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Far From the Tree

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by Solomon, Andrew


  self-advocacy and, 334–38

  stages of, 296, 303–4, 318–19

  symptoms of, 302, 303, 304, 309, 316, 317, 318, 324, 325, 330, 331, 334, 342, 345, 348

  treatment of, 221, 309–15, 317–31, 335–37, 340, 341, 344, 345, 347, 349, 353

  as world of voices, 296, 300, 311, 324, 326, 334–35, 340, 346–47

  schizophrenogenic mothers, 307, 308

  Schmitz, Barbara, 520–26

  Schmitz, Elaine, 520–21

  Schmitz, Jim, 520–21

  Schmitz, Pauline, 524–25

  Schnabel, Artur, 414, 415, 416, 436

  school buses, 11, 612

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 412, 472

  Schorr, Lev, 414

  Schreibman, Laura, 260

  Schubert, Franz, 438

  Schumann, Robert, 429

  Schwartz, Robert G., 546

  Science, 108

  Scorgie, Kate, 42

  Scott, Judith, 214

  Sea, Scott, 236–37

  Seashore House, 285

  seat scooting by dwarf infants, 130

  Seattle Children’s Hospital, 386, 387, 388

  Seattle Growth Attenuation and Ethics Working Group, 388–89

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 390–91

  Sebat, Jonathan, 252, 254

  SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission), 139

  Second Piano Concerto (Chopin), 447

  secrecy, 10

  multiple severe disabilities and, 372

  rape and, 477, 487, 499–502, 511, 525

  schizophrenia and, 309

  transgender and, 624

  Secret, The (self-help book), 308

  SED, see spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita

  sedatives, 267, 269, 311, 345

  rape and, 481

  segregation, of special-needs children, 182

  Séguin, Édouard, 179

  Seidel, Kathleen, 257–58, 263, 278–81, 284

  Seifert, Ruth, 526

  seizures, 217, 253, 254

  multiple severe disabilities and, 359, 360, 364, 366, 377, 378

  myoclonic, 205, 206

  self-acceptance, 6, 26–27, 30, 136, 157, 284, 334

  self-advocacy, schizophrenia and, 334–38

  self-advocacy groups, 213, 238

  self-blame, 22, 25

  self-confidence, 134, 424, 627, 688

  self-control, 352, 450, 546, 549

  self-destructive behavior, 11, 12, 469, 553, 570–71

  see also alcoholism; drinking; substance abuse

  self-determination, 335

  self-development, 36

  self-esteem, 27, 46, 81, 193, 281, 519

  crime and, 551

  of dwarfs, 134, 135, 162, 167

  schizophrenia and, 335, 337

  transgender and, 605, 610

  self-hatred, 46, 70, 78

  self-help books, 308

  self-injury:

