Living with high -functioning autism, Joshua Beckford, the child prodigy from Tottenham was, home-schooled. At the age of three, Beckford could read fluently using phonics. He learned to speak Japanese and even taught himself to touch -type on a computer before he could learn to write. At the age of six he became the youngest person in the world to study philosophy and history at the prestigious University of Oxford in England, gaining a distinction in both subjects. He dreams of being a neurosurgeon.