A 7-year-old girl solved a problem that professors couldn't…😳

[@margiestevens2384]

My experience with a true genius was a taxi driver that took a chemistry class to understand his hobby of photography better. By the end of a couple of weeks his understanding of chemistry had our professors giddy. They threw math, physics, everything at him. Helped him get the scholarships he needed. He still drove a taxi to support his family but he devoured knowledge the way teenagers eat potato chips. Never changed his attitude towards people. One of the nicest guys I ever met. I’ve thought of him every time I’ve met an arrogant snob, because they never had a third the brains that he has.

[@vaska1999]

Someone should write a screen treatment and make a movie about this guy.

[@KH-tx6lg]

I only recently found out that some subjects (math) are like learning another language. Until you learn what it all means, it's just numbers and symbols on the board.

[@theastro-philosophersappre2786]

That’s one man I’d like to meet, and talk with him

[@mary-janereallynotsarah684]

That's sweet. I've known so many snobby "smart" people.

[@rogerphelps9939]

I am very sceptical It would take far more than a couple of weeks to even learn the most basic bits.

[@sawyerodom3900]

bro that girl is smart in everything she stars in

[@MarleyBaileyy12]

Right like she’s smart in young Sheldon to

[@curtisholsinger6023]

Maybe she is smart and it's easier to go with it

[@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777]

I mean its rare to have a child actor who can confidently carry dialogue with "big words". They CAN hold an audition and find another talented child actor, but why do that when the industry has a handful who already have marketing clout to their name.

[@pavloszimbrakos4410]

I know right and it was adorable when her and max were smart together in fuller house

[@JONNYCABANI]

The name of the movie Waiting You are welcome

[@thebossmj79]

Smartest person I know never went beyond high school. He was always bored and he learned more by just reading and studying books he was interested in.

[@sabrinaweinz1827]

Kind like Montessori School princip. They should learn what they are most interested in.

[@suzabella8516]

The truly educated never graduate

[@safiremorningstar]

Sounds like me and my daughter. In my daughters case though her identity was stolen when she was going to do the test here it’s like in England you have to do like the equivalent of A-levels, etc., and somebody had stolen her identity by the time it was cleared it took almost a year. She was no longer interested in going to schoolor in the graduation/educational process.

[@j.dragon651]

You almost described me but I quit high school.

[@Obscurite1221]

@@suzabella8516 Why would you not? All it does is give you more credibility and makes people more likely to hire and believe you. Nothing you couldn't do alone, but it makes it much easier if you have the skill to back it up.

[@russ7414]

She put respect above ego......That's genius.

[@Asura2k]

Ego is something people are taught to have. Children don't have ego. It always starts about parents or others authorities comparing you with others over and over and over to make you feel special.

[@russ7414]

@@Asura2k I didn't know that.

[@Asura2k]

@@russ7414 think about it this way - If you remember your childhood, you with your friends didn't care about how you differ. It was fun to be together and noone cared who is smarted, who's taller, who's prettier, e.t.c. Then at some point children start comparing each other. And there starts egoing. More you are delusional about yourself, more you cry out how everything goes wrong when you get reality checked and things show you are not so perfect.

[@mike8386]

Tbh id choose ego over respect if it meant proggressing in science and advancing our understanding, no one cares about "older peoples" feelings. But i can understand why they did it with a child in the movie, still a good movie though.

[@russ7414]

@@mike8386 You believe we should advance in technology but not the quality of our character?

[@ericbaek3706]

The way the professor smiled after being told that, "nobody like a smartass."

[@phastinemoon]

Honestly, the most realistic part

[@darthgrable6878]

It's such a genuine smile :)

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

At the end of the Bible it says everything reverses with the Sun rising in the West The New Moon rises in the West The Bible was a curse

[@GreatSageCorban]

It’s almost like it was scripted

[@kentho7093]

"yea you are right, now get tf outta here."

[@kai223noa6]

I sat next to a genius in my engineering class. He slept through most of the class and wake up every so often to review the equations to point out mistakes made by our professor.

[@jenniferpearce1052]

I bet he's insufferable to work with

[@johnhardasnails7464]

@@jenniferpearce1052. Yea but I bet he gets a lot done fixing other workers mistakes! I am not even a genius but I have found many mistakes my coworkers have made too including bosses! That’s why I have been employed for 42 years

[@toAdmiller]

@@jenniferpearce1052 Yup...There's nothing like showing where others are wrong to get yourself disliked...No genuine interest in what is TRUE...just what is "tolerable by average society"...lol...

[@idofps9709]

@@toAdmiller I mean... its your job. Do it correctly or you get corrected?

[@PyroGam3s]

@@johnhardasnails7464 thats exactly why i'm unemployed "nobody likes a smart-ass" the floor managers don't like getting corrected by someone that supposed to "stay in their lane"

[@xfiles4792]

I sat ahead of a kid in high school chemistry, physics, and math classes. He had a true photographic memory. He could quote from the textbook the page and paragraphs. He could recreate days from months ago. He ended up going to MIT and became a big engineer. These people are amazing. We need more of them!

[@Canadian_Bajan]

Was he autistic? I ask because often times they have a deficiency in one area but are geniuses in another.

[@WJen8]

I recently found out one of my nieces is some kind of child prodigy super genius but when I got excited to talk about it with her mom she begged me not to tell anyone. She said her life would be ruined if people knew. How messed up of a world do we live in that a child doesn't want to be known as a genius.

