Life, Animated Page #6

and that's the one thing that he can

hang onto that never changes.

- What's Mommy doing?

- I'm making plans

for our trip to Disney World

in two days.

Are we gonna want to go to

the Beauty and the Beast show?

- Yeah.

- Ls it too scary?

- No.

- I think Mickey has a friend.

There's Mickey, Goofy, Donald,

and blah, blah, blah.

He began to use different

movie scenes to express his feelings,

like Hercules for not giving up,

The Jungle Book

for wanting friends,

and Pinocchio for learning

what it feels like

to be a real boy.

Cornelia and I are not therapists,

but we're kind of faking it here.

And the goal was...

Whatever works to get to Owen.

These are

for you.

- Thank you, Owen.

- You're so welcome, Emily.

I love you.

"To Owen.

"Thank you for always

being there for me

"in the happy times

and in the sad times too.

I love you more than anything."

And I also have

this necklace for you too.

Thanks, Emily.

And... And I made it myself.

Wow, what a wonderful thing.

- It's Mickey Mouse on it.

- Yeah. Yeah.

Emily is wonderful

and cute and adorable

and sweet, soft, and gentle.

When I move into my apartment,

Emily will move

into the apartment above me,

and we'll be neighbors in love.

Another day, another day.

Hi, how are you?

- Hi.

- Good.

Good to see you again

this morning.

- Good to see you again.

- Hey, Owen, good to see you again.

- Come on back.

- Okay.

Owen, here's one of the things

that gets hard for you.

Not easy for you to talk to people.

So we are going to just

say things about our lives

we don't think

someone else knows.

Okay, so I'm gonna make a comment,

and my comment is,

my 27-year-old daughter

rescued a kitten recently.

My girlfriend Emily, she has a pet cat.

I didn't know that. That's perfect.

Put that on there.

That's great. And we're not

working on questions right now,

so I'm not gonna ask you

any questions about it,

but that was the perfect comment

to follow that up.

- Yeah.

- I grew up with cats.

I thought I only liked cats.

I never liked dogs,

and it turns out I love dogs.

- I love our dog, Gus.

- That was a perfect comment.

Owen, given his autism,

he really likes things scripted.

In fact, things that are unpredictable

make our folks really anxious,

so they really like the script.

So can we pull out your phone,

and you show me

your text history with Emily?

Yeah, my girlfriend and sweetheart.

You kind of get in a routine of telling

her that you really care about her.

- Yeah.

- But you don't really

- give her anything to think about.

- Well, but I want to.

- So could we work on that?

- Yeah.

But Owen, he's just filled

with the desire to relate,

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