Abstract: In a sequence of black and white animated drawings, the voice-over of a little girl tells in a simple and cheerful way her experience with having a younger brother affected by autism.

Details: The voice-over of a little girl accompanies a sequence of black-and-white animated drawings that depict the story of how a little girl acknowledges her younger brother’s condition as an autistic child. Her innocent and spontaneous voice conveys the simplicity in which she experiences having a younger brother with autism, her efforts to understand him, and to build a relationship with him. She starts by describing him as a baby and having regular behaviours like every other baby: he ate, cried, and did not sleep much at night. Once he grew, though, he was almost isolated from the rest of the world. In fact, the drawings depict him as surrounded by a white circle that separates him from the black background and from his sister. She says that she tries to make him laugh, but he does not react. He just keeps looking upwards, “towards the sky”. She makes a list of some situations, such as loud noises or activities he does not like, that trigger a bad reaction in him and comments that when it happens, it is not fun. She also says that their parents need to carefully cut his hair when he sleeps to not make him mad that sometimes he moves his arms as if he wanted to fly, while people on the street give him a weird look. She says that he went to a lot of doctors and that their parents say that he is not like everyone else, and that is why she likes him. Because of his “strange behaviours,” she describes her brother as “coming from the moon,” even though she knows he was born on Earth. The first clue is that he likes rounded and shiny objects. In fact, the only time in which he does not look up is when he sees a manhole on the street. He also only likes to crawl up the stairs, not to descend them. She reveals that she would like to be a fairy to make everything he wants come true and to take him down from the moon to the earth. She also reveals that she invented a special language to communicate with him, play with him and make him laugh. The end scene shows them both running around and laughing, surrounded by a bigger white circle that she managed to enter. In the end, she hums a song while a text written by an adult speaks metaphorically about the “child from the moon” and wonders about what the right way is to approach him.