Best and Most Beautiful Things

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You gonna light this candle?

Don't you

think lighting a candle

is kind of cliche?

What do you mean?

Everyone does that in movies.

"Concentrate on the candle.

Concentrate

on the flame."

It's works.

Really?

Have a candle.

I feel it's getting warmer.

Is this my imagination?

No, honey.

It's not... it's not lit.

I can't see anything.

I'll help you.

I'll talk you through it, OK?

- OK. - So here's the match...

- Oh, OK.

And the matchbox comes

with a striker on the side.

It... it's scary.

Yeah.

You just do this like that

and light on fire...

and harder.

I'm afraid of it.

Why are you afraid of it?

Because I'm afraid of fire.

Now hold on to the candle

with the other hand,

almost there, and you'll

see when it lights.

Up a little bit higher.

Now just keep it right there.

Keep your... keep your

match right there.

It'll light that on fire.

It's getting shorter

and shorter.

Yeah. Good.

Good. See?

When can I blow it out?

Want to blow it out now?

Daria, on computer:

I can't believe you're trying

to bribe me with singles.

Sweetie, it's not a bribe.

It's a deal. Honestly...

Oh, my God,

did I really just say that?

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I have the cutest,

little pores, don't I?

You really do.

I wish I had pores

like yours, Daria.

Michelle, voice-over: It's...

it's a freaking genius show.

It's a show about outcasts

that tells you

it's OK to be an outcast.

Make lots of noise

Kiss lots of boys

Or kiss lots of girls if

that's something you're into

When the...

Michelle, voice-over:

I've always felt

like I was not normal,

like I did not fit in.

First of all,

I am legally blind.

I cannot see your face

from this distance at all

unless I'm literally

almost nose to nose with you.

I forget that the camera's

over here, not up there. Ha ha!

Oh, crap.

Michelle, voice-over:

I have something called

Asperger syndrome,

otherwise known

as high-functioning autism.

It's that I get very obsessed

with things in my head,

and, um, like, it takes over

my brain, basically.

I'm a little surprised, Daria.

That makes two of us.

I didn't figure you to believe

in all that

mumbo-gumbo.

Gee...

I hope this

won't lower your opinion of me.

Ha ha ha!

La la la la la...

Michelle, voice-over: Basically,

my childhood, it was mostly

things that were...

quote, unquote... "normal"

for little girls to like,

but I liked them in the extreme.

Hello, Mumsy.

Hey, honey.

Um, smells like sandwiches.

Yeah. It's roast

beef and salami...

Ooh, yummy.

And... yes,

and tomatoes.

Michelle, voice-over: Nowadays,

I feel like I need to have

some tangible success

in my life.

What about, uh, banana peppers?

Top shelf on the right.

Oh.

Michelle, voice-over:

When I get up in the morning,

pour myself a cup of coffee

and think,

"OK. I'm going to work,"

and when I come home

in a evening, feel like I've...

you know, I've had a...

you know, a long,

fulfilling day

and I'm earning my money,

that... that feeling

that all kids want,

which is to be an adult.

Woman, voice-over:

Michelle was a very good baby.

She didn't cry a lot.

She did a lot of looking around,

and we didn't...

we didn't know until

she was 3 months old

that she even had

a vision problem.

Michelle, voice-over:

When I was in kindergarten,

my parents said, "If the kids

laugh at you, just ignore them,"

and I was thinking,

"Why would they laugh at me?"

Pick up the pace.

Well, this is an exciting day.

Huh huh!

What are you gonna do today?

I don't know, but

I'm a little nervous.

You are?

Yeah.

How are the first day of school?

Going back is a little

nervous, isn't it?

Yeah...

especially in fifth grade

because fifth grade...

Pump up...

Pump up the volume,

pump up volume

Pump up the volume,

dance, dance, dance

Ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Michelle, voice-over: I was

never popular in public school.

The kids'd literally be like,

"Ew, there's Michelle.

We're gonna catch her disease,"

and then just, like, run away.

That was probably the worst,

um, because I couldn't

see the faces people made,

but I could hear the words,

and that... that hurt the most.

I wasn't angry at them.

I didn't want to go punch them,

but it felt like emptiness.

Woman, on computer:

Hey, guys, it's Nik here,

and, as requested,

I'll be doing...

Michelle, voice-over:

When I'm on the computer,

I can see things,

for the most part,

the way the sighted world

see things,

and people talk to me online,

a lot of times,

they don't even know

that I'm blind,

and so I feel like it...

it equalizes me,

but then when I leave the house

and... and go out into the world,

it's not like that.

Hey, Mom, do you know what

happened to my backpack?

No.

Ohh...

Ohh...

uh...

Ohh!

Uh, can't find it, like, at all.

Wonderful. I didn't...

haven't gone anywhere.

I didn't left...

left the house.

No. I don't

see it anywhere.

Yeah. Yeah. I know.

Ohh...

You didn't go...

No.

I didn't go anywhere

for, like, a week.

I don't know what to do.

It isn't anywhere.

It's just nowhere.

Ohh...

This is my life.

Oh, why are you guys

still filming me?

I mean, there are

less than 4 things

I could think of

that could've happened.

And so what?

There it is.

Oh, my God.

I found it, and I'm so sorry

that I freaked out at you guys.

Michelle, voice-over: I want

to see all aspects of life.

Just because I'm legally blind

doesn't mean I have to miss out

on what the world has to offer.

This is Picture Day

Abbey Bominable.

Abbey Bominable is the daughter

of the Yeti,

and she's, like,

my favorite character

because she's really blunt,

plus she has a cool accent,

so 7, 6, and 4,

then 4, then two.

Michelle, voice-over: I want

to experience, you know, like,

working and... and romance

and partying and all that stuff,

going to bars, going to museums.

20, 21, 22, 23...

23 dolls.

Yay. I'm in doll heaven.

Michelle, voice-over: I'm ready

for the uncensored world...

you know what I mean?

Even the good, bad,

and the ugly...

so I went and got a job,

uh, working for this woman

and a, um... a post office,

and every Wednesday and Friday,

I would come in

and wash my hands and say,

"What do you want me to do?"

and I would do it.

I would do it to the best

of my abilities,

and sometimes I would get

a little nervous

and a little bit, "Oh, I feel

like I'm not doing this right."

I did all these little things,

apparently.

Like, I made excuses when

they said I did something wrong.

I freaked out.

I went into another room

and cried,

and then I got fired from it.

That's basically my first

job experience.

The really pathetic thing is

that it wasn't even a real job.

It was training.

I got fired during training.

Like, uh...

Julie, voice-over: The thought

that Michelle had was,

"If I can get fired from that,

where do I go from here?

What do I do now?"

Like when you wake up

behind the bar

Trying to remember

where you are

Julie, voice-over:

She certainly does feel

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