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- Hey, Malcolm, what do
you like to do with music?

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What do you like about music?

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Can you say? What music
do you like the best?

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Is that hard to say?

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- Yes.

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- Hard to say?

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Do you like singing or playing the piano

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or playing the drums?

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What do you like the best?

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- Singing.
- Singing, yes.

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Let it shine, let it
shine, let it shine ♪

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♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Let it shine, let it
shine, let it shine ♪

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♪ Jesus gave it to me,
I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Jesus gave it to me,
I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Jesus gave it to me,
I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Let it shine, let it
shine, let it shine ♪

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ This little light of mine ♪

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♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪

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♪ Let it shine, let it
shine, let it shine ♪

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- And what do you wanna say?

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Can you say your name?

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- Yeah.

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- Go ahead. What's your name?

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- Malcolm.
- Malcolm

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- Corley.

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- What else? What do you like to do?

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- (inaudible response)

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- Are you an artist?

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- Yes.

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- Malcolm, you said you like

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to paint people, animals and plants.

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Which ones do you like the best?

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Do you like to paint people
the best, animals the best

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or plants the best?
- People.

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- People, okay.

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- And who's your favorite person to paint?

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- Malcolm.

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- I knew that. He likes
to do self portraits.

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He likes to take selfies.

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I think those are some of
his favorite things to paint.

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He seems to be very fascinated
with his face making,

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to me funny faces, like
opening his eyes really wide.

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Like he's not trying to
look cool or handsome,

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he's just, you know, trying
to look interesting, I think,

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so, yeah, kind of cool.

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Malcolm, did you always like making art?

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Did you always like making
art when you were little?

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Do you remember when
you started doing art?

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- Yes.

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- What did you start drawing?
Do you remember that?

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I remember. He started
off drawing "Blues Clues."

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And I wasn't really
Watching "Blues Clues,"

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so I didn't quite know what they were

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until I, you know, sat down
and really watched the show.

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He was maybe three and so he
would draw these same clues

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and then, 'cause he'd gotten
a video of "Blues Clues."

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And so then after that he started drawing

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the Dr. Seuss pictures from
like, especially he's fond

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of Horton and Dr. Seuss's ABC's pictures

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and the one that he
seemed to like the best

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of those was Aunt Annie's Alligator.

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So he would draw that to the point

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that he could draw it from memory.

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When he went to elementary school,

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then it became clear

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that his art teachers thought
he had an unusual amount

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of talent and he started
winning, you know,

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like the little art awards.

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And that continued in middle school,

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that the art teachers would always say

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that he had a particular talent for art.

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So what do you like the best?

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Do you like painting, colored pencils

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or just regular pencils?

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- Regular pencils.

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- Like just the drawing
part is your favorite?

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- Drawing part's your favorite.

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- And what's your favorite kind of paint?

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- Paint.

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- What kind of paint do you like the best?

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- Paint.

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- Do you like watercolor, acrylic or oil?

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- Acrylic.

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- You do? Okay, he
usually uses watercolor.

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Because he has done things in acrylic.

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Now, acrylic dries really fast

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and I've noticed that he takes a while.

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As you may have noticed, acrylic is

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not the most natural medium for him.

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Although sometimes when he
uses watercolor, he'll do,

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I'm not an expert on art, I
think gouache is a technique

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where it's pretty thick.

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You know, acrylic of course,
will do that quite naturally.

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Because of his process of going
kind of slowly, it's tended

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to be more watercolor,

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although he did do some
acrylic stuff in school, so.

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And I will say his answers will
change depending on the day,

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so it's hard to know, you
know, from day to day.

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But I mean, his process is that,

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I mean, to me it looks like stimming

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in that he'll walk around a
lot and talk to himself a lot

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or just sit and talk to himself a lot,

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but then as I think about it,

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not being able to get inside his head.

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You know, I believe that
it makes sense to sort

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of consider what you're going to do.

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How some people get
their inspiration walking

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through the forest or something

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and I think, you know, he
is walking back and forth

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and then when he sits down to start,

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sometimes he'll get on a
roll, sometimes it's not much

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that he does on a particular day.

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But I think that the fact
that he's doing this sort

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of thing doesn't mean that
he isn't processing it

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at the same time as he's
deciding how he wants

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to make a very deliberate stroke.

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And again, sometimes he'll get going

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and other times it seems to me watching it

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and trying not to watch

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because to me, it can seem frustrating

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that he'll take a little
bit of paint, he'll mix it

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and then he'll, "Okay, maybe
that's not quite right,"

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he'll mix it some more.

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Sometimes he'll put it on

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and then he'll just wash off
the brush and mix it again

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and then before he puts even one stroke

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onto the paper or canvas.

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From what I understand,
a lot of people who are

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on the autism spectrum have no good

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or good is a pejorative term
or whatever, a judgmental term,

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but their sense of time is different.

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So it's like the passage of time.

