A Texas six-year-old savant is one of the youngest people ever to be admitted to the high-IQ society, Mensa, and is committed to helping others. Ellison Barber sat down with the family of Chandler Hughes on how he wants to use his gift to become a doctor later in life.
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I was asked to join Mensa back in 1995, but I turned them down. It's a rather pointless organization.
Why does he talk like a 70 year old NYC Jewish man ???
So cute 🥺🥺🥰🥰
Ask him if the 2020 election was stolen.
Thank goodness this boy's talents were not wasted on priests in the catholic church.
Mensa IQ with a unibrow… Parents better home school him until he’s 18 or teach him how to box because recess is not going to be kind.
Amazing 🎉
Education is so important for everyone. A smart society will result in a polite society, look at Japan. Good luck to these amazing kids and parents.
They have done stories like this for over 25 years. I would love to see a follow-up on some of the adult prodigies, to see what careers they have chosen.
TOP DOG!!
Congratulations
❤❤❤❤👑👑👑👑💯💯🎼🎩🎓🧢🪖⛑️
Congratulations, from Spain. Bravo !!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Poor kid is gonna struggle big time with girls and happiness
Wishing you all the best, so you can become the Dr you want to be little man.
God bless this child 🙏🙏❤❤❤
This is not the right place for that kid. He'll never have a real chance here as much as I hate to say it. He needs to be in New York or LA. This state is still far too racist 🙁
They let my Lil man rock the UnIbRow
My son started reading early, and always figured out the tips for me when we were eating out at a restaurant. He was reading at a high school level when he was in 2nd grade, and scored in the 99% percentile, except for math and he was in the 89% percentile. Even though he’s 35 years old now he still remembers the capital of every country in the world that he learned on his own when he was 12 years old and he had his first computer. He has a good eidetic memory. This little boy is absolutely adorable, and he’ll hopefully get proper teachers, etc., because without them it would be challenging to keep him challenged. My son was ignored for the most part by his teachers when he started kindergarten at 4 years old, because he could fluently read and every other child couldn’t, so that’s where the teacher put her focus. They weren’t equipped enough to challenge him with schoolwork that was above his ability. The education that gifted students get is really important for them to thrive. He didn’t always have an easy time with other boys because of his intellectual abilities, but got teased a bit until he was able to play sports, and he excelled in every sport as well so that was helpful to balance the way other boys were judging him. He never bragged, etc., but he could always answer questions in the classroom really quickly and we all know how other kids can be. When he was in 1st grade the teacher told me that he didn’t care for working in groups with other kids because he liked doing things his own way! LoL! I had some concerns with this, because you have to be able to work with other people in your life, but he figured it out.
Here's an inspirational example of great parenting and development of potential, yet as to be expected, here come the racist trolls…😂