0:00:09 > 0:00:12Ron, do I have to keep my hand pressed on the red button?
0:00:12 > 0:00:15- What?- I don't have to keep my hand pressed on the red button?- No.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27"..shut his eyes tight shut. He huffed and puffed."
0:00:27 > 0:00:29HE PUFFS
0:00:29 > 0:00:31CHILDREN LAUGH
0:00:35 > 0:00:37"Oh, but the candle barely flickered..."
0:00:42 > 0:00:45- Can you guys say goodnight to me? - Can you say, "Goodnight, Mommy"?
0:00:45 > 0:00:49- Goodbye.- Goodnight, angel.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51- Goodbye, goodnight.- Goodnight.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53OK, blow Mommy a kiss.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59HE HUMS A TUNE
0:01:10 > 0:01:13- No!- Pick Owen up.
0:01:14 > 0:01:21- Get ME up.- OK.- OK! One big, happy family about to go into the water!
0:01:23 > 0:01:25- You want to say hi to Mommy? - Hi, Mommy.- Hi, guys.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- Want to watch a video! - You want to watch a video?
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Well, I'm taking a video of you guys reading...
0:01:31 > 0:01:34- That's right.- ..The Biggest Birthday Cake In The World...
0:01:34 > 0:01:38Last book reading, which we do every single night.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Walt Disney Pictures.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08OK, our next film is a wonderful children's film.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23And the Academy Award...
0:02:30 > 0:02:32So what we're going to do today,
0:02:32 > 0:02:34when you're out in the community, right?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36When you're... Next year,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39when you're making appointments and having to find locations,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41you always have to be...
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- Aware.- Aware, right.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46So when we're walking through the community,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48what's our posture for walking?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- This.- OK. What about our chins?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- Where are they?- Chin up.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Where's the safest place to cross,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56go back and forth across Main Street?
0:02:57 > 0:02:58I, I need help here.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00OK. Who wants to help him?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- I'll do it.- Go ahead.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03- The crosswalk.- Crosswalk.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05- The crosswalk.- You're right.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07So next year you'll be more independent,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09and you'll have more choices to make.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I've got to teach my son... a lesson.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22'My name is Owen Suskind.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25'I'll be graduating in a month.'
0:03:27 > 0:03:32Then I'll be moving and living into an apartment of my own.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36INDISTINCT
0:03:36 > 0:03:37..since Beauty And The Beast...
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- I'm home!- Yay, buddy!
0:03:50 > 0:03:54- Owen!- Owen, just got back from the grocery store.- Oh, that's great.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- What would you like for lunch? - Grilled ham and cheese.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Excuse me, I need to find...
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Your apples, right?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- OK.- Owen, your sandwich is over there, bud.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08- Thanks. And I'll get three "Chips Ahoy!" cookies.- OK.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12You've got a big rite of passage coming with graduation.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14You're going to be out of school.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17And we can start thinking a little more about the future?
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Yeah, yeah.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23- How does that feel?- A little nervous and a little exciting.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25A little nervous and a little exciting!
0:04:39 > 0:04:42GENTLE ORCHESTRA MUSIC PLAYS
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- 'I'm so glad you came back tonight. I might never have seen you.- Why?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07'Because I have to grow up tomorrow.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- 'Grow up?!- Tonight's my last night in the nursery.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13'But that means no more stories.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14'Mm-hm.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17'No, I won't have it!
0:05:17 > 0:05:21- 'Come on.- But where are we going? - To Neverland.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26'I'll run him through.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29'Take that!
0:05:35 > 0:05:38'Blast...this hook!
0:05:39 > 0:05:41'Come on, everybody.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46'Hurry, Michael!
0:05:46 > 0:05:50'Don't stand there, you bilge rats!'
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Get those scurvy brats!
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Oh, no!
0:06:11 > 0:06:17Daddy and Owen...fighting with swords in the leaves.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24- Owen, who are you?- I'm Peter Pan. And you're Captain Hook.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Oh, I'm Captain Hook. You're Peter Pan.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29OK. Come on, Pan, you demon.
0:06:34 > 0:06:40'There's a video we came across, and then once we found it,
0:06:40 > 0:06:42'we couldn't stop watching it.'
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Oh, thank you, thank you.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45That's very chivalrous of you.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Now, in a way, it's just an unremarkable video
0:06:53 > 0:06:55of a dad and a son playing.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58'I'm chasing Owen around. He's chasing me around.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00'He's Peter Pan. I'm Captain Hook.'
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Oh, no!
0:07:04 > 0:07:07'At the time we shot it, I'm in my early 30s.'
0:07:09 > 0:07:12I'm a reporter for The Wall Street Journal,
0:07:12 > 0:07:16and our life is taking shape just the way we'd wanted.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19We had two beautiful boys. We'd just had our second boy.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23We had a little, tiny house, but it was just, like, our dream house.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27- You want to say hi to Mommy? - Hi, Mommy.- Hi, guys.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30You know, everything was falling into place.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44'But all of a sudden, at three years old...'
0:07:45 > 0:07:46..Owen vanishes.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Goodbye, Peter Pan!
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Owen just started changing really fast.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14You know, he wasn't sleeping - that was the first thing.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15He'd be up in the middle of the night,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17and then he'd be up ALL night.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22His motor skills were deteriorating,
0:08:22 > 0:08:26and then his language processing broke down.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29He just started reciting this gibberish.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32A-bee-bee! Bee-bee!
0:08:32 > 0:08:35'It was hard for me to understand what people were saying.'
0:08:36 > 0:08:38They were all garbled.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- Owen!- Owen!- Owen!
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- VOICES ECHO: Owen!- Owen!- Owen!- Owen!
0:08:52 > 0:08:56It's like...we're looking for clues to a kidnapping.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Someone kidnapped our son.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04We went to the paediatrician, but he had no idea what he was looking at.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07He said, "You're out of my league."
0:09:08 > 0:09:10So we go see the specialist.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14It's not a paediatrician's office like you're used to going to.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17It's one that has a special room with a window
0:09:17 > 0:09:20to observe children like guinea pigs.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27The doctor has Owen walk down a long hall from me to Cornelia,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30and I just want to say, you know,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33"Just walk like you used to walk."
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Like, I'm whispering that to him.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40"OK, buddy, just walk like you know how to walk."
0:09:41 > 0:09:45And I let go of him, and...
0:09:46 > 0:09:48..he just weaves down the hall,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51like someone walking with their eyes shut.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56And he gets to the end, and Cornelia grabs his hand.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58I remember literally just, like,
0:09:58 > 0:10:02holding him in a bear hug and just thinking, you know...
0:10:04 > 0:10:07"I'm just going to hold you so tight,
0:10:07 > 0:10:12"and love you so much that whatever is going on will go away."
0:10:17 > 0:10:21The doctor says, "He has a pervasive developmental disorder."
0:10:23 > 0:10:26And she says the word "autism".
0:10:26 > 0:10:28It was...
0:10:28 > 0:10:32It was devastating. It was completely devastating.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Then after a few minutes, she says,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38"Some of the kids never get their speech back.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40"They don't ever talk again."
0:10:40 > 0:10:43And we just looked down at him and the kid playing on the rug,
0:10:43 > 0:10:46looking at his hands, and the doctor saying,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48"So let me explain what autism is."
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Look what we have here! What is this, Owen?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58What do you have here?
0:11:00 > 0:11:05Hey, what do these look like? Oh, let's get this away.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09All right. All right, we need to stop sillies.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11You need... Owen.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- MAN:- I first met Owen when he was three years old.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24At that point, I think that Ron and Cornelia were devastated.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30I think that it shattered their ideal vision of who this child
0:11:30 > 0:11:31is going to become.
0:11:33 > 0:11:39The image of autism in the early 1990s was not terribly flattering.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44So they're looking for any glimmer of hope
0:11:44 > 0:11:48that there are other possibilities out there, besides an adult
0:11:48 > 0:11:50that will be forever dependent.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55The child with autism is easily overstimulated.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59They don't filter the constant stimuli that come in
0:11:59 > 0:12:00on a daily basis.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05This world is just too intense for their brains,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07and that's always what I felt about Owen,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10especially when he was a tiny baby.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13You know, the vacuum cleaner would go on, the visual stimulation,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16the auditory stimulation.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19So imagine how difficult it would be
0:12:19 > 0:12:21to just do the simplest things
0:12:21 > 0:12:25if you have this constant noise in your brain.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Owen... Owen... Owen...
