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lauren pettit recalls when she first noticed her brother was different what do you think you first noticed
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um and being really stubborn and disobedient in a sense while in high school brandon pettit was diagnosed with
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aspergers a developmental disorder which affected his ability to communicate and
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at times read social cues now asperger's falls under autism spectrum disorder but what is autism
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autism refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills repetitive behaviors
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speech and non-verbal communications with asperger's i think it's really difficult for him to be aware of how
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he's presenting himself and what he's saying and how he's saying things and how he's reacting to certain things or
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not reacting and whether or not he's doing what people would consider the norm when his parents were murdered some
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people found his reaction unusual how is he dealing with it in his normal manner which is you know
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very emotionless when he's sad kind of just keeps it all in but brandon's lack of emotion was a red flag
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to police who zeroed in on him after a neighbor said he was strange did brandon pettit's diagnosis make him
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the prime suspect in his parents murder [Music]