Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual …

Andrew Solomon
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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 (2014). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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