When the boys spent a 12 months in the identical faculty, Sam did nice, however John struggled and had some noisy meltdowns.
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When the boys spent a 12 months in the identical faculty, Sam did nice, however John struggled and had some noisy meltdowns.
Jodi Hilton for NPR
Sam and John Fetters, 19, are an identical twins in very totally different locations on the autism spectrum. Sam is a sophomore at Amherst College and runs marathons in his free time. John attends a faculty for folks with particular wants and loves to observe Sesame Street in his free time.
Identical twins like Sam and John pose an essential query for scientists: How can a dysfunction that’s identified to be extremely genetic look so totally different in siblings who share the identical genome?
Check out extra of NPR’s sequence on the Science of Siblings.
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