Child prodigies: How geniuses navigate the uncertain journey to adulthood – BBC News

Home-schooled by his parents, Michael’s intellectual development accelerated at a head-spinning pace. Fast-tracked through high school and college, Michael enrolled at the University of South Alabama in 1992 at the age of eight.

Two years later, aged 10, he walked out with a Bachelor’s degree in anthropology, entering the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest ever university graduate – an extraordinary feat that remains unsurpassed to this day.

More academic success – including two Master’s degrees – followed in his teens and 20s, culminating in a PhD and a trivia-and-puzzle game show appearance that saw him win $1m (£759,000).

What happened since then is less well-documented. Beyond the late-2000s, Michael’s online footprint amounts to a few bread crumbs. Nowadays, the BBC understands the 35-year-old lives a private life, his last known whereabouts in Nashville, Tennessee.

via www.bbc.com