[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]A young girl scored a super-high IQ of 162, which is just one point above Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
When she was only four years old, Adhara Pérez, a resident of Mexico City, has taken IQ tests.
She is currently nine years old and pursuing dual degrees at Universidad CNCI in systems engineering and UNITEC in industrial engineering with a mathematics focus.
When I was nine my mum wouldn’t even let me use the toaster in case I burnt the house down, so fair play Adhara.
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.
Before being diagnosed, little Adhara became the target of cruel bullies who teased her for being different.
Her mum Nallely Sanchez told the Yucatan Times: “I saw that Adhara was playing in a little house and they locked her up. And they started to chant: ‘Oddball, weirdo!’
“And then they started hitting the little house. So I said, I don’t want her to suffer. And she told me that she didn’t want to go to school anymore, and fell into a very deep depression.”
But it was this exchange that would draw attention to Adhara’s brilliance.
Adhara’s mother pulled her out of school, took her to counselling, and the psychiatrist there suggested she visit the Talent Care Center, where she took a variety of IQ tests and received a score of 162.
For comparison, scores of 160 are thought to have been achieved by both Einstein and Hawking.
Adhara’s sharp mind allowed her to graduate from high school at the age of eight, and she is currently pursuing her degrees online.
Also, she has authored a book, as if all of that wasn’t already remarkable enough.
Speaking to NBC San Diego, Adhara offered this advice to anyone who needs it: “Do not give up, and if you don’t like where you are, start planning where you want to be.”
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