[@LaylaDSmith]

Child WANTS IT. Mom does not. Mom is projecting her assumptions about the world, in other words, limiting HER OWN CHILD

[@kenstacy462]

The problem with super smart children is simple. To many times lesser adults (like employers) put so much pressure on them that they crack. Psychological centers are full of young adults that are known as broken computers. Unable to deal with the outside world their stay in these institutions can sometimes be for life.

[@abhik8122]

Maybe she just wants to protect her kid from unnecessary publicity, so that she could have a proper childhood rather than an isolated VIP

[@kristijohnson925]

A parent can foster a child’s growth and learning without turning them into a sideshow. Sounds like that’s all mom is trying to do.

[@helaka]

her mother didn't want it known because her child is female. if the child was male she'd be the first one to tell everyone.

[@alwayslg]

How Hollywood depicts a genius 💀

[@darkhobo]

"real geniuses dropped out of highschool and can't hold down a job because of alcoholism" - this guy

[@paleoleft]

​@@darkhobo statistically, yeah they do

[@glovesflared]

​@@darkhobocan confirm, am an alcoholic

[@zerog1037]

Fun fact: literally never been a kid like this before 😂

[@lostwizardcat9910]

​​@@darkhobostatistically yeah. Einstein was a dropout and often left the house forgetting to put on pants.

[@HelloMyNameIsSteff]

McKenna Grace is such a great actress. I hope she’s getting treated fairly in Hollywood. A lotta child actors are screwed over.

[@scarletbitch866]

McKenna Grace

[@HelloMyNameIsSteff]

@@scarletbitch866 whatever. The statement still stands 💯

[@HelloMyNameIsSteff]

Thanks

[@demolitionchild94]

Yeah that's because parents forget they're still kids. Then leave them alone with weird people.

[@HelloMyNameIsSteff]

@@demolitionchild94 agreed

[@Lapastel37]

The most knowledgeable person I know didn't even finish high school. His house is a tapestry of books. He did menial jobs most of his life, now he's a translator. He's humble and goodhearted.

[@thomthom6268]

A tapestry of books. That metaphor is poetry. Both perfect portrayal and beautiful.

[@christinerobbins9376]

​@@thomthom6268agreed ... Also; I think people sometimes mistake genuis and ambition. Two completely different things

[@christinerobbins9376]

Ted Kazynsky is who I was thinking of there ^^. His lack of ambition for a place in society is what allowed him to get away with it for so long. Like, it frightened me how much I agreed with his "manifesto" when I actually heard what was in it. He is/was terrifyingly correct...and also wrong. Idk how to explain it. Cognitive dissonance, ig

[@lara4life656]

What is a "menial job"? I'm curious bc as far as I'm concerned, we NEED people to fill those slots or you might find yourself whining about service.

[@allrequiredfields]

​​@@lara4life656"Menial" is not a pejorative, it's a precise designation.

[@soad2rox]

The professor after being told about the smart ass story..."I like her."

[@mattsprayberry0]

Frank wanted her to have a normal childhood The grandmother only wanted her for her gifted abilities

[@bermanmo6237]

Frank did not want her to end up like the kid's mother, his sister, who committed suicide at a young age due to clinical depression and burnout. Frank was also a math genius, but quitted his university math teaching job due to clinical depression and burnout. The grandmother is like many Asian parents since she seem only to care about the child because she is a genius. Like them, she did not really care if they have a normal childhood or can actually function in the real world or have social skills. Ironically, the same thing Georgies\ said how their mother sheltered and was overprotective of Sheldon since he was a child genius.

[@TYohMy]

@@bermanmo6237 Like many Asian parents? I don't see them looking anything of the sort Asian.

[@BionicDirector117]

@@TYohMy It has nothing to do with appearances. Bermanmo6237 is comparing the grandmother's behavior to a common trend with East Asian families where parents often put immense pressure on children to be successful at any cost, even to the point of neglecting them emotionally.

[@TYohMy]

@@BionicDirector117 What you are saying and what he is saying are two different things. He said that the grandmother only cares about her because she is a genius like all Asians. You are saying that East Asian families put immense pressure on children to the point of neglecting them emotionally. What I am saying is that only failures who can't cut it as Asians think like that. It's how you weed out the bad seeds.

[@cockerspanielfan56]

⁠@@bermanmo6237yep. If people aren’t allowed to live a normal life then it can really take a toll on them. And in some situations, gifted people like her might be taken away since they are so smart. I remember that AWOG episode where Darwin was taken away for getting 100 percent on the amplitude test but it was Anais’ paper and thought that she should be the one who should be taken away. It’s not fair to children if they have to be taken away.

[@AustinJF]

The show is called Gifted if yall r wondering

[@cuddlebug8106]

… I wasn’t

[@GreatSageCorban]

… I wasn’t

[@jheatherdale]

Thank you

[@Beautiful_Hope]

Thanks! I was looking to see if anyone said before I asked what it was! 😄

[@AndreaSaadeLundahl]

It’s a movie and not a show 😊

[@TTGT-wc3bi]

We had a German exchange student in my physics class and he would constantly correct the instructor. It was hilarious.

[@JaneAxon123]

How did you know he was right

[@juho7273]

@@JaneAxon123 Because European education systems > everyone else.

[@TTGT-wc3bi]

@@JaneAxon123 The teacher would step back and look at the board and go, "Yeah, you're right."

