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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be give me peace and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
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