When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
Andrew SolomonThe absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew SolomonI think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Andrew Solomon