My wife was 55 when her “mother” told ME (out of the damn blue) “I don’t care if you tell her this or mot, but she’s adopted. We adopted her the day she was born, and I destroyed all the papers, so she’ll never find her parents.”

Yes! I completely agree. I think there’s such a desire to see kids who are prodigies or geniuses, that there’s a somewhat lax definition of child-genius these days. Even most gifted kids aren’t geniuses, and if they are, it’s sometimes only revealed later in life. The math/science geniuses are easier to spot early,…

Maybe she didn’t have a birth certificate or social security number? You can get through school without those things, but when you’re 18 and getting ready for college or a job it’d start being a real problem, and it’s hard for a kidnapper to explain away. That’s what made Carlina White suspicious.

Skipping grades isn’t equal to being intellectually gifted, though. I think this is why people talk about ‘genius’ children growing up to be only as smart as the average person.

Just had a baby 6 weeks ago. They only took her once for hearing test and the few other newborn items and she was back in 20 minutes. They didnt have a nursery.

They lock maternity wards down so tight now, it’s crazy. My kid was an hour old and had on a proximity alarm, three bar codes that corresponded to me, and a microchip. No exaggeration. And my hospital required babies to room in with the parents.

Every delivery ward I’ve been in in the past 10 years have a system so that this never happens. They baby has a monitor attached to them and there are sensors that if they’re taken beyond them, go off. Security is tight.

Still confused about the role this young woman played in revealing that she was abducted. Some news outlets make it seem like she sought the information out herself, but “acting on recent tips” makes it seem like there were external tips...the inappropriately nosy part of me desperately wants these details filled in!…

I’m sure the chances of this happening to most us are one in a million. I have friends who’ve been told by hospital staff that they weren’t “allowed” to keep their baby in the room with them at all times if they wanted. This story makes me think I’d respond with a hearty, “Fuck off,” because I cannot imagine the…

Nah, they don’t even care about boning. (milo’s gay) They just hate women because their misogyny and racism makes them feel powerful.

Children should not to allowed to skip more than one grade. The state should be made to find better schooling options for them.

Yes, I was an early reader as well, but let’s be honest — at age four, there are just many things you do not, and cannot, understand about the world yet. That is going to change the way in which you comprehend reading material, particularly if it is adult-level reading material.

Yeah, I meant less in a vocab sense and more in a plot sense. I mean, I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time when I was ten, but I didn’t really understand what was going on in the book until I was a few years older. Less about the words, more about the lack of life experience.

Comprehension really isn’t usually a problem for smart children who read early, in my experience. It wasn’t for me, and it wasn’t for the other people I know who are super smart and read early. I don’t know that there are a whole lot of early readers who are simply sounding out words and don’t know what they’re…

Idk, because genius children are weird, and sometimes they grow up to be only as smart as the rest of us.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this kid’s mom says she has read college-level books as well as children’s books. :)

I’ve decided to be an asshole and guess that most of them are picture books rather than straight chapter books. Which of course is still very impressive.

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I felt vad for Portman in those movies, it must have sucked to try to act flirty and then loving with a block of wood

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