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Owen, look.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37When your child goes into their adult living,
0:12:37 > 0:12:39they've also been in an environment
0:12:39 > 0:12:41where the adults have been telling them a lot.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44So now it's going to be YOUR turn in a couple of months
0:12:44 > 0:12:47to start YOU telling them things about what YOU want to do and what,
0:12:47 > 0:12:49you know, what you're comfortable with...
0:12:49 > 0:12:51what you don't want to do, what you do want to do.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54So a lot of those choices that maybe
0:12:54 > 0:12:56you only had one or two choices here,
0:12:56 > 0:12:58now you're going to have lots of choices.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I have some concerns as far as safety.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Owen tends to walk with his chin down and plough ahead,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07like when he comes out between cars in a parking lot
0:13:07 > 0:13:09or going to cross the street.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12- Yeah.- Hey, Owen,
0:13:12 > 0:13:16what would you say is your greatest concern about next year?
0:13:16 > 0:13:20That I have to do stuff all on my own.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- That's a concern?- Yeah. - To change, right?
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- To change.- But is it worth it not having a staff live with you?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- A little bit.- I bet. - THEY CHUCKLE
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- How do you feel? - I would say a little nervous,
0:13:43 > 0:13:48cos it's a new thing for me, doing my own things on my own.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Yeah, this is a big step. This is your
0:13:52 > 0:13:54step through the adult door. Now you're no different than me.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56So you kind of...
0:13:56 > 0:13:59All these decisions are going to be you.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01They're going to be for me.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02You got to remember,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05even though it might seem like you're kind of on your own,
0:14:05 > 0:14:06and there's no dorm counsellor...
0:14:06 > 0:14:09- Yep.- We're still just a call away, right?
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Right.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Pretty excited of what's going to happen for you, bud.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- Yeah.- You got a lot more chapters to write.- A lot more chapters to write.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31- I'll be the tosser. - Watch how I'm doing it.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- If you hold it in your hand, like this...- Yeah?
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- Gus, over there.- Good boy. - Good boy, come on. Good boy.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- Come on, Gus. - Come on, buddy.- Fetch, Gus.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44- Fetch, Gus.- Where is it, Gus?
0:15:02 > 0:15:03KIDS CHATTER
0:15:03 > 0:15:05There's Mommy and O.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Having a little pizza.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13VOICES ECHO AND DISTORT
0:15:18 > 0:15:21We're about a year along into his silence.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25The only thing we seem to be able to do as a family is the one thing
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Owen and Walter liked to do before the onset of the autism.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31They loved to watch the Disney animated movies.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34We realised that was the only thing
0:15:34 > 0:15:38that was keeping Owen calm and making him happy,
0:15:38 > 0:15:43and so Owen and his older brother Walter would watch these together.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47I didn't know what autism was.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I just knew that autism made Owen the way he is.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52So autism kind of just meant different...
0:15:52 > 0:15:53drastically different.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58So Disney was my chance to have Owen really light up around me
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and it was something we could come together over.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07So, one day, we're up in the bedroom.
0:16:07 > 0:16:08We're watching The Little Mermaid.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11And, you know, Owen would be speaking sort of gibberish,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14and he had been saying, "Juicervose, juicervose, juicervose."
0:16:14 > 0:16:17He's murmuring something... He's saying, "Juicervose, juicervose."
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Now, Cornelia thinks he wants more juice.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22She gives him the sippy cup. He doesn't want it. He knocks it over.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24It's gibberish.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Owen's watching the part where Ariel, the mermaid,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29has to trade something to become human.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30# Go ahead
0:16:30 > 0:16:32# Make your choice
0:16:32 > 0:16:35# I'm a very busy woman and I haven't got all day
0:16:35 > 0:16:38# It won't cost much Just your voice. #
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Owen rewinds. Walt's like, "Owen, just watch the movie."
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Owen rewinds a second time.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Third time, Cornelia grabs me and says, "It's not 'juice'."
0:16:47 > 0:16:50I said, "What?" "It's not 'juice' - it's 'just'!"
0:16:50 > 0:16:51# Just your voice. #
0:16:51 > 0:16:55I grab Owen, and I say, "Just your voice."
0:16:55 > 0:16:57And he says, "Juicervose, juicervose, juice..."
0:16:57 > 0:17:00It's the first time he looks at me in a year.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Of course, we read every possible meaning
0:17:06 > 0:17:08into the fact he picks those three words.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11"Just your voice."
0:17:11 > 0:17:14A silent child.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15The first thing he says.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20'He's still in there.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22'He's still in there.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26'We go and see a doctor,'
0:17:26 > 0:17:30and we tell him about our amazing "juicervose" moment, and he's like,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33"Well, let me explain this to you. This is... You'd better sit down.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38"I know you're very pumped up here, but this is called echolalia."
0:17:38 > 0:17:41This isn't like a breakthrough, you know.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43It's... It's echolalia,
0:17:43 > 0:17:47which is just the repeating of language that they hear.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48And I said, "Like a parrot?"
0:17:48 > 0:17:50And he's like, "Well, kind of, yeah."
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Is it possible he knows what he's saying?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57And the doctor says, "Maybe.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00"But there's no way of knowing, and the thinking is, probably not."
0:18:04 > 0:18:10At that point, Cornelia and I were set on a rescue mission
0:18:10 > 0:18:13to get inside this prison of autism...
0:18:15 > 0:18:16..and pull him out.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24HE MURMURS
0:18:35 > 0:18:37OK. OK, listen up.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Soon as everyone gets here, we will begin.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41- Hey, Owen?- Yeah? - Could I just recommend
0:18:41 > 0:18:43that instead of saying, "Listen up,"
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- you say, "May I have your attention, please?"- May I have your attention,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48please? When everyone gets here, we'll begin.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51'I started a Disney club so I can get to
0:18:51 > 0:18:54'know more people, and they can be around me,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57'so I can be more popular.'
0:18:57 > 0:18:58It worked!
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Tonight we're watching some of The Lion King,
0:19:00 > 0:19:05because this year is the big 20th anniversary of the original release
0:19:05 > 0:19:07- of The Lion King.- Yeah!
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Shall we?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Not only am I a big Disney fanatic,
0:19:12 > 0:19:16but I also like to play magical movie scores on this piano.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Yeah!
0:19:19 > 0:19:21MUSIC STARTS: Circle Of Life
0:19:23 > 0:19:27'We watch parts of Disney animated films and discuss them and see what
0:19:27 > 0:19:29'they're REALLY about in our lives.'
0:19:31 > 0:19:34SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS
0:19:42 > 0:19:45- SIMBA:- 'That's not my father. It's just my reflection.'
0:19:45 > 0:19:46No.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Look harder.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54ALONG WITH THE MOVIE: Look. You see?
0:19:54 > 0:19:59You see? He lives in you.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07- SIMBA:- 'I'm not who I used to be.' - MUFASA:- 'Remember who you are.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11'You are my son and the one true king.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17'Remember who you are.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22'No, please, don't leave me! Father!
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- 'Remember.- Don't leave me.'
0:20:24 > 0:20:29OK. What was Mufasa teaching Simba?
0:20:29 > 0:20:33- Jessica?- They're teaching us that there's more to you
0:20:33 > 0:20:35than you ever would see.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38And there's more than meets the eye, right?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40More than meets the eye.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Their parents are teaching how, when you grow up, to...
0:20:43 > 0:20:48to be on your own and...how to learn how to, like, live on your own.
0:20:48 > 0:20:54Yeah. It's important that when our parents no longer can help us,
0:20:54 > 0:20:56that we have to figure things out by ourselves.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- Yeah.- Sure.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Four years have passed since our "juicervose" moment.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Owen has said almost nothing but gibberish since then.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27We're beginning to give up hope.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34So on Walt's ninth birthday, he's in the backyard with his buddies.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Party ends, the kids leave,
0:21:38 > 0:21:41and Walt gets a little weepy, a little emotional,
0:21:41 > 0:21:45and then Owen follows us into the kitchen, looking expectant.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Like, he's looking at the two of us.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52He stands there, stock still, like something's bubbling up,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54and he says,
0:21:54 > 0:21:59"Walter doesn't want to grow up, like Mowgli or Peter Pan,"
0:21:59 > 0:22:03- and off he runs.- I was like, "What the hell just happened?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07"Did Owen just say, 'Walter doesn't want to grow up,
0:22:07 > 0:22:09"'like Peter Pan or Mowgli'?"
