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>> i'm peter pan, and you're captain hook. >> oh, no! and it was really a glimpse of a life that would soon change and vanish. >> reporter: ron and cornelia suskind are journalists raising two boys, 5-year-old walt and his younger brother owen. >> say night-night. >> night-night. >> in the early days, we lived on -- what we now look back and call the continent normal. >> it was just perfect. owen was easy as pie. just gentle, happy. he was interacting, speaking completely normally. you know, "this is my crib. this is walter's big boy bed." >> i still can't watch it. >> you still can't watch it. >> he had a few hundred words, usual 2 1/2-year-old vocabulary. he could say what he wanted, "i love you. let's get ice cream. where are my ninja turtles?" >> reporter: then, three months after the backyard sword fight, a sudden and seismic shift. owen's words begin disappearing at an alarming rate. >> cornelia says, "something isn't right with owen." she says, "he's not talking." and i'm noticing it, too. and then she says he won't look at you. >> and i actually thought that he was having a hearing issue, because you'd say, "owen," and he wouldn't turn and look at you. >> reporter: in their home movies, you see he's disconnected. >> his motor skills seem to have gone haywire. you know, he's walking around like someone with their eyes closed. it doesn't make sense. kids don't grow backwards. >> reporter: worried, they take owen to a specialist. >> i remember holding him in a bear hug and just thinking, you know, i'm just going to hold you so tight. and love you so much that whatev aw away. >> and then the doctor sits us down and says let me explain this to you. this is called autism. >> we didn't hear anything she said. after she said that word. we couldn't possibly comprehend this could be owen and this could be his future. >> we're looking at that video like we're looking for clues to a kidnapping. >> where did he go? >> you feel like you have lost your child. when you can't get them to smile when you say something or to respond when you say i love you, that doesn't leave you with a lot. >> what is this? owen? >> for the next year intensive speech and language therapy becomes owen's full time world but he remains silent. >> those words were down to a single word, juice. one word. >> cornelia thinks he wants more juicer. he wants more juice. doesn't want the juice. >> owen had always enjoyed disney movies like "the lion king". ♪ no worries for the rest of your days ♪ >> but now they're his only comfort. >> he would calm down during the movies so that was our little refuge. that was really the only time we would be together. >> i want to be where the people are. >> then one day during a family viewing of the little mermaid a movie they watched over and over again a revelation. owen's repetition of the word juice suddenly makes sense. >> it's the moment where aerial realizes she needs to become human. >> can you do that? >> and she makes her deal with the sea witch. and she says it won't cost you much, just your voice and owen rewinds. >> just your voice. >> fourth she says it's not juice. it's not juice, it's just. >> i thought that's what he's saying. he's saying just your voice. >> my god. just your voice! and he says juicer, juicer. and it's the first time he looks at me in a year. and starts jumping on the bed, owen is talking again and cornelia begins to cry saying he's still there. >> ron is convinced his vanished boy is re-emerging. >> we go to the doctor the next day and he's like you're probably not going to like this, have a sit. we call this echolalia. like a parrot? he's like kind of. >> the doctor over the next three years, owen barley speaks and defies the medical it's walter's ninth birthday. owen is 6. >> we were cleaning up and owen was down in the dumps. >> owen says walter doesn't want to grow up like peter pan. and off he runs. it was like a thunder bolt want through the kitchen. what just happened? 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"hercules" for not giving up. >> you've got to swear to be safe from any harm. >> "jungle book" for making friends. "pinocchio" for what it feels like to be a real boy. >> you are a real boy! >> reporter: owen is at a school for children with learning disabilities. his language skills are improving. >> what is it, "o"? >> it's a game. >> yeah. >> reporter: and soon, his art uttering that first sentence at walt's party, owen's spending hours immersed in animation in a new way -- drawing. when ron stumbles upon his sketchpad, he begins to understand owen's view of himself. >> as you flip through the pages, i see there's 100 sidekicks. no heroes. the last two pages, he writes two things. "i am the protector of the sidekicks." and on the last page, he writes, "no sidekick gets left behind." >> reporter: and for every sidekick, there is a hero. for owen, it's his brother