How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Mar 2022
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Disability, Health & Disease
Jun 2021
Can Travel Be Fun Again?
For many people, after more than a year of the pandemic, travel feels like something to dread. But it can still mean liberation.
Apr 2021
Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?
Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit.
Jul 2020
What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell?
On the disabilities that ramps and reserved parking spots don’t address.
Apr 2020
Keeping Our Heads While Keeping Our Distance
My advice to everyone is to sustain human contact whether you feel like it or not.
Apr 2020
For those of us with depression, coronavirus is a double crisis
I am in the sizeable part of the population who must seek to distinguish between ordinary fear and the beginnings of a breakdown.
Sep 2019
The Dignity of Disabled Lives
The burden of being perceived as different persists. The solution to this problem is community.
Jul 2018
My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film
Books require that people recount their emotions; documentaries require that people bare the same emotions in front of a film crew.
Nov 2017
Perfectly Normal
How conflating ‘ideal’ and ‘average’ spawned flawed concepts of identity.
Oct 2017
Fatal Genes
To what extent is information about an unpreventable genetic disease that has not yet caused any symptoms a gift and to what extent is it a burden?
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