Documentary Transcript

Audio	Video
Opening
MUSIC	Animation of puzzle pieces Graphic: A film by Jake Jakubowski Graphic: The Mayor: A chronicle of Williams Syndrome, with Josh Duffy Graphic: I'm not black, I'm not white, I'm the grey in the middle. -Josh Duffy
JOSH DUFFY: I wake up, I get dressed, shower. I go outside, and there's traffic. I wait for them, I cut across the street. I just see how all my friends are doing. it's nice. Brunswick is nice. Only thing I don't like is being alone because of it. I mean, people need to come over and see other sides of me that they don't see.	Josh walking down Maine Street in Brunswick Maine.
JOSH DUFFY: My name is Josh Duffy and I have Williams syndrome	Walking up to a sign that says BRUNSWICK HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT
TRAFFIC	Frank J. Wood Bridge connecting Brunswick and Topsham Maine
JOSH DUFFY: I had a friend that used to come over here, she and a couple other people, looks bad.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off Camera): Yeah, it does look pretty bad, doesn't it? They call it the green bridge, but really, it should be the Brown Bridge.
Grandpa and the Bridge
Music	Graphic: Disease's mess with you from the outside, but syndromes mess with you from the inside. -Josh Duffy
JOSH DUFFY: Hey Brunswick, what's your thought on this bridge? Should they get rid of it? Should they fix it? Should they de-rust it and weld it some more? Should they add more brackets? and more nuts and bolts.	Areal footage of the Frank J. Wood Bridge Point of view driving through the bridge
JOSH DUFFY: I walked it part way, at least halfway, then I lost my mind and my marbles.	Josh in a car driving over the Frank J. Wood Bridge connecting Brunswick and Topsham Maine
JOSH DUFFY: I don't know how I really feel. I don't like it, it's too wonky and it needs to be repaired, both the bolts and the nuts are loose and it just needs some help. I tried to walk it like once or twice, but I don't like doing it alone. I need a distraction.	Footage of the bridge Josh standing with the bridge behind him
TRAFFIC	Big truck going over the bridge
JOSH DUFFY: I don't like those big, ugly vehicles that make the bridge bounce when you're trying to walk. They end up flying inside the river, and you know, when you're, when you're walking on it all you see is rust, bad. It's Vile. It's older than me and some of my friends put together. So I won't desecrate it too much.	Footage of the bridge Josh standing with the bridge behind him
JOSH DUFFY: I put my grandpa's ashes over the bridge so he could spread far and wide and do whatever he needs to. So, yeah, I was nervous. And no, I didn't like doing it, but I needed to do it. I don't like being on that bridge alone at all.	Josh walking over the Frank J. Wood Bridge connecting Brunswick and Topsham Maine
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: He spread part of his ashes on the bridge. Bridges are hard, hard, hard for him. Escalators, elevators, boats. Bridges.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JOSH DUFFY: This will really get him going. Yeah, about the middle mark.	Josh spreading his grandpa's ashes over the bridge
JOSH DUFFY: If I'm going to get closure, that's my closure, If I'm going and be happy about being done with my grandpa and everything that me and him been through, I'm going to do it that way because if I was inside somebody else's urn, that's where I'd want to go to.	Footage of the bridge Josh standing with the bridge behind him
JOSH DUFFY: I want to spread far and wide like the slam and grind seen, not stay in America like country and rap. I want to get as far and as many places I can. I think about him a lot. I miss him so much, but I'm fine.	Footage of the bridge Josh standing with the bridge behind him GRAPHIC: Slam and Grind is a form of music in the metal genre
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Josh, he thought of himself, right? How Bob's death impacted him and hurt him, but he then immediately turned it around well that's OK, I loved grandpa.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JOSH DUFFY: The man, the myth, the legend, Grandpa. Pop-pop, Thank you for everything. Thank you for your soft heart. Thank you for understanding me, my syndrome. The reality, the funniness, everything.	Josh sitting outside with a sweatshirt that says POP-POP, The man, the myth, the legend GRAPHIC: Video courtesy of Rick Burns (Virtual Eulogy for Bob Dale)
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Bob had a sweet tooth. There was lots of great talking and depth of conversation that went on, but it was a great excuse to go out for a root beer float or an ice cream at Pammy's	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
MUSIC	Josh standing outside of Pammy's Ice cream Parlor in Harpswell, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Mmmm Almound Joy, the best. Real almonds, not chunks. The chocolate is good, but I the love the Vanilla too. I don't get here very often. I love the ice cream, and the woman behind the counter. She's a sweetheart and she's gourmet.	Josh sitting in a chair outside eating ice cream
PAMELA DOUGLAS - Owner of Pammy's Ice Cream Parlor: I've known Josh for probably 8, 9 years. My son worked in Brunswick at a restaurant. I used to go in and stop by and see my son and Josh was always there. I opened in 2018. He has been here since the first week I opened.	Outside footage of the ice cream parlor
PAMELA DOUGLAS Josh is one of the kindest people I've ever met. He's just always smiling, always happy. He always gives me a hug. And when Josh comes, he usually brings me flowers or he brings shells so I can work on my shell wreath.	Pammy sitting under a tree next to her ice cream shop
JOSH DUFFY: This one's nice. I just usually pick them and put them in my pocket and bring them home, Or else I give them to Pam. Sometimes we need stuff like this, This is one of them. Oooo, got a little color change. Interesting. I picked up a bunch of small ones off the water last time I was here, like this one, which is rare, so I'm keeping it.	Josh at the beach picking up sea shells
Growing up Birth
MUSIC	Still pictures of when josh was first born and as a toddler Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I was a very young mom, I was 22 years old. They suspected Williams syndrome in Joshua's blood test. They did some testing beforehand just to make sure everything was fine and everything was. I had him in five and a half hours. I had him at home with a midwife and a doctor. He was small. He was 5 pounds. He was real, colicky and a bit fussy. He was late in walking. We were trying to get him to walk in with each hold a hand, his dad and I, and he would cry and it ended up, his eyes. He wasn't looking at you with each eye. Together, they were like working one at a time independently. So they did surgery at approximately a year and a half, two years old and from then on, you know, he walked.
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: For a lot of families, the beginning, is quite traumatic because they're small, they might have some heart problems or medical problems fraught with all the fears and worries and sadness of what's not going to be or what might not be, or medical worries. But I would say most families do really well and are really happy and live normal lives and are happy with their kids and, through the bumps in the road and hard times. And I think the bond across families of parents of kids with Williams Syndrome was really, really strong and helpful, too.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: It didn't take them long to figure it was Williams syndrome, which actually in 42 years ago was very new, just being branched off from Downs.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: A lot of kids have a really strong sort of factual memory and vocabulary and really trouble with math and with directions.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Language for Josh was very, very strong point, but probably not so much math. As a little boy tying his shoe, the fine motor skills, his writing, if he practices, If he had a girlfriend that he had to impress.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
Schooling
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: I don't believe that A B & C = D. It equals Z
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: His schooling was a real trial, it was really hard for him. In the little county where we were, he went to five schools and none of them, it didn't work.	MAP OF CALIFORNIA Josh and his mom looking at a photo album on an outside picnic table
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: There's that cool pond we were talking about the other day	Pointing to a picture in the photo album
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah	Pointing to a picture in the photo album
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: That first day of kindergarten, apparently, he got into lots of kids lunch and wanted to know what they had in their lunch pail. From that day on Joshua till graduation was in special Ed.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Naked boys at the beech.	Pointing to a picture in the photo album
JOSH DUFFY: What? (Laughs)
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: This is visiting Maine. This is visiting his grandpas
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Then they sent him to an advocate school. What I call the Bad Boys School. He was so happy.	Josh and his mom looking at a photo album on an outside picnic table
JOSH DUFFY: I went to a bad boys school. I loved it there.	Interview: Outside on a park bench
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He had two teachers. He had all the attention he could possibly stand.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: Kids in elementary school with Williams Syndrome can feel very isolated. And there's a lot of push now, and for many good reasons, towards inclusion. So a child with Williams Syndrome might be one of very few kids with the disability in their classroom, and they might or might not know other kids with disabilities. And inclusion has its upsides in terms of acceptance and part of the community. But it also can leave kids in a more vulnerable position of feeling like the one left out.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Regular school sucked, I was home schooled for a while, I was in special ed. The recesses were too short. The teachers were to by the book. You thought it was strict being in the bible. Yeah, sometimes it is sometimes. Imagine if you're a school teacher and by the book only because the principal said so. And you couldn't even think otherwise, you know you got one number or one letter off and then your a D or an F. I got my fair share of good grades and the horrible grades, so.	Interview: Outside on a park bench
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He did very well for that year there. And I think shortly after that, that's when we moved to Colorado, and that was an area that was very remote. And I told him, there's one school, and if you don't go to that school, I'll have to send you away. I knew I probably wouldn't, but I wanted to scare him enough that he would get his --- together and just do school. And he did. He did.	MAP OF COLORADO Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
High School Graduation
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off Camera): Were you posing for those?	Pointing at a picture?