walt. student body president, on the football team, and popular. >> like any big brother, you want to be his protector, you want to be his role model. >> reporter: walt's rites of passage become a roadmap for owen. when walt celebrates his bar mitzvah, owen takes notice. >> and as the age approached, owen said, "when is my bar mitzvah?" i never thought, "okay, walter's having a bar mitzvah. owen will have a bar mitzvah." >> reporter: it would be a life-changing event. the years of therapy, disney movies and otherwise, have paid off. owen wrote the sermon himself. >> sometimes, people are scared of people who are not like them. they can be mean and ignore them sometimes. we should never take advantage of another person's weakness. >> i would say that owen's bar mitzvah day was the proudest day of his life. >> god gave me strength, courage and a big heart. >> he was bursting. just blew everybody away. >> look at all the faces beaming with you. take that snapshot with you every day from now on. >> let's hear it for the star of the show! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the message of acceptance that owen has shared with his temple, he wants to share with the world. >> he said to us, "i really want people to know what people like me with autism are, that we're just like them." >> reporter: by now, ron has written five bestselling books about education, politics, the economy, but now he decides to share the story of owen in a book he calls "life animated." then, academy award-winning filmmaker roger ross williams takes notice. >> i really wanted to tell the story of the outsiders. and i really wanted to tell the story of people like owen who people look past. >> reporter: next, meet grown-up owen today. >> my name is owen suskind. >> reporter: living it up with his disney heroes. and finding love. stay with us. connecting with my friends. love it. connecting with some sketchy guy from a blocked number saying he's with a tech company that needs remote access to my computer to block a virus he detected?! really? hey we hear you. that's why aarp created the fraud watch network. to help you protect your family with information on the latest scams, so you can spot fraud from a mile away. if you don't think "this is right for me" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp". get to know us at aarp.org/possibilities. are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec® it's starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. coppertone sport versus the sun. coppertone sport stays on strong when you sweat and is strong enough to stop up to 98% of the sun's damaging uv rays. coppertone. because protection matters. the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if you've ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. tell your doctor if you've ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. ready to let go of hep c? ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. 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[ phone ringing ] >> hi, honey! >> mom? >> yes, sweetie? >> why is life so full of unfair pain and tragedy? >> owen, it's just the way life is. that's the way life has always been and will always be. we have incredibly joyous times, and relaxing times, but we also have sad times and painful times. >> but it's not fair. >> i know, honey. so much things that happen in life aren't fair, so many things. >> reporter: the young man who ran the disney club is now a member of a much bigger club. the broken heart society. and it hurts. >> boy loses girl, boy gets girl back in the end. >> you'll find another girl. >> but i, i, i -- this is driving me crazy. why did this have to happen to make my life sad forever? >> reporter: in the film we see him putting pencil to paper. >> in the land of the lost. evil powers are to blow fog into people's head. make the world look like a weird place to them and make them look sad. >> reporter: once again, illustrations and animations help owen to navigate his way thru a rough reality. and today, the documentary team is following him as he's about to meet some of the legends whose famous characters opened up his world. eric goldberg, lead animator for "genie" in "aladdin," guides the way. down this hallowed hall are some of disney's finest animators. >> owen knows everything they've ever done, every character they worked on. r hero's welcome from the team. >> the disney animators are just giddy. they're like, "owen knows our work better than we do." >> he's an artist, as good as many. he can sit down and draw most of the characters better than i can. >> and that's what they love about him. like, look what he's doing there. that's a little more vivid. and so that's -- that's owen's life. and we hope, and he hopes, that someday that'll be a part of what he does. >> reporter: but until that day comes, owen suskind is on the clock just like the rest of us. 