In 2019, a Mexican girl named Adhara Pérez went viral for having an IQ of 162—two points higher than the estimated IQs of famous physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Adhara, 10, was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome when she was three years old. This developmental disorder is on the autism spectrum and can influence a person’s ability to handle social interactions.
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Her mother, Nallely Sanchez, witnessed how Adhara was made fun of by the other kids.
“I saw that Adhara was playing in a little house and they locked her up. And they started to chant: ‘Oddball, weirdo!’” she told Yucatan Times. “And then they started hitting the little house. So I said, I don’t want her to suffer.”
However, Nallely knew Adhara was an exceptional kid who possessed an intelligence rarely seen in most children her age. She had already mastered algebra and the periodic table at a young age.
When Nallely took her to a psychiatrist, they recommended that Adhara be taken to the Center for Attention to Talent (CEDAT), a school for the gifted. That’s when the child was confirmed to be a genius.