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: These were his graduation. They really did a beautiful job that year	Still pictures of Josh Graduating High School
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: When he graduated, I mean, it was such a neat little town and everybody took care of everybody and all the kids loved Joshua and they let him graduate first.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
JOSH DUFFY: I was the first one out. There was a big crowd and everybody was so happy to finally get rid of me. I haven't seen anybody in 20 years, Hello Pagosa Springs. How are you? Trying to find people from Pagosa Springs, they're so different, like the last names, and whether they remember you or not, how good you were, how crazy you were, you know, it's, it's one of them things.	Interview: Outside on a park bench GRAPHIC: Pagosa Springs High School, Colorado - Class of 1998
Special Olympics
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: When he was a young kid, he was in the Special Olympics in Colorado, he was a skier.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: This is the Special Olympics.	Looking at a photo album pointing at pictures
JOSH DUFFY: Oh yeah. I love Nancy
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: This is being a global messenger for the Special Olympics, where he did a speech.
JOSH DUFFY: A lot of skiing, a lot of preparation, a lot of skiing, a lot of suicidal skiing. That's what I'm calling it, because I didn't ski like everybody else. When I was going down. I hauled --- down. Slalom When the last 4, or 5 or 6 feet came, I pushed myself onto my skis. I won a gold, silver and a couple of bronze. It was good. It was a lot of fun.	Interview: Outside on a park bench
	Still pictures of Josh skiing in the Special Olympics and holding his medals
Being a Brother
MUSIC	Josh on a swing set at a playground
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off Camera): Yay, Swings!	Josh on a swing set at a playground
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: Being the older, younger brother, it was... We had a lot of separation with four years between us. You know, we weren't side by side brothers, buddies that hung out and did stuff. We lived together, but we were always doing something different. Never, never really interacted together other than when we sat down to eat, that would've been it. I guess I always, just never, always had myself in mind. And yeah, Josh had his own thing going the whole time. If the parents went somewhere, I would be the one to more so, hold down the house or be in charge of watching the house, taking care of those kinds of things. I remember one time as a kid, Josh trucked off in snowy Alamosa Colorado and ended up getting lost, had no idea where he was or how to get home, and I was able to track him because of the snow and the way that he walked. I knew that, you know, the way he drags his foot, no, this is his trail, he went this way, and found him actually pretty quick. We like to pick on each other a lot. I like I like to pick on him and get him riled up because he got pretty riled up. So that made it more fun.	Josh on a swing set at a playground
	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
	Josh on a swing set at a playground
JOSH DUFFY: I think when we got in trouble it was both of us, not just one of us getting singled out. There were times when we'd sneak off and go play games and laugh about stuff we weren't supposed to and make fun of our parents. We had some good wrestling matches.	Interview: Josh on a picnic table at the playground
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off Camera): I mean, that's what brothers do, right?	Interview: Josh on a picnic table at the playground
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah, they strengthen each other. I've got a niece and nephew thanks to him and his wife. I'm very happy about that. I love my jetterbug (Jett). I miss that little dude. Niah's cool. I like her. She's different. She's she's not like her mom or her dad. They're both at that age where they can do however they want, not whatever they want, but how they want.	Picture of Josh's brother's family
	Interview: Josh on a picnic table at the playground
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: He totally digs the kids. They do thier puzzling, video games.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
OFF CAMERA: And then we, Um, play rough a little bit.
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: Oh yeah, you guys beat him up. Good. He needs that. They bring him out to the beach. Yeah, go shell picking. He definitely loves the kids and really interacts well with them.
MUSIC	Josh at the playground walking up wooden stairs, then standing on top of the playground structure looking down.
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: He is the biggest social person, social butterfly that I've ever seen. If i'm leaving the party. I would rather just kind of slip out the door when no one's looking and be gone. You know, Josh has got to make sure he goes and gives everyone three hugs and kisses, and that is his goodbye has to be well known and when they're going to see him next, all of that
Looking out for Josh
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: Sometimes the salt taste good, but I'd rather have the sugar. Bowling at Bolos Kitchen, Cantina & Candlepin in Brunswick, Maine
JOSH DUFFY: If I screw up, then... I screw up.
MUSIC
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: The first time that I met Josh, I was in a bad place in my life, just moved up here to Maine, didn't really know anybody.	Bowling Interview: Studio setting
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Josh was the first person that I met in Brunswick. He befriended me instantly and we just bonded immediately. I think a lot of it had to do with the loneliness factor. Josh has a million friends and a million acquaintances, but he always feels alone.
MUSIC
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Now, seven years later, we hang out like at least twice a week.
JOSH DUFFY: Alrighty then! (Laughing)	Jake giving Josh a high five
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: If ignorance is bliss, then I’m a blister
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: I was having a conversation with somebody once talking about how I was a little bit alone, didn't have a girlfriend. He knew Josh and he looked at me and he said, Maybe you don't have a girlfriend because of who you're hanging out with. To which I said, (A), I'm not going to be your friend anymore and (B), if any girl out there is willing to not be my girlfriend because I hang out with Josh, then I wouldn't want to have anything to do with her either.	Interview: Studio setting
GABIE SNYDER: Don't be afraid of Josh. Sometimes people don't know what to do with his energy, and so people tend to get either, like, really stand-off-ish and make faces. So there's been a few times where I've explained to other people, like, he does have Williams syndrome, like he's harmless. He's a great guy. Like he'll talk to you if you go talk to him, like, he'll smile. If you wave to him, he'll give you a wave right back. Like, you not to be afraid of Josh. He's actually giving me quite a bit of knowledge. I didn't know what Williams syndrome was until I met Josh, actually, so he shed some light and some knowledge onto my life and helped shed some light and knowledge onto your guys's.	Interview: Outside on Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JAMES MOREAU: I think almost everybody that knows Josh tries to look out for Joshy a little bit because he is a good guy. Here in Maine we're all pretty tight friends. I've occasionally heard people say some things to me, and I usually correct them right away and how cool of a guy Josh is and should be talking about Joshy. They almost always agree with me on the spot, and they're just like, Yeah, wow, that was a pretty mean thing to say	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire, James has his daughter on his lap.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: And that they did in Colorado, too, because he was so into the bars. I was working at a restaurant and I wouldn't get out till about eleven at night. I would drive by and either the bouncer would say, Yeah, Josh is in there, he's having a great time or I just park there and I could see Joshua's head boing, boing, boing, boing, doing this dancing.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: Just the fact that he's looked out for in this town and that so many people know him at all these different establishments where where he might hang out. That's what you want for adults who might be vulnerable too you want that for their wellbeing and friendly, upbeat-ness that there's friends everywhere. But that way people are looking out. So if people come in who don't know them, well, get taken advantage of.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: I mean, even in the hometown where we grew up together a couple of times, I did go out with him there. People would come up to me and oh man, I didn't know that was your brother, and they'd tell me how they look out for him. And, you know, or even times where someone, if someone was insulting they'd they'd put an end to it.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Some stranger from out of town was trying to get Josh drunk, and the locals in the bar just said, Nope, he gets coke, and that's it.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JENNIFER DAVISON: If I saw him out in a group and he felt uncomfortable, I would always go out of my way to like, just make sure he was OK and just talk to him and greet him and treat them with respect like everyone else.	Interview: Night time on the street
SCOTT HOUSTON: That's a big thing with Josh is somebody tried to take advantage of them. We're going to be right there for him. Everybody looks out for Josh, but his close friends look out for him even more.	Interview: Sitting on a bar stool inside
AVERY OWENS: I've had multiple people try to offer Josh shots or beer, and it gets a little awkward, but I have to look out for him sometimes, you know, slide a root beer float in front of him instead of a Jameson, and he responds better to the root beer floats.	Interview: Outside on the street
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Sometimes if we're at the bar together and somebody offers him a shot or a drink, he'll look over at me, almost for verification. And I'll just say, it's up to you, dude. Just be extremely careful.	Interview: Studio setting
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I take Josh out of town and about the third day and I get a call from Brunswick Police Department. They want to know if I know where Josh is. Somebody in the apartment building hadn't seen Josh and they reported it. I said, Yes, I have him right here. I just was so thankful. I think I wrote them a letter afterwards. And now, whenever I take Joshua out of town, we go to the police department and I tell them. Joshua Duffy will be out of town from this date to this date, and it has been a very supportive community for lots of people with different varying disabilities.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
