実はですね、前回の写真&インタビューに続き、FacebookのHumans of New York上にはもう一枚、写真が掲載されたんですよ。その、二番目の写真(下の画像をご参照ください)に添えられた発言の中で、彼、"autistic"(自閉的な、自閉症の)という言葉を使ったんですね。
それをネガティブな意味合いでとらえ、「自閉症を持つ子供や大人に対して、侮辱的な表現だ。見逃すわけにはいかない。」と憤慨する人が次々と出てきてしまいました。
で、Facebookのコメント欄はまたたく間に大炎上。
“Pleasing people is a huge drive. Any artist who tells you otherwise is either selfish or autistic. Art is a...
Posted by Humans of New York on 2016年3月1日
“I’m a pianist. I’m playing my last concert Thursday night. Then I’m taking a sabbatical. Some of my friends think I...
Posted by Humans of New York on 2016年3月1日
(原文)
“I was married for 25 years and had five children, but I allowed myself to make decisions based on emotional glitches. I had affairs. But they were affairs of the heart. I think I had a hunger to see myself as a great man in someone else’s eyes. My wife was a fine person, and she still is, but after 25 years of marriage things become settled. And when somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special—it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling. And I wish I hadn’t chased it.”
(原文)
You know, it's easy to just condemn this guy for cheating on his wife, but I think this provides a very valid psychology for why people sometimes have affairs. It's about feeling special, and he admits that it was ephemeral and false. It was too late, and his wife should have left him, but there's merit to the story and to his evolution.