{"id":18606,"date":"2021-01-11T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=18606"},"modified":"2021-01-11T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:07:24","slug":"the-growing-pains-of-a-teenage-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=18606","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Pains of a Teenage Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What do you do when your child is gifted and their academic ability has overtaken yours? In a lot of ways 13-year-old Cameron Thompson is a normal teenage boy – obsessed with computer games, sporting the first hints of a moustache and a newfound interest in girls. But he is also a maths genius who is currently doing an Open University<\/a> degree in applied mathematics and it is this ability that has singled him out. That, and an intense social awkwardness his parents put down to his Asperger’s Syndrome<\/a>. Can Cameron balance the need to remain the genius he has always been – and therefore different – with the classic teenage longing to be accepted?<\/p>\n