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He used to be a talented student in the Fudan Youth Class, a doctor who went to the United States to study, and a proud disciple of Tsung-Dao Lee, but now he has been wandering the streets of the United States for 16 years.
As soon as such news was broadcast on the Internet, it instantly attracted the attention of countless people, and it was difficult for anyone to believe that he was living a wandering life now with any previous title.
Seeing a genius fall like this, many netizens expressed their pity, hoping to help him and take him back to China.
However, many netizens commented that they did not want him to return to China, thinking that he was to blame for falling to such a point.
Netizens can be said to have two completely different attitudes towards whether to support him to return to China.
So how did this genius postdoc get to this point step by step? What is the hidden behind it?
Not an ordinary bum
A few days ago, a blogger named "Zhu Feng in New York" shared a video in a short online video.
The blogger saw a homeless man who looked like a Chinese man on the streets of New York, and out of sympathy and wanting to help him, he invited him to dinner.
Although the homeless man who appears in the video looks no different from an ordinary homeless person, in the course of talking with the blogger, it was found that this homeless man is not simple.
He is not like the homeless people we usually see, who are silent or do not speak fluently or do not know how to be polite.
When he speaks, his eyes are powerful, his language skills are very strong, his logical thinking is also very clear, and he is very educated, as long as the blogger talks to him, he will put down his chopsticks and listen carefully to the blogger.
According to the homeless man, he graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree, then studied graduate and doctoral studies in the United States, and worked as a postdoctoral Xi for two years, majoring in physics.
After that, he worked in software development on Wall Street in the computer field, and his salary could reach more than 100,000 yuan a month.
But because he suffered from loneliness and fantasy, he began to live a wandering life.
After the video was posted on the Internet, although some netizens thought that his temperament was indeed different from other homeless people, if he said that he graduated with a doctorate in physics, and then did software development work, with a salary of 100,000 yuan a month, why would he become a homeless man now?
Is it because you have a delusional disorder that you can't work, or are these academic qualifications and jobs all made up?
However, soon many netizens who knew him came forward and said that his academic qualifications were not faked, and his life experience was gradually revealed by some netizens......
The birth of a genius boy
Sun Weidong was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province in 1969.
His talent has been shown since he was a child, he has a brilliant mind, and he is a prodigy in the hearts of many teachers and students, and his achievements are the unattainable dream of his classmates.
According to many netizens who know Sun Weidong, he studied in Nanqing Middle School in high school, but because of his outstanding grades, he was admitted to the juvenile class of Fudan University after only one semester in this school, and studied physics.
Being admitted to the junior class of Fudan University can be said to be super powerful.
Some netizens who knew him posted photos of him when he was young, including a photo with Professor Xie Xide, the president of Fudan University at the time.
A blogger who also studied at Fudan University said that although he was also a Fudan alumnus, his strength was better than most Fudan alumni at that time.
And being able to take a photo with the principal shows that they were very important at that time.
After completing his undergraduate studies at Fudan University, Sun Weidong received a scholarship from Tsung-Dao Lee to study in the United States.
He studied for a master's degree in physics in the United States, then a Ph.D., and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow for about a year or two as a physics researcher.
His Fudan alumni retrieved some information about his time studying in the United States, during which he published a total of 32 SCI papers.
In the five years from 1992 to 1997, Sun Weidong was mainly engaged in nuclear physics research and published 22 SCI papers.
If this rhythm continues, Sun Weidong will definitely be able to make amazing achievements in the physics community and become a shining academic star in the physics community.
After two years as a postdoc, he worked as a software developer on Wall Street for two years, and the salary was extremely high.
Whether he is engaged in physics research or computer software development, according to his ability, his future life will definitely not be bad.
So how did he get to this point?
According to the information leaked by netizens, combined with Sun Weidong's own words, it is probably because he has suffered some blows in his life, so he suffers from depression and loneliness fantasy.
So what exactly did it hit?
The fall of a genius boy
It is often said that geniuses always have different ideas from ordinary people, because their IQ is too high, and they are dedicated to studying Xi, so they will not deal with the trivial things they encounter in life.
According to netizens, around 1993, Sun Weidong returned to China, carrying $30,000 in his backpack, but on the way to the car, he didn't know who stole it.
Because of this, he, who was full of good hopes for everything in the world, was hit for the first time.
Another blow was that he had been engaged in physics research, but in 1999, after something happened, the United States began to restrict Chinese from studying physics.
This may be the reason why Sun Weidong has studied physics for so many years, and after two years of postdoctoral work, he finally engaged in software development.
Another blow may have been due to the unhappiness of his marriage.
According to Sun Weidong, he and his wife have been married for eight years, but they have lived together for four years, and although the two did not officially divorce, they are no different from divorce, and they chose to divorce after a few years of entanglement.
Some netizens said that the woman who married Sun Weidong was a laid-off worker in China and brought a daughter.
I met Sun Weidong by chance and married him just to get a green card in the United States.
Sun Weidong was stimulated again because he was deceived, and finally slowly developed a disease in his heart and was unable to work, and finally became like this.
However, we can't be sure whether this is true or false at present, maybe it's just the speculation of some netizens.
In the blogger's interview video, he doesn't feel that he has been wandering for the past 16 years, thinking that he is just resting, and when he is rested, he will go to work.
And he said that he was too ambitious and not pragmatic, so he lost a lot of opportunities.
In the past 16 years, about five or six of them, Sun Weidong studied the Bible in church during the day in exchange for meals, and slept in Internet cafes at night.
After that, when he was wandering, he made a living by picking up garbage, sometimes sleeping on the side of the road, sometimes sleeping on a bench in the park, and going to the subway station for a few hours on the water when it was cold.
Now because the weather is too cold, he can't hold on and wants to seek help from Fudan alumni.
Friends find out and actively help
After Sun Weidong's video went viral, more and more netizens who knew him began to look for ways to help him.
According to online information, his Fudan alumni volunteered to form a group exchange and were ready to help him.
His family has also learned about the incident, and he also has a younger brother, Sun Weixing, who said that he also has an old mother in her 80s, who is not in good health, but does not want to be disturbed, does not want his mother to know about it, and is afraid of being stimulated.
However, netizens disagreed on whether they should help Sun Weidong return to China.
Some netizens think that he is too simple and stimulated, and now that he is so pitiful, he should be helped and more tolerant.
And he was so smart that it was a waste of his life's talent to let him wander all his life like this.
However, some netizens believe that he is already an American citizen and should not help him.
Netizens quarreled at this time.
Although Sun Weidong is now a citizen of the United States, it is undeniable that his roots are still from the mainland, and his family has been waiting for him, looking forward to his family's early reunion.
Sun Weidong's achievements in the first few decades are unexpected, but the next ten years are embarrassing.
Who would have thought that a former genius would have such a turn?
What are your thoughts on whether we should help Sun Weidong return to China? Welcome to leave a message to discuss!
[Information sources in this article]
[1]. Jiangbei Rong Media - "In the past, Dr. Liumei has been living on the street for 16 years, and the man cannot work normally due to frequent auditory and visual hallucinations, and he lives by others by handing out and picking up garbage"
[2]. Blogger "Zhu Feng in New York" - "Dr. Liu Yang in the past, now he walks the street ronin!"
[3] Qilu Evening News Sure Video - "Do you support Sun's return to China?"
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