Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Angie Dickinson Recounts Daughter's Struggle With Autism


Actress Angie Dickinson, 78, writes a powerful story of her only child's struggle with Asperger syndrome, in the new Los Angeles magazine, part of a package of stories about autism. Newsweek has a summary:
Nikki Bacharach, Dickinson's daughter with composer Burt Bacharach, was born three months premature in the summer of 1966. She weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. The baby was immediately put into a preemie isolette and no one was allowed to touch her—a fate Dickinson believes was linked to her daughter's lifelong sense of isolation.

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