A young autistic person from São Paulo wins 76 medals in scientific Olympics – 10/05/2023 – São Paulo

2023-10-05 16:45:00

He was 11 when he began attending advanced high school classes preparing for scientific olympiads in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and astronomy.

For a time, he kept pace with the older students in his learning. She soon surpassed them. Nowadays, at 16 years old, she even surpasses the teachers.

Highly gifted and autistic, Alexandre Andrade de Almeida has accumulated medals in knowledge olympics. There are 76, in national and international competitions. For the most part, he has taken first place.

Last week, he won the Ibero-American Physics Olympiad in Costa Rica. At the beginning of September, in Spain, she received the gold medal among Brazilians in the Ibero-American Biology Olympiad and the silver medal in the general classification.

Studying is Alexandre’s passion. He takes a few seconds to answer what he likes to do the most. “Playing with my dogs,” he says.

“I also play chess and play the piano. I like to think about the mathematical relationships of music.” As for video games, he plays “a little bit.” He uses social networks out of obligation, to communicate with his classmates at school and at the Olympics.

As for books, he says he reads several at the same time and currently has on his nightstand “Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry”, a treatise on electromagnetism by Edward Purcell, Nobel Laureate in Physics, and “Organic Chemistry”, a classic in that area of ​​higher education.

Translated by AZAHARA MARTÍN ORTEGA

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