Any prodigies here?

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I have atypical autism and also am also a piano prodigy and literary prodigy!

I was considered a literary prodigy as a child. I spoke in complete sentences at 13 months old; read and wrote at 3; wrote my own book by age 5 that was read on a local radio station; and was interviewed on TV about my poetry at 8.

i'm probably just a run of the mill luddite - who can't even quote her IQ because i do not know it....i bet it is just plain old average.

I bet anybody would consider me to be an "average joe" prodigy. I take pride in my laziness, greed, average education, average job, and some other things that I don't care about.

At nursery, I was described by the nursery-nurse as "bright as a button." Does that count?

In seriousness, what is a prodigy? How would I recognise one if I encountered it in the wild, as it were?

If by prodigy you mean having an idea that could make you insanely wealthy while at the same time raising the quality of public education, business services, and many other things at the same time, then yeah, I could be a prodigy. I never run out of ideas to start a business off of, and the more recent ones I've had are so amazing, I am shocked to near death that someone else hasn't developed it before me, as it seems so natural, yet it doesn't yet exist, and nothing similar to it exists yet either. Not gonna get into what it is until I get it patented though.

Smart move. Hey, let's be business partners.

I have to tread very very carefully, because if I am successful, it will give me a monopoly, and make a lot of other things obselete that are currently huge money makers, and really destroy the profit of some big companies... It is something that could help bring humanity into the next stage of human evolution (not genetic, but social evolution)...

Add me in! hehe

If you have talent then run with it! Seize the day.

ruveyn

Well I could read and speak in full sentences at age two. Knew the anatomy of the worm and could explain it at age 5. Entered second grade at age five. Breed of dog expert by age 7. Psycholpgy wiz at age 10. Studying 9th grade biolopgy and pre-algebra at age 11. Understood college algebra at age 14. At 15, Lupus expert. At 16, went to college.

I could have been like that with school, but where I am they don't fail students or skip them either... The reason: They need to be with kids their own age for their mental well being. What a BS excuse. My brother could have benefitted so much from failing, and I was too smart for the grade I was in...

. That is a BS excuse! My mom refused to let me stay in a grade level I was too smart for! You do seem to be highly intelligent!

I consider myself weakly idiot-savant. Parents regarded me as a child prodigy before age 3. Then they said something happened to me. What happened was I got dumbed down. Few years later, nearly flunked 2nd grade but that was when my parents divorced.. In 8th grade got straight A's. But that was a once only occurence. In college my performance was decidedly mediocre.

I am very intuitive and psychic. Occasionally capable of making brilliant observations, but equally inclined toward being dull and verbose. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between my smart and stupid phases as they seem more or less the same to me except for the speed. But I don't place too much emphasis on things space, time, speed or distance related. I believe my brain processes non-linearly.

My savant excursions are usually accompanied by light-speed thought processes on several different levels and those levels are juxtaposed to each other at various planes or angles..There are times when it is as though I am processing, receiving and transmitting on 10 or more dimensions or frequencies simultaneously. Other times I am so dense, people of average intelligence become frustrated with my apparent unwillingness to comprehend what they are trying to get through to me.

No prodigy here, just decent academic skills. I was early at learning most things, but early and prodigy are two different things. If you're doing sixth grade work in the first grade, you're talented. If you're doing as well as an adult professional in the first grade, you're a prodigy. They're vanishingly rare; I've never met one.

I'm not a prodigy but was considered gifted at school. I'm glad I wasn't a prodigy because I have high standards enough as it is, if I was a prodigy everyone would expect me to constantly be the best in everything I do. Too much stress for me.