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His brain clearly developed little to no social reading skills but plenty of abstract and analytical thinking. Kids with brains like that feel incredibly lonely
by dzink 5y ago
His brain clearly developed little to no social reading skills but plenty of abstract and analytical thinking. Kids with brains like that feel incredibly lonely and he clearly need some kind of social interaction with peers with similar mental skills. If he had been given an opportunity to learn and interact with computer problems in a healthy, constructive way with peers, the outcome might have been dramatically different.
I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere with nobody to talk to about the things I found truly interesting. Instead I would built things online and looked for ways to compete with my brain to get into communities with peers who were more like me. Physics, CS, Math olympiads, chess, star craft, a competitive high school, and building for the web. I was in poor Eastern Europe, but I still had options. If you don’t have constructive resources around you the path of least resistance is not ideal.
Government officials are elected, not picked for their mental skills. They need to recognize they have a naturally occurring resource of mathematically inclined kids and have open resources for those locally. Or you get lonely malicious behaviors occurring naturally instead.