Okay...I may get a lot of heat for this...but this sounds like a normal 13 year old who has been raised without a dad and without discipline. Instead of REAL disciplinary measures, the mom figures the kid must be mentally ill so she dopes him up. This of course makes him mentally ill for real because putting mind altering drugs into a developing brain can’t be a good thing.
Read it more carefully.
In the old days of the classic version of America, there were nuts like him too. If they ever did to their mom what this kid did, dad would have justly knocked him out or belted him. And that was a good thing, for us, and for the little “genius”.
Mental illness that cannot be modified by punishment is actually rare. What we are seeing are behavioral disorders that nobody modifies. An earthworm can be trained to avoid a shock. These kids can too.
I notice the little geniuses like this kid never seem to attack Marines on the street, walk up and talk crap to bloods and crips, or hop the fence into the lion cage at the zoo. So obviously they CAN control their impulses sometimes after all.
They aren’t stupid. They just correctly judge that they can dominate their wuss parents and teachers.