At eight months, Balthazar was already speaking.
From kindergarten, teachers noted his seriousness and his language performance and then ended up observing his significant gap with students of his age group.
He is diagnosed with very high potential thanks to an IQ test.
An academic committee intervenes to authorize him to skip CM2.
In college, he is authorized to decompartmentalise: he can take certain upper-class courses.
Despite his abilities, his results will drop in seconds.
Tests will reveal that he suffers from an attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity that he had so far managed to compensate.
Taking Ritalin, prescribed by a doctor, will allow him to control his disorder.
He is now in preparatory class where
"things are going very well"
, tell the professionals who followed him, on the occasion of a conference organized Thursday by the Academy of Paris and devoted to students with high potential.
Profiles still poorly known and whose
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