Child prodigies do absolutely exist, but they never have stable lives, and usually the media are a bunch of retards.
16 year old invents revolutionary thing
Usually a racial scam. You know what I'm talking about. The concept of "inventing" something doesn't really exist today outside of research, but normies eat it up.
12 year old super good at math and goes to college
He was probably trained at a very young age by parents that very shrewdly knew what they were doing, possibly involving non western techniques.
14 year old graduates with a phd
That's probably a scam outright but it is possible if you can get lots and lots of special permissions to take lots of placement exams. Colleges will go along with it because it makes them look good, and it's not that the child isn't smart, they are clearly very. But you just know there's alot going on behind the scenes as well. And frankly it's hard on the child to be put in that position.
wins international science competition thing
That's usually fine. Some competitions are done very fairly. But you just know they had the money and support to buy the necessary tooling.