being a genius would be sad

CocaColaAddict
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:58:42 +0000

TA3021: I agree with you with respect to your allegation that a 12-year-old with the intellect of an 18-year-old would not do well making friends with other 12-year-old kids. However, this also implies that such an intellectually advanced 12-year-old would be able to make friends with 18-year-old students. It is intellectual, not chronological, age that makes people peers.

Bear in mind that I speak from first-hand experience; I find others my age incredibly immature, and I even feel that some of those that are truly 18 years old are rather childish as well. As a matter of fact, people tell me that when they first met me, they thought me to be an adult and interacted with me very easily, indicating the possible disparity between a person’s chronological and intellectual age.

As to your statement that loneliness will be the case whether the student skips grades or not, I must disagree, based on what I have stated in the previous paragraph. You say that you are sure that they have enough social skills to deal with the real world. If this is so, why should they be unable to deal with high schoolers?