she knows someone on the internet whose son [that would be him :-)] is very very good at maths. And it somehow .... got out.... that he was very good at maths, and now older children keep asking him to do maths problems even when he doesn't want to." (This is now at the level of a minor irritation - it's coming from children 4ish years older than him, who are intrigued that he can do more maths than they can, not from his own classmates, who accept him
LOL Colinsmum, your DS sounds very thoughtful.
This happened to my DS too, when we subject-accelerated him-- it turned into a circus act for a while in the halls of the school.
I would put this kind of interaction into a different category than bragging. If someone asks a direct question that requests DS to show off, deciding whether and how to answer, and how to judge the intentions of the asker, is a social nuance well past my DS's capabilities then (and probably now).
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