The Story of My Life 01-09

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Recorded Sep 4, 2011

I am told that while I was still in long dresses I showed many signs of an eager, self-asserting disposition. Everything that I saw other people do I insisted upon imitating. At six months I could pipe out "How d'ye," and one day I attracted every one's attention by saying "Tea, tea, tea" quite plainly. Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months. It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other speech was lost. I ceased making the sound "wah-wah" only when I learned to spell the word.

They tell me I walked the day I was a year old. My mother had just taken me out of the bath-tub and was holding me in her lap, when I was suddenly attracted by the flickering shadows of leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor. I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them. The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her arms.

据说我在还穿长衣的时候（婴儿），就已经表现出很多急切、自信的倾向。不论别人做什么，我都坚持要模仿。六个月时我能够顺口说出“你好”，有一天所有人都被我清楚说出的“茶、茶、茶”所吸引。就是在得病之后，我还清楚地记得在那头几个月里学到的词之一，这个词是“水”。在失去讲话的能力之后，我还在继续试着说这个词。直到我学会了拼写这个词，我才放弃说“哇”“哇”。

他们告诉我我一岁的那天开始走路。母亲刚刚把我从浴盆里抱出来，正把我抱在腿上，我突然被闪烁的树叶的影子吸引，阳光下，它们正在光滑的地板上跳舞。我于是从母亲腿上滑下，几乎跑了过去。冲动过去，我摔倒在地上，哭着要妈妈把我抱起。