Any prodigies here?

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I was as a child. I could play violin at age 2, and was also reading and doing basic math at that age. By school age I was still considered smart and got perfect scores on everything, but my teachers always threatened to hold me back because of how emotionally immature I was. By high school I was nothing special, and in my adult life I have been mostly unemployed and have never accomplished anything great.

While undoubtedly well short of bona fide prodigious levels, I had some unusual abilities as a child, some of which persist and some of which have diminished noticeably:

At 5, I could mentally multiply two-digit numbers within a second or two, and three-digit numbers usually within three to four seconds. I've slowed way down in my old age.

By 10, I knew pi to just over 1,100 places. (I still remember a few hundred.) Remembering numbers is fairly easy - number streams have musical qualities to them. I experience music as numbers and numbers as music.

To this day, I can hear a song once, or at most twice, and permanently remember in with exact reproduction.

Most days, I can count up to a 25-30 items on sight, though this ability seems to switch on and off at unpredictable intervals (it is "on" about 80% of the time).

Other people in my classes noticed these "circus abilities", which probably saved me from even more severe and persistent bullying. There exists a threshold level above which people consider you sufficiently different and interesting as to have entertainment value, and a decent number of my classmates must have thought that I qualified.

I'm not a prodigy I'm just a plain everage everyday person but in primary school everyone told me I was bright and I have a talent in drawing, but nothing on a prodigy level.

Hello melissa how are you.

Nah, I'm not a prodigy.
I've been called talented and a computer whiz _a lot_ but never a prodigy.
I'm better than most people on computers, like, I only know one guy in my whole school who's maybe the same level as me. I'm going to go as far to say that includes the IT administrators XD.
Also, a lot of people have said to me they think I'll be a millionaire when I release some of my applications, but, I'm not sure if they were patronizing me. I did show some financial stats for an application I'd developed which were in the millions though, so saying so would be justified.
EMZ=]

Once identified as "a gifted child" (a VERY long time ago).
Identified as a mezzo soprano with world class potential (also a VERY long time ago).
Sat down and started composing complex orchestral music in my early 40s with no training in music theory at all.

I stand before you today as a white elephant in human form/lifestyle loser.

AS can be a BIG drawback but I do not think it has to be and hope that "they" will one day learn how to give us the resources we need to achieve our full potential, just like anyone else.

I never was a prodigy, but I was talented in writing and had a huge imagination. I could write well if I outlined everything beforehand. I could've gotten straight A's on my schoolwork during 3rd through 7th grade, but, yuou guessed it, kids. I got teased so much I actually had a nervous breakdown and snapped at people for no apparent reason. Thank God I had friends during my high school year; otherwise I would never go to college.

Prodigies are great, but being a prodigy isn't everything, if you catch my drift. I mean, not to be a jerk, but I the way the world show prodigies doing amazing things at such a young age makes me sad. Sometimes I think prodigies just want to be in a show just to show off to the rest of the world that their better than everyone else. Then when someone criticizes their work they get mad. I guess I'm thinking this way because of Mozart. How he was a prodigy and contributed the world, yet he was arrogant towards his patrons and died as a pauper. To me, a normal person will actually contribute the world by just making people happy more than a prodigy. For some reason I think that's a fact. Can't pinpoint why though.

If you're a prodigy, then it's because of God, not yourself. I think that's the number one way of contributing--acknowledging God. If you don't, then I guess it'll be rock bottom for you.

I'm not telling this to be arrogant; I'm telling this as a heads up to not to be like another Mozart.