Cameron Thompson Has Something In Common With Einstein And Newton
North Wales native, Cameron Thompson is a mathematical genius. At age four he corrected his nursery school teacher when she said zero was the lowest number. He insisted to her that there were, in fact, negative numbers. He fast-tracked his way to college by age 11 and studied mathematics at Open University. He did all this despite the fact that Cameron suffers from severe social problems due to his Asperger’s Syndrome. He was featured in BBC program, The Growing Pains of a Teenage Genius, that highlighted his struggles to connect with others. But Cameron’s not letting it get him down. “Apparently plenty of people with Asperger’s are really intelligent, high achievers,” he says. “People like Einstein and Newton, they had supposed Asperger’s.”
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