Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy | With Daniel Radcliffe

Modern Love

The New York Times

Love, New York Times, Nytimes, Essay, Loss, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Redemption, Nyt

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

When you’re in a new relationship, you’re always trying to present your best self. But anyone who’s been in a relationship for awhile knows that you can’t keep the act up forever. David Finch writes about that in his essay, which is read by Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel stars in the upcoming "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" interactive special on Netflix.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the I-Leb, at WBUR Boston.
0:20.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:26.0	The New York Times
0:29.0	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption
0:33.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:43.0	I hope that you're staying home if you're able to and that all of you are holding up and staying healthy and safe.
0:49.0	We're bringing a new episode to you this week and we hope it brightens your day.
0:54.0	Here's Daniel Radcliffe, who stars in the upcoming Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Interactive Special on Netflix.
1:00.0	He's reading an essay by David Finch called,
1:03.0	Somewhere Inside, A Path to Empathy.
1:13.0	It wasn't working, any of it.
1:16.0	Our third year of marriage threatened to be our last.
1:20.0	I'd become cynical and withdrawn, obsessive and preoccupied, dismissive and unhelpful.
1:29.0	I don't know when things got bad, Kristen said, wiping away tears.
1:33.0	I feel like I've lost you and I don't know what will bring you back.
1:38.0	In reality, she hadn't lost me, she'd found me.
1:42.0	The facade of semi-normalcy I'd struggled to maintain was falling away, revealing the person they'd been since childhood.
1:49.0	I didn't even know what was wrong with me, though my wife, a speech pathologist who works with autistic children, had her suspicions.
1:56.0	Even so, it would be another two years before she would put all the pieces together and attach a name to what was ruining our marriage.
2:03.0	Asperger Syndrome.
2:11.0	During Kristen's first few years of practice, she worked only with severely autistic children.
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