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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Jackson Ryan

‘It can break you’: life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

A mother and child made of cassette tape reach out to one another
Clinicians and researchers who work with autistic children with limited or no speech are concerned that focusing on methods platformed in popular podcast The Telepathy Tapes may limit the use of evidence-based approaches. Illustration: Nash Weerasekera/The Guardian

There’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, when the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly without looking at the screen. She’s seen Coco more than a thousand times, easy.

Mary’s sons, Ryder* and Murphy*, adore it. They light up when watching the film, pretzels in hand, and they stay, transfixed, right through to the end – the very end – every time. “My kids absolutely love credits,” Mary says, laughing.

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