Williams Syndrome
About Williams
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: John C. P. Williams, not god, not the devil... my third maker.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI - Voice Over: First discovered by John C.P. Williams of New Zealand in 1961. Williams syndrome, also known as Williams-Burnham Syndrome, is a result of a deletion of a specific region on chromosome number seven, containing 26 to 28 genes. Approximately one in 10,000 births are affected by this spontaneous gene deletion. Williams is associated with both mental and physical traits, including extroverted personalities, a broad forehead, heart defects, sensitivity to light and sound and, among others, an affinity for music.	Animated graphics: A dr. holding out his hand with and the words Williams Syndrome appear from his hand Graphic showing chromosomes with and without deleted genes Animated graphics: Genes rotating in a 360 degree view Multiple still pictures of children with Williams Syndrome with graphic: Photo courtesy of GeneReviews® (University of Washington)
MUSIC	Stock footage of dogs running around and playing
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI - Voice Over: More recently, there have been studies to indicate that domestic dogs may have the same genetic marker as people with Williams syndrome.	Stock footage of dogs running around and playing
MONIQUE UDELL - Animal Behaviorist and Assistant Professor Oregon State University: Dogs will come and greet a person and greet them again and continue to greet them. Whether or not that person is reciprocating that affection and in some cases, they'll be just as enthusiastic with strangers as they are with their own owners. And so what we found is that actually corresponds to some of these genetic regions. This is really exciting because it suggests that there might be this common mechanism between some of these developmental delays that we've seen in humans, especially with Williams-Burnham syndrome and it's incredibly pro-social behavior that makes dogs unique.	Stock footage of dogs running around and playing Interview: Inside sitting with a whiteboard behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI - Voice Over: According to a PBS nova, special people with Williams syndrome may have the same level of the love hormone oxytocin as man's best friend does. Geneticists are suggesting the reason for the higher level of oxytocin is due to the same genetic mutations that occur in the dog genome. It pertains to three specific genes, which may explain why people with Williams syndrome are hyper sociable, like domestic dogs.	Stock footage of dogs running around and playing
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: We're all drawn to creatures who are drawn to us, and dogs are so drawn to us and people with Williams Syndrome and little kids. You know, toddlers come over, hi, you know, in general, it's all. It makes us all feel good that kind of people who are seeking the connection.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
Josh's Williams
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: You want to be Pet.	Outside sitting at a table at a restaurant
JOSH DUFFY: like a kitten.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: And if somebody doesn't come up to you and pat you on the head, rub your belly, then you get upset.
JOSH DUFFY: I Know.
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: That's where it can be so hard for people with Williams Syndrome, if there aren't people who want to connect back because that's what they're seeking. Almost like candy like that feels so good, and then if you aren't that good at getting that, or if you don't have people around to her up for interacting with you, that's very hard.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: I don't mind being ignored. Sometimes I deserve it completely. I'm not going to lie about it.	Outside sitting at a table at a restaurant
JAKE JAKUBOWSKIPeople come up to me because they know that I'm friends with him and they'll say, I don't like to be hugged. I don't like to be touched. How do I handle this situation?	Interview: Studio setting
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: You go to give a woman you've never met a hug and you're probably going to be stopped before you get that far. You go to kiss em and you know you're going to get stopped before you get that far, if not worse. But he, he smoothes his way in there. I see it as a third party that's known in my whole life. I see him consciously using his his syndrome as a reason to go in and get that extra affection, extra hug. But he he needs it. He's alone. He's a 40-what?, 42 year old man now that needs a lot of affection, and he's got no one to give it to him. So, you know, I can't really blame him.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: Very often people with Williams Syndrome, it doesn't occur to them other people don't want to be hugged because of course they want to be hugged. It feels so good. So I think being very straight forward and it's not a rejection of the person, it's just what someone else is comfortable with.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: You need to be 100 percent honest. He will be extremely respectful once that directness is given towards him.	Interview: Studio setting
MARY CONNOLLY - Director of The Gathering Place He definitely has a tendency to really... he's very, very affectionate, likes to hug, likes to kiss. I wouldn't say it's negative, but boundaries are an important conversation to have with Josh and and he's receptive to it.	Interview: Office setting, sitting at a desk
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: I would say guys need to be 100 percent honest as well. A lot of times he wants people to come over to his apartment, and they might not really know him as a true friend. More of an acquaintance, but with Josh, there's no difference between those two.	Interview: Studio setting
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: And that's one of the things about Williams, is they have a million acquaintances and no real friends.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: A lot of times he'll say, Hey, why don't you come over to my place and we'll watch a movie or work on a puzzle or listen to some music? And if you say, Yeah, yeah, OK, I'll be there. He will be waiting for that phone call. That's just the way he is. He'll hit you up on Facebook that next day, asking you Where are you? You said you were going to be here.	Interview: Studio setting
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: It's that sort of polite, polite rejection that's very hard, I think, for people to grasp with Williams Syndrome, like if you say yes, they said they're coming over. It's a nuance that's tricky, and people will think they're being nice about being nuanced, about rejection, and it doesn't end up being.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Most people don't want to hurt other people's feelings, and that's completely normal.	Interview: Studio setting
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: I know he has a disability, so I feel bad for him. And no, I think just if everybody were more straightforward with everybody, it would help.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: You need to be 100 percent honest and 100 percent direct.	Interview: Studio setting
Dancing
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: Ignore the normal people, who knows what they’re thinking.
MUSIC	Josh picking flowers on the side of the road
MUSIC JOSH DUFFY: I saw a very cute friend that I have not seen a hell of a long time. I gave her some flowers, so that was very good and I'm glad I did it. We hung out, we had, not food, but drinks, and we talked for a while and she was very happy and bubbly and I'm thankful for that.	Josh strutting down the street then hugging and kissing his friend
CHLOË CADENCE: The first time I met Josh, I was eight and he said hi, and we talked, and then I used to just see him around town all the time. And when I started working at Mytie, he came in and I was like, Hey, I see you all the time, what's up? And we became friends.	Interview: Outside sitting on a railing with restaurants behind her
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Before COVID hit. Joshua had an extreme, extreme social life from many, many millions of friends to dancing late at night on Friday and Saturday night.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: During the COVID 19 pandemic, Josh's favorite place to dance Mytie Lounge, closed permanently.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I would love to sign a petition to get Mytie's back to where it was and be happy again.	Jake and Josh sitting on a picnic table
CHLOË CADENCE: He's got some killer dance moves. I've seen them.	Interview: Outside sitting on a railing with restaurants behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Dance, dance, dance. That's how most people in this town know you.	Jake and Josh sitting on a picnic table
CHLOË CADENCE: Who can out dance Josh? No one. He dances all the time, even when there's no music.	Interview: Outside sitting on a railing with restaurants behind her
JOSH DUFFY: I'm like Stella, I want my groove back.	Jake and Josh sitting on a picnic table
MUSIC	Walking into a club named Mytie Lounge. Josh walking down stairs to a basement getting his ID checked
MUSIC	Flashing lights
JOSH DUFFY: I had a real job. being myself in here, dancing my --- off, talking to people seeing how they were doing.	Club scene, lots of people dancing GRAPHIC: Josh is in there somewhere (With an arrow pointing into the crowd)
NO SOUND	Empty club with no one in it. Post COVID
JOSH DUFFY: I love this place and I miss it. Night after night, I wouldn't care if they were a Navy, Army, gangster, grinder or not. I would step up and dance with any of them. I don't care if they're married, single, both, at once. I'd dance with them and I had a loving blast out of it. And if it wasn't for this place, I'd be probably, I don't know, just this. Play pong. We talked, played games. I've been running into people that used to come here and have fun and be themselves and laugh and then, Go to work. And come back the next day and do it all over again. Just like Sinéad O'Connor said, Mytie... Nothing compares to you.	Interview: Standing in front of a Billiards table that hasn't been used in a while
SCOTT HOUSTON: The first time I met Josh, it was interesting. I didn't know what to think of first. And it just blossomed into a very nice friendship.	Josh standing with Scott with his arm around him.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Do you remember his 40th birthday party?	Josh with Scott and Paul standing at the entrance of the club
JOSH DUFFY: That was funny.
