Seriously! Glad I’m not alone. I still use a tried and true nomenclature for people, which boils down to People Who Loved High School and Everyone Else.

Everyone on this thread is acting like junior high and high school were really wonderful social experiences that this poor kid is missing out on.

Maybe he's happy? Maybe he's made happy more by intellectual pursuits than socializing?

My cousin went to college at 14 for computer engineering. He’s now 38, married with 3 kids, and works at Google. He is definitely socially awkward, to a certain extent, but I don’t think forcing him to go through 4 years of high school just to “socialize” would have helped him at all. He’s doing just fine.

Or, maybe he’s being saved from being bullied and tormented by children his age.

A kid like this probably won’t experience the “typical” (relatively) trajectory of a more average student—he wouldn’t attend university, graduate with some sort of BA/BFA or even MA and then go into the workforce anyway. He’ll likely go through a PhD program of some kind, if not a couple. That will keep him busy for a…

Yep! Sharing my point of view, clinically defined as projection lol

I went to school with a girl that took a mix of university and high school classes. Very intelligent but also well adjusted.

Normal is not everyone's default aspiration.

Who needs friends??

Maybe he’s an introvert who experiences plenty of fulfillment in life without the accompaniment of his idiotic peers. Social lives are not all of life, particularly to introverts, and it’s annoying as fuck to hear about how you can’t be a complete person without a gaggle of “friends” around you at all times. Just…

But what did they do about challenging him academically? Kids who aren’t challenged in school often experience deep frustration and even depression.

That is a great question. Thank you for asking.

part of the patronizing and tone deaf sex worker rescue industry

Zero percent surprised at any of this. These are to women who:

Right. She’s being completely an asshole on two levels. EVEN WORSE.

ATTENTION WHITE SISTREN: BLACK MEN DO NOT OWE YOU THEIR ATTENTIONS, SEXUAL OR OTHERWISE. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THEIR BODILY AUTONOMY, ESPECIALLY GIVEN HISTORICAL DENIAL OF SAID BY YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE.

Lest we remind you that it was JEZEBEL that couldn’t get enough of Dunham when her show first premiered. I and many others kept commenting that she was over-rated as fuck and no one at Jezebel would listen.

He’s actually not getting away with anything, which is why he’ll wind up getting beaten so bad in the general he’ll put rented mules to shame.