How my son with autism made sense of world by watching Disney movies
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife found out their son had autism, they were crushed by the fear that they couldn't communicate. But they began to realize that...
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RON SUSKIND, Author/Journalist: So, the fall of 1993, we arrive in D.C., my wife and I, Cornelia, and two lovely kids. And I'm the senior national affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal. So, I have got to kill people to get it. And I kill 10 guys to get the job, fabulous job. The moment I arrive, we find out our son, our little guy, is autistic. He vanishes on us, that we have no way to talk to him, and it crushes us. When we first heard the word autism, we were stunned. I said, you mean like "Rain Man," like Dustin Hoffman in that movie? And the doctor says, "Well, maybe, but, you know, he speaks, and some of them never get their speech back." And that's the last thing I heard in that appointment. That can't be my son...
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RON SUSKIND, Author/Journalist: So, the fall of 1993, we arrive in D.C., my wife and I, Cornelia, and two lovely kids. And I'm the senior national affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal. So, I have got to kill people to get it. And I kill 10 guys to get the job, fabulous job. The moment I arrive, we find out our son, our little guy, is autistic. He vanishes on us, that we have no way to talk to him, and it crushes us. When we first heard the word autism, we were stunned. I said, you mean like "Rain Man," like Dustin Hoffman in that movie? And the doctor says, "Well, maybe, but, you know, he speaks, and some of them never get their speech back." And that's the last thing I heard in that appointment. That can't be my son...
