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19 Oct 2007, 3:53 pm

Janet Frame may have been autistic - researcher
Internationally-acclaimed New Zealand author Janet Frame may have been autistic, according to a report in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal.

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19 Oct 2007, 4:22 pm

who??? :?:



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19 Oct 2007, 4:37 pm

ShadesOfMe wrote:
who??? :?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame
That's who.


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19 Oct 2007, 4:58 pm

I know this is off topic, but does anyone else see the similarities between Janet Frame and Jack Osbourne?

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26 Oct 2007, 3:45 am

I remember reading she lost a teaching because she would not join staff in the staff room for morning tea. Also - at one time they were going to perform a lobotomy on her as a treatment for assumed mental illness. Janet Frame was considered to be very shy. Lovely woman evidently.