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Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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