Best and Most Beautiful Things

"Not your average outcast."

Off a dirt road in rural Maine, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for connection, Michelle explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative fringe community. Will she take the leap to experience the wide world for herself? Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery celebrates outcasts everywhere.

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Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

2015

Life, Animated

Life, Animated

2016

You Have No Idea

You Have No Idea

2023

9 Lives: Tales from the Cat Show

2018

How the Titanic became my lifeboat

How the Titanic became my lifeboat

2021

Against the Tides

Against the Tides

2018

The Limits of My World

The Limits of My World

2019

A Is for Autism

1992

The Autism Puzzle

2003

This Business of Autism

This Business of Autism

2018

This Is Not About Me

This Is Not About Me

2022

Kin

Kin

2023

The Special Need

The Special Need

2014

The Assembly

The Assembly

2024

La mente en blanco

La mente en blanco

2025

Pine State Phantoms

Pine State Phantoms

2020

From the Heart

From the Heart

Two Trees

Two Trees

2024

The Forest and The Sea

The Forest and The Sea

2024