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Peter Pan doesn't want to grow up
0:22:11 > 0:22:14because he wants to stay a boy and be in Neverland.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Once you've grown up, you can never come back.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20- Never.- I felt the same way that Walter felt
0:22:20 > 0:22:23when he was nine, a teeny, tiny bit.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29When you grow up, you lose all your magical, enchanted childhood times.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32This wasn't just a sentence.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36This was a complex sentence of a complex thought,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39of something that WE didn't even see.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43And all of a sudden it became clear to us.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46He's using these movies to make sense of the world
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- he actually is living in - our world.- But I said to Ron, "You know,
0:22:50 > 0:22:54"we've got to try and figure out if we can have him talk to us at all."
0:22:57 > 0:22:59So I go up to his room.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02I see Owen on the bed, flipping through a Disney book...
0:23:04 > 0:23:07..and I see, sort of over to my left...
0:23:07 > 0:23:10I see Iago, the puppet.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Now, Iago is the evil sidekick to the villain Jafar from Aladdin.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Now, I know Owen loves this puppet.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Jafar, Jafar! Get a grip!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23I grab the puppet...
0:23:23 > 0:23:24pull it up to my elbow,
0:23:24 > 0:23:28and I begin to crawl across the rug as quietly as I can.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32And Owen turns to the puppet like he's bumping into an old friend.
0:23:33 > 0:23:39I say to him, "Owen, Owen, how does it feel to be you?"
0:23:40 > 0:23:45And I said, "Not good, cos I don't have any friends."
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Now, I'm under the bedspread.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50And I just bite down hard.
0:23:51 > 0:23:57You know? I just say to myself, "Stay in character."
0:23:57 > 0:23:59And I say, "OK, OK.
0:23:59 > 0:24:06"Owen, when did you and I become such good friends?"
0:24:07 > 0:24:10And he said, "When I watched Aladdin, you made me laugh."
0:24:11 > 0:24:18And then we talk, Owen and Iago, for a minute, minute and a half.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22It's the first conversation we've ever had.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26And then all of sudden, I hear him say...
0:24:26 > 0:24:30I love the way your foul little mind works!
0:24:31 > 0:24:33That's the next line of dialogue!
0:24:33 > 0:24:37That's Jafar, the villain, to his evil sidekick, Iago.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40I love the way your foul little mind works!
0:24:40 > 0:24:42And then I run down and grab Cornelia.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44I'm like, "He's memorised all the movies.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45"I mean, he's memorised them all.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47"If you throw him a line of dialogue,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49"he'll throw you back the next line."
0:24:49 > 0:24:51And at that point, it was like
0:24:51 > 0:24:55a window opened, like a light went on...
0:24:56 > 0:25:00And we began to speak to him in Disney dialogue, the whole family.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09I memorised every Disney animated movie ever made.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17I memorised the credits, and that's how I taught myself to read.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It felt like a great, wonderful...
0:25:22 > 0:25:24..world of enchantment.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26When we'd be down in the basement watching movies,
0:25:26 > 0:25:29when it would kind of all come together where, you know,
0:25:29 > 0:25:31that's when we drew Owen out.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44And these were hand-drawn figures with exaggerated expression,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46exaggerated emotion.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49It was easier for him to interpret all of this.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I think the idea that it never changes,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58and everything else is changing constantly...
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Every other part of his life.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Our lives, as his parents, we're getting older.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07You know, Walter's getting older.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10You know, people are dying. Everything's changing,
0:26:10 > 0:26:15and that's the one thing that he can hang on to that never changes.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- What's Mommy doing?- I'm making plans
0:26:18 > 0:26:21for our trip to Disney World in two days!
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Are we going to want to go to the Beauty And The Beast show?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- Yeah.- Is it too scary?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- No.- I think Mickey has a friend.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30There's Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and blah, blah, blah.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36He began to use different movie scenes to express his feelings,
0:26:36 > 0:26:38like Hercules for not giving up,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41The Jungle Book for wanting friends,
0:26:41 > 0:26:46and Pinocchio for learning what it feels like to be a real boy.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Cornelia and I are not therapists, but we're kind of faking it here.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55And the goal was... whatever works to get to Owen.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32These are for you.
0:27:33 > 0:27:38- Thank you, Owen. - You're so welcome, Emily.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39I love you.
0:27:39 > 0:27:47"To Owen. Thank you for always being there for me in the happy
0:27:47 > 0:27:51"times and in the sad times too.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55"I love you more than anything."
0:27:55 > 0:28:00And I also have this necklace for you, too.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Thanks, Emily.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06And I made it myself.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Wow, what a wonderful thing.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10It's Mickey Mouse on it.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Yeah.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13Yeah.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20'Emily is wonderful and cute
0:28:20 > 0:28:23'and adorable and sweet, soft, and gentle.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28'When I move into my apartment,'
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Emily will move into the apartment above me,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32and we'll be neighbours in love.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Another day, another day.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40- Hi, how are you?- Hi.- Good. - Good to see you again this morning.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Hey, Owen, good to see you again.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45- Come on back.- OK.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Owen, here's one of the things that gets hard for you.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Not easy for you to talk to people.
0:28:50 > 0:28:54So...we are going to just say things
0:28:54 > 0:28:57about our lives we don't think someone else knows.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00OK, so I'm going to make a comment, and my comment is...
0:29:01 > 0:29:06..my 27-year-old daughter rescued a kitten recently.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09My girlfriend Emily, she has a pet cat.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11I didn't know that. That's perfect.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Put that on there.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15That's great. And we're not working on questions right now,
0:29:15 > 0:29:17so I'm not going to ask you any questions about it,
0:29:17 > 0:29:20but that was the perfect comment to follow that up.
0:29:20 > 0:29:21- Yeah.- I grew up with cats.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23I thought I ONLY liked cats.
0:29:23 > 0:29:28I never liked dogs, and it turns out I LOVE dogs.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31I love our dog, Gus.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34That was a perfect comment.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37'Owen, given his autism...'
0:29:38 > 0:29:40..he really likes things scripted.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42In fact, things that are unpredictable
0:29:42 > 0:29:44make our folks really anxious,
0:29:44 > 0:29:46so they really like the script.
0:29:46 > 0:29:47So can we pull out your phone,
0:29:47 > 0:29:50and you show me your text history with Emily?
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Yeah, my girlfriend and sweetheart.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54You kind of get in a routine of telling her
0:29:54 > 0:29:56that you really care about her.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00- Yeah.- But you don't really give her anything to think about.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02But I WANT to.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04So could we work on that?
0:30:04 > 0:30:05Yeah.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07'But Owen,'
0:30:07 > 0:30:09he's just filled with the desire to relate,
0:30:09 > 0:30:11and he's born to a brain that makes it hard.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13That does look...
0:30:14 > 0:30:16This is for putting your thoughts on,
0:30:16 > 0:30:18cos I'm pushing your brain to do some stuff that's hard.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21'At his age, he WANTS to have a job.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23'He wants to grow up.'
0:30:23 > 0:30:27And he tries to make sense of the world by fitting it into
0:30:27 > 0:30:30a Disney script, right, whereas we grow up, we try to go,
0:30:30 > 0:30:33"OK, we just can make sense of the world on our own."
0:30:33 > 0:30:36So for Owen, I think it keeps things neat and tidy and fits
0:30:36 > 0:30:38into the black and whiteness of the Disney.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42But the real world is not a Disney script.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Yeah. Is it also about how you feel in terms of moving
0:30:47 > 0:30:50- and all the changes going on? - For sure.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52So does that also kind of feel...
0:30:52 > 0:30:55- Does it feel scary? - A little bit.- Yeah.