[@just_a_person-z1m]

@@TTGT-wc3bimaybe he was just the only one confident enough to do it. I frequently spot some weird bs during lectures but I usually don’t say anything unless it‘s critical.

[@EBaron007]

She’s beyond “gifted”. Nobody seems to address what she said walking out. She said, “I knew he would have a beard before I walked in there.” She’s psychic as well.

[@mark-ish]

Simple correlation observation. "I knew" is just a degree of probability no more no less.

[@pixieazul19]

That struck me too

[@planezero]

Who's 'Nobody'?

[@janebridges4305]

Yeah, I caught that too!

[@user-li7ec3fg6h]

This is a made-up movie story and yet many of the "geniuses" write about it in the comments as if it were reality? Where reality can no longer be distinguished from Hollywood scripts to be impressed by it is pretty weird.

[@aquila7272]

"it went down hill from there."... great line!

[@susannabonke8552]

😊😊😊😊

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

My Uncle Ralph was a genius. He was kind, gentle, funny, and generous to a fault! He served as a fighter pilot in WW II. He was the youngest person to earn his doctorate in the history of the Univ. of Virginia. He studied under a professor listed in The Who’s Who of Mathematicians. I was having problems in Geometry as a Freshman (intimidated by an angry, retired Army Colonel who yelled at the class often). My dad asked Uncle Ralph if he would help me pass the final exam so I wouldn’t have to repeat the course. He taught me the entire course over a three-day weekend! He was a patient teacher who never made me feel stupid. I did so well on the test, the teacher accused me of cheating. My dad explained that his B-I-L tutored me over the Memorial Day Weekend. Teacher still didn’t believe it, so my dad got him to give me an oral exam after school (which my dad watched-he was 10 times scarier than the teacher). I aced that too! Uncle Ralph “solved unsolvable problems” for a living. But never held his smarts over anyone else. He took an art class for fun and ended up painting beautiful murals and paintings. He learned how to play chess and became the Eastern Seaboard Champion in just a couple of years. He was good at playing tennis too. I visited my aunt, grandmother, and him one weekend Freshman year of college. I had taken a guitar course, and played my final exam song for them (it was basically three chords). I taught those three chords to him in May. By Christmas, he’d taught himself to play the electric guitar, and was playing for inmates at the local prison as a part of his Christian outreach for his church. He was SO brilliant and so interested in so many facets of life. BUT, as my aunt would say, “the man couldn’t dress himself properly to save his life!” So every night, she would lay out his suit, shirt, tie and socks so he would be presentable for work. He retired as a Grade 18 from the Government. He was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by the President of the United States, which is the highest civilian award in the U.S. It recognizes those individuals who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” Geniuses operate at an entirely different level than the rest of the world. It’s no wonder they are depicted as eccentric, odd, and their thinking processes are incomprehensible to the Screen Writers who write movies.

[@lykonic1763]

Incredible story; I can't fathom why this comment has so few likes. The closest person to a genius in my family that I know of was my great-great-grandfather, who was Polish and fled with his family to the US during WW2 (he actually deserted from the German army, which he was drafted into because he lived there at the time). He was a mechanical genius in particular; he was always building things in his workshop, and if there was ever a part he needed, he'd go to the hardware store to look at it for a while before just going home and making it himself. He was a blacksmith as well, and my uncle and I restored his old coal forge (still had the original hand-crank blower intact and everything) and it got the both of us into forging. And according to my mother, who still remembers visiting him when she was little, he had apparently rigged up the generator in the basement so that it would start up by pulling a light chain (like on your ceiling fan) - from the other side of the basement. No pulling at the cord or anything, just that little "click-CLICK" of the light chain and suddenly the generator kicks on. He was also a pretty deft carpenter and made toys and art out of wood all the time as well. Not quite on the level of your uncle, but both are certainly brilliant and terribly interesting men. Felt like sharing stuff about a smart family member of my own thanks to you and your intriguing uncle :) Sounds like an awesome guy and someone I'd love to just talk to and try to absorb as much of his knowledge and wisdom as I possibly can lol

[@timk4502]

What a wonderful story, Cheryl! It must've been incredible knowing him and learning from him. You're lucky, imho. I know a lady who has a grandchild with Autism. I think she said around 10 years old. He can look at a number with 30 or 40 digits, with no noticeable order or rhyme or reason, then turn away and a few minutes later write the number down precisely and with no errors. He also seems to be somewhat of a savant with mathematics. Who knows what else...but for sure I would consider him a Genius even though he doesn't, or isn't able to, communicate well with most others socially.

[@WrenchS13]

@@lykonic1763 I have my great grandfather's old forge and hand crank bellows as well. i got it freed up and working. need to re-dress the anvil surface but I'm getting started into blacksmithing too.

[@GovilGirl]

​@timk4502 Some austics tend to have a natural ability (not savantism as portrayed in movies) to see/find/detect small changes in details and patterns, but that is a two-sided sword because it also causes intense sensory process overload. Social situations are often difficult and overwhelming and like watching 8 different movies at the same time while being hyper aware of not breaking social rules. It is exhausting. Let kids wear earplugs/noise blocking headphones if they want - and you trying it too can normalize some of their coping mechanisms. It is good to have someone who really gets you. Neurodivergent differences like adhd and autism are not always secrete superpowers. Gifted kids often struggle later in school because they skip over the study challenges other kids struggle with, have high expectations on them, might even do fantastic in academics but never get accepted in the working world. There is a psychologist (?) that says gifted students should be seen as a special-ed because they need better and specialised supports not focused on academic performance.