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I'm constantly like,
okay, we have to hurry,

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we have to hurry, and he doesn't seem

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to experience time like some of us do.

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It's so abstract.

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So I think, you know, when
he's doing some things

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that allow him to just do,
be and not have a deadline,

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that's when I think, you
know, he's the calmest

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and the happiest.

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I would say that everybody
needs to feel a sense of value

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and importance and
hopefully it isn't required

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that we have a great
talent to feel that way

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because, you know, everybody
should be valuable just

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because, but I will say
that he does like the idea

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that he's appreciated for his art

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or anything else that people appreciate.

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He likes to do a good job.

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So feeling that his art
is something special is

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of course a source of self-esteem.

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Again, I try to emphasize
the fact that he has a gift

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and I tell him he has a gift,

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but that's not what inherently

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makes him important or valuable.

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I think that's just as
important to instill as well.

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Malcolm, do you feel
like when you make art

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that that's like talking
to people through your art?

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Do you talk to people through your art?

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Does that make sense?
Does that make sense?

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- Yes.

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- When you're painting and drawing,

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do you feel like you're
telling people about yourself

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when you're painting and drawing?

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- Yes.
- Yes?

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- Yes.
- Yes.

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I mean, I feel that, you
know, because his art is

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not, I mean, it's not
generic, whatever that means,

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but I mean, because he does
put his own little spin

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on things, it makes it
not a hundred percent...

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I don't know if making
something super realistic isn't

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communicating, 'cause
that's not really fair.

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But anyway, I feel that
some of his personality has

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to come through in the way that
he chooses to make his art.

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How you interpret that
of course is up to you

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but I guess if I use words,

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you may interpret them a
particular way as well.

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You know, I may be thinking

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I'm communicating something clearly

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and then you may do hear
something else based

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on, you know, your own lens.

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So I think we all have

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whatever form we use of communication.

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It's hard to say exactly
what we're saying.

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Sometimes people don't believe it.

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So I think definitely some of
him comes through in his art.

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There's a real purity about the way

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that Malcolm experiences the world.

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I mean, he doesn't seem
that I can see influenced

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by what people should do

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or, you know, like I think
of young men particularly,

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well, I won't say particularly,

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but young men often get to a point

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where everything's about being
cool, young people, humans,

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and Malcolm just does what he wants to do.

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He wanted to do Zumba.
I mean, is that cool?

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Well, he didn't care. He
just wanted to do Zumba.

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I mean, for a while he listens
to whatever kind of music.

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He flips through the dial and he listens

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to a lot of kinds of music

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and, you know, he turns up what he likes.

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And I just think it's really
cool to be so unconcerned

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with what people are gonna think
and he just does his thing.

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And you know, I mean I learned early on,

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you know, people might look at him funny

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if he was, you know, making
noises or stuff like that.

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And I mean, he's not hurting people.

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And to try to put some
people in a category

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of, well this is how
you're supposed to be,

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okay, well he's not like that
and he's fine, he's beautiful.

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And you know, I understand
that there's some situations

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where maybe if he's
talking loudly to himself,

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it wouldn't be an appropriate venue.

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But I mean, on the other hand,
if we're in the grocery store

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and he's talking to himself,

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I'm not fazed 'cause he's Malcolm.

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He's in the world being Malcolm

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and God bless him, you
know, that's who he is.

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I'll just say that, you
know, I treasure my son

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and I love him very much.

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And on one hand, I wish
I could live forever.

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On the other hand, I know that
his life has to be his life

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and just the balance between
how much I'm helping him

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and how much my helping him
is in the end not helping him.

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But then, you know,

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how much of this can he
accomplish on his own?

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And yeah, I don't know.

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I mean, I tried to put him in
situations to let him learn

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to do whatever he can do

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and like if he wants to
do something, I'll try

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to find a way for him to try to do it.

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But you know, I also
understand that, yeah,

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it's sort of an existential concern.

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It's like, what happens when I'm gone?

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But anyway, the art will stand

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and will speak for itself

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and you know, that's not
something I'm concerned about.

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- [Adam] It's okay to say Santa?

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- [Tori] Say your name.

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- I'm Adam Musser. Is
it okay, to say Santa?

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- Yeah, you're doing good.

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- Kris Kringle at Santa Claus.

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- Awesome.

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- I make toys for boys, girls

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around the world are given gifts.

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- Great job and I'm Tori Little.

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I'm the gallery manager at
Friendship Heart Gallery

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where Adam attends the studio program.

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I myself have been working
with Adam since 2021

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and I know he is just
always been very creative

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and loves to think three dimensionally

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and create sculptures
or toys or build things

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and design things that
he thinks up in his mind.

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And then he's very resourceful

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in the materials that he uses
to see his ideas come to life.

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- It's a Christmas miracle,
one merry Christmas miracle.

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- Yeah, you're very creative.

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The Friendship Heart Gallery
and Studio is a day program

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for adults with intellectual
disabilities and autism.

