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They don't ever talk again."
And we just looked down at him
and the kid playing on the rug,
looking at his hands,
and the doctor saying,
"So let me explain
what autism is."
Look what we have
here! What is this, Owen?
What do you have here?
Hey, what do these look like?
Oh, let's get this away.
All right.
All right, we need to stop sillies.
You need... Owen.
I first met Owen
At that point, I think that Ron
and Cornelia were devastated.
I think that it shattered
their ideal vision
of who this child
is going to become.
The image of autism
in the early 1990s,
uh, was not terribly flattering.
So they're looking
for any glimmer of hope
that there are other
possibilities out there
besides an adult that
will be forever dependent.
The child with autism
is easily overstimulated.
They don't filter
the constant stimuli
that come in on a daily basis.
This world is just too intense
for their brains,
and that's always
what I felt about Owen,
especially when
he was a tiny baby.
You know,
the vacuum cleaner would go on,
the visual stimulation,
the auditory stimulation.
So imagine how difficult it would
be to just do the simplest things
if you have this
constant noise in your brain.
Owen, Owen, Owen.
Owen, look.
When your child goes
they've also been in an environment
where the adults have
been telling them a lot.
So now it's gonna be
your turn in a couple of months
to start you telling them things
about what you want to do
and what, you know,
what you're comfortable with...
What you don't want to do,
what you do want to do.
So a lot of those choices that maybe
you only had one or two choices here,
now you're gonna have
lots of choices.
I have some concerns
as far as safety.
Owen tends to walk with
his chin down and plow ahead,
like when he comes out
between cars in a parking lot
- or going to cross the street.
- Yeah.
Hey, Owen, what would you say is
your greatest concern about next year?
That I have to do stuff all on my own.
- That's a concern?
- Yeah.
- To change, right?
- To change.
But is it worth it not having
a staff live with you?
- A little bit.
- I bet.
How do you feel?
'cause it's a new thing for me,
doing my own things on my own.
Yeah, well, this is the big step.
This is your step
through the adult door.
Now you're no different than me.
So you kind of...
All these decisions are gonna be you.
They're gonna be for me.
You got to remember,
like you're kind of on your own,
and there's no dorm counselor...
Yep.
We're still just a call away, right?
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