SCOTT HOUSTON: That was a good time. You got you a special hat. A special shirt. So everybody could sign it.	Still picture of Josh's 40th birthday party with all of his friends.
JOSH DUFFY: I still got the hat somewhere.	Josh with Scott and Paul standing at the entrance of the club
SCOTT HOUSTON: Yeah. And you still got the shirt somewhere, too.
PAUL WOODWARD: When I first saw him, I was like that's going to be my best friend right there, and he's always smiling. Always, you know, has a big heart. He's like a Big Brother to me, I'm like his little brother he's like my Big Brother.	Sitting at a bar
MUSIC SCOTT HOUSTON: Do a little dance, Make a little love, get down tonight.	Josh dancing with Scott singing and Paul watching
JOSH DUFFY: I'm not back but, I'm back. I miss this place. (Laughing)
MUSIC
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: He can dance on a dance floor when no one else is out there and he he has a very unique way of dancing He has no self-awareness or self-consciousness about that.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
LEE CROSSON: He's got the best movies in town. Clearly, he's got the best movies in town.	Interview: Standing outside on a sidewalk at night
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Just as COVID was coming, he needed sinus surgery. We scheduled that. And from that moment on, everything closed. Everything changed.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: and the whole world shut down.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: Brunswick's Brunswick Right now, it's not the same crazy old Josh Duffy's stuff that used to happen.	Interview: Standing outside on a sidewalk at night
SARA JOCHEM: I remember drinking pitchers of beer, playing pool and talking to everyone in the bar	Josh and Sara standing Outside at night near on the sidewalk, downtown Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah, and they were all your friends and they were all your family.
SARA JOCHEM: No, they were all your friends. I was just cool enough to know you. You knew everyone. and we would go to Joshua's. Then we'd go to MyTies, and then dance a little bit, and then we walked to 7-Eleven and then we go back to Joshua's. And you would always be there.
JOSH DUFFY: And sometimes Dominos.
SARA JOCHEM: Oh, always, dominos.
LISA BAKER: We'd go to Dominos afterwards. Late at night, we would all walk as a group like a pack. The fact that the entire town follows this man to Dominos, and we all congregate as a group, even the people that don't get along, we all congregate together, all surrounding Josh. That just speaks volumes about him, his character and his personality that he can draw that many people together.	Interview: Outside on a sidewalk
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: He works a room. I remember we take him out for dinner. We wouldn't even be seated yet, and Josh would be walking around the room and by the course of the evening, he'd have brought three or four people back.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
Affinity for Music
MUSIC	James taking tree branches out of a wheel barrel and staking them into a fire pit
JOSH DUFFY: This is going to be fun. Glad none of that clunked me in the head and made me smart again.
JAMES MOREAU: You got to be the funniest --- Ive ever meet
Sound of a fire starting	Throwing a stick that has gasoline on it, into the fire pit
JAMES MOREAU: Josh is one of those guys that knows everybody and me being a bartender in town, I feel like I'm one of the guys that knows everybody in town. This guy knows, like ten times more people than I do.	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
MUSIC	James playing the guitar with Josh playing the drums
JAMES MOREAU: That was really exciting playing drums with you today, Man, Jamming, like we got to do that again. You know, like every type of music out there.	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
JAMES MOREAU: Metal	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
MUSIC	Josh playing the drums
JAMES MOREAU: Rock	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
MUSIC	Josh playing the drums
JAMES MOREAU: Jazz	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
MUSIC	Josh playing the drums
JAMES MOREAU: To me, someone who is a musician, I also love music, like that's pretty impressive to meet somebody that's really versatile, like that, man. Lila's going to try to steal the show here. She's known Joshy since she was born. Out of everybody out there, Josh is one of the people that she knows by name. She'll walk up and she'll be like, Oh, hi Joshy.	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire James pointing and looking at his daughter, Lila
LILA MOREAU: Joshy! Hi Joshy!	In the woods: Lila running up to Josh
NANCY MOREAU: (Off Camera)Lila, you wanna show Josh your fort?	In the woods: Lila running up to Josh
JOSH DUFFY: As long as Lyla is having fun and being happy and smiling and laughing, that's all I care about. You can take that to her any time	Josh talking to the camera outside, house in the background
JOSH DUFFY: You gotta name the horsey.	Lila on an old fashioned bouncy horse
JAMES MOREAU: Whenever we go to the bar. It's uncanny. He'll always seem to show up. She'll hear him laughing from across the bar and she'll mirror his laugh. It's great. It's great. So you'll hear them echoing laughs back and forth.	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire
LEE CROSSON: I think that there are a majority of folks out there that kind of preface their music tastes as far as genre first, it's not, it's not that way with with Josh. He he loves music, he loves live music. He he loves being there. He loves the scene, he loves talking about music. He loves interacting with the musicians. He's not embarrassed to show his passion. He's not embarrassed to show his love of people. Arm around you remembering so clearly so many of the instances where he's interacted with you in the past. He remembers stuff about my life 20 years back. Josh is a different person than most people that you might meet, but if you come into meeting him with expectations, maybe, maybe that does one thing. But if you just meet Josh, where he is as a human being, it should be very plain to see, He's really Intelligent.	Interview: Outside at night on a sidewalk
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Once the restrictions to COVID ended up being alleviated, Josh got his first chance to go out dancing in almost a year and a half. He was ecstatic.	Interview: Studio setting
MUSIC	The band Midnight Sound Society playing music at Bolos Kitchen, Cantina & Candlepin in Brunswick Maine
JOSH DUFFY: Me and my friend Jake stormed the place, and there was a really cool band there. They got the encore too, straight from the owners.	Interview: Outside sitting at a table talking to the camera
MIDNIGHT SOUND SOCIETY: We had been asked to play an extra hour because he were done at ten. (Crowd Cheers)	Band member talking into a microphone to the crowd
MUSIC	Josh dancing, Midnight Sound Society playing music
JOSH DUFFY: They were very nice, they were on top of their game. They knew what they were doing, even with their country stuff, which Jake and I were okay with. They still knew what they were doing. They played a bad-ass cover of Zombie.	Interview: Outside sitting at a table talking to the camera
MUSIC	Josh dancing, Midnight Sound Society playing music
JOSH DUFFY: Then they played a couple of other good songs, they are a good cover band.	Interview: Outside sitting at a table talking to the camera
MUSIC	Josh dancing, Midnight Sound Society playing music
JOSH DUFFY: And then all of a sudden, all the groupies came and they started dancing.	Interview: Outside sitting at a table talking to the camera
MUSIC	Midnight Sound Society playing music
JOSH DUFFY: I had to get out the way.	Interview: Outside sitting at a table talking to the camera
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: And the next day we actually went out to yet another bar and he got to do even more dancing.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: The first band Crushed by Amps was bad-ass, they remind me of DOWN FROM THE WOUND. Expect for more doom-ier.	Josh in the passengers seat of a car Graphic: Down from the Wound is one of Josh's favorite bands
MUSIC	Josh dancing to the band Crushed by Amps at O'Donoghue's Pub in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Less slam-ier, a tad bit more grind-ier.	Josh in the passengers seat of a car
MUSIC	Josh dancing to the band Crushed by Amps at O'Donoghue's Pub in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Certain points there was gravity blasts, stop starts, pinch harmonics.	Josh in the passengers seat of a car
MUSIC	Josh dancing to the band Crushed by Amps at O'Donoghue's Pub in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: Very laid back vocally, but still brutal and groovy.	Josh in the passengers seat of a car
MUSIC	Josh dancing to the band Crushed by Amps at O'Donoghue's Pub in Brunswick, ME
JOSH DUFFY: There were so many people there I to say I to them too,	Josh talking to people at the bar
MUSIC	Josh eating a sandwich at the bar
JOSH DUFFY: and then deal with their food.	Josh eating a sandwich at the bar
JOSH DUFFY: I had a blast, and if I can go back in there soon, I would.	Josh in the passengers seat of a car
JENNIFER DAVISON: I thought he was really cool the first moment I met him, he was dancing by himself. He was having a great time. He has so much fun, he just goes out and he has a great time and he doesn't really care about anyone else thinks. I think that's important because I think that nowadays everyone is so uptight in society and everyone has to live a certain way. And I love that about him that he doesn't care what anyone else thinks. And he has a great time, no matter what.	Interview: Nighttime outside on a sidewalk
	Josh inside Bolos dancing by himself
Jake Jakubowski: He'll come up to you and actually start writing down his favorite bands and his favorite music for you to listen to. It usually has to do with you, prompting something in the conversation that made him think about a particular song. He just wants to share that experience with you.	Josh sitting at a bar writing down his favorite bands to listen to
	Interview: Studio setting
AVERY OWENS: one time he wanted me to look up. I think it was like something slaughter pig, and I looked it up and it was pretty, it was pretty dark, pretty opposite of Josh.	Interview: Outside in the day, on a sidewalk
MADISON LINDAHL: I got to see some really cool Filipino death metal, I think is what it was.	Interview: Outside in the day, on a sidewalk
JOSH DUFFY: My undead love for death metal. It all started when I was like 16, 17. My friend Jaxon was a Christian but he was into some very brutal stuff. He got me into, like all kinds of stuff from different countries. My mom got me in the Pink Floyd. A couple of our friends did. I was into Super Tramp, I was into a whole bunch of stuff, I still am. Hip-hop, the wanna-be gangster rap. Some of it's gangster rap but what I got's different.	Interview: Outside on a park bench
