There was a kid like that in my ugrad class way back in the day. Whenever I see him, I always feel a little sorry for him because as intelligent as he is, he is really still an early teen in his heart. All the intelligence that he has been bestowed with doesn't change his mental age, and he never really got to enjoy the social aspect of university life.
And when I was in highschool, there was also a gifted kid with a fairly high IQ (150, maybe?) in my grade. But age-wise, he was 2 or 3 years old younger than we were, and again, as intelligent as he was, he just wasn't at the same mental age as the rest of the people were. Naturally, he didn't have too many close friends in our grade, and he didn't seem to know too many people from the more junior grades either...
-Lik |