Winter

“Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“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.”
― andrew solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“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.”
― andrew solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity