- [Yuko] Could you tell me,

what is the title of the
painting, to the camera.

- Fish is having a good day
because it's with a leaf.

- [Yuko] He said, "One day I'll
be a painter."

So I said, "Okay, I've never
seen you paint really much."

- It's purple.
- Purple, 99 is purple.

Okay. And you like...

Just because we think non-verbal

doesn't necessarily means
that he doesn't have

a very powerful message.

And it's up to us to be able
to hear what that message is

and be able to
communicate with him.

- Just like when you hear
really good music, you know

there's a lot of
music theory behind it

but you don't know it.

If you're not into music,
you don't really know it,

but you feel it.

So the same thing, when
you see it his art.

Sometimes people just come up.

They couldn't explain
it, but they love it.

So I think that's awesome.

- Well, most of the autistic
person has very difficult time

articulate their feelings.

And I think this was
a token that he knew

that he could express
himself through art.

- It's having a fun day.

- [Thomas] If we think about
one of his pieces of artwork,

a bad day is probably red.

Probably going to be the
number seven zero seven.

So many times he may
not say a lot of words

but the words that he
uses and chooses to say

are very profound,
very powerful.

- I would think that you
will never know what is

the disabled can do for abled.

How do I say?
- Yeah, that's great, yeah.

- Could you help me
out with the words?

- I guess the --

- You gotta find you
know, what they can...

- I would say just, you know
allow your child or your person

to thrive with what
they have passion with

and don't limit
them just because

we think that they
don't have an ability

or they have a disability.

They are overlooking
the ability.

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