When the boys spent a yr in the identical faculty, Sam did nice, however John struggled and had some noisy meltdowns.
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When the boys spent a yr 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 School and runs marathons in his free time. John attends a faculty for individuals with particular wants and loves to look at Sesame Road in his free time.
An identical twins like Sam and John pose an necessary 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?
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