[@sarahconner726]

Sounds a whole lot like my Uncle Ralph, with a few small variations.

[@sagarsondarva643]

Now you know why she Triggered Sheldon Cooper everytime she met him...

[@Darceus2000]

Glad I wasn’t the only one that thought of this 😂

[@chipcook5346]

The guy who plays the professor is one of the most underappreciated actors of his generation. He is frighteningly good at playing evil characters.

[@blackwidow9516]

He’s the jerk newspaper writer in The Greatest Showman

[@chipcook5346]

@@blackwidow9516 I bet you hate that character. That guy is fantastic.

[@johanness.milita7081]

How anyone who isn't or has never met a genius depicts them in a movie 😂

[@MrDerpy-ns6sy]

Like its some magic power right?! Lol

[@brandocalrissian3294]

Automatically knows complex math with no training is so ridiculous.

[@amandaparenteau9288]

@@brandocalrissian3294you assume she has had no training. In fact, she is a math genius and has read many advanced books on the subject.

[@ozymandias949]

@@amandaparenteau9288 still not how it works, real life savants still take a lot more time, effort and experience to do these things. The difference between them and a normal person is huge, a normal professor may take years but they would take months. That doesn't seem flashy so they don't show it like that on movies.

[@Lord_Nibex]

At most, their extremely talented, able to learn far easier or quicker than normal people, not to say are geniuses immediately. Like the previous comment, it takes time, just not as slow.

[@machaboba9392]

That ONE MISSED NEGATIVE is how I mess 99% of my math istg

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

funny how a single line ruins multiple pages of effort

[@matthewwriter9539]

That or the "off by one error".

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

I once failed to get work done on the twin prime conjuncture because I forgot a multiple of two, which ruined everything.

[@CABell-6thsept]

LoL I always tell the kids I tutor to make sure that they pay attention to the negative signs because that can spell the difference between a pass and a fail. [NB: Pass and fail may be different for each student. For my daughter, a mark/score less than 80% is a fail for her.]

[@amatya.rakshasa]

One of my Professors was considered a genius in his field globally. He also worked 15 hours a day and was the kind of student who solved every single problem in the back of a math textbook when he was a kid, even those not assigned for homework. And I don’t mean dumb calculus problems where it gets repetitive but pure mathematics, abstract problems where he would prove every problem at the back of the book as well as try to derive every theorem using his own approach. These types of people have very strong natural abilities but also have insane drive, insane curiosity, fearlessness to devote years to a problem where they may get nothing, and of course they work HARD!!

[@violaisreallycool]

That’s usually the part that’s missed in these media shows and movies… the countless hours of reading and work that they have to put in to become the legends they are. Natural inclination can take one far, but it’s never anything more than a curiosity if no work is put in. And like prodigies of instruments, they work insanely hard WHILE being obscenely naturally gifted. When you get to the top of your field, it’s a combination or balance between either how much more work you’ve done or how much more gift you have.

[@user-ot6fk7vs3n]

knowledge is its own reward....read a book once in a while even if its the same book...books are like movies catch things missed on 2nd or 5th time around....i hear alot of movies start out as books

[@V-ns7iy]

Back of math books has the answers not problems if I remember correctly...

[@violaisreallycool]

@@V-ns7iy a lot of the time, the super difficult and complicated proof-based math textbooks have that so that you are not further messing up the page. A good amount of even more remedial math subjects may have that formatting preference I believe.

[@amatya.rakshasa]

@@V-ns7iy lol yeah I meant back of the chapter obviously.

[@wintonhudelson2252]

I have had the distinct pleasure of encountering very gifted people in my lifetime. It has always been exilerating to bump into one of these individuals. One is an individual that did not attend school past the 8th grade. Now in his late 70s, is still sought-after for unique mechanical engineering issues. A number of years ago, they even had him conducting seminars at one of the universities in Oregon.

[@Odanti]

Cool...I live in Eugene, Oregon. I knew, we had attracted geniuses to the University of Oregon. ❤️🙏❤️

[@darrinwebber4077]

Grace is outstanding at playing a genius character

[@JayJ367]

The reality is as follows….I went to Jack In The Box for lunch, the total came out to $10.27. I gave the cashier $20.27, expecting a ten dollar bill back in change, what really happened was a five minute ordeal with the cashier trying to figure out the change, then the manager trying to figure it out and eventually, I got my food for free because no one there could do basic math unless they have a calculator. Our country is doomed.

[@navigator487]

I did the same thing at In and Out. My order was like $8.50, so I gave him a $20. He gave me back $1.50. I said, "I gave you a $20." I'm not sure he was trying to cheat me, or he just forgot. But be careful out there, even if it's just a lousy $10.

[@Steven_Star]

@@navigator487 I remember doing some basic math at a grocery store and she was like, you should be a manager. I remember telling her I'm overqualified to be a manager, which is true I have a bachelors in computers. schools nowadays are making simple math harder than it needs to be. its almost like they want people to struggle.

