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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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When a church manipulates the law to say, These people are lesser, it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, I am not lesser! Some people can do it and some cannot and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. Betray is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
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