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Currently we have about 50
artists that attend our program

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and we're just about to open
a second studio location

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and maybe have up to 80
artists attend the program.

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So Adam comes once a week and
he's here from 9:00 to 3:00

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and makes a lot of really
awesome creative things

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or paintings or whatever
he chooses to work on.

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Recently, we've also
had month long classes

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where the artists can vote to
attend one of three classes

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when they come to the program

00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:34.380
to explore different
techniques and new things

00:16:34.380 --> 00:16:38.223
so they can expand their
knowledge of making art.

00:16:40.170 --> 00:16:43.454
Adam, when you make the
artwork that you make,

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where do you get your ideas from?

00:16:47.280 --> 00:16:48.210
- Myself.

00:16:48.210 --> 00:16:49.337
- Yeah?

00:16:49.337 --> 00:16:52.860
- 'Cause myself, I make toys myself.

00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:55.244
- So is it from your imagination?

00:16:55.244 --> 00:16:56.610
- Yeah, my imagination.

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- Is it about your favorite things?

00:16:58.470 --> 00:17:02.691
- Favorite things. I make
toys, checkers, the teddy bear.

00:17:02.691 --> 00:17:03.570
- [Tori] Gotcha.

00:17:03.570 --> 00:17:05.340
So you wanna make some
of your favorite things

00:17:05.340 --> 00:17:06.900
that make other people happy too?

00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:08.853
- [Adam] I make trains and make happy.

00:17:10.035 --> 00:17:13.233
The giving, the joy, happiness.

00:17:14.250 --> 00:17:18.623
Make toys, doll house,
Nutcracker, teddy bear.

00:17:21.117 --> 00:17:23.071
Try holding 'em.

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It's okay you to hold it.

00:17:25.560 --> 00:17:26.902
- Sure. What do you wanna hold?

00:17:26.902 --> 00:17:28.402
- A house.
- Yeah.

00:17:32.330 --> 00:17:35.019
- I made this house. I make toys.

00:17:35.019 --> 00:17:36.936
To make Christmas spirit for a girl

00:17:36.936 --> 00:17:39.570
who wants it for Christmas.

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- What did you use to make the house?

00:17:41.010 --> 00:17:42.210
- Paper.

00:17:42.210 --> 00:17:43.043
- What else?

00:17:43.043 --> 00:17:45.900
- A chimney, a door, paper.

00:17:45.900 --> 00:17:47.097
- What are these here?

00:17:47.097 --> 00:17:49.950
- Wood, the popsicle sticks.

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I'll wrap it up, a gift for a girl.

00:17:52.650 --> 00:17:55.020
- Adam suffers from
intellectual disability

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and a form of autism.

00:17:56.580 --> 00:17:59.448
So coming to the Friendship
Heart Gallery and Studio

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really helps him develop
a more positive self-image

00:18:03.390 --> 00:18:05.850
and he also has developed
really meaningful

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and lasting relationships with his peers

00:18:08.070 --> 00:18:10.680
and other artists that attend the program.

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It's really great to
see Adam just be proud

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of what he's made and use his imagination

00:18:17.910 --> 00:18:21.480
to create things that no
one else could come up with.

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He personally began just painting,

00:18:23.760 --> 00:18:28.140
but eventually began to explore
more three dimensional ways

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of creating art and really loves it

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and is great at thinking that way.

00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:36.488
He loves thinking with his hands, kind

00:18:36.488 --> 00:18:39.224
of creative problem
solving through sculpture

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and yeah, how great his
mind works in that way.

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Adam loves to make artwork
that brings joy to others.

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He often gifts it to
people to see them smile

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or to make them happy.

00:18:55.050 --> 00:18:59.040
He loves the circus.
He's made circus posters.

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He loves being the circus
master, ring master.

00:19:02.760 --> 00:19:06.660
I know I've gotten pulled
into being a trapeze artist

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or a genie or different
things for the circus.

00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:13.987
He also loves magic
and dragons and potions

00:19:13.987 --> 00:19:15.624
and is really interested in kind

00:19:15.624 --> 00:19:20.624
of the fantastic and creative wonder.

00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.410
Yeah, he likes to make something real

00:19:25.410 --> 00:19:28.803
that represents that
fantastic in his mind.

00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:33.540
Again, around Christmas
time, he loves being Santa

00:19:33.540 --> 00:19:37.110
and giving gifts to kids and making toys.

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He has made a lot of teddy bears

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and dolls and checkerboards.

00:19:42.270 --> 00:19:46.350
Yeah, so he is really just
sometimes driven by giving

00:19:46.350 --> 00:19:48.395
and making people happy.

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What do you think?

00:19:49.486 --> 00:19:50.903
- Yep, I am really happy
drawing. I am Santa.

00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:57.740
Giving gifts. One, each
child was given one gift.

00:19:59.190 --> 00:20:01.380
- Yeah, so you're really happy

00:20:01.380 --> 00:20:03.251
when you come to this program?

