A three-year-old Malaysian boy is currently the youngest member of the international high IQ society, Mensa!
According to The Star, Haryz Nadzim Mohd Hilmy Naim, who is living in Britain with his parents, was accepted into Mensa UK after scoring a 142 on the Stanford Binet test, a cognitive ability assessment used to measure IQ.
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His score placed him in the top 0.3% of the population, according to a report by the Metro UK.
His parents, Anira Asyikin and Mohd Hilmy Naim, who are both from an engineering background, never expected their son to show signs of such incredible intellect.
Anira told Metro UK that they didn’t have much experience so they thought that was just how kids are.
They later realized that their son was special, after Haryz was sent to nursery and they were told that he is more advanced than other children. She said that by the time he was in nursery, he could read most of his favourite storybooks.
Haryz was tested by Lyn Kendall, a psychologist who specializes in gifted children.
His mother added that they want him to be a normal child who plays and does normal things that children do, while they help him reach his full potential and support him in whatever he does. They also don’t want their son to feel under-stimulated, but at the same time not to feel like he is being pushed.
At the tender age of two, Haryz’s parents set up a YouTube channel called Little Haryz, so other children could watch him and be encouraged.
Haryz is very much a normal three-year-old in every other sense. He enjoys jumping in puddles, painting, singing and all the normal stuff a child of that age enjoys. His favourite television programmes are Story Bots and Numberblocks, and he often prefers to converse with older peers and adults, his mother told Metro UK.
His parents hope this will be his first step in his journey towards achieving incredible things.
Amazing little boy, he is!
By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
