One of the most moving looks at what it means to love as a parent, how differences are what connect us, and how the challenges that our individual children come with shape their, and our, identities. Andrew Solomon takes his own experience in the homosexual culture and compares this to deaf culture, and to the experiences of parents with children with various 'disorders' ranging from dwarfism to autism to down syndrome, and finds that love and acceptance are two different things, and that love is where we find meaning in our parenting challenges. Every parent, no matter how large or small the difficulties they are facing with their kids, will find beauty and meaning in this talk.
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