Get the latest tech news

Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

Sam and John Fetters are identical twins with autism. But Sam is in college, while John still struggles to form sentences. Their experience may shed light on the disorder's mix of nature and nurture.

Sam and John are spending the weekend with their mom, Kim Leaird, at the family's apartment in West Tisbury, a small town on Martha's Vineyard. "The earliest twin studies really helped to debunk this theory that autism was caused by parenting," says Dr. Stephanie Morris, a pediatric neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. "The earliest twin studies really helped to debunk this theory that autism was caused by parenting," says Dr. Stephanie Morris, a pediatric neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.

Get the Android app