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Obviously you can judge kids and parents in extreme cases, but one fact about someone really doesn't make much sense to judge, especially when the fact is that a kid is the very best on the planet earth at something which is pretty amazing.

Kids are funny. They end up really intensely interested in a thing, and their life can revolve around it for quite a while. What do you do? Just shut down their interests because it doesn't match with your conception of what a kid ought to be interested in?

Sometimes, if it's affecting the rest of their lives. If this kid isn't making friends, or isn't doing well in school, or other negative factors maybe it's time to hang up the controller for a bit, but on the other hand, we have a society that's trying to hard to teach kids to be self-confident. There's no healthier way to find self-confidence than to do really hard things and succeed at them. Imagine being the best on the planet earth and being the first person to play the game so hard you broke it!

I think if my son did this, I wouldn't mock him, I'd congratulate him while making sure he's still staying somewhat well-rounded in the rest of his life.