9-year-old girl with autism has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
A young Mexico City native is spectacularly shattering widespread misconceptions about individuals with developmental disorders by proving her incredible intellectual capabilities at just 9 years of age. Adhara Pérez Sánchez has already made a name for herself in academic circles with an impressive IQ of 162. According to PEOPLE, this score is slightly higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking’s, both of whom had an estimated IQ of 160. Young Pérez has already graduated from high school and is currently in the process of earning two degrees—one in systems engineering and one in mathematics.
Speaking to the Yucatan Times, Pérez—who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder that’s included on the autism spectrum and can cause difficulties with social interactions—revealed that she was “made a mockery at school.” Other students would bully the girl by calling her names like “weirdo” and “oddball” because of the condition. “I saw that Adhara was playing in a little house and they locked her up. And they started to chant: ‘Oddball, weirdo!'” her mother, Nallely Sanchez, told the outlet. ‘And then they started hitting the little house. So I said, I don’t want her to suffer.”
Sanchez revealed that her daughter fell into a “very deep” depression and despite being a bright young pupil, did not want to go to school anymore. Teachers informed her parents that Pérez would sleep in class and displayed an apparent lack of interest. Aware of the child’s unusual smartness at home, Sanchez realized that the current education plan wasn’t the right fit for her daughter and sought therapy for Pérez. This became a major turning point for the family as they were then able to identify the girl’s extremely high IQ and seek a learning environment that adapts to her unique skill sets.
The youngster has her sights set on the University of Arizona, where she’s been offered a place to study astronomy and is now brushing up on her English so she can realise her dream.
She told NBC San Diego: “I have to stay there for three months to learn and get accustomed to hearing and speaking English.”
Adhara, who was diagnosed with autism when she was three, hopes to become an astronaut at NASA one day and has already the organisation’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.
However, it was this interaction that would get Adhara’s genius spotted.
After taking her out of school, her mum put her in therapy and it was here that the psychiatrist recommended Adhara go to the Talent Care Center, where various IQ tests were carried out and she hit a score of 162.
For context, both Einstein and Hawking are believed to have had scores of 160.
Adhara’s big brains meant she finished high school when she was just eight years old and now works on her degrees online.
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