0:30:59 > 0:31:05I think it's easy, when a kid has had so much therapy, and is 23,
0:31:05 > 0:31:09to think that the trunk is a lot stronger than it is, you know?
0:31:09 > 0:31:11And the roots are stronger than they are.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14- Yeah.- But when I see him working with you
0:31:14 > 0:31:17and really on these very basic conceptual...
0:31:17 > 0:31:22ability for conceptual thinking, it makes it very clear how...
0:31:22 > 0:31:23how great the deficits were.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29You know, 23-year-olds are off graduating from college.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31You know, moving around the world independently.
0:31:31 > 0:31:35- Right.- No-one expects that of Owen at this point, but the question is,
0:31:35 > 0:31:38- what CAN we expect for him? - Right, right.- What do you think
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Owen's contributions are to his community,
0:31:40 > 0:31:45- to his family?- We asked ourselves that for so many years,
0:31:45 > 0:31:47and at one point, Ron just looked at me and said,
0:31:47 > 0:31:50"So who decides what a meaningful life is?"
0:32:00 > 0:32:02PIANO PLAYS
0:32:15 > 0:32:20This is my Disney friend, Jonathan Freeman.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:32:25 > 0:32:28- Yeah! Hi, Jonathan. - Hi, Owen.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30How's it going, my friend?
0:32:30 > 0:32:32- How are you?- Good.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34'Jonathan Freeman is a great actor
0:32:34 > 0:32:36'who also does voices for animated Disney films.'
0:32:36 > 0:32:40- AS JAFAR:- Your father's charged me with keeping peace in Agrabah.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42The boy was a criminal.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46He is the voice of the evil Jafar in Disney's Aladdin and now my official
0:32:46 > 0:32:49buddy, pal, and friend of the family.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52So, Jonathan and I first became pals and friends
0:32:52 > 0:32:57for my 19th birthday weekend when me and my mom and dad
0:32:57 > 0:33:01went to New York to see Disney's Mary Poppins on Broadway.
0:33:01 > 0:33:02I saw that!
0:33:02 > 0:33:07And he was the Admiral, and my dad wrote him a note and sent it to him,
0:33:07 > 0:33:09and he called me up on my birthday,
0:33:09 > 0:33:13and Jonathan is a great friend of mine now.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20- So what are we going to do? - We're going to... We're going to do
0:33:20 > 0:33:22several scenes from Aladdin.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24- We're going to do a few scenes, yeah.- OK!- Yeah.
0:33:24 > 0:33:29Sands of time, reveal to me the one who can enter the cave.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31That's him!
0:33:31 > 0:33:33That's the clown we've been waiting for.
0:33:36 > 0:33:37You're Iago.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39- Yeah.- And I'm Jafar.
0:33:39 > 0:33:40- You ready?- Ready.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- OK.- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Jafar, what if YOU were the chump husband?
0:33:46 > 0:33:48- What?- OK, OK.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50You marry the princess.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52All right? Then...
0:33:52 > 0:33:55Then you become the sultan.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Oh! Marry the princess!
0:33:57 > 0:33:59The idea has merit.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Yes, merit.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Gilbert Gottfried!
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Hey!
0:34:08 > 0:34:10I don't believe it! Gilbert Gottfried!
0:34:13 > 0:34:17I am SO unbelievably surprised!
0:34:20 > 0:34:24One... All right. I can't believe it!
0:34:24 > 0:34:27I just don't believe it!
0:34:27 > 0:34:32We're never going to get a hold of that STUPID lamp!
0:34:36 > 0:34:40I hope you weren't doing the lines better than I do.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43- It's OK.- Yeah, good.
0:34:43 > 0:34:48That... That's all I need - him doing the lines better
0:34:48 > 0:34:50and working cheaper than I do!
0:34:52 > 0:34:55- I don't think I've met you before. - It's me, Owen.- Yeah,
0:34:55 > 0:34:57yeah, you don't look familiar to me!
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Get off the line!
0:35:02 > 0:35:03So...
0:35:18 > 0:35:20Owen went to his first school.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25We end up getting him into the Lab School of Washington,
0:35:25 > 0:35:27which is expensive.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30At this point, my career as a journalist is taking off.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34Sending Owen to this school is something we can do.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Many of the kids there are learning disabled,
0:35:36 > 0:35:42which is things like dyslexia, maybe ADHD, stuff that's more manageable.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44They definitely accept him with the caveat that, you know,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47we're going to really have to make sure
0:35:47 > 0:35:48that this continues to be the right
0:35:48 > 0:35:53place for him. So from day one, it was a struggle.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57His speech was still very limited,
0:35:57 > 0:36:01and his social skills were even more limited.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04After another year or two,
0:36:04 > 0:36:07it's clear the other kids are moving forward,
0:36:07 > 0:36:12but he is not making enough progress, the school tells us.
0:36:13 > 0:36:17Basically, he's not running fast enough, and the school says,
0:36:17 > 0:36:20"Sorry, you're out. This isn't going to work."
0:36:25 > 0:36:27It was really hard on him.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32He was really falling back, regressing in a big way.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35It was a glop.
0:36:35 > 0:36:40A glop is down years, rough, down years.
0:36:47 > 0:36:53When I was in the glop, I started to think my best years were behind me.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57I wasn't into any animated films that time.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03After I home-schooled Owen for a year,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06we got him accepted to a high school for special needs kids.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11But something happens.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Owen really became very withdrawn, even more, and he was very sad,
0:37:18 > 0:37:20and it was really a tough time.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22He is so high-strung, he barely can breathe.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25When I would go to pick him up in the carpool line,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28he would dart out so fast into the car.
0:37:28 > 0:37:29I'd be like, "Owen, are you OK?"
0:37:29 > 0:37:31"Yeah, yeah. Let's go, let's go, let's go."
0:37:33 > 0:37:37Ron sat him down one day and said, "Owen, is everything OK?
0:37:37 > 0:37:40"What's going on?" And he said,
0:37:40 > 0:37:43"There are boys at school that are bullying me."
0:37:46 > 0:37:50The bullies said they were going to burn my house down and hunt me down.
0:37:51 > 0:37:57These kids basically just tormented him, and because he's so literal,
0:37:57 > 0:38:01he literally thought that our house was going to be burned down,
0:38:01 > 0:38:03and his parents were going to be killed.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07In that moment, I fell into darkness and walked the halls of fear.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10FIRE BURNS, VOICES ECHO
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Well, I was just enraged about it.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Like, it was like I failed to protect him.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40You know, I would've rounded up a posse and, I don't know,
0:38:40 > 0:38:43kicked the shit out of them, but...
0:38:45 > 0:38:47..I didn't, and I think that's why I still think about it.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50I'm still bitter about it because I was, like...
0:38:50 > 0:38:53It was like right there when I could've been there for Owen.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59- CHANTING:- Quasimodo! Quasimodo! Quasimodo!
0:39:02 > 0:39:04You think he's ugly now? Watch this.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Hail to the king!
0:39:16 > 0:39:18LAUGHTER ECHOES
0:39:55 > 0:39:58After the bullying, in the weeks that follow,
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Owen goes down to the basement.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04It's odd. He seems like he's working on something downstairs.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06I go down,
0:40:06 > 0:40:10and I see he's been drawing, and then I sit down with the book,
0:40:10 > 0:40:11and I start flipping pages.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14100 pages of pictures.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18And every character is a sidekick.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23There are no heroes. They're all sidekicks.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26There are hundreds of them in Disney.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Some are goofy. Some are resourceful.
0:40:28 > 0:40:33Some are wise. Merlin, Rafiki, Jiminy Cricket...
0:40:33 > 0:40:35They're all sidekicks.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37At that point, I didn't feel like a hero.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39I felt like a sidekick.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45The sidekicks are fun-loving, comical, wacky, playful, friendly,
0:40:45 > 0:40:49and delightful, and they help the hero fulfil their destiny,
0:40:49 > 0:40:52and they support the heroes.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55On the last two pages, in his scrawl,
0:40:55 > 0:40:59"I am the protector of the sidekicks."
0:41:00 > 0:41:05And the last thing he writes, on the last page is...
0:41:14 > 0:41:19I created a story about sidekicks searching for a hero in my head,
0:41:19 > 0:41:22and I called it The Land Of The Lost Sidekicks.
