Yes-- this is evidently a hallmark of HG+ kids. It's the characteristic that our gifted-ed teachers have found almost mystically fascinating in DD. It's not exactly as though kids like this are autodidacts, because they often aren't really spending much time thinking about it and learning-- it just, sort of... comes to them. We call this quantum learning at our house, because it seems to be like electron spin or excitation. All or nothing, but once it happens, it is a complete transformation. No faltering, no stumbling-- mastery.
I think this only works in math or more fundamental sciences.
It's some sort of intuitive thingy related to the fact that these areas are discrete conceptual wholes rather than disjointed parts.
And it doesn't seem to work for biology or engineering.
Only math, chemistry (not organic chemistry), and physics.
Or it could just be me.
