People seem to forget a lot that child math prodigies are being trained by parents to be math geniuses instead of enjoying being a kid. I had a 12 year old in my freshman CS class and he was the most miserable unhappy kid I've ever seen in my entire life.
Edit: Pretty good points in the replies. Probably a lot of latent jealousy on my side in this. I should have thought on this more before commenting.
Edit: Pretty good points in the replies. Probably a lot of latent jealousy on my side in this. I should have thought on this more before commenting.