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Hey Evan, yep count to ten.

That's my friend Evan. Evan mead. This tape is from my couple of summers ago.

Evan's in his bedroom at his parents house in a neighborhood just north of Toronto. He's getting ready to move out and live on his own for the first time. And I'm there too.

Ellie are you watching a monitor of everything you see?

Ellie, that's Evan's nickname for me. Evan is pretty much the only person aside from my dad who calls me Ellie.

My name is Ellen Chloe Bateman. I'm a documentary filmmaker. I've been telling stories about finding self acceptance and the face of adversity for a long time.

Now I was making a documentary with Evan.

I put some of my courts in here too.

Evan, want to keep saying that again. I just say that it's moving day.

Yeah. It's moving day.

I'm standing in Evan's bedroom along with a small film crew and we're filming Evan packing.

He's tall. He's handsome. And he lights up a room. He's also autistic. He has aspergers.

We're going to debunk all these stigmas and say here's where your hope comes in. This is your spark of hope.

This is hope for anyone who wants to be not just people with autism or aspergers. This is hope for anyone who thinks that love is just a fairies hell.

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