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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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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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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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I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.
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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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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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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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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.
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A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.
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It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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