Charlie opdager ved sin fars død, at han ikke skal arve familieformuen. Overraskelsen bliver ikke mindre, da det viser sig, at arven går til en hidtil ukendt storebror, som oven i købet er autist. Charlie bortfører resolut sin autistiske bror for at få de penge, der tilkommer ham, men mødet med den ukendte bror bringer minder frem, og Charlie undergår en forvandling.

I Australien sidder den otteårige Mary, og hun har det ikke sjovt. Hendes far udstopper dyr i garagen, mens mor svinger sherryflasken i køkkenet. I skolen tisser de andre børn på hendes madpakke, og lærerinden skælder ud, fordi Mary aldrig smiler. Men så er det jo heldigt, at hun finder på at blive penneven med en tilfældig amerikaner. Max sidder i New York og er en lige så utilpasset, midaldrende jøde med vægtproblemer.

FBI-agent Art Jeffries er på spanden efter en gidselsituation, der gik galt. På en rutineopgave finder han en skrækslagen niårig dreng, Simon, hvis forældre er blevet myrdet af agenter fra National Security Agency. De er egentlig på jagt efter Simon, der er autist og ved et tilfælde har brudt NSA's nye og ellers ubrydelige, hemmelige kode, kaldt 'Mercury'. Jeffries redder ham, og snart er de to på hæsblæsende flugt, efterstræbt af politiet, FBI og NSA.

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.

Kærlighed kan være forvirrende og fyldt med fare for miskommunikation - hvis altså ikke du er Adam. For ham er livet altid sådan. Han er en flot, men uinteressant ung mand, som hele sit liv har levet en beskyttet tilværelse - indtil han møder sin nye nabo, den smukke Beth, som rusker op i hans hverdag med sjove, rørende og helt uventede resultater. Deres utrolige og gådefulde forhold afslører, hvor langt to personer fra hver sin virkelighed kan strække sig i deres søgen efter en ekstraordinær sammenhæng.

Efter den 9/11 føler indiske Khan sig stemplet som terrorrist pga. sin muslimske baggrund. Han beslutter sig for at tale med den amerikanske præsident om misforståelsen, men i lufthavnen er de knapt så forstående for hans ærinde i USA.

Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family.

Den 11-årige Oskar mistede sin far under terrorangrebet den 11. september 2001. Da den intelligente, men også sarte dreng finder en gådefuld nøgle, som han mener, vil kunne kaste lys over sin fars død, begiver Oskar sig ud på en hemmelig søgen i New York. På sin rejse møder han et broget udvalg af mennesker, der alle hjælper ham med at komme sig over det hjerteskærende tab.

Ben er anderledes. Han er autist og diagnosticeret med Aspergers syndrom. Ben mæler næsten aldrig et ord, og moderen har næsten opgivet over for lægernes seneste diagnoser, som ikke bringer nyt til en besværet dagligdag, hvor hun også skal sørge for Bens lillebror. I skolen betragtes Ben som Frankensteins uhyre eller en fyr fra en anden planet, og han mobbes jævnligt af klassekammeraterne.. En dag, hvor eleverne er alene i klasselokalet, får kammeraterne Ben til at trække bukserne ned, mens han står på et bord, og alle tager billeder med deres mobiltelefoner. Siden cirkulerer billederne, men Ben skammer sig og vil ikke fortælle hverken skolen eller sin mor, hvad der er sket. I stedet for planlægger han stille og roligt sin helt egen specielle hævn over dem alle sammen.

Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving Simon with having to find a new, perfect, girlfriend for his brother.

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.

Terminally ill Anna returns to Oregon to reconnect with her estranged brother while simultaneously making the heart-wrenching choice to end her life putting to use the Death with Dignity Act.

A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.

Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.

This is the fascinating story of the only identical twin autistic savant sisters known to exist. Over 50 years time, Flo and Kay have literally memorized the world around them. They never forget a date or a song, what they ate or the weather on any given day. Like the Dustin Hoffman character in the movie Rainman, their lives are riveting. You'll never forget them. They'll never forget you.

The story of Danny, a girl with Asperger's Syndrome, and Pete a circus performer. Pete enters Danny's life as a catalyst for transformation. With a Black and white selective vision, Danny fights the over protection of her mother, encouraged by the new feelings that this new character has provoke in her. Using Pete as an excuse Danny screams to her mother: 'Let Me Walk My Life', and by doing so, she manages to shift her own perception just enough, to be able to perceive some color to her life.

A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.

Devoted teenage boyfriend Marshall worries his girlfriend Iris, who has Asperger's Syndrome might be losing her grip on reality when she tells him she sees another world.

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.