也是一只自由泳的小鸟
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公交司机戴了圣诞帽
you think I’m going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you’re not going to be able to understand it. Why, then, am I going to bother you with all this? Why are you going to sit here all this time, when you won’t be able to understand what I am going to say? It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don’t understand it. You see, my physics students don’t understand it either. That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.
我好像是第一次看书的时候看 foreword preface 和 introduction 这么认真，因为我怀疑正文我都看不懂
今天圣诞夜又在看十年前就看过的《真爱至上》，记得当年印象特别好，觉得是特别轻松快乐的圣诞片，今年看完的感受只有一个：男的不行 
因为我妈是数学老师兼班主任，我把这条转给她看了
https://wxw.moe/@gugugu/107500862275503551
她说：“我们搞的是中国特色的共产主义，也可以搞一个中国特色的圣诞节。”
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
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…
“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？？
为什么眼镜戴久了会晕啊，我时常需要摘下眼镜来休息眼睛…（已经戴了两年了，应该没有度数不合适
“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。
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.
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…
most people embark on parenthood in optimism, and even those who soberly consider a worst-case scenario cannot adequately predict their response to such a situation until they are in it.
怎讲，这本书里的各种极端例子让我越看越乐观，感觉我也能当妈了（明明很多对这本书的好评都是：这本书看着很压抑但请坚持看下去
In Peter Singer’s definition, Imogen, Ashley, and others like them are not persons. Nonetheless, the parents I met who lived with and cared for such children often described a great deal of personhood in them. It’s impossible to establish in any given case in what measure such personhood is observed and in what measure imagined or projected.
也有听说狗的情感是人类的投射，狗的主人会想象狗在某种情景中的感受，并且用来解释狗的反应，即时狗在不同场景里的反应并没有什么不同？？
He proposes that not all persons are human beings; […] In Practical Ethics he wrote, “Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all.” […] Singer in effect reverses cogito, ergo sum and says that those who do not think do not exist.
啊这，“我思故我在”等于“我不在故我不思”啊，怎么能说“我不思故我不在”呢…
楼里不知道谁在学钢琴，已经能弹很复杂的曲目了，但还是基本上每天都能听到一曲简单版欢乐颂…是热身吗？
总之对这本好评如潮的书有些失望…虽然书很长很长，但主要是因为啰嗦的语言以及大量类似的叙事，所以并没有给我提供很多的 insight。
越读越觉得里面的例子缺乏多样性。不管孩子有什么样的缺陷，整个故事基本上都是：“我们之前的人生都很顺利，没想过会出这种事，但我们还是决定要了这个孩子。带这样的孩子很累，但并不全是苦恼。一开始我们很绝望，但后来我们都爱上了这个孩子，这孩子非常地好，我们为它取得的成就而骄傲。我们给它找最好的医生，最好的学校。我们后来又要了两个孩子。”
其它类型的叙事一笔带过的偏多…
