“I’m going to be proud. I’m going to hope I don’t fall off the stage,” she told CBC ahead of graduation. “I’m going to be happy for myself too, not just for other people. I am proud of myself for getting to this point, despite all the hurdles and blocks that there have been for a person like me.”

Dennis started the program when she was 9, according to the news outlet. She completed a 40-page thesis on brain differences between right-handed people versus those who are left-handed. Her research lasted a year before she presented her work to the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology Symposium.

Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis

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