too. [b]I don't know about prodigy, but DC coasted through k-12[/b] and started putting more effort into school while in college when studying wasn't a priority before.  Tutoring college students and has >3.9 in pre-med.[/quote]

That just sounds like a high IQ high achiever. I think some people here aren't familiar with what prodigy looks like. The "starting advanced math courses at MIT at 9 years old" prodigy type is miles from "coasted through school in honors classes." The latter I think actually is preferable and likely will be successful, but that's not being a prodigy. And yeah, the true prodigies I have known have struggled mightily with people. They've all clearly been somewhere on the spectrum and just generally operating on a different plane than 99% of people. I grew up down the street and in school with someone like this and don't view it as desirable, frankly. [/quote]

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