Southern Indiana brothers accepted into Mensa after scoring in 99th percentile of IQ test
Gage and Daxton Bogart are 6 and 8 years old, respectively. They might look like your typical young boys, but they're far from average.
"To be told by a professional that your child is in this, the super high, 99th percentile, it's mind-blowing," the boys' mom, Dorian Bogart, said.
The two were recently accepted into Mensa, a program for people in the top 2% of the general population based on standardized intelligence tests. It's the world's largest and oldest high-IQ society.
"Gage scored a 136 and Daxton scored a 135," Dorian Bogart said.
Mensa representatives say it's unusual to see kids their age have test scores that high. That's partly because their intelligence typically isn't recognized so early on.
"It took a while for us to grasp that he wasn't just remembering these things," Dorian Bogart said about Gage.
She and her husband started noticing their sons' intellectual abilities early on. When Gage was 2 years old, Dorian Bogart says he started reading 맥스카지노 something his parents say he taught himself.
"I walked out of the bedroom one day, and I was wearing a shirt that said a bunch of stuff on it, and he read it from the couch, and [I was like], how did you know that?"
They knew what to look for when it came to Gage, their youngest, because their older son Daxton had also shown signs of gifted abilities at a young age.
"[My husband] asked him something about spell your whole first name, Jackson Michael Bogart. And he did," Dorian Bogart said, and explained that Daxton was in preschool at that time. "Then he was like, 'Now spell it backwards,' and he was just joking, but he did just like that."
At the age of 4, Daxton was already counting backwards from 200.
Dorian Bogart says she is still digesting just how smart her children are, but one thing is for certain: she will likely keep asking herself one question.
"How did I birth these children that are smarter than me?"