The five-year-old American from Illinois has become a member of the Mensa Intellectual Society, which brings together geniuses from all over the world. At such a young age, the child demonstrates abilities that many adults, not to mention their peers, have only dreamed of.
Gus Dorman's father said that his son showed an interest in reading at the age of 1.5. Sitting on a pot, the boy read everything from newspaper advertisements to scientific articles in specialized magazines. Once his parents "planted" the periodic table on him. The result stunned them - after a short time, the baby knew by heart the location of all periodic elements.
In the end, the young genius became smarter than his mother and father, who admitted: at first he did not even understand how unique his son was. The fact that his son is a genius was opened up by family friends.
“Gus read the inscription on our friend's clothes. And they were surprised because their five-year-old daughter still didn't know the alphabet,”says Dorman. He and his wife decided to find out the child's IQ level. The child passed the Stanford-Binet test and showed a result of 147 points. This is higher than Bill Clinton and Napoleon, and slightly worse than Sigmund Freud.
It is worth noting that Gus is experiencing certain problems at school. They are connected, of course, not with bad studies. “They tell him too simple things there. He doesn't know what to do with himself out of boredom when his classmates are being taught the alphabet,”said his dad. He added that at the moment the offspring is focused on the study of astrophysics.
In order for a person to get into Mensa, it is enough for him to score 132 points. At the same time, the average indicator for the average person is 100 points. The youngest member of the club became a member at two and a half years.
