I was an advanced learner and started college at 16. The only reason I didn't start at 14 was because I had to get a highschool diploma or GED to qualify for financial assistance. It took me 18 months after acceptance into university to get the adult education diploma.

Up until then I had moved along with my class, always placed in the advanced courses.

Basically school sucked for me.

In my experience being in the 99+% sucks socially growing up and even into adulthood. There is no easy path for these kids. They do not fit in anywhere. There is no "right" path for all of them. Each has to figure it out on their own and suffer through it.

Excellent point on the peers, I was thinking about that as well.

Humans love to talk to other humans who have shared experiences. People get excited when they find someone who went to the same school as them, even if they were years apart. Those shared experiences help us bond and connect with others.

Who in the world can she bond with? Few people have experienced anything close to what she has. I worry that it will lead to somewhat of a lonely existence, at least until she's old enough that she has some more experiences under her belt and can begin to relate to others more. Until then, the experience that 95% of Americans share is missing.

I'm hoping it's something that will balance out as she gets older, but I don't see it being a fun time for the first decade at least.

Whenever this topic comes up, people ignore the other side. I was placed in Remedial classes, which might as well have been called Deceleration. Placed in classes with bullies for all of K-12 just because some over eager physiologist decided I had a learning disability and my over protective mother went along with it. The high schools was incredibility stratified having four different levels, not including special ed. I was placed in the bottom rung every time. When they brought me in to discuss what classes I should take in high school, they never actually explained anything, but apparently that counts as agreeing to it.

My social life sucked, my academic life sucked, and I hate everything to do with that place. I would love to be able to look back and only regret the social life being bad. At least my options would be better two shitty community colleges.

And if you're wondering about my intelligence, I've never completed a single college course, but routinely get mistaken for an engineering graduate, even by engineering professors.

I don't see why her parents would need to be present in class? Commute in, sure, but otherwise it'd be pretty much the same as any high-school. They'd just drop her off and pick her up when she's done for the day.

We don't know, and that's precisely what my comment was talking about. I want to know more.

Although we can use an educated guess that if you're getting a doctorate you probably don't have a ton of free time, at least not nearly as much as a normal student her age has. Even if we assume she doesn't need to study at all, a doctorate still takes up a lot of someone's time, and doesn't leave a ton of time for watching cartoons.

Could be. If 17 year old me had chosen my life trajectory I'd be having a bad time. Hopefully she has better advisors and plans that don't have her chasing achievements as a way of life. Or an insatiable infatuation with chasing achievements. That can be a way of life too, just not one I'd want.

I'm kidding. I'm just dumb.

hey come on, don't say that to yourself, you genius gamer masturbators.

Well, it is ASU...