0:41:24 > 0:41:29The thing he did that I think was interesting is that sort of using
0:41:29 > 0:41:32the narrative of his own life to create these stories.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41But the sidekicks were there to support him and...
0:41:41 > 0:41:43and help him find his way.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48He was really writing little autobiographies.
0:41:52 > 0:41:56The Land Of The Lost Sidekicks, by Owen Suskind.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04"There is a boy who is just like other boys.
0:42:05 > 0:42:11"Until one night, he sees from his window a storm on the horizon.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18"He is small, just three years old, and scared."
0:42:55 > 0:42:58ECHOING AND WHOOSHING
0:43:36 > 0:43:38RUMBLING, SINISTER VOICES ECHO
0:44:11 > 0:44:14RHYTHMIC DRUM PLAYS
0:44:43 > 0:44:44Bingo.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02- Nice to be out on the water again?- It is!
0:45:06 > 0:45:08Can I stay really close to the boat?
0:45:08 > 0:45:09Of course.
0:45:11 > 0:45:12I'm in.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15I'm in.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18- Agh!- OK, swim to me. - And then I'll get out.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21- You've got to do breaststroke. - No, I can do whatever.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26I swam to you, I swam to you.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28OK. Hey, let me shake.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31- Thanks.- Have you conquered your fears?- I did. Now I can get out.
0:45:31 > 0:45:32OK.
0:45:40 > 0:45:46ALL: # Happy birthday, dear Walter
0:45:46 > 0:45:51# Happy birthday to you! #
0:45:51 > 0:45:54- Owen, bring it in! One...- Two, three!
0:45:58 > 0:46:01OK, who would like ice cream?
0:46:01 > 0:46:03All right, there you go, my friend.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07What do you think about Walter turning 26, O?
0:46:07 > 0:46:09It's going to... It's odd but great.
0:46:09 > 0:46:11Odd? How is it odd?
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Because he and I are young men now.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18How do you feel about being that?
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Still great, but a little...
0:46:24 > 0:46:26..different.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31Because I'm 23 now.
0:46:31 > 0:46:35So what was it like for you, Walt, when you went from living in a dorm
0:46:35 > 0:46:39and being in college to living on your own in an apartment?
0:46:39 > 0:46:40I thought living alone was...
0:46:40 > 0:46:44was great. It was a new, you know, a new breath of freedom.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47I could, you know, do what I wanted, when I wanted,
0:46:47 > 0:46:50like Owen... Owie, you can now.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52You're going to do what you want when you want.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55- Yeah.- You're absolutely right, Walt.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59So where are you off to?
0:46:59 > 0:47:02- Well, you gave the coconut cake a try.- I did, a try.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13My mom and dad are getting older every year.
0:47:15 > 0:47:1920 years from now, who knows? And...
0:47:21 > 0:47:23It'll be just...
0:47:26 > 0:47:28It'll be just me,
0:47:28 > 0:47:30and I'll be ready.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33I've been getting ready my whole life, but...
0:47:33 > 0:47:36it can kind of be overwhelming to think about the...
0:47:39 > 0:47:43..the idea of taking care of them and taking care of Owen, and...
0:47:46 > 0:47:47..how that's going to look.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53Yeah, it can keep you up at night, thinking about it...
0:47:53 > 0:47:58and, for some reason, the birthday is sometimes when it rips out of me.
0:48:00 > 0:48:01But...
0:48:03 > 0:48:06Most of the time, I just forget about it
0:48:06 > 0:48:09and try not to think about it because it'll come at some point.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13I'm his only family he's got.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18And I'll have to do...
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Whatever I have to do, I have to do to make sure he's OK.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34Owen, go up!
0:48:34 > 0:48:36Run upfield, run.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38Owen, go! Go, go, go.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41I'll get it, I'll get it, I'll get it, I'll get it!
0:48:41 > 0:48:47Get it, get it. Owie, dribble, dribble. Dribble!
0:48:47 > 0:48:49WHISTLE BLOWS
0:48:49 > 0:48:52- That was a good try.- When you see it, you just stay with the ball.
0:48:52 > 0:48:53Yes, I'll stay with the ball.
0:48:57 > 0:48:58Owen, dribble, bud! Go!
0:49:08 > 0:49:12- The champ!- Thanks. - I'm proud of you, buddy.
0:49:12 > 0:49:13I did great.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28Well, it's like I always say, Your Majesty...
0:49:28 > 0:49:33..children got to be free to lead their own lives.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36APPLAUSE
0:49:48 > 0:49:52I just can't believe how far Owen has come.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55Look at how much distance he's travelled.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58Look at how much progress he made from there to there.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00It doesn't seem that long ago
0:50:00 > 0:50:03that we thought he would never talk again.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09Owen Harry Suskind from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:50:15 > 0:50:20- Congratulations.- Thanks. Yay, I did it! Yay, I did it!
0:50:20 > 0:50:21Mom.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27- Mom.- I'm so proud of you.
0:50:28 > 0:50:32- Hey, buddy. - Dad.- We're so proud of you.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35- You're the greatest.- I AM the greatest.- You are the greatest.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39- Hi, Walter.- Love you.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59Hey, buddy, we got to...
0:50:59 > 0:51:04- We got to pack up.- Oh, can we watch three scenes of Dumbo to celebrate?
0:51:04 > 0:51:05To celebrate what?
0:51:05 > 0:51:07The packing day.
0:51:08 > 0:51:10What... Hold on.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11What scenes are you thinking of?
0:51:11 > 0:51:15- I'm lost here. - I think the packing scenes, um...
0:51:17 > 0:51:20- Dumbo.- Dumbo. Let 'er rip.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22And then packing.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25'Come on, Dumbo.'
0:51:29 > 0:51:31When you were little, you'd watch this movie.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34- Yeah.- When you were facing some pretty tough...
0:51:34 > 0:51:36tough challenges.
0:51:36 > 0:51:40How did it make you feel when you got to the end?
0:51:40 > 0:51:43- So happy.- Yeah.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01- It can go right on top.- One more big box.- Where's your thing?
0:52:01 > 0:52:04It's right... Oh, no!
0:52:04 > 0:52:07- When did you last see it? - I don't remember!
0:52:07 > 0:52:10All right, Mickey Mouse charm. Now, it's got to be on a path.
0:52:10 > 0:52:14- His Mickey...- What happened?- The Mickey Mouse charm that Emily
0:52:14 > 0:52:17- gave him fell off.- Where is it? Oh, where is it?
0:52:17 > 0:52:19I hope no-one stepped on it. Look around, look around,
0:52:19 > 0:52:22look around, look around. Should I sniff it?
0:52:22 > 0:52:24Owen, can you smell it?
0:52:24 > 0:52:25No, I can't.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27- It's somewhere, right?- Yeah.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30And if it's not somewhere, you're going to get one, and in a few days,
0:52:30 > 0:52:31it'll be exactly the same.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33- Are you sure?- Yeah, I mean, Emily...
0:52:33 > 0:52:35Emily made it for me.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37She didn't make the Mickey emblem.
0:52:37 > 0:52:39- She bought it.- Bought it?
0:52:39 > 0:52:43Did she make the Mickey emblem? Did she go to a metal shop and make it?
0:52:43 > 0:52:45No, of course not!
0:52:45 > 0:52:48Any shiny item could be Mickey.
0:52:48 > 0:52:50Shiny item.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Owen, could you come here, please?
0:52:54 > 0:52:55What?
0:52:55 > 0:52:57I have to give you something.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59What? What?
0:53:00 > 0:53:02You found it!
0:53:02 > 0:53:04- Where was it?- On the ground.
0:53:04 > 0:53:05Yay.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07There's no way Mickey's coming off of there.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10- Yay.- OK?- Perfect.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Yay. All set.
0:53:38 > 0:53:39There it is. Exciting!
0:53:41 > 0:53:45- Wow.- Here we are, Owen. - Yes, here we are!
0:53:48 > 0:53:51- So exciting.- What do we got here? What do we got here?
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Me, Emily, and John and Julie.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56- Owen Suskind.- Number...
0:53:56 > 0:53:59- Apartment...- Number 1.
0:53:59 > 0:54:00Wow.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02Do you know what? I think YOU should open the door.