Josh living on his own
MUSIC	Graphic: If I have to start fires, to put out fires, then so be it.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Joshua and his brother, Jeremiah, came and stayed here.	MAP OF COLORADO Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: We drove across country in a two seater U-Haul van, so the two bucket seats and the big open space in between. And that was Josh's seat for 3,000 miles.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I went off sailing and I didn't come back for ten months. So all of a sudden I was gone and out of his life. I was very worried I say that they threw me out of the nest. Go, mom. Get out of here. Go! Let us have our life and we'll figure it out, and his little brother, Jeremiah, helps take care of them. They took care of each other. That was amazing. So I did that four times. He grew every time, he would raise up.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
	Marina reading a letter out loud on a backyard deck, while Josh and his father in-law listen
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: The last time that Josh's mother went sailing was probably the most difficult for him. I think it might have been because his brother wasn't there anymore.	Interview: Studio setting
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: When I first moved away that that affected him. A lot of anger. one of those points where I just had to move on with my life. You know, there wasn't enough there for me. That was tough on him. He has mentioned it for sure, and it took a few years for him to get over that one, I think. And it doesn't help that I call maybe once or twice a year.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Jeremiah is busy. He's married. He has two young kids. They just bought a house in San Diego. He's busy with work. And I don't think he has all the time for Josh like Josh wants, but I think it's a good relationship, a loving relationship.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: Other people can move on in their lives in a way that most people with Williams Syndrome can't. It's very hard. I mean, that's where sometimes you have to sort of keep finding new people and finding new people, you know.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: To advertise for someone to stay with Joshua. The first few times I was advertising free rent because it was free rent. for somebody who would take care and just hang out and be with Josh. Then we got this lady and we thought, Oh, a lady. OK, this will work but then she got her granddaughter involved.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Josh's very routine oriented and his routine kind of got messed up, and he was in a tough, unexpected living situation as well.	Interview: Studio setting
MUSIC	Point of view: driving into an apartment complex
JOSH DUFFY: This is the ghetto I used to live at seven or eight years ago. I'm sorry for calling it that, but it's what it is. It's not like people were getting shot but there were a lot of drugs or sometimes cops, and things weren't always pretty. This is the building. I was in hell for a year straight. My mom left and there was nothing I could have done about it. I knew that it was happening, but I didn't know, know. You know, like I couldn't have had my house for a year.	Point of view: driving into an apartment complex
	Interview: Josh in the passenger seat with the window open revealing his old apartment behind him
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: I just remember it not being a good scene. I would go over and pick him up, and I didn't care for the neighborhood. I didn't feel like it was safe. I didn't feel I was even safe there. It wasn't where I wanted to be. People were yelling and swearing. The house he was in, I don't think gave him much more than maybe a half of a bedroom.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JOSH DUFFY: I lived with like six people. I a very small room inside my building. It was strict. It was brutal. I was mentally homeless. I had, you know, she was nice to me. But when it came to her family, it was them first and I was like, an infant.	Interview: Josh in the passenger seat with the window open revealing his old apartment behind him
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: That was a horrible, horrible mistake. We learned.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: At this time he also lost his job and he got kicked out of his favorite bar. So it was a really, really rough time for him.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I lost my job at Movie Gallery. They were consolidating because Netflix took everything over.	Interview: Josh in the passenger seat with the window open revealing his old apartment behind him
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: For some reason, he thought he had to move. He started packing up all of his bags and bringing them to the bar and just leaving them there.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I potentially thought I was moving, but I wasn't. I was so tired of everything and I just lost it.	Interview: Josh in the passenger seat with the window open revealing his old apartment behind him
JAMES MOREAU: So Josh got banned from the bar. How long was it Joshy? like a week, two weeks?	Interview: Outside sitting on a bench in front of a fire, James has his daughter on his lap.
JOSH DUFFY (Off camera): two weeks maybe.
JAMES MOREAU: He brought some bags in and left him in a seat. Almost every day I'd see Joshy come walking by the window.
AVERY OWENS: I first met Josh about four years ago and he was actually getting kicked out. I ran into my mom and him. She was trying to make him feel better, and she said, Oh, we'll just go down to where my daughter works. I was a little unsure about him at first, but he was really sweet. He welcomed me with hugs.	Interview: Outside on the street
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: There's a shortcut that his mom likes to take whenever they're going to the mall, and it brings them past the place where he used to live and he hates it.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I hate it. I absolutely hate it. It's not just something you get over and then me, being the one went through it. I might be that little ankle biting kid again.	Interview: Josh in the passenger seat with the window open revealing his old apartment behind him
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Joshua said, I want to live on my own. Only about ten to fifteen percent of adults with Williams live on their own, and if they are out of the home, they are in supported living groups.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: But now Josh has been living on his own without a roommate with his mother's help for, like five or six years now.	Interview: Studio setting
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: I mean, really, it wasn't isn't until the last oh, about when the kids came out. Stopped being so angry when we would talk. You know, there's times when he still got to get his emotions out. But in general, they're much calmer and thought out conversations. The fact that he's home, doing his own thing, taking care of himself with no one's help. That absolutely blows me away. Yeah, that's huge pride. Huge pride for me. And I hope that he sees it himself too.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: A lot of people have sort of natural supports built in. So like the adult with Williams Syndrome might live upstairs and the uncle and aunt might live downstairs or whatever some kind of natural family support built in. I think the biggest factor in terms of someone living alone is the potential isolation and loneliness, And that's I feel like that's the biggest risk for the adults anyway, is loneliness and then depression. And that's true for adults in general, but most of us sort of have a lot of different ways that we can kind of connect to a community, and it's harder if you have Williams Syndrome	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
MUSIC	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I don't, I don't like to limit him. I don't believe in it.
JOSH DUFFY: I'm kind of glad this happened.	Josh and his mother sitting in the living room looking at a tv screen. Josh has his laptop on him
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Yeah. Well, you learn a whole new thing, didn't ya?
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: When he was maybe seven or eight, we were doing a test drawing like squares, rectangles, you know, what could he repeat and draw? And he did like three of them, and she said he'll never get past, you know, like second grade or something. Boy, I stood up and I pushed back and said Picasso was a famous abstract painter, but look how far he got. Don't tell me my son can't do these things, and he can. Who cares if he can draw a square in a circle and a rectangle? Who cares?	Josh and his mother sitting in the living room looking at a tv screen. Josh has his laptop on him
	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: It takes some work, though, to know what Josh is talking about. You know, it's not an easy conversation all the time. I remember planning a trip. I guess we had decided on Turkish Airlines. Out of nowhere, Josh is sitting next to us. Morgan Freeman. Me too! Morgan Freeman was once a spokesperson ten years ago for Turkish Airlines. And then separate from that, I guess Morgan Freeman was accused of something in the Me Too movement. So in Josh's mind, and in five seconds, he put it all together and just blurted it out.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
	Josh and Lisa walking on a bike path and talking to each other
GABIE SNYDER: If you don't understand what Josh is trying to say. Just ask him again. He'll tell you as many times as you need. When Josh gets excited, he gets really excited, so he starts talking really fast. So it's hard to keep up sometimes. I do know that some of the other people do have trouble understanding him and what it is that he's trying to communicate with you and he'll take one story and I can go off in like six different directions.	Interview: Outside on Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: He's always referencing stuff based on past experience, and he'll reference it from years ago. And, you know, to people that have no clue what he's talking about, where he's coming from. So unless you know him and know the story that he's referencing, it can really confusing. And yeah, a lot of interpretation left for us.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
GABIE SNYDER: You just gotta take your time with him and really sit down and listen thoroughly to what he's trying to tell you. I mean, he's a good explainer if you listen.	Interview: Outside on Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
Puzzles
MUSIC	Graphic: Forget normal, I need better!