  autism and, 223, 229, 235, 237, 247, 268, 285

  transgender and, 616, 632

  self-interest, 33

  self-knowledge, 583, 607

  self-pity, 296, 569

  self-worth, 434

  Semenya, Caster, 666

  Senate, New York, 45

  Senate, US, 310

  Senate, Vermont, 638

  Send in the Idiots (Nazeer), 246

  Senegal, 330

  sensory integration therapy, 266–67

  Serenity Prayer, 33, 223

  Serkin, Rudolf, 432

  serotonin, 317, 563

  Sesame Street (TV show), 173

  Seventeen, 460

  severe disability, defined, 356

  severely affected by autism, 244

  sexism, 44, 609, 627

  sex-reassignment surgery, 35, 602, 609, 614, 621–22, 636

  sexual abuse, 11, 71, 73, 74, 492

  autism and, 248

  of children, see child abuse, sexual

  crime and, 570, 571

  Down syndrome and, 195, 211–12

  rape and, 496, 512, 513, 514

  transgender and, 616

  sexual intercourse, 20, 480, 496, 620

  sexuality, sex, 9, 289, 522, 546, 570

  autism and, 230, 240, 268–69

  Down syndrome and, 176, 215

  of dwarfs, 148–49

  gender vs., 600

  in marriage, 450–51

  prodigies and, 429, 434

  with prostitutes, 569

  rape as, 480

  schizophrenia and, 320, 322, 345, 350, 351, 352

  surrogate therapy and, 14–15

  sexual obsessions, 561

  sexual opportunity, 13–14

  sexual phone calls, 545

  sexual slavery, 528, 531, 532

  Shadish, William R., 584

  Shady Grove Fertility Center, 681

  Shakespeare, Tom, 157

  Shamberg, Caitlin, 78

  Shamberg, Jacob, 74–79, 112

  Shamberg, Michael, 74–80

  shame, 57, 70, 236, 685

  dwarfism and, 137

  prodigies and, 429

  rape and, 478, 479, 484, 488, 490, 500, 503, 506

  schizophrenia and, 308

  Shann, Frank, 393

  Shannon, Bill, 37–38

  sharks, 108

  Shawn, Allen, 381

  Sheffield, University of, 109

  shelters, 513, 650

  Shelton, Heidi, 293

  Shelton, Zach, 293

  Shenyang, 446, 447

  Shestack, Dov, 256

  Shestack, John, 256

  shock, dwarfism and, 120, 122

  Shockley, William, 413

  Short Stature Foundation, 134

  Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 182

  siblings, 210, 332, 338, 389

  of Down syndrome children, 204

  as friends, 442

  multiple severe disabilities and, 380–81

  Siebers, Tobin, 22–23, 44

  Siegel, Bryna, 266

  Signed Exact English, 82

  sign language, see American Sign Language

  Sign Language Structure (Stokoe), 52

  Silent Knights (Deaf baseball team), 81

  Silverman, Michael, 653

  Simpson, Alexa, 551

  Simpson, Jackson, 551

  Simultaneous Communication, 82

  sin, homosexuality as, 16

  Sinclair, Jim, 37, 276, 279

  Singal, Daniel, 457–58

  Singer, Alison Tepper, 241, 280

  Singer, Judy, 278, 281

  Singer, Max, 372–75

  Singer, Peter, 189, 372–75, 389, 393–94, 401, 402

  transgender advocates compared with, 667–68

  Singer, Susanna, 372–75

  singers, absolute pitch and, 423

  Singh, Lali, 686

  Singh, Sushma, 686

  Singh, Vinod, 686

  Singing Neanderthals, The (Mithen), 407

  single-parent families, crime and, 568–69

  Sino-Japanese War, 529

  Sirota, Robert, 427, 445, 467

  “Sissy Boy Syndrome” and the Development of Homosexuality, The (Green), 600

  60 Minutes (TV show), 424

  skating, figure, 101

  skeletal dysplasia, 119, 126, 130, 155, 157, 158, 163

  see also achondroplasia

  Slate, 237, 683

  Slatkin, Alexandra, 242, 245

  Slatkin, David, 242–45

  Slatkin, Harry, 242–45

  Slatkin, Laura, 242–45, 292

  sleeping pills, see sedatives

  Slenczynska, Ruth, 428

  Smart, Elizabeth, 137

  Smith, Dylan, 196–98

  Smith, Helena, 529–30

  Smith, Jeff, 196, 197

  Smith, Joel, 292

  Smith, Michelle, 195–98

  Smith, Steven R., 33

  Smith, Vernon, 278

  Smith, Windy, 213

  Smithers, Bobby, 308, 309

  Smi
thers, Freda, 306–9

  Smithers, Paul, 308–9

  Smithers, Philip, 308, 309

  Smithsonian, 63

  smoking, 263, 310, 317, 570

  Smythe, Ringo, 499

  Sneider, Leslye, 137–39

  snowplowing by dwarf infants, 130

  Snyder, Sharon, 27–28, 29

  Sobsey, Dick, 42

  Social and Rehabilitative Services of Kansas (SRS), 648–49

  social class, see socioeconomic status

  see also poverty, the poor

  social Darwinism, 52

  social interaction, autism and, 232–33

  social isolation:

  crime and, 554

  multiple severe disabilities and, 363, 371, 380

  prodigies and, 466

  transgender and, 605

  social model of disability, 603, 679

  Social Security, 69, 177, 248, 498

  Social Security Act (1935), 181

  Société de l’autisme, 290

  Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 545

  socioeconomic status, 157

  disability and, 36–37

  Down syndrome and, 199

  prodigies and, 455

  social mobility, 20, 454

  upward mobility and, 685

  sociolinguistics, 62

  sodomy, 480, 513, 544

  soldiers, 350–51

  Solinger, Rickie, 490

  Solnit, Albert, 180

  Solomon, Andrew (author), 6–16

  apologizing of, 8–9

  autistic friend of, 233

  childish things clung to by, 10, 11

  depression of, 31, 38, 43, 700

  dog walking of, 13–14

  dyslexia of, 6–7, 18, 34

  education of, 7, 8, 9, 11–13

  family background of, 113

  as father, 677–78, 688–702

  as gay, 3, 4, 7, 9–16, 18–19, 33, 34, 45–46, 162–63, 190, 392–93, 559, 586, 675, 677–78, 688–89