0:54:05 > 0:54:08- There we go.- Oh, boy.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10- Owen!- Here it is.- Here it is.
0:54:10 > 0:54:11Yay!
0:54:11 > 0:54:17- Your own apartment.- Yay!- Your own condo.- My own condo, yay!
0:54:17 > 0:54:19- What do you think, huh?- So cool.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23Owen, this closet is bigger than Mom and my first apartment in New York.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25Yeah.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28- What could be in here?- Cool!
0:54:28 > 0:54:29Videos, that's amazing!
0:54:29 > 0:54:32- Who would've imagined? - Who would imagine?
0:54:33 > 0:54:35Excuse me, coming through.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46HE MURMURS
0:55:02 > 0:55:05- Are you good? - I'm good.- It's a big night for you.
0:55:05 > 0:55:06It was.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09It will be.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11- Owen.- Thanks.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14- Owen?- Yeah? - Where are you right now?
0:55:14 > 0:55:16I'm right... I'm home, my new home.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20- Goodbye, Mom.- Goodbye, I love you. - Love you too.
0:55:20 > 0:55:22- I'll see you and Dad tomorrow. - This is so exciting.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Have a great night.
0:55:24 > 0:55:25- Love you, buddy.- Love you, too, Dad.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27OK, off we go.
0:56:17 > 0:56:20'You must never rush out on the meadow.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22'There might be danger.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25'Out there, we are unprotected,
0:56:25 > 0:56:27'so we have to be very careful.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31'Bambi, quick!
0:56:31 > 0:56:32'The thicket!
0:56:37 > 0:56:39'Faster!'
0:56:39 > 0:56:41GUNSHOT
0:56:43 > 0:56:44'Mother!
0:56:48 > 0:56:50'Mother!
0:56:55 > 0:56:58'Mother, where are you?
0:57:02 > 0:57:04'Mother?
0:57:09 > 0:57:11'Mother?'
0:57:36 > 0:57:38I never lived by myself before.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43Emily will move in next week.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46One over this flame here.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48'There are people here to help me.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51'I get help cooking.
0:57:52 > 0:57:55'They help me with medication and paying bills.
0:57:56 > 0:57:58'We all go on fun outings.
0:58:01 > 0:58:02'They can help me look for a job,
0:58:02 > 0:58:05'which is something I really want to do.'
0:58:06 > 0:58:08Independent means...
0:58:08 > 0:58:10great and fabulous.
0:58:31 > 0:58:34Is this the right mailbox?
0:58:36 > 0:58:40Excuse me. Is this the right mailbox?
0:58:43 > 0:58:45- Which one's mine? - OK, can I see which one you have?
0:58:45 > 0:58:47- Yeah.- I don't...
0:58:49 > 0:58:51I'm not sure if that's a mailbox key.
0:58:51 > 0:58:52- So...- Let's go check back.
0:58:52 > 0:58:54It had the number on it, so...
0:58:54 > 0:58:57- It says here, two. - Yeah, let's go check back.
0:59:05 > 0:59:08- Yes, you've got mail! - Yes, I got mail! Let's see.
0:59:09 > 0:59:11Let's see. I got mail.
0:59:11 > 0:59:13- Yeah, all right. - Let's bring it back.
0:59:13 > 0:59:16- Mission accomplished. - Mission accomplished.
0:59:17 > 0:59:20DOORBELL RINGS
0:59:23 > 0:59:25- Hi, Emily.- Hi, Owen.- Hi, Emily.
0:59:25 > 0:59:28- How are you doing?- I'm doing good. How are YOU doing?
0:59:28 > 0:59:30I'm doing great.
0:59:35 > 0:59:37I'm glad you made it.
0:59:37 > 0:59:41Which one should we do?
0:59:41 > 0:59:44How about make the cookies and THEN watch a movie?
0:59:44 > 0:59:47- That sounds like a great idea.- Yeah.
0:59:54 > 0:59:55Thanks, Emily.
0:59:56 > 0:59:58You're welcome.
1:00:00 > 1:00:01Oh...
1:00:01 > 1:00:03I hope we baked them right.
1:00:05 > 1:00:07Did we bake them right?
1:00:07 > 1:00:08Oh, no.
1:00:08 > 1:00:11- I don't want to...- That's OK.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13Oh, thanks, Emily.
1:00:14 > 1:00:18- At least we gave it a try. - Yeah.- We did good.
1:00:18 > 1:00:19Did great.
1:00:24 > 1:00:25Ow!
1:00:25 > 1:00:27- Uh-oh. Are you OK?- I'm OK.
1:00:29 > 1:00:31- Oh, ouch.- Are you OK?
1:00:31 > 1:00:32- Yeah, I'm OK. I'm OK.- Phew.
1:00:32 > 1:00:34- I'm OK.- Are you OK?
1:00:34 > 1:00:36Yeah, I'm OK.
1:00:36 > 1:00:39You need me to kiss it better?
1:00:40 > 1:00:42I think it's good.
1:01:03 > 1:01:06- Owie.- Yeah?- Not going well here.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08Not going well because of the rocks.
1:01:09 > 1:01:12I was just thinking. You and Emily are the same age
1:01:12 > 1:01:16- Mom and Dad were when they started dating.- Yeah.
1:01:16 > 1:01:18You kind of see yourselves like Mom and Dad?
1:01:18 > 1:01:20- Yes, we do.- How so?
1:01:20 > 1:01:22Because we take it slowly.
1:01:23 > 1:01:26- Yeah?- Yeah. We have the same interests.
1:01:27 > 1:01:28Yeah? So what are...?
1:01:30 > 1:01:32- You got Disney.- Yeah.
1:01:33 > 1:01:36Pretty serious thing, a girlfriend of three years, you know.
1:01:36 > 1:01:38Yeah, it IS pretty serious.
1:01:40 > 1:01:42You've had a class on this at school, right?
1:01:42 > 1:01:44Have you thought about those things?
1:01:44 > 1:01:46Sometimes I have.
1:01:46 > 1:01:50- How does it make you feel? - It makes me feel a little nervous
1:01:50 > 1:01:56- and a little excited.- OK, how does it make you feel a little nervous?
1:01:56 > 1:01:58- Let's start with that. - I haven't tried it before.
1:01:59 > 1:02:02Have you seen it?
1:02:02 > 1:02:03- Yeah.- Yeah?
1:02:03 > 1:02:05- Where'd you see it?- Movies.
1:02:05 > 1:02:10Yeah? For instance, you see how some people kiss.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12Yeah.
1:02:12 > 1:02:14They might use their what?
1:02:14 > 1:02:18They don't just use their lips. They use their...
1:02:18 > 1:02:20Their...feelings.
1:02:20 > 1:02:22All right.
1:02:22 > 1:02:24- Ice cream time, bud?- Yes, let's go!
1:02:28 > 1:02:32'For Owen, unknown things make him uncomfortable,
1:02:32 > 1:02:36'whether it's an unknown place or someone he doesn't know, or sex.'
1:02:36 > 1:02:38It's been a little tricky to navigate
1:02:38 > 1:02:42because Owen's basis for pretty much everything is Disney.
1:02:43 > 1:02:48And Disney, beyond the, like, kind of final kiss in every movie...
1:02:48 > 1:02:50The, you know,
1:02:50 > 1:02:52straight kiss, no tongue...
1:02:52 > 1:02:56It doesn't really delve into relationships and sex
1:02:56 > 1:02:58really that much.
1:02:58 > 1:03:02I've tried a number of tactics that worked to varied degrees.
1:03:02 > 1:03:06Bringing up the idea of a French kiss, I found that just didn't work.
1:03:06 > 1:03:08You know, he's a red-blooded American man.
1:03:08 > 1:03:12He's got his same biological needs as everyone else, but in terms of,
1:03:12 > 1:03:15like, full-on sex, I have...
1:03:17 > 1:03:20I mean, I have no idea how to really get to that point, short of...
1:03:23 > 1:03:25I don't know.
1:03:25 > 1:03:27Showing him Disney porn, maybe?
1:03:27 > 1:03:29I really don't know.
1:03:30 > 1:03:32Owen, you know your favourite Little Mermaid songs?