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He knows super detail about the puzzles. He knows everything. 1,000 pieces, and he's all in their opening. Let's see what they look like, you know? And actually, when we've done some research with Williams, I've told them about his ability with puzzles and they're just like, what?	Josh looking at puzzles at Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop in Boothbay Harbor
	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: That's a little unusual for Williams. And because often there's a real spatial kind of visual spatial difficulties and there are a lot of kids and adults with Williams Syndrome that do have a specific area of expertise.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo near Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off camera): Can you see the cut at all?	Looking down at Josh who is sitting on the floor looking at the puzzle pieces in the box
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah, it's all the same basically.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I think when we first discovered it is when he was probably four or five, we went to a little Chinese restaurant. They give him newspapers and then we got him a dictionary. And so he was like on a on a page folded up. He'd say, OK, there are five characters the same. So I mean, there must be easily 100, if not more. And he's deciphering in that.	Josh looking at puzzles at Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop in Boothbay Harbor
JOSH DUFFY: Thank you very much. If you're ever in Brunswick, let me know.	Josh at the register talking to the sales associate and buying the puzzle
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I do it completely differently than Joshua. He goes for the pieces. I want to do the edge first. He doesn't care about the edge.	Josh and his mother putting together the puzzle at Josh's apartment
JOSH DUFFY: I might not care about straight edges was sometimes I need them.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He started us when he was really young. In fact, he would get the whole family to do a 1,000 piece puzzle. He'd get the puzzle. He'd get really excited, everybody would do the puzzle. And then he'd come and do like the last few pieces and claim it as his. Then he would turn around and start dismantling it, and we'd be like, Ahhhhh! What are you doing! you know, he would try to get the whole family together to do it and then take it over.	Interview: Talking to the camera at josh's apartment
JOSH DUFFY: I still do it at The Gathering Place and wait for them. I still find those pieces that nobody else could find after they left it alone for a while.	GRAPHIC: The Gathering Place is a daytime shelter for the deeply poor and the homeless Walking up to the door at The Gathering Place and going inside
JOSH DUFFY: When there's a bunch of lines, I want to get those lines done before I go after the colors and figure it that out like that. like that line, right there, is what I would be after. It's, it's the same pieces, so I'm not really interested.	Standing at a table, looking and pointing to a puzzle that is half complete
MARY CONNOLLY - Director of The Gathering Place: Josh talks about the puzzles all the time. And he was very invested in doing them, having them mounted and glued and framed, and he was very connected to a lot of them. A lot of feedback around which ones we do, show me on the computer. You know, we're going to do this one. I found this one. So a lot of investment in which puzzles they had here, which ones we do. Loves doing them. So incredibly friendly and so welcoming. Everybody knows him, like he brings a joy and he sort of brings the level up and the laughter. And just, he's such a good, good, positive person to have.	Interview: Office setting, sitting at a desk
	Josh working on a puzzle on a giant round table
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: The first time that I realized that Josh was kind of a savant when it comes to puzzles. I was at his place one time it was coming down to the last couple pieces. It had probably taken him about a full month to put together, and he was missing a couple of pieces, so he starred at it for like a good five minutes. All of a sudden I hear. Wait a minute. Wait just one minute. He goes underneath his bed, grabs a completely different puzzle, goes through all those pieces, finds a particular piece, brings it back to the puzzle that he was working on and sticks it in! And it fit!	Interview: Studio setting
	Josh on the floor of a store looking inside the boxes of puzzles
JOSH DUFFY: No, not like that. Nope, none of those	Standing up looking at the boxes of puzzles deciding if he likes any of them
He recognizes the cuts of the puzzle. So if he's going out and buying a new puzzle, if the pieces are too simple, he just won't do it.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I'm looking for pieces that are very different from each other. Each one of them. So that's what I'm up to right now.	Standing up looking at the boxes of puzzles deciding if he likes any of them
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: It's got to be weird shapes and something that's not your typical puzzle piece.	Interview: Studio setting
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: 20,000 leagues under the Sea Velveteen Rabbit. Oh, there's the hobbit with the old the old jacket on it. Wow. So, yeah, there's a lot of books in there.	Josh and his mom at a table in his apartment looking at the cover of the puzzle they are working on
JOSH DUFFY: Lot of good nostalgia too
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: a lot of classics.
LISA BAKER: A puzzle Party. What are you doing now?	Josh Outside in front of a bar talking to Lisa and another friend
JOSH DUFFY: I'm working on a bunch of books. Nostalgia books.
LISA BAKER: Really? OK!?
JOSH DUFFY: Like Pinocchio
LISA BAKER: I love Pinocchio.
JOSH DUFFY: And Lord of the Rings, and all kinds of cool ---.
LISA BAKER: Josh and I have a connection with puzzles. We're all about puzzles together and hummingbird puzzles and other things like that. So we like to connect on that level. You can see it in his face and the way that he communicates with you and the way that he looks at the puzzle. You can see how his brain is working and the fact that he shares all these things with you personally is really, really, I feel it's a very flattering. I feel like it's endearing, and I feel like I am very privileged that he is willing to share that part of his life with me, but also to educate me on his, his challenges and what he has to deal with in life. That is a privilege.	Interview: Outside near the street in front of a local bar
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: If he ever wants to buy you a puzzle or does buy you a puzzle, it's a show of affection really.	Josh walking up to the store Gulf of Maine. Then looking at a puzzle inside the store
JOSH DUFFY: If I could get a hold of one of my friends, I would buy this for them.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: How do you remember all the pieces? That's what I want to know.	Josh and his mother at a table inside josh's apartment working on the puzzle
JOSH DUFFY: I look through them and analyzed it. The way they're cut is odd. Theres small ones and big ones. Look at this mess, dude. Look how nasty that curve is. I mean, that slope is, so that's what I'm after.
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: I always say it's good therapy. Yeah. Whenever we're... even if we're mad and we start doing a puzzle, we just get we get it all out and it's OK.
An Ambassador
NO SOUND	GRAPHICS: My metabolism and emotions are feeding on each other
MARY CONNOLLY: We had an anniversary party, Josh was on, in the front page of the newspaper. He was the one that cut the cake, and he gave a little interview with the newspaper reporter and it was so perfect and wonderful.	Interview: Office setting, sitting at a desk
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: And now that article is behind the counter at his favorite place to eat Michaud's market, which he calls Jimmy's.	Interview: Studio Setting
MUSIC	Josh walking into Michaud's Market in Topsham, ME Close up of the previously mentioned article
JOSH DUFFY: My friend Bud brought me here because he was part of Break-a-Day, a very, very long time ago. I fell in love with this place. Head over heels in love with this place. He has the best food ever	Standing in front of the deli counter with the owner behind him
JIMMY MICHAUD - Owner of Michaud's Market: Doin my job.
JOSH DUFFY: It's doing more than a job is feeding the community, helping them out and making them laugh.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: I've never seen anybody eat as much as Josh and not be like 5,000 pounds. I cannot believe how much this man consumes.	Interview: Studio setting
JOSH DUFFY: I'm sorry, Jimmy Michaud.	Josh eating a sandwich from a different place that is not Michaud's Market
NATURAL SOUNDS	Walking into Big Top Deli in Brunswick, ME and going up to the counter to order
BIG TOP DELI: So you want to have a turkey club without any bread? We're going to put some Havarti dill cheese with it and some ranch Dressing, Do you want it with mayonnaise? Or do you want it in addition to mayo?	Taking to the owner of Big Top Deli ordering his food
JOSH DUFFY: No, I'll take the ranch.	Taking to the owner of Big Top Deli ordering his food
JOSH DUFFY: Sorry, Jimmy. I mentally compare everything with Jimmy's. Cuz that's where I've been the longest the last couple of months. I'm not saying Jimmy's and Jimmy's only, but at the same time, that's where I've been. All he's missing is a king's crown. that's all he needs.	Sitting down at a table eating the food he just ordered
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: He really is an ambassador to the town of Brunswick, Maine, and the surrounding areas.	Interview: Studio Setting
	Aerial footage or Maine Street Brunswick, ME
MUSIC	Outside of Kings and Queens Hair Studio in Brunswick, ME
ADRIAN REYES - Owner of Kings and Queens Hair Studio: I've known Josh before I was even a barber. I opened up the shop and every new person that usually comes in, I'm like, Hey, Josh, come on over. We've got a new guy for you.	Interview: Standing in hair studio
MUSIC	Point of view: Walking into Kings and Queens Hair Studio, revealing Josh at a chair getting his haircut
JOSH DUFFY: Kings and queens in Brunswick, if you want to come to a place, where there's a lot of laughter, a lot of good music, a lot of caring. This is where you go.
