Juicervose

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ron and Cornelia Suskind had two healthy young sons, promising careers, and a brand new home when their youngest son Owen started to disappear. 3 months later a specialist sat Ron and Cornelia down and said the word that changed everything for them: Autism. In this episode, the Suskind family finds an unlikely way to access their silent son's world. We set off to figure out what their story can tell us about Autism, a disorder with a wide spectrum of symptoms and severity. Along the way, we speak to specialists, therapists, and advocates including Simon Baron-Cohen, Barry and Raun Kaufmann, Dave Royko, Geraldine Dawson, Temple Grandin, and Gil Tippy. Produced by Kelsey Padgett.

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0:25.2	And NPR.
0:28.0	The word hit us.
0:32.0	Like you're hit with a...
0:34.6	With a bullet.
0:39.0	And we're like, that cannot be our, that cannot be our son.
0:45.5	I'm Chad Abramrod.
0:46.7	I'm Robert Crulwich.
0:47.8	This is Radio Lab, and our story today begins with a boy.
0:51.4	And that boy is going to vanish, not in the thin air, but to a place that we know very, very little about. And if you're the parent of that boy, what do you do if your child is falling away from everything you know? How do you find him? How do you get him back? So part of this tale we got from Ron Susskind's new wonderful book, Life Animated. And some of you may have heard it, some not.
1:11.7	Let's start where Ron started. For him, it began around 1993. And it was an exciting time.
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