Originally Posted by EmeraldCity
... Maybe late blooming is really just late recognition ...

Exactly. A lot of so-called "late bloomers" are actually "early bloomers" who are recognized late.


Originally Posted by cdfox
Most pg 2e kids are not featured or identified as easily as people like Terence Tao or Tanishq Abraham -- who displayed profoundly giftedness in infancy or around 2 years old. ... One of the reasons Jake Barnett has garnered attention is due to the autism and due to him not reaching those early developmental milestones like Tao or Abraham or many pg kids either.

I think the Jake Barnett case is something quite different from what you describe. Instead, he did display profound giftedness at a very young age, but the professionals, incompetently, did not understand what they were looking at, and so they incorrectly diagnosed autism when there was no autism.