也是一只自由泳的小鸟
“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?”
The question of how high IQ correlates to genius has been in debate ever since the tests were introduced. Terman followed a group of about fifteen hundred children with very high IQs; seventy years later, his critics claimed, they had accomplished no more than their socioeconomic status would have predicted. One child Terman had excluded as not bright enough, William Shockley, had coinvented the transistor and won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
我一直觉得 IQ 测试太片面了，说明不了什么…
To be a musician, the person has to have a mimetic capacity to reproduce others’ techniques. “That should not be dismissed as simply replication,” said Justin Davidson, music critic for New York magazine. “That’s how we learn to speak, to write, to express ourselves.
“Everyone would say, ‘You must be so proud of your daughter,’” Natalie said. “I used to say that it’s not for me to be proud, it’s Natasha who does this herself—but I learned that this is not the polite American way. So now I always say, ‘I am so proud of my daughter,’ and then maybe we can have a conversation.”
哈哈哈哈美国人，这本书里真的超多父母都在 proud of 他们的孩子。
“She made friends with Madonna,” her mother said. “I didn’t make friends with her,” Natasha protested. “She told me, ‘You classical musicians are too stuck-up. You really should think about wearing hot pants.’”
麦当娜说过这种话？？
Throughout much of history, prodigies were thought to be possessed; Aristotle believed that there could be no genius without madness. Paganini was accused of putting himself in the hands of the devil. The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso said in 1891, “Genius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity.” Recent neuroscience demonstrates that the processes of creativity and psychosis map similarly in the brain, each contingent on a reduced number of dopamine D2 receptors in the thalamus.
因为有高智商自闭症人士的存在，我看自闭症总是有层滤镜，结果这书里直接有一章就是 prodigy（天才，神童）…感觉社会还是过于贬低疯子过于抬高天才了，智商应该只是人的属性之一…
这里面还说智商低的唐氏综合征、自闭症、精神分裂症等等患者都过得比智商高的那些要开心。智商高的更倾向于自杀…
我的人生准则其实是追求快乐的说