[@tias6717]

I did something similar at BK. The cashier gave me the ten AND the change.🤦

[@margretrosenberg420]

When I was in first grade (over 60 years ago), even before we got to subtraction our teacher set up a pretend store in a corner of the classroom, with cardboard groceries and money. And then she taught us how to make change by counting up from the price of the product to the amount tendered. IN FIRST GRADE. It was easy. It's still easy. So several years ago, before I was making nearly all purchases (except fast food) by debit card, I drove into a gas station, filled my tank, and tried to pay. And the kid they had clerking couldn't make change without a calculator, and the batteries were dead. So I showed him the easy way to make change. His manager came out to watch, and then stuck around to thank me.

[@michiganmymichigan]

It is hard to calculate anything when being watched and judged.

[@NeonGrn_Viking]

This is why I raised my son to respectfully correct someone when they're wrong. No matter their age or authority position.

[@wendyhurst6921]

I loved that film. The emotions it evoked were amazing. Laughed, cried, cheered. Great acting from all.

[@amycarlos1261]

title please?

[@Ralph_Roberts]

The hospital scene was dumb and cheesy af. The title is Gifted btw.

[@Juan-wn9ok]

The movie's name is: Gifted

[@annettapearcy9728]

Thank you!!

[@napoliansolo7865]

@@annettapearcy9728 me too!

[@corneliusdinkmeyer2190]

Thanks!

[@swilhelm3180]

Why don't these idiot posters not tell us the movie?

[@brittanymakar]

Where can I watch this???

[@ChristopherSibert]

"I knew that guy was going to have a beard before we even went in there," So did I, so did I 😉🤣

[@tanupprasai9245]

I had a classmate in high school who was an absolutely brilliant teacher... ive never met someone who can clarify/explain complex concepts better. I had a chemistry module that i struggled with for 2 months, being taught by a highly qualified professor... friend said it was actually simple and offered to help me.... he taught me the module in 1 day and i scored 90 percent on that module in the exams the following week. Hes a surgeon now and just as respected and loved by his trainees now as by his classmates back then, god bless him

[@andreamurphy1126]

What a great Story. Thank you. I’m an RN for 40 years. I’ve met plenty of surgeons who were smart but not genius. I wish I could have had your Experience. ❤

[@NeinDao]

it's always the kids that don't need to stfu that learn to do it. and the once that REALLY need to stfu never learn to >_>

[@SarthorS]

Unless the kid is a spoiled loudmouth that talks to much to listen, or an introvert that doesn't want to talk, which are usually the smarter ones.

[@kimberlyaustin6677]

💯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@scottmatheson3346]

true of adults, too

[@dragonvanishduckyct877]

Would hate for her to be my cousin

[@kyleherman3963]

Why

[@kerevizk9564]

​@@kyleherman3963 it is a joke about family comparing children. AKA "My children got higher from the math exam than yours." type of thing.

[@Rin_Ryuma]

​@@kyleherman3963 getting compared to them

[@bacon8891]

@@kerevizk9564that doesn’t sound like a joke

[@kerevizk9564]

@@kyleherman3963 the concept isn't, but the person made a joke on the concept.

[@thisguy1413]

It's sad because if you've seen the movie you know that the odds are that that random teacher cares more about that little girl that he just met than her actual grandma does.

[@jibrealoudia1957]

That little Actress is Pure Raw Talent !! She’s def going places

[@michaelmontgomery727]

Some kids are truly, wildly brilliant. It amazes me. However some of those kids can suffer greatly in our society. They often have difficulty integrating into most social groups. If they are lucky they have family or good friends that look out for them.

[@AgsBud]

You can see how she grew up in young sheldon. xD

[@CinnamonBob]

Her life in young sheldon is the bad ending 😅

[@catbeara]

Only ever knew one guy with a photographic memory. Got amazing scores in school through no effort. Went on to become a mechanic because he loved cars and that was his dream. :)

[@michael-1680]

Having a photographic memory doesn't necessarily correlate with intelligence. A tape recorder has a perfect memory.

[@catbeara]

@@michael-1680 yup, not that he wasn't intelligent, he just wasn't interested in academics at all. For him it was just a quirk, not something he'd use in life.

[@azrael_morningstar]

Mckenna has been typecast as a clever lil girl lol

[@lazo3251]

The clip makes her seem like a Mary Sue character but the movie focuses on a very emotional aspect which is a custody battle between the nice uncle (played by Chris Evans) and the evil greedy grandmother who wants to use the little girl for her own gain. That's what makes the movie so amazing and McKenna Grace is a great actress, really shows lots of potential.

[@dougalachi]

She is a Mary Sue. Her continuing through the emotional stuff makes her an even larger Mary Sue.

[@MrsWheezer]

With the added spice of dear old grandma trying to replace her daughter with her granddaughter. Really a good movie.

[@Ikajo]

​@@MrsWheezer Not to mention going against court orders in secret, and also getting rid of her granddaughter's cat

[@DejaVuSept11]

On real life, who wouldn’t want to have a chance of running away of a 💩y life by using someone else’s gift? Real people do that all the time, ridding on someone’s gift or success. Parents of gifted children do it all the time. Managers of artists, boyfriends or girlfriends of artist( when they’re not artists themselves, and even if they are, like Amber & Johnny Depp) I don’t see a poignant plot here.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

@@dougalachiY’all just can’t get over a character with natural talents if that character is female, can ya? Never mind that prodigies actually exist, “sHe’S a MaRy SuE!”

[@danielsac6316]

As an intellectually gifted, late-diagnosed autistic person, I felt it deep when she said “I'm not supposed to correct older people… nobody likes a smart-ass”. My childhood in that phrase. 😢 To be clear, I'm not that gifted, but still, the general idea is the same.

