However, their extraordinary sense of visual imagery contradicts the notion of being disabled. Sacks uses these people to demonstrate the ability of the brain to adapt and develop. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become” also discusses the idea of the brain’s plasticity and how it affects the connections people have with one another. Parents raise their kids to conform to their expectations, and this becomes mirrored upon our society as a result. Because of this pressure to conform, an individual is overwhelmed by the desire to not be different and uphold standards that are socially acceptable. However, the connections between Solomon’s horizontal identities and Sacks’s and Fredrickson’s arguments about the brain provide a meaningful counterargument
However, their extraordinary sense of visual imagery contradicts the notion of being disabled. Sacks uses these people to demonstrate the ability of the brain to adapt and develop. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become” also discusses the idea of the brain’s plasticity and how it affects the connections people have with one another. Parents raise their kids to conform to their expectations, and this becomes mirrored upon our society as a result. Because of this pressure to conform, an individual is overwhelmed by the desire to not be different and uphold standards that are socially acceptable. However, the connections between Solomon’s horizontal identities and Sacks’s and Fredrickson’s arguments about the brain provide a meaningful counterargument