When the boys spent a yr in the identical college, Sam did wonderful, however John struggled and had some noisy meltdowns.
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When the boys spent a yr in the identical college, Sam did wonderful, however John struggled and had some noisy meltdowns.
Jodi Hilton for NPR
Sam and John Fetters, 19, are equivalent twins in very completely different locations on the autism spectrum. Sam is a sophomore at Amherst School and runs marathons in his free time. John attends a college for folks with particular wants and loves to look at Sesame Road in his free time.
Similar twins like Sam and John pose an vital query for scientists: How can a dysfunction that’s identified to be extremely genetic look so completely different in siblings who share the identical genome?
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