But these drugs will also have, some say, an "enhancing" effect on normally functioning people.
Most functioning people are probably O.K. with the personalities and temperaments that the Good Lord or natural selection has given them.
They are relatively normal, functioning people: Lloyd is more outgoing and optimistic than Hill; Hill is cleverer and better at making intuitive mystery-solving leaps – their everyday ordinariness is their main characteristic.
Many murder mystery and thriller novels have perfectly normal, well functioning people who are thrust into not so normal situations as a result of a psychopathic antagonist or a villain along those lines.
There were many periods of backsliding and regression, but it is clear that by the age of six she had achieved fair language and, with this, had crossed the Rubicon that divides "high functioning" people like her from "low functioning" ones, who never achieve proper language or autonomy.
In the South Bronx, a community known to struggle with addiction, Beauty chooses an active rebellion from the norm: she refuses to use crack, which removed her mother from her childhood, as well as heroin, which she's seen turn functioning people into perpetually sick ones.