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

My father used to shut me up by saying, “you learn nothing if you are talking.”

[@alyjiyu]

My father would discount whatever I'd say by: *Did you read that in a book somewhere?* Of course, I couldn't possibly think for myself...

[@vivianmasters9905]

Same

[@karenrandall8375]

​@alyjiyu I'm no genius by any stretch of the imagination. My grandmother passed 3rd grade to take care of her siblings as her mother was sickly. My mother passed 5th grade and gave up after that as she couldn't afford her school books. I graduated high school. Any time growing up if I said something different from what they said they would make fun of me.

[@okidokidraws]

I have a learning disability and get meh when people get mad when they are wrong and I'm the one who answers correctly My mum says some times people just learn differently in my case the place i went to for help and jobs said that i was a advanced disabled person and wouldn't help.

[@mistermimo]

That's Paigeee...Also The Smart Ass From Young Sheldon

[@soulgamo]

Actress McKenna Grace has acted as a most genius smartest girl to see since when she was like a little kid.

[@reza5347]

This freaking music is like the numbers in Black ops 1.

[@stranger2195]

THE FUCKING MUSIC - REMOVE IT

[@MeltingHeartsWaxMelts]

The old often don’t know how to handle the brilliance of the young…. Or however that saying goes💜

[@id10t98]

Respecting one's elders has it's limitations.

[@user-ot6fk7vs3n]

true respect is earned ....not given for anybody

[@CarlVercetti]

It's a really sweet movie, especially the performances from Chris Evans and Mckenna Grace are amazing

[@pamedgerly471]

What's the movie?

[@althelas]

@@pamedgerly471 Gifted

[@DivineKnight_115]

She walked into his heart with that dad joke at the end.

[@cynthiakammann7368]

He was an ass. He never would have done that to an adult. She showed that she's a better person on top of being brilliant. Frank was a good Dad. She had manners.

[@ingamingpc1634]

​​@@cynthiakammann7368 except he intentionally got that problem wrong since he wanted to test her abilities

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

We all expected she is smarter than Sheldon😊😊

[@carolandrews9406]

Lets not forget Jenny Slate played a great part along side Chris and McKenna

[@user-pn6qq1zr3x]

well, now the young Sheldon feels like a sequel for her

[@theincrediblebray5686]

I remember correcting my math teacher once but not in a “You’re wrong” attitude. I just asked them how I got a different answer than what was on the board.

[@glassmanorangjitra]

clever girl/boy. 😊

[@richtomlinson7090]

Some people seem to have a gift for cooperation and not insulting people. I try to work on that principle, but it's sometimes difficult around the super competitive types. Some people are better at teaching than others, and correcting people is part of it, but its best done carefully.

[@VAClaimInfo]

@@glassmanorangjitra HOW DARE you assume his/her/its/lol gender.

[@macherie1234]

Me in freshman calculus, "sir, I'm sorry. Did you accidently skip a step? I couldn't follow." [Sighs of relief around the room] Professor, "You're just dumb. I did not skip any steps." TA to me after class, "He didn't skip one step; he skipped three." TA starts a study group and the third of us that attend pass the class.

[@brianbarber5401]

A Lot of times it’s less about how the correction is done, and more about the person being corrected.

[@JaxLittles]

My buddy is a genius. Graduated top 1% of his class. He worked part time under a grad student. He corrected her work and she got angry. She got him fired by saying he was difficult to work with and anti social. He has aspergers. Because of her claiming that, he had difficulty getting another lab job. Now there has been too much time between when he graduated to get a lab job anywhere. Bro is one of the most intelligent people ive ever met and he cant get a job. The weird part... his autism isnt obvious enough to get reasonable accomadations for hiring.

[@LaylaDSmith]

That's awful.. What a bish.

[@VAClaimInfo]

Because 30 years ago, no one even know what Aspergers/Autism was or knew to look for it. So us folks that OBVIOUSLY have it now and are 30yo-45yo were forced to live with it and internally adjust around it to avoid getting in trouble and just needing to get along with everyone. Funny how quickly you learn to correct people and inquire about them screwing up, but without allowing them to think that. Because if you are smart like this gal, and you don't adjust and pretend the prof is super smart, then you do indeed get labeled as stuck up, arrogant, overly confident, over the top, hard to deal with, pompous, etc. I can't even hope to guess how many times I've been called that when someone openly invites debate and I would debate and then they take it personally.

[@cathryn5304]

Maybe show him the great story @cherylmcnutt9905 told in these comments, about her Uncle Ralph. I reckon your mate can still change his own life AND have a wonderful influence on others' lives. Best wishes to you both.

[@bryanfeol7519]

😢

[@samysull333]

paige got an origin story as a different character. crazy.

[@billeiskina1327]

"Besides nobody likes a smartass" classic

[@user-ot6fk7vs3n]

but true

[@tonywoutrs]

She might as well be speakint fluent Chinese while we're at it

[@PlaceOfDestination]

every word would be a new language, and she would be dancing while playing a guitar

[@jaysparrow6631]

It’s better to learn new things/ skills and such whilst one is still so young as the mind is like a sponge and absorbs everything around them so there’s that!

[@tonywoutrs]

@@jaysparrow6631 as someone who's raised trilingual. I can confirm

[@bombcat5517]

​@@jaysparrow6631 there's no evidence to suggest that children learn languages any better than adults.