00:20:03.251 --> 00:20:05.160
- Yep. I'm really happy with the program.

00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.950
- Good. Yeah, so Adam loves making art

00:20:07.950 --> 00:20:10.233
and is happy while he makes art.

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I think that it's evident
when you look at anything

00:20:14.730 --> 00:20:18.120
that Adam has created, that
there's a certain amount of joy

00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:21.480
and excitement within what he's made.

00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.410
I think you can definitely see his heart

00:20:25.410 --> 00:20:28.353
and just love for making things

00:20:28.353 --> 00:20:31.834
when you look at his artwork.

00:20:31.834 --> 00:20:36.834
I think also you can see

00:20:37.290 --> 00:20:41.494
that he does have just a
really vibrant imagination

00:20:41.494 --> 00:20:46.113
and there's no barriers.

00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:52.220
He really just is free to express
what is in his imagination

00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:57.003
and he loves just creating
those things in his artwork.

00:20:59.040 --> 00:21:01.963
Sometimes he can be a bit down on himself

00:21:01.963 --> 00:21:06.955
and think that he's not the
best or he can't help everybody,

00:21:08.614 --> 00:21:11.970
but through making
artwork, he's able to see

00:21:11.970 --> 00:21:13.530
that he is very capable

00:21:13.530 --> 00:21:17.131
and he is bringing joy to other people.

00:21:17.131 --> 00:21:20.850
And it's a great encouragement to him

00:21:20.850 --> 00:21:22.650
that he can make a difference

00:21:22.650 --> 00:21:25.713
and make beautiful things
that make people happy.

00:21:37.953 --> 00:21:40.870
- The big one's gonna get you, Mom.

00:21:41.820 --> 00:21:44.223
Mom, it's gonna get you.

00:21:45.210 --> 00:21:46.410
Big one's gonna get you.

00:21:59.760 --> 00:22:03.453
I see purple, like a hickey on the neck.

00:22:05.010 --> 00:22:08.167
Oh Joel, no Dracula act.

00:22:13.435 --> 00:22:15.102
Just bite your neck.

00:22:16.308 --> 00:22:17.891
Don't play Dracula.

00:22:29.912 --> 00:22:34.863
Pink, pink, I'll say pink.

00:23:21.603 --> 00:23:23.850
I am Sybil Roe Thompson.

00:23:23.850 --> 00:23:28.510
I'm 51 years old now and
I do like I'm younger, 23

00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:31.833
and I grew up in the eighties.

00:23:33.330 --> 00:23:38.330
And my mom was an art
teacher at many schools

00:23:38.806 --> 00:23:43.806
and she taught me how
to paint and everything.

00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:45.780
That's why I'm good at art at school,

00:23:45.780 --> 00:23:49.833
at elementary, junior high, senior high.

00:23:51.270 --> 00:23:53.740
Well, I always have A's in art

00:23:56.390 --> 00:23:58.687
and I learned how to do clay from her.

00:24:04.929 --> 00:24:07.110
I started to do art after my graduation

00:24:07.110 --> 00:24:10.200
from high school in 1991.

00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:15.060
And during college, my mom

00:24:15.060 --> 00:24:17.640
and Aunt Jean had owned a gallery

00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.370
in Sinking Spring at
my grandmother's house

00:24:20.370 --> 00:24:23.403
on 602 Penn Avenue, Sinking Spring.

00:24:24.450 --> 00:24:26.523
It used to be a Stoudt's restaurant.

00:24:27.570 --> 00:24:29.940
Now she owned it at Adamstown too,

00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:31.800
at Sister's Gallery there.

00:24:31.800 --> 00:24:35.130
She used to live in the
house, Stoudtburg Village.

00:24:35.130 --> 00:24:37.837
And then after my brother
died, she moved out

00:24:37.837 --> 00:24:42.330
to a nursing home in Ephrata.

00:24:42.330 --> 00:24:45.450
Sybil was diagnosed with
autism at a very young age

00:24:45.450 --> 00:24:48.183
and from what I have
heard, it was quite severe.

00:24:49.230 --> 00:24:53.460
And she was not verbal at all.
She was very hard to handle.

00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:55.923
She had a lot of temper tantrums

00:24:55.923 --> 00:24:57.827
and she had a large
supportive family who helped.

00:24:57.827 --> 00:25:00.999
Her mother seeked therapy
at many different places

00:25:00.999 --> 00:25:05.601
many types of places to help
her learn different skills

00:25:05.601 --> 00:25:08.670
and get outside from herself.

00:25:08.670 --> 00:25:11.070
She is still autistic,
that doesn't go away

00:25:11.070 --> 00:25:13.170
but she's learned to interact with people.

00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:16.538
She's learned to have verbal skills.

00:25:16.538 --> 00:25:20.370
She loves watching movies,
she loves going places.

00:25:20.370 --> 00:25:24.660
So that's really a big
step forward in her life.