DAN PEREZ: I'm gonna start singing. Where the party at... Where the party at?	Cutting Josh's hair and signing
JOSH DUFFY: You have a stressed out day, you can talk to them. You have a happy day, party or like wanna dance or need good music. And these chairs are very comfortable. They're like theater chairs.	Josh sitting in a chair getting his hair cut
DAN PEREZ: Ya know, here we take our time with our hair because, you know, we can't rush perfection. Ever since I started cutting his hair, we just we connected. We became homies. I'm getting older and you're looking younger. What's going on here Mr. Benjamin Button.
JOSH DUFFY: So if you had a top five movies, music or whatever, what would you do?
DAN PEREZ: It's hard to say, honestly, it's just too many people. Then If I choose five of them, I'm going to leave out a lot that I really like. You know.
JOSH DUFFY: If I had a rapper name, it would be 2Diph, too different.
DAN PEREZ: 2Diph? Oh, OK. Oh yeah.
JOSH DUFFY: It's cheesy, but it works.
DAN PEREZ: You want to know my rapper name? Unknown.
MUSIC	Hip Hop style graphics: 2Diph Feat. Unknown
MUSIC	Various angles of Josh getting his hair cut
JOSH DUFFY: I feel a lot better without, this. Nasty dude! that's bad-ass.	Sitting in barber chair pointing to his chin where his beard was
	Looking in a large front mirror with a little mirror behind him showing the design that Dan did on the back of his head
Music	Various angles of Josh getting his hair cut
Loneliness
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: I'm a parasite inside a parasite inside of a host.
MUSIC	Josh walking in a park. Going down stairs
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: You let me stay with you for like a month.	Josh and Jake sitting on a park bench
JOSH DUFFY: Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: That was a lot of fun.
JOSH DUFFY: I needed that company. I needed someone who was laughing and was like in the same mood I was, even if it was completely opposite situation. I've never been married. I've never had kids. And I was totally against having kids because, I knew if I did get married, I don't know if I would have been faithful or not, you know, completely, syndrome-mantically, it's like a parasite, You can't just have one. You got to have two or three to make up for what the one is.
Music	Josh standing looking out into a river, contemplating
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Isn't that pretty?
JOSH DUFFY: Very. I wonder if there is any fish in there. If I had kids, my mom would have total custody of them. Cuz I don't know if they would have Williams or not.
JOSH DUFFY: I would be worried it would be hell for her and for me because I wouldn't know what to do. I mean, besides the wiping, you know, like what is really going on with my kid? Is it me? Am I having another me, or somebody else? I would rather be the father in law or the stepfather than actually the kid's father, because it would be a lot easier on the wife, the kid, the marriage, everything. If I had one, but nobody in Brunswick's going to do that. It's not a dare. It's a reality I have to face, and I'm fine with it.	Interview: Josh sitting at a park bench
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: Every kid growing up certainly has thoughts of getting married, having kids, having a job. All those things and then you sort of refine your dreams to fit your circumstances more and more.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off Camera): How do you deal with it? Hope do you cope with it?	Interview: Josh sitting at a park bench
JOSH DUFFY: I stay up late? Watch movies, play video games on my computer. Listen to a lot of music. Just deal with it. Hang out with my mom and whoever else is willing to deal with me.	Interview: Josh sitting at a park bench
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Josh is lonely a lot, and instead of like, maybe sympathizing with him or acknowledging what he's saying, I try to make it less severe. So if he's lonely, why don't I just let him be lonely and talk about it?	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: That loneliness is... I mean, I feel like I understand it, but I couldn't imagine what he's actually going through. You know, like the degree of that.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
JOSH DUFFY: I care about marriage, about this much, give me proof that it still works.	Interview: Josh sitting at a park bench
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off camera): Do you get like, sad or depressed about it?
JOSH DUFFY: Off and on, like, I'm getting older, so either it hits me really, really hard or it doesn't.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off camera): You think it's easier to do the older you get?
JOSH DUFFY: Maybe, maybe not syndrome-matically, but maybe, you know, you question yourself, whether it's you, or you know, how big your heart is compared to everything else, how, you know, or how eye color might be wrong or BS like that. My eyes are extremely blue.
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: A lot of Josh's characteristics are Williams, like crystal blue eyes. But when you see Maih, there's a genetic blue eye.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
	Still picture of Josh and Jeremiah together at a wedding
JOSH DUFFY: A little bit genetic because my dad's kind of blue too.	Interview: Josh sitting at a park bench
MUSIC	Josh standing looking out into a river, looking back and talking to the camera
Well, we couldn't have a campfire, or something fun like that and get some tents over here. But then the costs will be coming out of what? So I'm kind of glad. And if it ain't the cops is the weather, if it ain't the weather is the animals. Boo!
MUSIC
Public Speaking
NO SOUND	GRAPHIC: I want to know the side effects before I swallow the pill
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: If you want to look at the perfect example of someone to stand up in front of public and give a speech, Josh is that person.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Wouldn't we give our right teeth to be able to speak so freely and so confidently?	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: I could think of getting up in front of the class, you know, and I could feel myself get off flush and like, Oh no, I got to I got to talk to everyone, you know, and Josh, he shines in the spotlight like that, that's, that's what he's made for.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: I've heard that he, at funerals, has spoken about the deceased person. He had no inhibitions. He could speak. He could, he had no qualms about standing up in front of everyone. I mean, most of us, that's a really intimidating thing to do. Right? It is for me. I mean, I have to be really ready to publicly speak. But he Josh is fine with that.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: That's for sure. one thing I admire about him a lot.	Zoom Interview: Outside talking into computer
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: No anxiety in terms of that. And yet, then you put him in an airport or on a bridge or an elevator, and he can't do it.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
Spacial Relations
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: If We were to go and fly right now. Go, go to the airport. I would have to go get him a wheelchair.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: I know airplanes, he hates airplanes and he wants to go out to, whether it's a Williams conference or go see Jeremiah in San Diego. And so we prep him.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: You get him in a big space, especially if it's up. He is incapacitated. He goes down on the floor and he's flipped out. He spreads his legs and his arms are out and he's like, Whoa. And he grabs onto something and I just say, OK, just stay there, just sit out.	Interview: Marina sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day in Maine, with the ocean behind her.
	Maria gets up from the picnic table and spreads her arms out, demonstrating what Josh does
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. - Psychologist: So many kids don't like escalators. Kids and adults with Williams Syndrome, and when we've had these various conventions and there's an escalator up to the mezzanine or something, and I thought I should set up shop right there, do my phobia treatment on the escalator because I think it's that instability. You know, when you're standing and something wiggles a little, makes them super anxious.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Get him to walk on a bridge or get him to go through an airport. That's too much.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
Sound Sensitivity
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Every two years, the Blue Angels come to Brunswick, Maine, and I knew enough not to take him to the airport, but I forgot about his sensory issues. It was pretty loud.	Interview: Studio setting
Loud Navy Jet Airplanes	The U.S. Navy Blue Angles jet airplanes flying
Loud Navy Jet Airplanes	Josh sitting on the ground, outside, holding his ears.
JOSH DUFFY: Hello Blue Angels, torture my ears.	Josh standing up, outside looking at the Blue Angels fly by
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Poor Josh	Josh standing, watching the Blue Angels fly by
JOSH DUFFY: That was cool.
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Wasn't that cool?
Jet sounds	Blue Angles in formation creating a loop in the air
JOSH DUFFY: If the Blue Angels made a roller coaster.	Blue Angles in formation creating a loop in the air
JOSH DUFFY: My grandpa bless his soul. He's used to be one.	Josh talking to the camera
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI (Off camera): Yeah, Before they were even called the Blue Angels.
JOSH DUFFY: Yup!
Jet sounds	Various angles of the Blue Angles performing
Jets sounds in the distance	Walking on a bike path near where the Blue Angels are performing GRAPHIC: Cujo is a novel written by Stephen King about a killer dog
JOSH DUFFY: If found the dog over here and I was sleeping, I heard that, Yep Id be Cujo. Next year I will be a lot more prepared. I'll have some head phones on.
Very LOUD Jet engine noice coming from directly above	Josh walking down a bike path, gets very scared and grabs a hold of Jake, but recovers quickly
JOSH DUFFY: Over there dude.	Looking up at the sky
Jet engine noise	Blue Angles in formation flying over Maine Street in Brunswick, ME
Accolades
MUSIC	GRAPHIC: I’m not an easy pill to swallow, not hard to vomit either.