[@jaysparrow6631]

@@bombcat5517three grown kids and I’m a grandfather that says differently!

[@user-xv8gh1sd8k]

Lol...I could watch this movie a thousand times...and still laugh!! Loved this one!!

[@saniydel]

He trapped himself with a wrong problem, now hes a smart ass who didnt like a smart ass

[@Melodees_Dad]

From Genius kid to Egon Spengler's granddaughter!!

[@fourierfoyer365]

Grace McKenna. Also in Young Sheldon as a kid who's smarter and slightly younger.

[@ricopimento]

With a sharp swerve around young Tonya Harding.

[@xinny4190]

>When you restart your previous save but kept inventory/exp

[@KittyStormYT]

"nobody likes a smart-ass" got me rolling on the floor 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelsalazar1665]

Every time I think I am smart, I remember that there are people who truly are geniuses.

[@viewfromthehillswift6979]

Condescension happens to a lot of bright kids who are out ahead of their teachers.

[@connorhirst6952]

Movie Name : Gifted

[@petarmedic7735]

Ty

[@taraized]

Thank you

[@nodoboho]

Huh. Thanks. Except that _she_ is a true genius, sometimes called Extremely or Highly Gifted (I think). Merely being gifted just means IQ above 130 (or 132, depending on the test). Some dictionaries define genius as 140+ IQ. I think that's ridiculous. *I* qualify under that definition...but I consider genius to start up around 160 IQ. _Lots_ higher. Hollywood.

[@naifahishteaque7843]

The fact she also plays Paige in young Sheldon

[@mistermysteryman107]

A lot of geniuses never get the chance to show people they are

[@shadowolf91]

Me (an unrecognized MadScientist): *kicks in door* "BUT CAN SHE SEE WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH HMMMMM??!!!!"

[@cindy7764]

Such a fantastic movie “Gifted” seen it a few times watch it again in an instant

[@cosmogal627]

She was on Young Sheldon as a genius too!

[@Josh-99]

I was friends with a kid who was doing calculus in 7th grade... and was bored in the class. He couldn't write a 500-word essay if his life depended on it, but he could solve differential equations at the age of 11 like how most people would do basic arithmetic.

[@hwica2753]

The smartest person in my Applied Math undergraduate class graduated top with a First (it was the UK) and snagged a great job with IBM. After a few years I heard he quit and got a job as a Park Ranger in a National Park. I guess he was even smarter than I knew.

[@acahill4031]

Most of the really smart people I have known in my life do blue-collar jobs. Oh, and all of them were or are dyslexic. Mechanics, phone surveyer, sewing expert, Semi driver, my favorite was a woman who did not graduate high school but did accounting for Les Schaub in Pen.

[@tylercooper1551]

God damn mckenna grace was an amazing little actress from the get go

[@BrodyScott942]

She plays all the smart roles in TV shows and movies

[@markn1485]

McKenna has had a wonderful time in Hollywood. She is even a top lister on the last two installments of the Ghostbusters franchise.

[@rubenimmanuel9339]

Of course she can do it she is paige , she rivals sheldon in inteligence

[@jasimbasheer]

The alternate title would be: If Artemis fowl was a girl and had blond hair

[@AJMUSIC2010]

All I could hear was young Sheldon talking-

[@brandon.m]

If you know a little probability and stats, you can see pretty easy the integral is the (slightly scaled) PDF of the Gaussian distribution with mean 0 and variance sigma^2. This makes the integral pretty easy to solve since all PDFs must integrate to 1. If you didn’t know that and only have calculus knowledge, you use the old trick of solving for I^2 instead of I (where I is the integral). In the I^2 version, you can switch to polar coordinates and pretty easily solve it from there. Then, just take the square root to get back I. This problem is very elementary (in terms of “genius” level stuff).

[@user-fv9xt6mr1x]

Smart-Ass 😂. … Lol

[@paul29580]

Maybe for you ..

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

​@@paul29580 for most maths people. It's not a hard thing really, if you're in the sphere.

[@chonpincher]

The problem doesn't need a genius to solve it, but a 7-year-old who can solve it is a genius.

[@SiM0n1755x]

First I'd seen Chris Evans as someone besides Captain America (well, besides _Snowpiercer)._

[@robloxman2387]

That’s not Chris Evans

[@SchokoxCookie]

​@@robloxman2387 He plays the uncle of the girl in that movie

[@robloxman2387]

@@SchokoxCookie ah okay thank you for informing me

[@donrogan1042]

He was the Human Torch first in Fantastic 4 though. 😂

[@tylerdurden2460]

People just act like Not Another Teen Movie doesn't exist?

[@indigonight]

To everyone calling this movie unrealistic, Kim Ung Yong knew calculus at 3, 5 languages at 5 and published a book. He was studying nuclear physics at 8. I know at least 3 other kids off the top of my head.

[@gracekelly5908]

Why did I read that as Kim Jong Un 😭😭

[@PurpleCyanideTube]

Everyone on the internet. “My two year old just did this!”

[@booyahboogie3350]

ooooh i just love it when geniuses are depicted like this

[@Gray_mk]

what would you rather they be depicted as?

