ALAN: Here's some more paper, guys.
ELMO: Oh thanks, Alan.
ABBY: Thanks, Alan.
ALAN: You're welcome.
ELMO: OK, just a little more green.
ALAN: Oh, it's nice.
ELMO: Thank you.
ALAN: Oh.
Hey, welcome to Sesame Street.
ELMO: Oh, hi.
ALAN: We are having some fun with finger paints.
BIG BIRD: Oh.
Hi, guys.
Hi, Elmo.
Hi, Abby.
ELMO: Hi, Big Bird.
BIG BIRD: Hi, Alan.
ALAN: Hey.
BIG BIRD: Who's this?
ELMO: Oh, this is our friend Julia.
BIG BIRD: Oh.
Hi, Julia.
I'm Big Bird.
Nice to meet you.
Oh.
Julia?
ALAN: Julia's just concentrating on her painting right now.
You guys, you're all doing a great job.
ABBY: Thank you.
ELMO: Thank you, Alan.
[INAUDIBLE] Elmo loves finger painting.
ABBY: Yeah, me too.
I love the way the paint squishes in my fingers.
JULIA: Ew.
ABBY: Oh.
You're right.
I'm sorry, Julia.
I know you don't like the way it feels.
ALAN: And that's why a paint brush works for you.
There's lots of ways to paint.
ELMO: OK, and there.
Elmo's all done.
ABBY: Yep.
So am I!
BIG BIRD: Oh, can I see what you all painted?
ELMO: Oh, sure thing.
ALAN: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait you guys.
Here.
Wipe your hands off first.
ABBY: Oh, right.
Right.
ALAN: And I will show him.
Take a look.
BIG BIRD: Whoa.
Those are both really great.
ELMO: Oh, thank you Big Bird.
ABBY: Thank you.
BIG BIRD: May I see your painting Julia?
Julia?
ALAN: Sometimes it takes Julia a while to answer.
It helps to ask again.
Julia?
Can Big Bird see your painting?
JULIA: See your painting?
Yes.
ALAN: OK.
Oh, all right.
Take a look at this everybody.
ELMO: Oh.
BIG BIRD: Whoa
ELMO: Wow.
A flying bunny.
Cool.
JULIA: Fluffster.
ELMO: Oh, yeah.
That looks just like your bunny, Fluffster.
ABBY: I love it.
Ooh, it's so fun and silly.
Julia, you're so creative.
JULIA: [GIGGLING]
BIG BIRD: Yeah.
You're really good at painting.
High five, Julia.
Huh?
High five?
Oh, Alan.
I don't think Julia likes me very much.
ALAN: Oh, no.
You two are just meeting for the first time.
BIG BIRD: Oh.
So she's shy.
Oh, I get that.
I can feel shy sometimes, too.
ALAN: Well, with Julia, it's not just that.
You see, she has autism.
She likes it when people know that.
BIG BIRD: Autism?
What's autism?
ALAN: Well, for Julia, it means that she might not
answer you right away.
ELMO: Yeah.
Julia doesn't say a lot.
ALAN: That's right.
And she may not do what you expect,
like give you a high five.
ABBY: Yeah.
She does things just a little differently in a Julia sort
of way.
BIG BIRD: Oh, OK.
ABBY: And she's a lot of fun.
ELMO: Yeah.
Julia likes being with her friends.
Oh, and she loves to play, too.
JULIA: Play, play, play.
[LAUGHING]
ABBY: You want play now, Julia?
JULIA: Play, play, play.
ELMO: OK.
We can all play together.
ALAN: Hey, that's a great idea.
BIG BIRD: Oh, me too.
Can I play?
ELMO: Sure, Big Bird.
ABBY: Sure thing.
OK, so what should we play?
BIG BIRD: How about tag?
JULIA: [GIGGLING]
ALAN: I think that's a yes.
ABBY: Oh, Julia.
You're bouncing like a rubber ball.
Boing, boing, boing.
ELMO: Boing, boing, boing.
JULIA: Boing, boing, boing.
[LAUGHING]
ELMO: OK, Julia.
One more thing.
Tag, you're it.
[GIGGLING]
BIG BIRD: Wait.
What's Julia's doing?
ALAN: Well, it looks like she's playing tag while jumping.
BIG BIRD: I've never seen tag played like that.
ALAN: Well, Julia does do some things a little differently.
BIG BIRD: Oh, because of her autism?
ALAN: Sometimes people with autism
may do things that might seem confusing to you.
BIG BIRD: Oh.
Like when she flaps her hands?
ALAN: Yep.
That's just something she does when she's excited.
But you know what?
Julia also does some things that you might want to try.
ELMO: Boing, boing, boing, boing.
This is fun, Julia.
ABBY: Hey, it's a whole new game.
It's boing tag.
JULIA: Boing, boing, boing, boing.
ABBY: Now I'm it!
I'm gonna get you.
BIG BIRD: Oh, it does look like a fun way to play.
ALAN: That's right.
It doesn't matter how they play, they're just
a bunch of friends having fun.