00:25:24.660 --> 00:25:26.550
One of the biggest things has been art.

00:25:26.550 --> 00:25:29.910
Her mother is a famous, talented artist

00:25:29.910 --> 00:25:31.500
and she taught Sybil

00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:34.380
from a very young age
all these art skills.

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:36.307
And I think she taught
her the enjoyment of art.

00:25:36.307 --> 00:25:39.210
You know, how it can
give you such pleasure.

00:25:39.210 --> 00:25:41.640
So Sybil has continues
to turn to that now.

00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:43.230
Her mother isn't well at all,

00:25:43.230 --> 00:25:47.310
but Sybil continues the
tradition of making her art.

00:25:47.310 --> 00:25:49.680
I was diagnosed.

00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:52.440
I've been to many doctors a lot.

00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:54.370
You know, I was in mental health

00:25:55.590 --> 00:25:58.140
and I don't like the loud
noises like screaming

00:25:58.140 --> 00:26:00.420
and, you know, yelling and cheering.

00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:01.863
That hurts me.

00:26:03.524 --> 00:26:04.443
That made me cry.

00:26:06.420 --> 00:26:07.253
And I've been to many,

00:26:07.253 --> 00:26:11.960
I was in The Threshold
before, you know, like groups

00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:16.050
for autism and mental health.

00:26:16.050 --> 00:26:18.243
I've never been hospitalized.

00:26:20.340 --> 00:26:24.093
And I used to take Haldol
but it made me zonked out.

00:26:25.887 --> 00:26:27.390
- I'm not sure where it came from,

00:26:27.390 --> 00:26:29.010
but she has one of those memories

00:26:29.010 --> 00:26:30.600
that she can look at something

00:26:30.600 --> 00:26:33.390
and remember it forever really.

00:26:33.390 --> 00:26:36.300
So she would go around
Reading with her mother

00:26:36.300 --> 00:26:38.220
and look at the facade
of different buildings

00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:40.800
or just buildings that she
was kind of familiar with

00:26:40.800 --> 00:26:43.740
and she could come back
and recreate them on paper.

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:45.120
She would draw the structure

00:26:45.120 --> 00:26:49.200
and then fill it in with
very tiny little squares

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.150
to create the outline of the building.

00:26:51.150 --> 00:26:54.090
And she would then make the
squares very, very colorful.

00:26:54.090 --> 00:26:56.970
She loved the bright colors,
she loved pastel colors.

00:26:56.970 --> 00:26:59.970
- I do acrylics, that's what I use,

00:26:59.970 --> 00:27:01.473
and water colors.

00:27:02.370 --> 00:27:05.745
I learned how to do that
when I was five years old.

00:27:05.745 --> 00:27:08.203
You know, Tempera paints like school paint

00:27:08.203 --> 00:27:10.413
and crayolas, I think.

00:27:11.942 --> 00:27:13.725
You know, design of tiles

00:27:14.821 --> 00:27:18.810
and I like tiles, like colored tiles

00:27:18.810 --> 00:27:21.603
and I'm doing stained glass designs too.

00:27:23.602 --> 00:27:26.250
Like when I go to church
and like colorful glass

00:27:27.420 --> 00:27:30.633
and I was baptized at St. John Lutheran.

00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:34.110
I painted pictures that
looked like stained glass,

00:27:34.110 --> 00:27:38.403
like mandalas, that's what it called.

00:27:40.230 --> 00:27:42.213
Making art makes me happy.

00:27:43.170 --> 00:27:46.318
Because of her memory,
she could see bathrooms

00:27:46.318 --> 00:27:49.260
that she saw along the way
and that became a favorite

00:27:49.260 --> 00:27:51.210
of hers is making different bathrooms,

00:27:51.210 --> 00:27:52.980
including men's rooms.

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:56.160
And she would name them from
the location where she saw them

00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:58.863
and she saw all these things
continuing in her mind.

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:02.580
She could remember where she had been,

00:28:02.580 --> 00:28:04.200
why she had been there,

00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:08.010
and then sit down with a piece
of paper and just create art.

00:28:08.010 --> 00:28:09.660
It's amazing.

00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:12.423
- I remember the bathrooms,
that I'd paint them too.

00:28:13.950 --> 00:28:16.443
I painted it in the
different colors of fixtures.

00:28:17.370 --> 00:28:20.370
I had a summer job when I was 18

00:28:20.370 --> 00:28:22.110
at Vo-Tech West.

00:28:22.110 --> 00:28:24.720
I was a janitorial service

00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.903
and so I do toilets there,
that's why I know about it.

00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:30.243
The urinals.

00:28:31.590 --> 00:28:35.100
I have pictures in my head about it too,

00:28:35.100 --> 00:28:38.700
about outhouses, porta-potties.

00:28:38.700 --> 00:28:41.760
I know doesn't smell nice.

00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:44.730
I like the automatic flushes.

