Sue Rubin, who is autistic, was diagnosed and treated as mentally retarded until the age of 13, when she began to communicate using a keyboard. She is now a junior in college. This documentary takes the viewer on a journey into her mind, her daily world, and her life with autism.

Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.

A comprehensive guide for children with autism that teaches basic self-help skills including communication and social skills, personal hygiene, and academic skills.

Ares Ramirez, a twelve year old who lives in a trailer by the Salton Sea with his mother and developmentally challenged younger brother, acts out on his adolescent angst and tries to protect his family as he comes of age.

After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Dylan O'Connor is a gifted artist on his way to an arts festival. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked, injected with a strange substance, and told to flee. The next 24 hours turns into an odyssey of terror, mystery, and wondrous discovery.

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant, offers an inside look at his life, describing how his rare condition, which gives him incredible mental powers and a compulsive need for order and routine, has influenced every aspect of his life and what challenges he has faced while trying to be independent.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.