BIG BIRD: Huh.
You know, I think I'd like to be a friend of Julia, too.
ALAN: All right, well then go on.
Join in.
ABBY: Boing, boing, boing, boing.
Tag, you're it, Big Bird.
BIG BIRD: Oh, OK.
BOTH: Boing, boing, boing, boing.
BIG BIRD: Boing, boing, boing.
Boing, boing, boing, boing.
This is a new way of playing, Alan, but I like it.
ALAN: That's good!
ALL: Boing, boing, boing.
[SIRENS]
ALAN: Oh, what's the matter, Julia?
JULIA: Noise.
ALAN: Noise?
JULIA: Noise, noise.
ALAN: The sirens are bothering you?
JULIA: Noise, noise, noise.
ELMO: It's OK, Julia.
BIG BIRD: Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
Tag, you're it, Julia.
JULIA: No.
No.
ALAN: Hey.
JULIA: No.
No.
ALAN: Julia, let's take a break, OK?
JULIA: Break.
ALAN: Here's-- I've got Fluffster, all right?
Come on.
JULIA: Break.
ALAN: Come on.
JULIA: Break.
ELMO: Come on, Abby.
ABBY: Big Bird.
BIG BIRD: I didn't--
I didn't mean to upset Julia.
ABBY: Oh, it's not your fault, Big Bird.
Julia didn't like the siren.
BIG BIRD: The siren?
It wasn't that loud.
ELMO: Oh.
Well, it was to Julia.
ABBY: Yeah.
Her ears are really sensitive, so some sounds
are just too much for her.
BIG BIRD: Gee.
I hope she's going to be OK.
ABBY: Oh, she will.
ELMO: Oh, yeah.
Julia just needs a break sometimes.
She'll come back to play soon.
BIG BIRD: I sure hope so.
ALAN: I can see why this is your favorite spot, Julia.
It's so quiet up here.
Lots of pretty flowers.
It's very calming
JULIA: [CRYING] Fluffster.
ALAN: Yeah.
I know that Fluffster helps you feel calm, too.
JULIA: [WHIMPERING]
ALAN: Hey, why don't we do some of your deep breathing, OK?
Let's try it, all right?
Remember, take a big belly breath in slowly.
And slowly in, slowly out.
Feeling a little better?
JULIA: Better.
ALAN: Good.
I love this view.
Look at Sesame Street.
Everything seems different from up here, doesn't it?
JULIA: [GIGGLING]
ALAN: What's so funny?
What do you see?
JULIA: Big Bird.
[GIGGLING]
ALAN: Yeah.
Yeah, that's your new friend Big Bird.
JULIA: [GIGGLING] Big Bird.
ALAN: Oh, but he looks like a small bird from up here, right?
BOTH: [GIGGLING]
ABBY: You OK, Big Bird?
ELMO: Yeah, what you doing?
BIG BIRD: Oh, I'm just thinking about Julia.
You know, she's not like any friend I've ever had before.
ELMO: Yeah.
But-- well, none of us are exactly the same.
ABBY: Yeah, that's right.
I mean, you're a bird, Elmo's a Monster, and I'm a fairy.
We're all different.
BIG BIRD: Yeah, I guess that's true.
All my friends are different.
Each one is unique.
ALAN: Look who's feeling better.
ALL: Julia!
JULIA: Big Bird.
BIG BIRD: For me?
Oh.
Gee, thanks, Julia.
Oh, that's really kind of you.
JULIA: [LAUGHING]
BIG BIRD: You know, we have something we both like to do.
I like to flap, too.
It's a bird thing, I guess.
Watch.
Flap, flap, flap.
ALL: [LAUGHING]
BIG BIRD: Yeah, and I know that we both like to play.
JULIA: Play, play, play.
BIG BIRD: Oh, sure.
We can play some more.
ABBY: Oh, oh.
Can I play with you guys?
ELMO: Oh, Elmo too?
BIG BIRD: Well, of course.
We can all be friends.
ABBY: Yeah.
BIG BIRD: [SINGING] We all have our own special things that
make us who we are.
ELMO: [SINGING] And everyone's important.
ABBY: [SINGING] We can all shine like a star.
ALAN: [SINGING] Yeah, we may all be different,
but that's something that's worth praising.
BOTH: [SINGING] It's who we are and what we
do that makes us each amazing.
ALL: [SINGING] We can all be friends.
We can all be friends.
BIG BIRD: [SINGING] It feels a little better when we all
play together.
JULIA: [SINGING] We can all be friends.
ELMO: Oh, there's another thing you have in common, Big Bird.
Julia loves to sing.
BIG BIRD: Oh, yeah.
ALL: [SINGING] We can call be friends.
We can all be friends.
It feels a little better when we all play together.
We can all be friends.
BIG BIRD: Let's play tag.
JULIA: Boing, boing, boing, boing.
ABBY: Boing tag.
ELMO: Yeah, boing tag.
BIG BIRD: Yeah, boing tag.
ALL: Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
Boing.
[MUSIC PLAYING]