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always reading,” says Dr. Miller enthusiastically.
“He enjoyed any form of
imaginative play. He loved to build
things. He had so many things he
wanted to tell you about. He had more
acceptance of his parents than they had
of him. He didn’t define them as pathological,
just as different from himself.
That same kid in a different home
would be a model child.”
But Ethan’s own parents never found
a way to see him in that light. The last
thing Dr. Miller heard was that his parents
finally consulted with another psychologist
who agreed to “treat” their
son. And now Dr. Miller is the one
who’s worried about Ethan.
“This is a clear case of an ‘iatrogenic’
problem,’ ” he says. “That’s when the
treatment makes you sick. The classic
example is when you use treatment to
try to make a gay child into a straight
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