This is fascinating. Was it hard to keep him mentally stimulated? did he ever struggle with being the smartest kid all the time?

I imagine it must feel a bit lonely being vastly smarter than most



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Have you ever know a wunderkind?

My son, to an extent. 

24 now, he started reading well before he was 3. Still the fastest reader I have ever met and although he does not have eidetic memory, he has the best recall I have ever come across. 

I remember all he wanted for his 5th Birthday was the Ontario Building Code, which he read and can still cite with great accuracy to this day. 

I gave him a copy of Broken Money for Christmas when it came out and he read it while the rest of us were opening presents and having coffee in about 90 minutes which is about one page every 10 seconds or so. I’ve never asked him but I’m sure there are weeks where he has read 40+ books.

It’s actually really annoying haha.