North Shore Schizophrenia Society’s Cheryl Zipper and Nancy Ford both benefited from hearing about others who had gone through similar experiences
Cheryl Zipper says her son was always extremely shy, but it wasn’t until he was about 13 that she and her husband started to worry that something was wrong. He’d study for hours and hours but continued to get poor grades. When he was 19, a doctor told them their son had Asperger syndrome. It wasn’t until seven years later that they learned he had schizophrenia.