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Life, Animated: A Story Of Sidekicks, Heroes, And Autism

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Ron Suskind Australian author

  • Life, Animated
  • Life, Animated
    Autistic boy, Owen, memorised dozens of Disney movies and turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood


2016
ISBN: 9781484741238

Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of colour. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorised dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.