What Does It Take To Silence A Beautiful Mind?
Sadly, sometimes it may only take one good-intentioned, but misguided idea or concept to persuade someone with a beautiful mind to silence himself (or herself).
Too often the ideas that silence someone come from close associates and family with the best of intentions.
If you’ve ever watched a beautiful mind silence itself, you may understand some of the incredible potentials that can be lost.
Not all silences are brought on by cognitive breakdowns or external negative forces. Some silences are brought on, or amplified, by genetic predispositions. Not all silences can be therapeutically “remedied.”
I mention this theory to encourage everyone to reconsider whatever priorities they think are so important that they believe they should persuade other people not to debate or discuss them. Whatever you do that tends to silence others, you should give greater scrutiny to those priorities and behaviors.
One way to possibly unlock and encourage a beautiful mind to start communicating and creating again is to slowly and carefully reconnect the person to several diverse external sources of stimulus, quality sources of information, and compassionate people.
This process may take longer than your lifetime, and it may not “succeed.”
Not everyone wants or is able to “undo” their silences.
Other times, helping someone regain their voice is not a linear process and involves periods when progress is halted or appears to “go backward.” Enlist as many friends, family, experts, and counselors as can be received to compromise and work together to coordinate support. Read as many books as you can on the related issues to gather competing and informed expert opinions.
Most silences are built up over long periods of time. Addressing those formative patterns can take as long or longer than their formative period of time.
The ideas expressed in this post are only my personal theories and should be questioned thoroughly.
I share my speculations in hopes of encouraging more voices to speak and to encourage more uncommonly beautiful minds to create.
“A Beautiful Mind” on Wikipedia
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I must have missed this post. Reading it reminded me of a very young autistic boy I know. He is only three and has areas of great intelligence. Sometimes I worry that in trying to make him fit in with society, they’re squashing an opportunity for him to explore some of the things that he’s truly good at and interested in.
There are those I work with who proclaim to know more about him and his Austism than his parents or I, his teacher. Yet I know this child very well and I understand his intelligence, perhaps with very little expertise, but with a heart and with compassion. I wonder why heart and compassion are not ever valued along side of expertise and knowledge?
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OneMoreOption: Thank you.