The Boy Inside

An award-winning filmmaker turns the camera on her 12-year-old son Adam in this powerful documentary about growing up with autism. Adam has Asperger Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism characterized by socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior. Unable to socialize normally with his classmates, school is a nightmare for Adam. He is regularly excluded or bullied, and left his last school after a boy pulled a knife on him. A rare and intimate portrait of an increasingly common form of autism, The Boy Inside follows Adam's dramatic family life as he struggles against the odds to graduate elementary school and make sense of bullies, girls and life in the real world.