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She was a 10-year-old girl from Surrey, England on vacation with her parents a few years ago in Phuket, Thailand.

Her parents thought about it, and they finally, to their credit, decided to believe her.

And I said to my parents, "I've got to go.

And at that time, quite frankly, you really did not talk back to your parents.

And as a result of that experience, in the middle of the week, while I was there in jail, Dr. King came and said with our parents, "What you children do this day will have an impact on children who have not been born."

I. I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate, said that when he was growing up in New York, all of his friends' parents would ask them "What did you learn in school?" at the end of a day.

But if growth slows down, instead of doubling our standard of living every generation, Americans in the future can't expect to be twice as well off as their parents, or even a quarter [more well off than] their parents.

[This talk contains graphic images] My parents always wanted me to be a doctor.

But a doctor that studies how vultures eat dead things is probably not the type of doctor my parents had in mind.

Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years, I've done the same thing.

It was the moment that my parents became very old.

You remember that I told you, when I received the farm from my parents that was my paradise, that was the farm.

Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids?

Now one response you can make to this, and I sometimes have done this in talks, is people can talk about, there are benefits for these programs in reducing special ed and remedial education costs, there are benefits, parents care about preschool, maybe we'll get some migration effects from parents seeking good preschool, and I think those are true, but in some sense they're missing the point.

Whether you're a political party insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting social institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents, strangeness is a way to think about how we pave the way to new kinds of relations.

But it's really important to use the head as well to make sure that what you do is effective and well-directed, and not only that, but also I think reason helps us to understand that other people, wherever they are, are like us, that they can suffer as we can, that parents grieve for the deaths of their children, as we do, and that just as our lives and our well-being matter to us, it matters just as much to all of these people.

My parents wanted me to become an engineer like them.

So it becomes my tool to climb out of this Confucian guilt trap and to restart my relationship with my parents.

And I suddenly thought, "Most deaf children are born to hearing parents.

Those hearing parents tend to try to cure them.

Most gay people are born to straight parents.

Those straight parents often want them to function in what they think of as the mainstream world, and those gay people have to discover identity later on.

Those are things you have in common with your parents and with your children.

These are identities that are alien to your parents and that you have to discover when you get to see them in peers.

And a lot of the time, people who have these conditions are very angry, because they feel as though their parents don't love them, when what actually has happened is that their parents don't accept them.

When he was born, he was diagnosed with diastrophic dwarfism, a very disabling condition, and his parents were told that he would never walk, he would never talk, he would have no intellectual capacity, and he would probably not even recognize them.

Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, "When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is, 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, nonautistic child instead.' Read that again.

And like all parents since the dawn of time, I wanted to protect my child from illness.

And while I had sometimes thought the parents I was interviewing were fools, enslaving themselves to a lifetime's journey with their thankless children and trying to breed identity out of misery, I realized that day that my research had built me a plank and that I was ready to join them on their ship.

It was about children who were born with deformities, and their parents felt that once they were born with those deformities, they were not good enough to live in the society, so they were given some concoction to take and as a result they died.

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