It's like going to class and watching the genius kid just casually breezing through without actually studying while others are working hard and struggle to catch up.

For what it's worth, skill gaps like this in high school don't always carry over into college and the real world. My niece is on the spectrum (I don't think the term Aspergers is used as much these days, but that was her childhood diagnosis) and she never had to study or try hard in school and always received top grades. Once she went to college, that all fell apart. She'd never needed to learn how to study, much less develop the discipline to commit to studying regularly. So going into a STEM field of study meant being bombarded with more difficult work that couldn't be solved with just some savvy, intuition, and knowledge picked up here and there. She ended up dropping out before the end of her freshman year from the pressure.