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[quote=Anonymous]This was a study of eight (8!!!!!) prodigies. I don't think most people on DCUM who brag about their child think their child is a prodigy. They just think their child is advanced.  A child who can count to 100 or even 1000 at age 3 is not necessarily a prodigy.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really, do you all have a budding genius or go to 5 years of preschool or something?  My dd went to part-time preschool for 3 years, and she can now reliably count to 20 or 30, but she is not able to count to 100 by 1's and 10's yet.  She certainly didn't show up to K with that ability. Do you want your K student to be doing calculus or something?  You know some kids that are very advance academically have other issues such as autism.  [/quote]
Threatened much? Wow. So now kids who are great at math probably have autism?[/quote]

http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/10/what-child-prodigies-and-autistic-people-have-in-common/

Child prodigies evoke awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of dedicated practice? Lucky for these despairing types, the prevailing wisdom suggests that such comparisons are unfair — prodigies are born, not made (mostly). Practice alone isn’t going to turn out the next 6-year-old Mozart.

So finds a recent study of eight young prodigies, which sought to shed some light on the roots of their talent. The prodigies included in the study are all famous (but remain unidentified in the paper), having achieved acclaim and professional status in their fields by the ripe age of 10. Most are musical prodigies; one is an artist and another a math whiz, who developed a new discipline in mathematics and, by age 13, had had a paper accepted for publication in a mathematics journal.

There was something else striking too. The authors found that prodigies scored high in autistic traits, most notably in their ferocious attention to detail. They scored even higher on this trait than did people diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism that typically includes obsession with details.

Three of the eight prodigies had a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder themselves. The child who had spoken his first words at 3 months, stopped speaking altogether at 18 months, then started again when he was just over two-and-a-half years old; he was diagnosed with autism at 3. What’s more, four of the eight families included in the study reported autism diagnoses in first- or second-degree relatives, and three of these families reported a total of 11 close relatives with autism. In the general population, by contrast, about 1 in 88 people have either autism or Asperger’s.
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