If you were given close to 200 flags and asked to identify them correctly, will you be able to do it?

We know for a face that we sure could not do it.

However, an autistic four-year-old boy has managed to successfully identify 198 national flags from around the world in under 10 minutes!

Wow! How impressive is that?

New Malaysian record

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For his amazing feat, K. Rashwin is now the proud owner of a new national record, Bernama reported.

Rashwin performed incredible feat while being observed by a panel representing the Malaysian Book of Records via a Zoom video call.

"This achievement is an encouraging one for Rashwin considering he's an autistic child. We're very proud to see a new record being set, while also putting Malaysia in the eyes of the world.

"I think that even for adults, if they were tested in a similar manner, some wouldn't be able to get half the number of what Rashwin did," Edwin Yeoh, a consultant from the Malaysian Book of Records, was quoted as saying.

According to Yeoh, Rashwin easily bested the previous record holder, a five-year-old child from Negeri Sembilan, who managed to identify 147 flags in 15 minutes.

Identifying 147 flags in 15 minutes is still a very amazing feat, to be honest.

Next goal: break his own record

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Rashwin's mother Krishnarani Balakrishnan told Bernama that her son developed an interest in national flags after reading his elder brother’s book when he was just two-and-a-half years old.

Together with her husband, S. Kalithas, she helped encourage her kid’s interest by buying more books for him.

With this feat completed, Krishnarani said now they aim for Rashwin to break his own record in the future.

"As for future plans, we want to give him some time before attempting to break his own record. We want to advocate for autism and to inspire more parents to understand their autistic child better."

"Personally, we want future generations to understand autism. For schools, it would be great if they can incorporate awareness in education as there are a lot of cases where autistic children are bullied," she was quoted as saying.

Well done, K. Rashwin! We know you're going to do great things when you're older.

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