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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.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Implant
Like
Implants
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Autism
Deaf

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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
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I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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