An 11-year-old boy with Tourette syndrome from Long Island who survived cancer graduated from high school seven years earlier than usual.
Joe Petraro, a boy from Long Island, is making waves in the USA. The 11-year-old suffers from Tourette syndrome, is a cancer survivor, writes children’s books and has just graduated from high school – seven years earlier than usual.
According to the New York Post, Petraro completed his middle and high school studies online in just two years and successfully completed them. He told the newspaper that his brain moves very quickly and he can think easily and absorb things quickly.
His extraordinary educational journey began in third grade while attending a Catholic school. He was placed in a special needs program because of his tics caused by Tourette syndrome.
“I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for that one teacher,” Petraro says. After his IQ was tested at a remarkable 168 points, he began taking online courses and mastered them with remarkable speed.
Petraro has also founded a nonprofit organization and raised more than $17,000 on gofundme to purchase video game systems for children’s beds in the pediatric cancer ward at Memorial Sloan Kettering. These gifts are especially meaningful to him because he himself was diagnosed with leukemia in September 2021 and has now been healthy for almost a year.
He has also already made plans for the future: he wants to take distance learning courses at Louisiana State University – with the dream of “spreading good news” as a journalist.
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