The Autism Rights Movement
A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability. Opponents call them dangerously deluded.
May 2008
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Disability, Health & Disease
Aug 2005
A New Look at Dwarfs
Review of "The Lives of Dwarfs" and "Dwarfism," by Betty M. Adelson.
Jul 2003
The Amazing Life of Laura
Laura had made the rare discovery of a way to contain her illness, as though she and it were roommates in her body.
Apr 2003
I Remember It, um, Well
Between that which we naturally remember and that which we naturally forget lie our emotions, which we half remember, which haze but are never quite lost, which are always ...
Feb 2002
The Art of Losing
Here is the tragedy: we have no idea what passed. We are never told what might have been.
Mar 1996
Brett Again
Review of "Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughter's Death," by Douglas Hobbie.
Aug 1994
Defiantly Deaf
A steadily increasing number of deaf people have said that they would not choose to be hearing. To them, the word "cure" -- indeed the whole notion of deafness as pathology ...
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