A young girl with autism who aspires to become an astronaut has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
11-year-old Adhara Pérez Sánchez from Mexico City was diagnosed with autism at the age of three after her speech regressed significantly and she began displaying other symptoms of the developmental disability.
In the years that followed, Adhara would often find herself getting bullied by her peers which led her to switch three schools and isolate herself from other people.
“The teachers were not very empathetic, they told me that I wish she would finish an assignment. She began to exclude herself, she did not want to play with her classmates, she felt strange, different,” Nayeli Sánchez, the girl’s mother, revealed in an interview with Marie Claire Mexico.
“She could be at school for a while but then she couldn’t, she fell asleep, she didn’t want to do things anymore. She was very depressed, people did not have empathy, they made fun of her.”
Despite her situation, Adhara didn’t let other people slow her down. Instead, she went on to learn algebra and the periodic table on her own without any help or stimulation.
Eventually, the young genius enrolled in a school for gifted where it was confirmed that her IQ is 162.
By the age of 5, Adhara had already finished elementary school. Just a year later, she also graduated from middle school and high school.
Now, the 11-year-old aspired to work for NASA after getting a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering and getting ready to receive her master’s degree in mathematics.
“My name is a star from the Canis Major constellation. Wezen is right above Adhara. Aludra is right below Adhara,” the girl said.
“I want to go to space and colonize Mars. If you don’t like where you are, imagine where you want to be. I see myself at NASA, so it’s worth a try.”
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