Maye Musk, mother of the billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Muskreveals that his eldest son caused him concern since childhood because of his differences. Furthermore, he indicated that he was harassed and attacked at school, according to a book of memories from which this Monday The Telegraph advance an extract.
In an interview with the same media, he states that concluded that Elon was “a genius” when he was only three years oldbecause he “reasoned” in an unusual way for children of that age.
Maye Musk assures, however, that He never imagined that his firstborn would end up creating companies valued at billions of dollars: “No… I knew he was brilliant, but there are brilliant children who spend the day in a basement and don’t come out. He could have been like that,” he told the newspaper.
in the book Timeless: The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age, which is published this Tuesday, Musk’s mother, who is also a model and nutritionist, explains that Elon was very different from his brothers Tosca and Kimbal, who made friends quickly, while He barely had any, and from the age of six “he was glued to books or video games.”
“As a teenager, Elon suffered bullying from his classmates at school. On one occasion, he was beaten so brutally that he had to go to the hospital.“, he writes. According to his mother, the teachers described him as a “dreamer” in class, where he had difficulties relating; he was also not good at sports or subjects that did not interest him, but, on the other hand, “he excelled in physics and mathematics.”
“His favorite activities were solitary: reading, working with a computer, programming. Kimbal, Tosca and I called him our encyclopedia, because he could answer any question by precisely remembering everything he had read,” he recalls.
Maye Musk also explains that even now she is still worried about her three children and especially about Elon, of whom she says that “a good part of the media has treated him as if he were a James Bond villain.”
For her, her 55-year-old son “He is a hero of American innovation and a pioneer of green energy” and, although he admits that sometimes he does not understand what he is talking about, he always has your support.