I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.
Andrew SolomonThe absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew SolomonI found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
Andrew SolomonI had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
Andrew Solomon