That's an interesting point. I can understand the reasoning behind a comment like that.
My perception would be that people who are incredibly bright, off the scale so to speak, would be harder to hide than $100 million dollars under your mattress.
The one possiblity I could agree with though, would be that proper diagnosis might be a problem. So might sanity. So might channeling the benefits of such a mind into a complimentary vs destructive force.
People with such incredible briliance, see scientific things clearly, like you and I see a road sign clearly. I'm not sure they are as able to see morality issues with that same clarity. I'm not trying to dump on the Einstine Hawkings people. I'm actually talking about people that could surpase them, and I do think they are out there.
It's kindof hard to address this issue without acting like these folks are monsters. That's not what I'm trying to intimate. Socially, the extremely brilliant are sometimes simply unable to cope with social performance.
That these parents seem to have brought this kid to the place he's at without destroying him, or allowing society to destroy him is rather remarkable IMO.
The study of this dynamic is an interesting field IMO. Hope I've conveyed some rationality to this. It's kindof a tough topic to touch on without sounding like you've gone off the deep end.
Frankly, I'm not sure the average joe does either.