On the topic of understanding marginalized groups who build their own culture (including LPs, the Deaf community, and others) and how "cures" are often perceive

On the topic of understanding marginalized groups who build their own culture (including LPs, the Deaf community, and others) and how "cures" are often perceived as attempts at elimination, I can't recommend highly enough Andrew Solomon's book "Far from the Tree"[1], a work 11 years in the making written with immense empathy that tells the varying stories of dozens of people in each of these communities and the differing ways they react to mainstream culture, to the "horizontal" cultures of people like them, and to "cures" for their condition, specifically told from the angle of the parent-child relationship. It's utterly fascinating, deeply informative, and often heartbreakingly personal. It's a huge book, but you can take it chapter by chapter or I can also highly recommend the audiobook version, read by the author. [1]: http://www.farfromthetree.com/ http://www.farfromthetree.com/