a memoir Shawn, Allen. creator text bibliography biography nyu New York Viking 2011 monographic eng

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232 p. ; 22 cm. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, she began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. At the age of eight, with almost no warning, her parents sent Mary to a residential treatment center, to never live at home again. Fifty years later, Shawn realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his sister's, and that their natures were far from being different. Allen Shawn. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-ny Shawn, Allen Shawn, Wallace Autistic people Biography Schizoaffective disorders Patients Biography Twins Biography RC553.A88 S53 2011 616.85/88200922 B 9780670022373 0670022373 2010027898 DLC 110630 20190501231536.0 649077895