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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism Secret Religions the formation of languageImagine 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,