00:28:44.730 --> 00:28:47.730
You don't have to touch anything

00:28:47.730 --> 00:28:51.093
and it's germ free, like hospitals.

00:28:52.260 --> 00:28:54.510
- She has a studio at the
GoggleWorks in Reading

00:28:54.510 --> 00:28:57.330
and she comes every day and does her work.

00:28:57.330 --> 00:29:00.360
And when she's not at the
studio, she'll work at home

00:29:00.360 --> 00:29:03.870
'cause creating art makes
her happy, it helps her deal

00:29:03.870 --> 00:29:07.140
with her autism and gives her a focus

00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:09.030
and she loves the colors.

00:29:09.030 --> 00:29:12.210
She gives all of her friends names

00:29:12.210 --> 00:29:15.840
of different flowers based
upon the color she sees in them

00:29:15.840 --> 00:29:17.220
and that brings her great joy.

00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:21.060
And she won't answer to
anything other than the color

00:29:21.060 --> 00:29:22.890
of the month that you have to call her.

00:29:22.890 --> 00:29:25.653
That's one of her also great joys.

00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:31.300
Art is fun and you know,
I like the colors too

00:29:32.463 --> 00:29:34.920
'cause the soap bubbles I used to blow

00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.840
and they're like rainbow colors

00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:41.550
because my mom took a picture

00:29:41.550 --> 00:29:45.243
of me blowing a big bubble, gigantic.

00:29:48.030 --> 00:29:49.503
It has colors swirling.

00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:54.187
Lots of colors, like billions.

00:29:55.514 --> 00:29:57.887
I should look at the color book

00:29:57.887 --> 00:30:01.423
there like they're zillions of them.

00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:07.053
Could be hundreds or
thousands, even millions.

00:30:08.970 --> 00:30:12.930
My favorite color is
pink because I like pink

00:30:12.930 --> 00:30:16.143
because of the Breast
Cancer Awareness Month.

00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:19.413
I like purple too.

00:30:20.760 --> 00:30:23.310
- I think that art is very important

00:30:23.310 --> 00:30:25.380
to Sybil's mental health.

00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:27.000
I have seen it.

00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:28.950
I've seen her very upset and crying

00:30:28.950 --> 00:30:30.660
and sit down and work on some art

00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:32.700
and the next thing you
know, she has a big smile

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:33.810
on her face.

00:30:33.810 --> 00:30:36.240
So the art I think has just allowed her

00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.560
to express herself and feel joy

00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:45.080
and it made her become a
reasonably happy middle-aged woman,

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:47.550
I think, who's very productive.

00:30:47.550 --> 00:30:50.160
And her family is well aware

00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:52.230
of what it means to her, her stability

00:30:52.230 --> 00:30:54.060
and her happiness in life.

00:30:54.060 --> 00:30:56.010
And so they go out of their way.

00:30:56.010 --> 00:30:57.810
They rent her a studio.

00:30:57.810 --> 00:30:59.910
They'll do whatever they
can, I think to make sure

00:30:59.910 --> 00:31:03.330
that Sybil has an outlet
for her creative energies.

00:31:03.330 --> 00:31:05.640
For a while she didn't
have a GoggleWorks studio

00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:07.560
and she was just working
out of her apartment

00:31:07.560 --> 00:31:10.110
and it was very frustrating

00:31:10.110 --> 00:31:11.130
'cause she didn't have the room

00:31:11.130 --> 00:31:12.360
to do all the things she wanted

00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:14.233
with all the colors she wanted to do.

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:26.936
(vehicle engine rumbles)

00:33:16.073 --> 00:33:21.073
- I'm the kind of guy that
always sees the glass half full

00:33:22.170 --> 00:33:23.880
instead of half empty.

00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.350
I'm always the kind of guy

00:33:25.350 --> 00:33:27.420
that will be like, "Dude, we can do this.

00:33:27.420 --> 00:33:29.520
Why can't we? How hard is this?

00:33:29.520 --> 00:33:31.260
It can't be that hard to do."

00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:34.050
Or I'll be like, it's just that simple.

00:33:34.050 --> 00:33:34.900
You just do this.

00:34:12.738 --> 00:34:13.680
My name is David Nolt.

00:34:13.680 --> 00:34:18.680
I was born in 1980 and I have
been an artist all my life.

00:34:19.950 --> 00:34:22.680
When I was two years old is
when I created my first piece

00:34:22.680 --> 00:34:24.510
of art on the floor.

00:34:24.510 --> 00:34:25.800
I picked up a crayon

00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:28.140
and started to scribble on the linoleum,

00:34:28.140 --> 00:34:29.790
which is not exactly a canvas,

00:34:29.790 --> 00:34:32.790
but that's where it all started

00:34:32.790 --> 00:34:34.590
and I've been creating artwork here

00:34:34.590 --> 00:34:36.963
in Lancaster County ever since.

