Fleisher on the team...

Mr. Fleisher describes the performer as three people in one: “Person A hears before they play. They have to have this ideal in their inner ear of what they’re going to try and realize. Person B actually puts the keys down, plays and tries to manifest what Person A hears. Person C sits a little bit apart and listens. And if what C hears is not what A intended, C tells B to adjust to get closer to what A wanted. And this goes on with every note you play, no matter how fast you’re playing. It’s a simultaneous process that advances horizontally. When it works, when it all meshes, it’s a state of ecstasy.”

My person C is always on ritalin.

Jamison exudes...

This woman and her book are rocking my world right now. Positive aspects of non-traditional personalities.

My peeps and I were all poked and prodded in childhood in the fashionable Ritalin infested problem-solving school of 1980s psychology.

It's not even the stigma attached to named psychological "disorders" that sucks most. It's the widespread loss of appreciation for the slipperiness of normalcy.

What makes Dostoyevsky and Goethe and Jeanette Winterson so much fun to read is that even though you could put a label on the characters, you identify with them and take the amiguity of their sanity on yourself as the reader... and it's fun.