I've always wanted to know what it would be like to be able to "speak" with my autistic cousin. To understand his thoughts, his wants, his frustrations. Then I met the Tran family, who had that opportunity with their son through the practice of typing. Combined with my lived experience of caring for my cousin and this moving story of giving a young man with autism his voice, I wanted to tell this story of freedom to give agency, perspective, and reality to the world about individuals like my cousin, who plays the main character in The Rescue.