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Priscilla Gilman
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The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
— published 2011 — 7 editions |
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“There is nothing less romantic, literary, or lyrical than the language of pathology, diagnosis, symptom checklists. As I read through these checklists over and over again I was struck by the harshness, the crudeness of the terminology. And once the evaluation process began, more and more distinctly unpoetic terms were added to the lists, as the problems quickly grew in scope and seriousness.”
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
“So even as he was making great strides, memorizing the expected answers and beginning to answer questions appropriately, I often wondered to myself, yes, he is learning how to "function," but is he really learning how to connect deeply, flexibly, authentically with others? Or are we just helping him to "get by," to "pass" more easily? Will he ever experience genuine intimacy? Will he ever be real?”
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
“Living with Benj was like experiencing an unfolding miracle.”
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
― Priscilla Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy
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