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Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua’s unique questions and Sarah’s loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best—and the most challenging—parts of being a parent.

Credits:

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Design & Animation: Tim Rauch
Producers: Mike Rauch & Lizzie Jacobs
Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo

Music: Fredrik
Label: The Kora Records
Publisher: House of Hassle

Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Daniel Hayek 1 year ago

This is great, thanks for sharing this on Vimeo! Seeing this in illustrated form really compliments the audio very well.
David Thornhill Jr 1 year ago

I concur.
daltonrooney 1 year ago

So great!
Brett W. Thompson 1 year ago

Beautiful! I love this film.
Sam Morrill 1 year ago

Phenomenal. Perfectly compliments the audio.
Mac McCord 1 year ago

wonderful film...very moving and real!
Rakesh Nanda 1 year ago

honestly, made my heart swell and a brough a joyous tear to my eyes.thanks for sharing.
William Levin 1 year ago

Very nice animation and illustration style!
StoryCorps 1 year ago

Thanks for all the great comments so far! Glad to see that people are enjoying the video.
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

We would love to see more!
StoryCorps 1 year ago

Thanks! More are on the way - coming this summer.
Honacloi 1 year ago

Glorious! My nephew has Asperger's (the spell check underlined the word which is symptomatic of the ignorance surrounding it that it should not even be in the dictionary of most programs). It was very moving and the animation was weighty and full of flexibility.
Alex Amelines 1 year ago

This animation is so wonderful and at so many levels!
Serge Verwest 1 year ago

Briliant
R6L [matt wolfe] 1 year ago

gj, yo
Ian Sheddan 1 year ago

Epicness defined. I'd be telling a lie if I said I didn't have a few tears in my eyes while watching this.
Alex Amelines 1 year ago

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Bart Lasky 1 year ago

Really a wonder conversation and great animation
Burt Gross 1 year ago

This is absolutely wonderful! I got a litle choked up! Great animation!
SierraTango Productions 1 year ago

Really lovely and moving video.
Julia Quinn 1 year ago

O man I love this so much!
Brad Sherman 1 year ago

Wow. What an incredible relationship between two people.
Josh Milch 1 year ago

amazing film
amimation worked really well
very interesting conversation between a mother and child
Mary Morgan 1 year ago

I enjoyed this video tremendously. I have a nephew with Asperger's Syndrome and when he was very young it was impossible to get close to him. He could not relate to adults or to his peers. But his parents devoted themselves to helping him and now my nephew is 15 and a wonderful, loving, extremely intelligent young man. It sounds like Sarah can be every bit as successful with Joshua.
Lynn Mercurio 1 year ago

Very heartwarming.
JKorten 1 year ago

Inspiring
RJ Evans 1 year ago

Just lovely, simply lovely. I have reviewed and blogged this at
kuriositas.com/2010/05/q-aspergers-syndrome-boy-interviews-his.html

Thanks for making me cry!
RJ Evans 1 year ago

Have reviewed and blogged this at kuriositas (my blog). Thanks ever so much for making me cry (sounds weird but it did and I am the better for it too!).
Bonnie 1 year ago

This is wonderful.
Hache 1 year ago

I honestly didn't think it was gonna be good.. but man did I LOVE this
Motion Effects Studio 1 year ago

With Mother's Day just around the corner, this video pretty much sums it up. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video with us
Katie Moats 1 year ago

Just awesome!
IBM Media 1 year ago

This is an excellent film
Musclecars & Meditation 1 year ago

We LOVED this. And, we love StoryCorps Brilliant!
Liam R 1 year ago

Does he have a vaguely British accent? British father or something?
Rauch Brothers 1 year ago

Hi Liam,

A lot of people ask this. He was born in the UK before moving back to the U.S. with his mother at about age 5. Apparently, because of the Asperger's he didn't lose his accent.
waveweaver 1 year ago

Oh, that was fabulous! What a great way of storytelling. The animation was perfect too!
Chris Elwyn 1 year ago

That's just awesome - moved me to tears. Beautiful stuff.
Teemu Eramaa 1 year ago

Very, very good.
Rauch Brothers 1 year ago

Thanks for all the great comments! So glad you enjoyed it.
Fermon Brandon 1 year ago

Hi,very well done.Great little story.Keep up
the good work.
Mike Leigh Cooper 1 year ago

Hi! I love this short. I think the animation is brilliant, and supports the narrative perfectly.
Makes Aspergers so human - which it is, and important as well when embraced.I definitely agree with the "thinking outside the box" element
statia 1 year ago

This is so great. He sounds like a great kid and very socially aware for an Aspie, as well as an awesome kid, and it gives me so much hope.
Gabriel Kabik 1 year ago

This should be watched by any parents whose children have been recently diagnosed with Asperger's or anything related to ASD. This video can help those parents understand that they may have to face some extra challenges along the way, but there's no reason to believe they can't still have a great relationship with their child.
Mark Nikolewski 1 year ago

Bravo.
d.i.m llc 1 year ago

Story Corps is a great concept...and the conversation between Joshua and his mom Sarah, was very endearing.
Janice Wright 1 year ago

This is delightful. I can't wait to show it to my 7-year-old son, who has an Aspergers-ish diagnosis, and to his father ... who doesn't really understand my relationship with my son, which is a lot like this.
michael nehmad 1 year ago

cool wath program did you use to animate this?
it looks very hard to do
thansk.
Rauch Brothers 1 year ago

Michael -

Q&A was animated by drawing on paper. These drawings were colored in Photoshop and layered onto the background in AfterEffects.
Héctor Duque (poGoSOLo) 1 year ago

Just Lovely!!!!
Zac Wong 1 year ago

Wonderful film-- I showed this to all of my family and friends and all who saw it were touched!
It was really awesome seeing you in Ottawa!
Rauch Brothers 1 year ago

Thanks Zac! Definitely remember you and your work, hope all is going well out on the West Coast.
Zac Wong 1 year ago

Same to you,
hope to see you in Ottawa again!
Kaveh Chini 1 year ago

Very touching and powerful piece. Thank you for this four minutes of joy.
Ozan Akinci 1 year ago

beautiful!
smitty pdx 1 year ago

Absolutely fantastic!
Gloria ives 1 year ago

I loved this book when It came out in Starbucks. Story is everything. It connects us all. This had been my favorite interview in the book. So glad you bput it to animation. It only enhances it all the more.
Dusty Clark 1 year ago

Saw this at Nashville Film Festival! I relate to this subject matter good film.
Ameera Al-Qaed 1 year ago

Amazing film ...
Robert Kerner 1 year ago

Very wonderfully done!
Symeon Konstas 1 year ago

Really inspiring! Big big thanks!
PRADEEP SONI 1 year ago

brilliant film!!!
Thor Revilla 1 year ago

hi, very nice film, but I couldn't all undertund, is it possible to find it in spanish? or with spanish sub?
dalas verdugo 1 year ago

Wow, I loved this. Looks like all of my coworkers saw it first :)
Nanonex000 1 year ago

I´m speachless, that was fantastic... congrats
Colleen Blake 1 year ago

Wonderful! All of them ..I have watched and loved all of them..great, great idea!
Olivia Cuthbertson 1 year ago

I would love to see more of this little boy
Frazer MacDonald 1 year ago

Makes me cry every time :')

Well done
Ronny So 8 months ago

Superb story and very touching!
Aria Melody DJ 7 months ago

wonderful. what a great mom!!
FLOTS 1 month ago

felicidades por el tratamiento respetuoso del tema
yasi 1 month ago

very touching!