[@booyahboogie3350]

@@Gray_mk someone who doesnt know grade 12 maths at grade 3 for no reason other than “smart!”. it would be nice to see someone who isolates themselves for hours at a time, working on projects (academic related or not), is able to talk intellectually from a young(ish) age, and possibly does poorly in school (it would be nice to show kids that doing bad in school doesnt mean youre dumb)

[@Gray_mk]

@@booyahboogie3350 yeah but thats not really entertaining

[@booyahboogie3350]

@@Gray_mk its…what?? huh?? entertainment is subjective…

[@Gray_mk]

@@booyahboogie3350 someone being in their room all day and having bad grades doesnt sound entertaining

[@mountaingurl16]

I had been wanting to watch this movie for years and when I finally watched it, I absolutely fell in love with it

[@MinnieNeverl4n]

We need Young Sheldon and her to meet

[@user-oi9ne9lg7v]

This little girl played the hell out of this role!

[@Vencr0]

Is that...no it cant be....Paige?!

[@dampaul13]

Two renowned economists, including a Harvard professor, got a few things wrong when they released a paper on government debt management, effectively austerity vs. increased spending, saying that austerity was better. Their errors completely changed the outcome of the paper, with increased spending being better for the economy. The errors were found by a student and one of his professors. Even though they apologised for their mistakes, they still stood by their argument, even though the data proved them wrong and they couldn't back up their stance. Confirmation bias much?

[@alt3241]

Or malignant agenda of them or those who seek control .

[@chrono9503]

"Yo we need an ultra smart 7 year old in this movie" This girl: ✋😌

[@LaylaDSmith]

"I see ypu looking at a little problem". "It's big" 🤣

[@andreadeamon6419]

I adore McKenna. She's awesome

[@zhollamychalis4252]

one of the ugliest heartwarming story I have seen in many moons. The actress brought it. And then some.

[@andreadeamon6419]

@zhollamychalis4252 watch her in the new ghostbusters movies. In afterlife during the credits she sings the song haunted house. This child can do everything!

[@zhollamychalis4252]

@@andreadeamon6419 I'm on it. And thanks....

[@scottryan6279]

She's awesome ❤

[@ysgramornorris2452]

Can confirm, it's annoying when you know someone is wrong, but you also know that if you correct them they'll take it the wrong way.

[@kateruch7196]

yup. Did that with my English teacher once about Mary Queen of Scots, which I had done a report on for my History class. She actually pulled me aside after the class and told me I should not correct the teacher. She was everyone's favorite, but not mine. Accused me of plagerism, too. For some reason I had to produce the autobiography of Mark Twain so she could look at the book. I guess she couldn't find where I plagerized anything. I graduated 40 years ago and I'm still bitter. (I'm not a genius. Just pointing that out since that's the topic)

[@davidisrael-zz1zz]

she is precious, thanks in His amazing grace. the solution.

[@teridemola2386]

My eldest daughter used to correct her teachers spelling and grammar all the time. One teacher gave her an F on a paper one the first day. I went to the principal and showed him he laughed and had the teacher change the grade with extra credit. He told the teacher she better bone up on her grammar.

[@bncpro5499]

I swear she looks like paige from young sheldon Omg thanks guys soo much. This is the first time i have had over 4 likes on a comment. You guys don’t know how much this means to me, even if it’s only a comment.❤️🤭

[@criley2723]

It is.

[@agentofmidgard]

It's almost as if people grow when years pass

[@bncpro5499]

@criley2723 Thanks

[@dennisharrell2236]

McKenna Grace.

[@dkadhakdj2881]

are u dumb lol it's the same actress??

[@harryboyes2812]

I love a smart ass. Particularly seeing I'm one myself. No, I'm not a genius (in fact I totally suck at maths😊), but I still love me a smart ass.😅

[@clrobertson13]

Admitting it is the first step to recovery! 😂😂😂 (From one smart-ass to another!)

[@harryboyes2812]

@@clrobertson13 True - but who wants to recover from it? 😁

[@ianpaul3547]

In grade school and high school, I was an absolute dunce at math. But, in the eighth grade a man who wrote math books at the post graduate level spoke to my class about math that was beyond what the really smart kids in the class were familiar with. Then, he gave us a math problem that used the math formulas that he had explained to us. Much to the consternation of several top-notch math students in my class, I was the only one out of 26 students who worked out the correct answer.

[@Lee1Min-Ji]

My favorite geniuses are often ones who specialize in areas outside of math and science. What they tend to bring to the workplace is infectious!

[@stupidvidhup2459]

Y’know what’s funny about this? Unless she had access to math textbooks and everything like that she wouldn’t even know half of this stuff. So yea this is kinda impossible, again if she had books than it’s a different story

[@kdog2646]

She did have access to math textbooks

[@mamewedjisylla7991]

Didn't you watch the movie ? She does math exercice like some kid would swallow candies if they were let loose in a candy shop

[@AdityaSharma-fp8lo]

​@facepalm486bruh, he strived to be educated, and he worked hard. Especially against the odd of society he had to face. He didn't just randomly started spitting theorems. You need to "READ" to be able to at least know some conventions. Like what is an integral sign, what are limits, what is Euler's constant and so on. So yeah, even Ramanujan won't be able to solve it , if he never read or learn't. And that's exactly the point of original comment 😂. They don't know how to potray geniuses.

[@TheHalusis]

what i thought

[@madamada219]

Well based on what I saw in this clip it seems like a variation of the gaussian integral. So you probably need to use polar coordinates to prove it. Still mathematics are "made" by humans so basically a genius child could be able to "invent" every branch of math in their head.