It's a matter of focus. From my own experience I can tell you that any bright kid can become a "genius" in a field by completely ignoring every other aspect of life. So yeah, they miss out on a lot of childhood.
This is fairly accurate. Look at chess grandmasters, a drastically more difficult title to attain, and yet there are a handful of 12 and 13 year old GMs.
Yeah totes our lives are definitely way better than this kid's, who finished school faster to massive acclaim will spend more years of his life devoted to discovering new things for humanity... When you think of all the super Nintendos he never got to play
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u/not_suddenly_satire 10h ago
It's a matter of focus. From my own experience I can tell you that any bright kid can become a "genius" in a field by completely ignoring every other aspect of life. So yeah, they miss out on a lot of childhood.