人生的后半场(3)

On the pretext of his immature mentality, Harvard turned Sidis down in spite of the fact that he passed the entrance examination at the age of 9. Still, this prestigious university was pressed to accept him when he was 11. Sidis' parents wanted more than this little kid could endure. Although little Sidis was head and shoulders above his contemporaries in IQ, he was a child psychologically and emotionally and thus couldn't become a part of his surroundings. Gradually, this child prodigy was found abnormal by people around him. His frequent eccentric laughter narrowly turned him into the asylum. He was a ridicule in Harvard and sized up viciously by everyone. Every minute in it was a torture to him, he did everything to flee this hostile academia and lead a normal life. His trauma led to his abandonment of his master degree. Then, to evade public view, he moved from one city to another, changed dozens of jobs. Having left his parents, Sidis made up his mind for a break from the past and applied himself to manual occupations. Although he was gifted in math, he managed to avert it when he was grown up and did writing under all kinds of assumed names. It is more like a revolt against his genius childhood experiences.