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“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we’d received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

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“I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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

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“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

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“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

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