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Our children are not us: they carry throwback genes and recessive traits and are subject right from the start to environmental stimuli beyond our control. And yet we are our children; the reality of being a parent never leaves those who have braved the metamorphosis.

— Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree (2012)

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I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

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People want to get better, but they don't want to change.

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Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.

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I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead.

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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

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