A girl who has an outstanding IQ that is higher than Albert Einstein's has proved her bullies wrong.
Adhara Pérez Sánchez, of Mexico City, grew up in the neighborhood of Tláhauc and was constantly ridiculed in school for having autism.
The 11-year-old girl was diagnosed with a developmental disability at the age of three after her mom saw that she was rocking herself in her high chair, crawling very quickly, and noticed that her speech regressed.
In an interview with Marie Claire Mexico, Sánchez's family revealed that she changed schools three times and began to isolate herself after being bullied by classmates.
"The teachers were not very empathetic, they told me that I wish she would finish an assignment," her mother, Nayeli Sánchez, told the magazine. "She began to exclude herself, she did not want to play with her classmates, she felt strange, different."
"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 continued. "She was very depressed, people did not have empathy, they made fun of her."
When the mother saw that her bright girl knew the periodic table by heart and could do algebra, she blew it off thinking that she was just bored.
However, after she enrolled Sánchez in therapy to help with her depression, a therapist discovered that the girl was a genius and advised her family to send her to the Center for Attention to Talent (CEDAT) - a school for skillful youngsters.
It was there that she found out that her daughter had an outstanding IQ of 162, which, to put that into context, is higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who both had an IQ of 160.
At just the age of five, Sánchez finished elementary school and then completed middle and high school a year later, according to Goalcast.
Her academic success doesn't stop there as the magazine reported that the young girl received a bachelor's degree in systems engineering from CNCI University and is currently studying a master's program in mathematics at the Technological University of Mexico.
She spoke to the outlet about her interest in space travel after being named after a star in the Canis Major constellation, stating: "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."
The pre-teen hopes to study astrophysics at the University of Arizona where she was previously proposed a scholarship - which was postponed due to issues with her visa.
Furthermore, Sánchez told Marie Claire Mexico that when she finishes her G-tests, she wants to become the first person with autism to fly in space at the age of 17.
Congratulations on all your success Sánchez!
