I picked up the term “Joan of Arc syndrome” for this somewhere. By the age of 19 she had done x, y, z, blah blah.
The article is written by a writer, so of course it is chock full of pithy statements, emotional frisson, and historical comparisons. But the term that is missing is “growing up.” This just a maturation step, albeit one that apparently takes some people decades to get to.
The article is written by a writer, so of course it is chock full of pithy statements, emotional frisson, and historical comparisons. But the term that is missing is “growing up.” This just a maturation step, albeit one that apparently takes some people decades to get to.