1:03:32 > 1:03:35- Yeah, Kiss The Girl. - What do I mean by that?
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Just kiss her,
1:03:37 > 1:03:39using my tongue.
1:03:39 > 1:03:42- OK.- I will do it.
1:03:51 > 1:03:53- How you doing?- I'm doing good. I'm Owen. Nice to meet you.
1:03:53 > 1:03:54My name is Jeffrey Ortiz.
1:03:54 > 1:03:58- Hi, Jeffrey.- You can have a seat right here.
1:03:58 > 1:04:02All right, so why are you interested in working for us here?
1:04:02 > 1:04:05Because I love going to the movie theatres and cinemas all the time.
1:04:05 > 1:04:09- And do you come here pretty often? - Yes, I do.- Yeah? Very good.
1:04:09 > 1:04:11How many hours were you looking to work?
1:04:11 > 1:04:12- 20.- OK.
1:04:12 > 1:04:15So this is the concession area.
1:04:15 > 1:04:19- Yeah.- Do you do any cash handling?
1:04:19 > 1:04:20- No.- No? OK.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24- I'll walk you out if you'd like.- OK. - All right.
1:04:26 > 1:04:28Thanks for having me, Jeff.
1:04:28 > 1:04:30- Oh, you're very welcome. - When can I hear a response?
1:04:30 > 1:04:32As soon as we get your references back.
1:04:32 > 1:04:34- It should be a pretty quick turnaround after that.- OK.
1:04:34 > 1:04:36- All right?- Thanks.- You're welcome.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50CAR HORN BEEPS
1:04:57 > 1:04:59I just got a call.
1:04:59 > 1:05:01Apparently...
1:05:02 > 1:05:03..Emily broke up with Owen.
1:05:05 > 1:05:08'There was a meeting with all the caseworkers today, so basically,'
1:05:08 > 1:05:12the caseworkers told Owen that it was over, with Emily in the room.
1:05:12 > 1:05:13So it's bad.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16I'll give him a... He just...
1:05:16 > 1:05:18Yeah.
1:05:18 > 1:05:20'He needs a brother call right now.'
1:05:20 > 1:05:22Emily gave these reasons, like,
1:05:22 > 1:05:26five points about Owen being too close and needing space
1:05:26 > 1:05:28and everything else, so...
1:05:30 > 1:05:32Goddamn it.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49HE MUTTERS ANGRILY
1:05:55 > 1:05:57Hi, Emily.
1:05:57 > 1:05:59Emily?
1:06:06 > 1:06:08Good luck, Emily!
1:06:10 > 1:06:14Come on, guys. Come on, come on. We've got to get in the van, OK?
1:06:15 > 1:06:17Hey, Emily.
1:06:24 > 1:06:25At least I waved to her.
1:06:27 > 1:06:29RINGING TONE
1:06:33 > 1:06:35- 'Hi, honey.'- Mom?
1:06:35 > 1:06:36'Yeah, sweetie?'
1:06:36 > 1:06:41Why is life so full of unfair pain and tragedy?
1:06:43 > 1:06:45'Owen, it's just the way life is.
1:06:45 > 1:06:49'That's the way life has always been and will always be.
1:06:49 > 1:06:53'We have incredibly joyous times...'
1:06:53 > 1:06:55- Yeah!- 'And relaxing times,
1:06:55 > 1:06:59- 'but we also have sad times and painful times.'- I can't...
1:06:59 > 1:07:04But it's... But it's not fair.
1:07:04 > 1:07:09'I know, honey. So much things that happen in life aren't fair.
1:07:09 > 1:07:12- 'So many things.' - What do we have to do?
1:07:12 > 1:07:15Just face the truth and be sad forever?
1:07:15 > 1:07:20'No, not forever at all. Just... You have to face the truth
1:07:20 > 1:07:23'and grit your teeth and...
1:07:23 > 1:07:26'and know that things are going to get better.'
1:07:29 > 1:07:31MUSIC FROM THE LITTLE MERMAID PLAYS
1:07:46 > 1:07:48ARIEL SOBS
1:08:05 > 1:08:09- Yeah. Yeah, hi, Mom. - How are you, buddy?
1:08:11 > 1:08:13- I'm so glad to see you. - I'm so glad to see you, too.
1:08:17 > 1:08:21And I fear Emily will be this way forever.
1:08:21 > 1:08:23She won't, honey. She won't.
1:08:23 > 1:08:26Have you started a journal about your feelings,
1:08:26 > 1:08:29that you can write things out and you can write...?
1:08:29 > 1:08:31But I don't want to be alone and single.
1:08:33 > 1:08:35Well, that's really not a choice right now, huh?
1:08:35 > 1:08:38- It's not a choice.- But it doesn't mean you're going to always be.
1:08:38 > 1:08:42But I don't want her to forget me.
1:08:42 > 1:08:45- Hey, Owen?- Yeah?- Emily's fine.
1:08:45 > 1:08:46I don't want her to forget me.
1:08:46 > 1:08:50- Do you know who I'm a little bit concerned about?- Me.- Is you.
1:08:50 > 1:08:53Most people at your age, they don't meet
1:08:53 > 1:08:56the love of their life forever.
1:08:56 > 1:08:57- What?!- At your age.
1:08:57 > 1:09:00Oh...
1:09:00 > 1:09:04What's the saying? "Boy loves girl, boy loses girl, boy love...
1:09:04 > 1:09:06"gets girl back in the end."
1:09:08 > 1:09:11- Boy finds another girl. - But I... I...
1:09:13 > 1:09:17This is driving me crazy.
1:09:17 > 1:09:18Yeah.
1:09:18 > 1:09:23Why did this have to happen to make my life sad forever?
1:09:35 > 1:09:37SCRIBBLING
1:09:50 > 1:09:52I created Fuzzbutch, who is a villain
1:09:52 > 1:09:54in the Land Of The Lost Sidekicks.
1:09:57 > 1:10:02Fuzzbutch's evil powers are to blow fog into people's head
1:10:02 > 1:10:06to make the world look like a weird place to them
1:10:06 > 1:10:08and make them look sad.
1:10:18 > 1:10:20There is evil in the forest.
1:10:35 > 1:10:38RUMBLING, ECHOING VOICES
1:11:23 > 1:11:26SINISTER SHOUTING AND ECHOING
1:11:26 > 1:11:28Owen, Owen!
1:11:28 > 1:11:31- Owen, Owen.- Owen, Owen. - Owen, Owen, Owen.
1:11:33 > 1:11:35VOICES FADE
1:11:53 > 1:11:57- So, Mom...- 'Owen, has Daddy talked to you about going to France?'
1:11:57 > 1:12:03- France? When?- 'France.'- France?
1:12:03 > 1:12:07- 'You don't want to go?' - I love Paris, France.
1:12:07 > 1:12:12'So there's a conference on autism, where they want you to speak.
1:12:12 > 1:12:15'It's actually the very first time, Owie,
1:12:15 > 1:12:19'that people have gotten together to learn about how autistic people use
1:12:19 > 1:12:21'their passions to help them understand the world,
1:12:21 > 1:12:25'just like you use Disney. Yeah, does that sound good?'
1:12:25 > 1:12:29- It sounds great. - 'Good, yeah. It'd be fun.'
1:12:29 > 1:12:31Yeah.
1:12:32 > 1:12:36You're going to get to give a speech in English to a delegation,
1:12:36 > 1:12:38an international delegation.
1:12:38 > 1:12:40Most of them are French, but they're from all over the world.
1:12:40 > 1:12:43- Yeah.- OK? They are going to translate
1:12:43 > 1:12:45- your speech into French. - OK.
1:12:45 > 1:12:47Oh!
1:12:47 > 1:12:49So I'll speak in English, but they'll translate into French.
1:12:49 > 1:12:52You should just speak in Lumiere's accent the whole time.
1:12:52 > 1:12:57- Haw-aw!- Should I really speak in...? - What do you think?- English.- English.
1:12:57 > 1:13:01- What should I write? You're not telling me?- No, I can't tell you.
1:13:01 > 1:13:02It's got to come from...
1:13:02 > 1:13:04- Myself.- Right.
1:13:04 > 1:13:10The way people...see autistic...
1:13:10 > 1:13:12autistic people...
