“Though we used different signed languages, these Chinese Deaf people and I could make ourselves understood; and though we came from different countries, our mutual Deaf culture held us together. By the end of the evening we’d talked about Deaf life in China, and about Chinese politics.” I nodded. “You couldn’t do that in China,” he said. “No hearing person could. So who’s disabled then?”
PS 这一段是关于精神分裂症的
He’s well enough to know that he shouldn’t tell other people the voices are real, but not well enough to believe it himself. […] He and I also discuss a real hurdle he has not overcome, which is that he doesn’t really want to stop listening to them. Even though they scare him, they’ve been friends.”