This might be a me problem but there is no way I would have been capable of interacting with a fifteen-year-old in my program like he was an adult like everyone else. I might talk to him about math in the same way I’d engage with a teenager on their favorite video game, but I’m not inviting a teenager to shoot the shit in my office and I’m not going to think of him as a friend.

result in the other kids feeling inferior

Also my imposter syndrome might have left the stratosphere.