00:34:38.250 --> 00:34:40.830
I started out doing mostly lettering

00:34:40.830 --> 00:34:43.290
and writing, not really writing stories,

00:34:43.290 --> 00:34:48.290
but it was more like fancy
letters, fancy alphabets,

00:34:48.450 --> 00:34:50.430
things like that is

00:34:50.430 --> 00:34:53.430
where the whole process kind of started.

00:34:53.430 --> 00:34:56.520
And I did not get into
pictures and things like that

00:34:56.520 --> 00:35:01.520
until I was older, maybe
going to school, grade school

00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:04.980
or somewhere I would say about that age.

00:35:04.980 --> 00:35:09.980
And then when I was
about 10, I think it was,

00:35:10.740 --> 00:35:12.930
I produced my first card.

00:35:12.930 --> 00:35:15.810
It was a group of handicapped
people that would meet

00:35:15.810 --> 00:35:17.340
and they would sell items

00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:19.290
and I wanted to sell an item too,

00:35:19.290 --> 00:35:23.163
so I made up my first card back in '88.

00:35:24.210 --> 00:35:26.490
So we sold out the first day.

00:35:26.490 --> 00:35:28.620
It was gone, we had to reprint,

00:35:28.620 --> 00:35:30.690
and that was kind of the first inspiration

00:35:30.690 --> 00:35:34.050
of knowing that, hey, we can
actually do something here,

00:35:34.050 --> 00:35:35.940
and it's worthwhile turning

00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:39.810
into a commodity or a livelihood

00:35:39.810 --> 00:35:44.073
or a life of something to make a living.

00:35:46.770 --> 00:35:51.150
When I was born, I was diagnosed with,

00:35:51.150 --> 00:35:52.980
it's called arthrogryposis.

00:35:52.980 --> 00:35:54.840
It's a very rare disease.

00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:57.510
It's only very few people in the world

00:35:57.510 --> 00:35:58.803
that actually have this.

00:35:59.670 --> 00:36:02.220
Doctors don't even really study about it,

00:36:02.220 --> 00:36:04.800
when they go to school
very, very little bit.

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.060
They don't really know anything.

00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:08.370
It's very hard to come by,

00:36:08.370 --> 00:36:11.563
to know anybody that
has anything like this.

00:36:11.563 --> 00:36:14.553
It's in the crippling arthritis family.

00:36:15.570 --> 00:36:19.380
When I was born, I had
very severe club feet,

00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:22.890
which means my feet were
basically upside down

00:36:22.890 --> 00:36:26.520
and my tendons in my arms

00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:30.210
and wrists are more like a
string, not like a rubber band.

00:36:30.210 --> 00:36:33.450
And they don't move,
so it's more contorted.

00:36:33.450 --> 00:36:36.570
It stays in that way.

00:36:36.570 --> 00:36:39.670
I've always done life differently

00:36:41.025 --> 00:36:42.150
and I had to adapt to it.

00:36:42.150 --> 00:36:45.030
Everything I did, I had to adapt to,

00:36:45.030 --> 00:36:47.370
to survive like anybody else.

00:36:47.370 --> 00:36:51.035
When I went to school, I just
used my pencil in my mouth

00:36:51.035 --> 00:36:55.500
and I did all my schoolwork
just like anybody else would.

00:36:55.500 --> 00:36:58.230
I also adapted a lot of
things over the years.

00:36:58.230 --> 00:37:01.560
Now that I'm older, for me to be able

00:37:01.560 --> 00:37:04.200
to do things like driving a car

00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:07.110
or even in my painting
world, I had to adapt things

00:37:07.110 --> 00:37:08.700
so that I can paint.

00:37:08.700 --> 00:37:10.080
Like I'll put the brush in my mouth

00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:12.795
or I might have to make
a little special tool

00:37:12.795 --> 00:37:15.270
that will help me to be able

00:37:15.270 --> 00:37:18.780
to do things like everybody else does.

00:37:18.780 --> 00:37:22.387
So over the years I've adapted
in a lot of different ways

00:37:22.387 --> 00:37:26.910
and it was, I guess you would
call it a survival thing.

00:37:26.910 --> 00:37:28.320
You know, just to keep up with,

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.620
you wanted to do what
everybody else does too.

00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:33.240
The process of my art

00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:35.520
over the years has changed quite a bit.

00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:38.820
I started out with watercolor

00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:42.993
and I've tried different
mediums in pencil sketches.

00:37:44.488 --> 00:37:46.980
Well, I tried mixed media, pen and ink

00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:49.680
and there was nothing like oil painting,

00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:52.260
when I tried oils for the first time.

00:37:52.260 --> 00:37:57.260
I could just tell oils was
a much better medium for me.

00:37:57.300 --> 00:38:00.330
So I've created some watercolors

00:38:00.330 --> 00:38:02.190
and some other things in the past,

00:38:02.190 --> 00:38:06.003
but oil is still what I prefer the best.

00:38:07.710 --> 00:38:12.710
Art to me is an expression of beauty.