  heterosexual experiences of, 15, 677–78

  homophobia experienced by, 11

  Liechtenstein visited by, 9

  loneliness of, 13

  marriage of, 690, 692

  nobility and, 674–75

  as Percy, 11

  suicidal thoughts of, 11

  surrogate therapy of, 14–15

  unpopularity of, 8

  Solomon, Andrew, family and friends

  Blaine Smith (mother of author’s daughter), 689–93, 695, 699

  little Blaine (author’s daughter), 691–94, 695, 699

  Carolyn Solomon (author’s mother), 3, 4, 6–11, 45–46, 675, 677

  being gay as viewed by, 9–10, 16, 18, 46

  Blaine compared with, 691

  control of, 10

  influence of, 7–8

  Judaism as viewed by, 10, 18

  reading taught by, 6–7, 18, 34

  trauma of self-recognition of, 10

  vulnerability of, 8

  David Solomon (author’s brother), 7, 15, 31, 113, 695, 696

  Elmer Gross (family friend), 15–16

  George (author’s son), 692, 694–97, 699

  Howard Solomon (author’s father), 3, 4, 7, 12, 16, 34, 45–46, 675, 677, 700

  background of, 113

  business trip of, 9

  as grandfather, 691, 695, 696, 699

  reading aloud of, 10

  John Habich Solomon (author’s husband, biological father of Lucy and Oliver), 688–95, 697, 699

  Laura Scher (partner of Tammy, biological parent of Oliver, surrogate mother of George), 689, 690, 692–95, 699

  Lucy (daughter of Laura and Tammy), 689, 693, 694, 695, 699

  Oliver (son of Laura and Tammy), 689, 690, 693, 694, 695, 699

  Richard Hubbard (Blaine’s partner), 690, 691

  Tammy Ward (partner of Laura), 689, 690, 692, 693, 699

  Willy Forauer (Elmer’s partner), 16

  Solomon, Judith, 363–64

  Sonne, Thorkil, 273

  Son-Rise Program, 269

  Sony Classical, 424

  sound, 89–93, 98, 100, 108, 426

  discrimination of, 58, 93, 101, 287

  fetus and, 53

  sound recording, development of, 462

  South Africa, 335–36

  South Dakota, 110

  Soviet Union:

  antipsychotics in, 310

  artists in, 113–14

  prodigies in, 408–10, 412, 420

  Spack, Norman, 607, 608, 621, 622, 654, 659

  Spade, Bruce, 267–69

  Spade, Harriet, 268, 269

  Spade, Robin, 268–69

  Spain, 444, 654

  spatial-thinking assessments, 273

  Special Olympics, 28

  speech therapy:

