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Bullied child prodigy, 11, who has IQ 'higher than Einstein' now earns a Master's degree

An autistic 11-year-old with an with IQ higher than Albert Einstein has completed a Masters after being ignored by teachers and bullied by her classmates

Super smart Adhara Pérez Sánchez has incredibly finished her High School education before she had turned seven.

The girl genius, from Mexico City, scored an impressive 162 on her IQ test - higher than the greatest ever physicist Stephen Hawking.

She is about to be awarded a Masters and is now working with the Mexican Space Agency to help promote space exploration amongst youngsters.

Adhara's degree in systems and industrial engineering with a specialisation in mathematics from the Technological University of Mexico makes her stand out from everyone else her age.

Adhara Pérez Sánchez is officially smarter than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking (Instagram)

But somehow her teachers failed to spot her talents.

At age three she was was diagnosed with a developmental disability after her speech significantly regressed.

She had to change schools three times and her mother says her achievements should send a message to apathetic classroom staff and her old classmates.

Nayeli Sánchez told Marie Claire Mexico she has had to overcome so much.

She said: "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.

"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.

The child prodigy told Goalcast about her ambitions for the future.

Studying hard to become an astronaut, the out-of-this-world girl spoke about what she hopes to achieve.

"I want to go to space and colonise Mars,'" she said. "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 University of Arizona last year offered her a scholarship to study astrophysics, but visa issues complications means she could have to defer.

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