1:13:14 > 1:13:16Don't look at me.
1:13:16 > 1:13:18This is challenging.
1:13:18 > 1:13:21- Just write to here. - Another ten sentences?
1:13:21 > 1:13:23- HE WHINES - All right? Come on.- Don't whine?
1:13:23 > 1:13:26- Don't whine.- A little kid whines.
1:13:26 > 1:13:27A little kid whines.
1:13:27 > 1:13:30- You're not a little kid any more. - I'm a young adult.
1:13:30 > 1:13:31What else?
1:13:33 > 1:13:36Think. Think hard!
1:13:47 > 1:13:50You could break into song at any moment.
1:13:50 > 1:13:53# They can sing, they can dance
1:13:53 > 1:13:55# After all, this is France... #
1:13:55 > 1:14:00BOTH: # Dinner here is never second best... #
1:14:00 > 1:14:02ALL: # Come on and fold your napkin
1:14:02 > 1:14:06# Take...a glance and then you'll be our guest
1:14:06 > 1:14:10# Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest
1:14:10 > 1:14:15# Beef ragout, cheese souffle, pie and pudding, en flambe... #
1:14:15 > 1:14:19- Is this it?- It looks like a town hall, yeah.
1:14:19 > 1:14:22- Owen.- Owen, this is Marie.
1:14:22 > 1:14:23- Hey, Marie. - She's running the conference.
1:14:23 > 1:14:25Hi, Marie. Bonjour.
1:14:25 > 1:14:27Bonjour...Owen.
1:14:27 > 1:14:28THEY CHUCKLE
1:14:29 > 1:14:31I am very pleased to meet you, Owen.
1:14:31 > 1:14:33Thanks, Marie.
1:14:33 > 1:14:34- Are you fine?- Yeah.
1:14:34 > 1:14:38- Owen, come. Come chat, say hi.- Yes, I am. I don't like the smoking.
1:14:38 > 1:14:41- (He doesn't like smoking.) - A lot of people smoke in France.
1:14:44 > 1:14:45Do you want to do it yourself?
1:14:45 > 1:14:48- Didn't Walter teach you how to do this?- No. Can you help me?
1:14:48 > 1:14:52- OK, I'm not always going to be here to do your tie, you know.- I know.
1:15:00 > 1:15:05AS IAGO: I can't believe it! I just don't believe it!
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Owen, are you ready?
1:15:07 > 1:15:09I'm ready.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14OK, everybody, let's move it.
1:15:14 > 1:15:15OK.
1:15:26 > 1:15:28APPLAUSE
1:16:03 > 1:16:07Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs.
1:16:07 > 1:16:09APPLAUSE
1:16:16 > 1:16:20Je suis honoreche...
1:16:20 > 1:16:26d'eytrey ici avec vous.
1:16:26 > 1:16:27APPLAUSE
1:16:30 > 1:16:35My name is Owen Suskind, and I love animated films.
1:16:36 > 1:16:38My friend Connor loves superheroes.
1:16:40 > 1:16:45My friend Brian is an expert on the history of all actors and comedians
1:16:45 > 1:16:48who are Jewish. There's a lot of them!
1:16:49 > 1:16:53The way people see those with autism is that
1:16:53 > 1:16:56they don't want to be around other people.
1:16:56 > 1:16:58That's wrong.
1:16:58 > 1:17:01APPLAUSE
1:17:05 > 1:17:07The truth about autistic people is
1:17:07 > 1:17:10that we want what everyone else wants,
1:17:10 > 1:17:13but we are sometimes misguided
1:17:13 > 1:17:17and don't know how to connect with others.
1:17:17 > 1:17:20I was bullied in high school.
1:17:20 > 1:17:24The future seemed so scary and uncertain,
1:17:24 > 1:17:26I didn't want to grow up.
1:17:27 > 1:17:31I just watched the world go by from my bell tower,
1:17:31 > 1:17:34like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
1:17:35 > 1:17:39The Hunchback doesn't end the way some movies do.
1:17:39 > 1:17:42Quasimodo doesn't get the girl,
1:17:42 > 1:17:50but he gets happily welcomed into society after a long, hard journey.
1:17:50 > 1:17:53Then he's no longer an outcast.
1:17:53 > 1:17:55That's kind of what happened to me.
1:17:57 > 1:18:01Now, when I look in the mirror, I see a proud autistic man...
1:18:03 > 1:18:06..strong and brave and ready to meet a future
1:18:06 > 1:18:09that is bright and full of wonder.
1:18:10 > 1:18:13Merci beaucoup.
1:18:13 > 1:18:15APPLAUSE
1:18:35 > 1:18:38Walter! Walt's here!
1:18:38 > 1:18:40Walt's here.
1:18:40 > 1:18:43- Walt.- Owie! Good to see you, buddy.
1:18:43 > 1:18:45- Good to see you.- This is your... I haven't seen your place yet.
1:18:45 > 1:18:48- Look at that library.- Yeah, I still have a few more to collect.
1:18:48 > 1:18:50- You have some more to collect? - A few more.
1:18:50 > 1:18:54- What are the plans?- Oh, how about you and I hang out together?
1:18:55 > 1:18:59I'll show you the text me and Dad wrote to Emily this past weekend.
1:18:59 > 1:19:01- Last weekend.- OK.
1:19:01 > 1:19:03- I'll tell you. - All right, read it to me.
1:19:03 > 1:19:08"Dear Emily, I took off the necklace you gave me and put it away.
1:19:08 > 1:19:10"I wanted you to be clear about my feelings,
1:19:10 > 1:19:13"that I have accepted our relationship is over.
1:19:13 > 1:19:16"Lots of couples break up and remain friends.
1:19:16 > 1:19:18"I want us to be one of them.
1:19:19 > 1:19:23"We know each other too well to throw our friendship away,
1:19:23 > 1:19:26"so let's just be friends and make lots of new friends.
1:19:26 > 1:19:29"Either way, I'm sure I'll see you around. Your friend, Owen."
1:19:31 > 1:19:32What do you think?
1:19:33 > 1:19:35It's good, it's good.
1:20:02 > 1:20:03Morning, Emily.
1:20:07 > 1:20:08Morning, Emily.
1:20:10 > 1:20:12Good morning, Emily.
1:20:14 > 1:20:17It's my bike.
1:20:17 > 1:20:19It is. How'd you sleep last night?
1:20:20 > 1:20:22I slept great.
1:20:25 > 1:20:28Yeah. I'll see... See you later.
1:20:42 > 1:20:45"After battling the evil Lord Fuzzbutch,
1:20:45 > 1:20:50"the boy finds himself at the bottom of a deep, dark pit.
1:20:59 > 1:21:02"He sees something glinting in the darkness around him."
1:21:50 > 1:21:51There you go. Enjoy the show.
1:21:54 > 1:21:56- Thanks.- Enjoy the show.
1:21:57 > 1:21:59Enjoy the show!
1:22:02 > 1:22:05I have been scared my whole life of growing up
1:22:05 > 1:22:10because you might lose some of the old things you treasured,
1:22:10 > 1:22:13like all my fun films,
1:22:13 > 1:22:15but I never did.
1:22:17 > 1:22:19We definitely worry about getting old.
1:22:19 > 1:22:23My hope and dream, when Ron and I aren't here,
1:22:23 > 1:22:27is that he is independent enough to make it
1:22:27 > 1:22:29and be able to grow older on his own.
1:22:30 > 1:22:32He's going to have to fail.
1:22:32 > 1:22:34He's going to have to fall and fail.
1:22:36 > 1:22:40You know, we're not afraid of that as we used to be.
1:22:41 > 1:22:43I think he'll be OK.
1:22:48 > 1:22:50The future?
1:22:50 > 1:22:53I'm still searching for it.
1:22:55 > 1:22:58My childhood days were over.
1:22:59 > 1:23:01That doesn't matter.
1:23:20 > 1:23:24AS THE LION KING CHARACTERS: We're way beyond the boundary
1:23:24 > 1:23:28of the Pride Lands. Hey, look, Banana Beak is scared.
1:23:28 > 1:23:32It's Mr Banana Beak to you, Fuzzy,
1:23:32 > 1:23:36and right now we are all in very real danger.