Syndicated from Kottke: When Owen Suskind was three, a switch flipped within him and he went from a typical chatty rambunctious three-year-old to autistic … But a tenuous connection remained between Owen and his pre-autistic self: Disney movies. And through them, Owen slowly learns how to communicate with the outside world again.

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