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"20/20" continues with finding owen. once again deborah roberts. >> reporter: it's the last place the suskinds expected to find themselves -- the red carpet. their film premiered last year and was nominated for best documentary feature. >> what's it feel like? >> heaven. >> reporter: the film's success has brought owen to genings around the country. and the world. a magic carpet of movies and the documentary carrying owen farther into the world than his family ever dreamed. >> the way people see those with autism since they don't want to be around other people, that's wrong. >> the owen effect is extraordinary. people are in tears, they're screaming out his name. he relishes his place in the spotlight. >> reporter: sometimes, he's front and center with notable friends from the animated world. his old pal, gilbert gottfried. >> you marry the princess and then you become the sultan? >> i become sultan? the idea has merit. >> he actually knows it better than i do. >> reporter: and paige o'hara, the voice of belle from "beauty and the beast," here at the virginia film festival. >> i just want to give you a hug. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. >> you are so wonderful. >> thanks. >> reporter: oscar winning composer of "little mermaid" and many other classics, alan menken, happy to simply accompany his friend on the keyboard. ♪ under the sea [ cheers and applause ] people to learn about you, owen, and your life, by watching the film? what do you hope other people will learn? >> will understand me. >> reporter: understand what? >> understand my way in the world. >> how many people here like disney, show of hands. >> i love disney! >> reporter: at uva, owen and his dad meet with students studying autism, and a few nonverbal people with autism from the community. >> it's great to meet you. what's your name? >> i'm ron. >> reporter: using a letter board, a student joins owen's quest to not be forgotten. >> i'm inspired to know new friends and advocates. >> i'm glad to be your new friend, juan. >> we feel that no autistic should be left behind. let's hear it for that. >> that's something that everybody wants. and owen says that as so many of the spectrum kids i talk to and adults say it. i want to be out there. life you're living or the one you want. so that was always our challenge. >> reporter: it's become their mission, bringing awareness to people who are all too often overlooked. >> cornelia and i would say to each other, who decides what the meaningful life is? because i can't count the number of times when people would look at our son and say, that's not a meaningful life. who decides that? who decides the meaningful life is? he's asked that now. he says, "i do. and this life i live is meaningful. let me show you how." >> reporter: while there's no cure. ron says there may be a way to reach people with autism. through their obsessions or affinities. >> then we saw their many affinities. the kids were harry potter kids and "star wars" kids. >> dinosaur kids. i know a boy obsessed with that. ron's technology looking at they can open the door to communication for other children silenced by autism using movies as a launching pad to spark conversation. >> yeah, i do. >> had you ever been afraid to be alone? >> sometimes. >> why? >> because i'm -- because i have low self-esteem and autism. >> autism researcher kristin with harvard medical school and massachusetts general hospital is studying this theory, that affinities can be therapy. >> if it works for families and if families have experience that it's positive, who are we as professionals to really not want to look into that and not want to explore it? is. >> can you look at the teaser trailer? >> no such thing as perfection. autism is not something to be fixed, it's just the idea of recognizing the joy in your child. and respecting your child for who they are. and for what they're interests and talents and passions are. >> every mother's dream for her child and how appropriate this mother's day weekend. owen is now 26 years old, still working at the movie theater and hoping to find that girl of his dreams. the film about him life animated is available now on itunes, amazon and on demand. thanks for watching. i'm deborah roberts. for all of us here at abc news and "20/20," good night and have a great mother's day. kimberly: lost in the line of duty, five officers in our area among those honored at an emotional vigil. d.c. police officers rushing to a call. rqo cruisers collide -- two cruisers collide. and finding the kill switch. stopoung men who helped the ransom ware attack that affected over 100 countries. >> now, abc 7 news come on your side. kimberly: good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm kimberly suiters. mother nature is dialing up a beautiful and cool mother's day. we get the first forecast with molly cochran. molly: starting tomorrow we are tracking a warm-up.