Originally Posted by st pauli girl
I believe there are many, many PG kids who do not go around looking like prodigies. Like others have said, the parents are probably gifted themselves, but may not ever have known that and so think everyone is like this.

Absolutely agree! I know a couple of true prodigies (she had papers published in math research journals at 9), and I look at DS and think he's nowhere close to being that intelligent. That could just be the difference between 99.9% and 99.99999999%