Title: Life, animated
Description: "Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. 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 memorized 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"--
Subjects: Animated films, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Language, Family, Interpersonal communication, Autistic children, Characters, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Psychological aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Family relationships, Biography, Parents of autistic children, Motion pictures in psychotherapy, nyt:science=2014-05-11, New York Times bestseller
Places: United States
People: Owen Suskind, Walt Disney (1901-1966), Ron Suskind