Is Your Dad Really Autistic?

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"I would get up and go to work at 4 or 5 a.m. in the morning, often in the dark," she says. "And I've come home and have watched TV all day and smoking and burning holes ... It was pretty bad." She stayed close to her father until he died but wishes he'd had more support. 'He was very, very isolated. My mother was his entry point'

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, actor, and author Sarah Polley, who began her career as a childhood actress more than three decades ago, joins to talk about her life’s work and newest film, “Women Talking.”