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  1. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    This thought runs like a bright golden thread through the dark tapestry of our sorrow. We learn so much from our children-in patience, in humility, in gratitude for other blessings we had accepted before as a matter of course; so much in tolerance; so much in faith-believing and trusting where we cannot see; so much in compassion for our fellow man; and yes, even so much in wisdom about the eternal values in life.
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  2. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    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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  3. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    It is a surprise to me to like myself; among all the elaborate possibilities I contemplated for my future, that never figured. My hard-won contentment reflects the simple truth that inner peace often hinges on outer peace. In the gnostic gospel of St. Thomas, Jesus says, "If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.
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  4. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    I told her that what was most important to me was not whether she loved a man or a woman, but that she loved and was loved well-that she experience passion, and the wonderful surprise of finding that someone feels about you as strongly as you do about them, lucky and full-hearted.
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  5. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is, 'I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different {non-autistic} child instead.' Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.
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  6. andrew solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
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