00:38:15.240 --> 00:38:20.073
You can see things in a way
that other people cannot see

00:38:20.073 --> 00:38:25.073
and you can also express
things that cannot be expressed

00:38:25.274 --> 00:38:29.460
in any other form in any other way.

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:34.460
And yeah, art has always been
my way of expressing myself.

00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:37.410
Even if I need to modify something

00:38:37.410 --> 00:38:41.520
or need to show somebody how
to maybe help me do something,

00:38:41.520 --> 00:38:44.070
sometimes I'll make a
quick little drawing just

00:38:44.070 --> 00:38:47.610
to show them this is what's
in my mind, this is what I do,

00:38:47.610 --> 00:38:49.410
or this is how I think.

00:38:49.410 --> 00:38:52.800
And yeah, art's always been an inspiration

00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:56.738
for maybe I see a cloud or I see a color

00:38:56.738 --> 00:39:01.140
or I see an event

00:39:01.140 --> 00:39:06.140
and I can recreate what I
feel through those colors

00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.373
or through that experience.

00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:13.080
The company I work for is called the

00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:15.930
Mouth and Foot Painting
Artist Association.

00:39:15.930 --> 00:39:18.510
It's a group of handicapped artists.

00:39:18.510 --> 00:39:21.960
Everybody that works for this
association either paints

00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.240
with the mouth or their feet

00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:27.720
and that's the only people

00:39:27.720 --> 00:39:30.420
that are accepted into the association.

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:33.690
And they would take the
painting after I'm done,

00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:37.590
I'll ship it over to the
country of Lichtenstein,

00:39:37.590 --> 00:39:40.620
and there, they archive the artwork

00:39:40.620 --> 00:39:43.476
and use it throughout the world
in many different countries

00:39:43.476 --> 00:39:48.120
for, it could be a card,
it could be stationary,

00:39:48.120 --> 00:39:52.770
it could be gift wrap, it
could be a label on a bag

00:39:52.770 --> 00:39:55.710
or a wrapper of something.

00:39:55.710 --> 00:39:59.790
You never know what it will
be used for after that.

00:39:59.790 --> 00:40:02.250
And then when they're
done with the paintings,

00:40:02.250 --> 00:40:06.330
they send the paintings back
home to the original artist.

00:40:06.330 --> 00:40:08.790
And then I can either sell them

00:40:08.790 --> 00:40:12.318
or keep them or you
know, put 'em in a show,

00:40:12.318 --> 00:40:15.183
whatever I desire to do with
the painting after that.

00:40:17.010 --> 00:40:19.863
Living with a disability like this,

00:40:22.140 --> 00:40:23.970
it's just every day is a challenge,

00:40:23.970 --> 00:40:26.073
every day is something new.

00:40:27.750 --> 00:40:32.750
You just have to think different
than most of the people do.

00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:35.430
You can't just do things
like everybody else does.

00:40:35.430 --> 00:40:37.440
You have to be very creative,

00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.723
especially if you wanna succeed in life.

00:40:41.640 --> 00:40:44.670
Like when I go away in the winter

00:40:44.670 --> 00:40:48.000
and I'm by myself, I have to
go there without a coat on

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.910
or have to find somebody
when I get there to ask them

00:40:50.910 --> 00:40:53.670
to take my coat off
because I can't do that.

00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:55.036
So either you run from the car

00:40:55.036 --> 00:40:57.739
to the house or whatever, cold

00:40:57.739 --> 00:41:00.315
or you know, you have
to try to find somebody,

00:41:00.315 --> 00:41:04.380
which is fine, but if
it's a public event it's

00:41:04.380 --> 00:41:07.050
not exactly the most
enjoyable thing, walking up

00:41:07.050 --> 00:41:08.700
to a stranger and saying,
hey, can you do this

00:41:08.700 --> 00:41:09.810
or that for you.

00:41:09.810 --> 00:41:11.940
They're like, "What's
wrong with you?," you know?

00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:15.540
So there's always challenges like that.

00:41:15.540 --> 00:41:18.240
I can't feed myself,
but I won't go hungry.

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:20.943
Don't worry, I can
always find another way.

00:41:22.380 --> 00:41:26.100
So yeah, there's always new
things every day that come along

00:41:26.100 --> 00:41:29.400
where you have to just be creative in life

00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:32.553
and just do something different
than the normal person.

00:41:33.660 --> 00:41:37.803
But it's just part of the
way it is in life like this.

00:41:57.150 --> 00:42:00.494
[Malcolm Speaks]- My favorite
movie is "The Lion King."

00:42:09.690 --> 00:42:14.493
I love to see movies and my
favorite place is Disneyland.

00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:33.333
I also love Christmas movies.

00:42:45.568 --> 00:42:49.568
I don't like getting up
early or having to rush.

00:43:10.830 --> 00:43:12.030
[Maria]- That was okay?
[Malcolm]- Yes.