“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?”

#FarFromTheTree #读书

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？？​​