  autism and, 248, 267

  deafness and, 78, 80, 88–89, 101, 106

  Down syndrome and, 215–16

  stroke and, 317

  Spence, Sarah, 282

  sperm donors, 683, 689

  spider crawling by dwarf infants, 130

  Spiegel, Barbara, 119, 124, 126

  spina bifida, 29, 39, 680

  spinal injury, 32, 148

  spine, 130, 148

  spirituality, 25, 147, 698

  Spitzer, Walter O., 237–38

  spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), 128, 129, 155

  spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, Kozlowski type, 146

  sports and athletics, 406

  baseball, 91, 98–99, 100

  dwarfs and, 130

  gender screening and, 666

  music as, 419, 423

  Sprague Hall, 465–66

  Springfield, IL, 139

  Spurbeck, Jared, 45

  SSI, see supplemental security income

  SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), 264, 267

  stabbings, 559

  Stable, Jose, 291

  Stable, Ulysses, 291

  Staecker, Hinrich, 108–9

  Stalin, Joseph, 412

  Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, 412–13

  Stanford University, 146, 264

  Stark, Mary, 180

  State, Matthew, 251

  Staten Island, NY, 139

  States, Arnie, 646

  static encephalopathy, 385

  status, 67, 402, 530

  Stayner, David, 324

  stealing, 550, 562, 574, 586, 594–95

  Stephenson, Eliza, 495–96

  Stephenson, Marcus, 494–96

  Stephenson, Melinda, 493–96

  stereotypes, 10, 590

  gender, 601, 631, 632, 634, 637, 660–61

  sterilization, 413, 490

  of deaf, 51

  Down syndrome and, 180

  involuntary, 27, 386–88, 526

  Stevens, Glenn, 655–56, 658

  Stevens, Sufjan, 475

  Stevens, Wallace, vii

  Stewart, Darius, 555–58

  Stigma (Goffman), 28

  Stigma Inc., 478, 506

  Stiles, Jennifer, 539–43

  Stiles, Mandy, 539–40, 542

  Stiles, Sondra, 540–43

  stillbirths, 170, 495

  Stillman, Bruce, 265

  Stillman, Robert J., 681

  Stillwater, MN, Correctional Facility, 580

  Stokoe, William, 52, 62, 109–10

  Stramondo, Joe, 125, 140, 156

  strangers, 307, 352, 428

  children as, 1, 5, 6

  strangling, 226, 290, 291

  stress, 210, 510

  aging and, 25, 42

  multiple severe disabilities and, 363, 366, 376, 390

  preterm labor and, 513

  prodigies and, 440, 461

  schizophrenia and, 316, 339, 366

  stroke, 52, 317, 328

  strollers, dwarf children and, 134

  Suara Putra (Bengkala resident), 86

  Suarayasa (Bengkala resident), 85

  sublime, defined, 472

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nbsp; substance abuse, 25, 271, 321, 340, 568

  crime and, 546, 547, 548, 554

  transgender and, 650

  treatment for, 546, 547, 548, 553, 567

  Sudarma (Bengkala resident), 87

  suffering, 42, 43, 47, 144, 684

  autism and, 245, 270, 283, 290

  boredom vs., 472

  multiple severe disabilities and, 389

  of parent vs. child, 36

  prodigies and, 441, 458

  schizophrenia and, 336, 338, 353

  suicide, 11, 12, 73, 78, 236, 256, 648

  abortion and, 492

  author’s thought of, 11

  of Dylan Klebold, 588, 593, 595

  incarceration and, 552

  of prodigies, 426–27, 434

  rape and, 490, 493, 494, 497, 514, 518, 527, 533

  schizophrenia and, 296, 310, 315, 335, 349, 352

  transgender and, 603, 605, 611, 614, 615, 630, 633, 641, 653

  Sukesti, Cening (Bengkala resident), 86

  summer camps, 373–74, 375

  superego, 424

  superiority, 413, 425, 586

  supplemental security income (SSI), 205, 352

  supported homes, 312

  support groups:

  autism and, 227

  disability, 25

  Down syndrome, 216

  multiple severe disabilities and, 371

  schizophrenia and, 331

  Supreme Court, US, 55, 180, 667

  juvenile crime and, 544, 545

  Roe v. Wade and, 490, 492

  Sureños (gang), 567, 571, 573–74, 575, 578, 579, 580

  Surgeon General, US, 584–85

  surgery, 34–36, 73

  brain, 90

  dwarfs and, 130–31, 150, 151

  limb-lengthening, 3, 36, 123, 160–63

  multiple severe disabilities and, 366–67, 368, 386–88

  sex-reassignment, 35, 602, 609, 614, 621–22, 636

  transgender and, 599, 602, 606, 609, 610, 617, 619–23, 625–26, 636, 637, 641, 664

  see also cochlear implants

  surrogate therapy, sexual, 14–15

  survival, 363, 500, 527, 554

  Susser, Ezra, 330

  Sweden, 103, 317

  Swiller, Josh, 107–8

  swimming, 228, 248–49

  Switzerland, 27

  synaptic elimination (pruning), 303–4

  syndrome, 4

  autism as, 221–24

  systemizers:

  assortative mating and, 250

  men as, 254–55

  Szasz, Thomas, 314

  Taiyuan, 445–46

  “Taking the Train” (Palencia), 355–56

  talent, musical, 419–20, 450–51

  talk therapies, 317

  Tammy (schizophrenic), 321, 323

  Tanglewood Music Center, 469

  Tao, Conrad, 463–65

  Tao, Sam, 463

  Taos, NM, 271

  Tashkent, 412

  Tate, Malcolm, 331

  Taussig, Frederick J., 489, 490

  Tavistock Clinic, 622

  Taylor, Billy, 466

  Tay-Sachs disease, 39

  teachers, 460, 472, 654–55, 658, 659

  autism and, 243, 287, 288

  of deaf, 50, 52, 76, 104, 105

  Down syndrome and, 206, 216

  at Horace Mann School, 11–13

 

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