A strong response from the father AND mother was needed when he was 3 or 4 and consistently thereafter. By 13 it's obvious the mother's parenting, or lack thereof, has already born fruit.
At the start of seventh grade, Michael was accepted to an accelerated program for highly gifted math and science students. *** Several weeks into his new junior high school, Michael began exhibiting increasingly odd and threatening behaviors at school.
You make an assumption that that is not supported by the statements in the article or from inferences from the mother's statements. So argument with you about whether you are right or wrong as applied to this child will be futile.
Many disorders a totally quiescent until puberty or later teen years. While she does not so state, I infer this is the case here from the quoted language.
This lady writes in the style of a self absorbed moonbat, so we will never really know what the whole picture is.