JOSH DUFFY: Come and get some of this flea market.	Josh at the Montsweag Flea Market in Woolwich, ME. Walking around outside talking to different people and looking at all the products displayed on tables
MUSIC
JOSH DUFFY: This is a Stephen King sized novel. So if you get the chance and you can't get Stephen King, get this. No pictures, that's the only problem I have.	Standing in front of a vendors table holding the book Gone with the Wind
MUSIC	Walking around outside talking to different people and looking at all the products displayed on tables
JOSH DUFFY: Yup, This is the Montsweag flea market. If you get the chance, come down here.	Standing in front of a vendors table and talking to the camera
IAN KENNEDY: What have you been up to Joshy?	Vendor talking to Josh
JOSH DUFFY: He's the coolest guy ever. If you ever want to talk to anybody, come over here and talk to Ian. Finding Waldo! look, it's Waldo.	Standing at a vendors table
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: Josh loves women. Josh loves, girls, and he loves pretty girls, so I'm going to flatter myself and say that I was a pretty girl then, he loved me and I loved him immediately. I could learn from him in that is just, you know, the super easy way he forgives, he acknowledges things didn't go all right, and then he can turn it around and he loves you again.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JOEL HUFFMAN: I don't exactly remember the first time that I met Josh, but I know like I saw him around. You know what I mean? Like he, he knew everybody. Ever since I seen him, you know, whenever we made that first connection, like, he just gave me respect, like human respect. He's just been an invaluable friend to me.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LISA BAKER: He meets more people than you could ever imagine, and he finds the good in everyone. He has so much happiness. It transfers to everybody because he's always smiling, he's always happy, he's always laughing. He wants to dance and have a good time, and it just spreads. It spreads among everybody all the time.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
SARA JOCHEM: Nothing like a good hug from Josh. Every time I come home. Josh is going to be there with open arms. I get a sense of comfort every time I see you, and I appreciate that so much. I really do.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
BRIDGET RENO: I love Josh. He's always so happy and so helpful and wants to do everything for anybody and very kind and a big heart.	Interview: Outside of a restaurant sitting at a table
GABIE SNYDER: Every time he comes in here, it's the biggest bear hug and it brightens my day every time I see him come in from across the street and you're like, Yup, there's Josh.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
	Josh running across the street in slo-motion
AVERY OWENS: I see him coming across the street and suddenly I have a smile on my face. It's super nice to know that Josh will always come up and give me a hug. Whenever he sees me, whether I'm having a great day or a rough day. He's always wanting to hear about my days.	Josh running across the street in slo-motion
	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
GABIE SNYDER: Josh's laugh, is just, his laugh and smile, is so infectious his energy is radiant. Just him being there. His energy really is so vibrant.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
	Josh and Gabie hugging
LIZ WILA: I love Josh. Josh is the best. I'm so glad that he's my neighbor.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LIZ WILA: High five	Liz and Josh giving a high five
LIZ WILA: I love Josh. Josh is the best. I'm so glad that he's my neighbor.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
JOSH DUFFY: I had a blast at your house.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LIZ WILA: Secret handshake. What? Is it like this?	Josh and Liz making hand and arm motions to do a secret handshake
LIZ WILA: He always cheered up my day and I was so glad to know him.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LIZ WILA: Up, up... Like that	Josh and Liz making hand and arm motions to do a secret handshake
LIZ WILA: Every time he'd come in, he'd be cheer everybody up.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LIZ WILA: Down	Josh and Liz making hand and arm motions to do a secret handshake
JOSH DUFFY: Laughing
LIZ WILA: He's a special cookie.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
MUSIC & LAUGHING	Josh and Liz making hand and arm motions to do a secret handshake
DAN PEREZ: The man's a local legend	Josh sitting in a barber chair getting his hair cut
ADRIAN REYES (Off camera): They don't call him THE MAYOR for nothing.
DAN PEREZ: Mayor, yes.
JOSH DUFFY: With two R's.
DAN PEREZ: Mayor Josh
MARINA DALE-PASSANO: He is the mayor of Brunswick. Give the guy a key. He's got the key. (Laughs)	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
SARA JOCHEM: You are Maine Street Brunswick. Everyone knows you. Everyone wants to say hi. You're always going to say hi.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
LSA BAKER: He meets and greets everybody. He wants to welcome everybody. Is that not the mayor of Brunswick?	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
LEE CROSSON: What does the mayor do? Represents, Josh rules of that.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
KAREN LEVINE, PH.D.: For many, many families, It's really a transformative experience.	Interview: Sitting outside in a gazebo
PAMELA DOUGLAS: Life would be pretty boring without him.	Pam sitting under a tree next to her ice cream shop
JENNIFER DAVISON: Josh is living his best life, and I love that about him.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
SCOTT HOUSTON: You the man Josh, you're the man.	Scott Sitting on a bar stool inside. Josh standing next to him with his arm around him
JOSH DUFFY: You the man!
SCOTT HOUSTON: You the man!
LISA PARKER - Josh's Aunt: We could all learn something from Josh.	Interview: Inside house sitting on a couch
JOEL HUFFMAN: It's just the way that he carries himself, he's just so much love.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
MARY CONNOLLY: He a very, very positive person.	Inside office setting. Sitting at a desk
LEE CROSSON: And chances are, he probably really likes you.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: Truly, one of my best friends.	Interview: Studio setting
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Insightful	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
JAMES MOREAU: Always got a good attitude.	Outside near a fire pit
LISA BAKER: He's ridiculously exuberant. He's the life of the party.	Interview: outside, day time, standing on the sidewalk
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Empathetic.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
SARA JOCHEM: He's genuinely interested on how your life is going.	Interview: outside, night time, standing on the sidewalk
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He's a little philosopher.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
CHLOË CADENCE: Josh has no couth. He goes for it.	Interview: outside, day time, sitting on a railing near the sidewalk
JAMES MOREAU: And you make me laugh man, you just say the funniest, off the cuff stuff.	Outside near a fire pit, Josh and James giving a high five and hugging
JEREMIAH DUFFY - Josh's Brother: He's such a loving, outgoing, affectionate person.	Zoom Interview, talking into the computer
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: Childlike to the point where he can say everything's screwed up, but I'm OK.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
CHLOË CADENCE: Definitely very outgoing.	Interview: outside, day time, sitting on a railing near the sidewalk
DAN PEREZ: He's like a Big Brother, but a little brother at the same time.	Josh in a barber chair getting his hair cut
MARINA DALE-PASSANO - Josh's Mother: He's a true human being.	Interview: Sitting at a picnic table outside her home on a summer day
Music	GRAPHIC: Don't push the envelope. Shove the envelope.

Audio	GRAPHICS
CREDITS
JOSH DUFFY: I never met Trump. I'd have to meet him in person, ask him if he listens to Russian, brutal, slammy, death metal, and then he said, No, I wouldn't like him.	A Film by JAKE JAKUBOWSKI ADDITiONAL FOOTAGE RICK BURNS (Virtual Eulogy for Bob Dale) ADOBE STCOK POND 5 WIKIPEDIA GENEREVIEWS (University of Washington) JOSH DUFFY MUSIC ADOBE STOCK INTERVIEWS (in alphabetic order) LISA BAKER CHLOË CADENCE MARY CONNOLLY LEE CROSSON MARINA DALE-PASSANO JENNIFER DAVISON JEREMIAH DUFFY JOSH DUFFY PAMELA “PAMMY” DOUGLAS SCOTT HOUSTON JOEL HUFFMAN JAKE JAKUBOWSKI SARA JOCHEM IAN KENNEDY KAREN LEVINE, PH.D. MADISON LINDAHL JIMMIE MICHAUD JAMES MOREAU NANCY MOREAU LILA MOREAU AVERY OWENS LISA PARKER DAN PEREZ BRIDGET RENO ADRIAN REYES GABIE SNYDER MONIQUE UDELL LIZ WILA PAUL WOODWARD BUSINESSES (in alphabetic order) AKI JAPANESE CUISINE - Brunswick, ME THE BIG TOP DELI - Brunswick, ME THE BLUE ANGLES - U.S. Navy BOLOS KITCHEN, CANTINA & CANDLEPIN - Brunswick, ME THE GATHERING PLACE - Brunswick, ME GULF OF MAINE BOKKS - Brunswick, ME KINGS AND QUEENS HAIR STUDIO - Brunswick, ME MICHAUD’S MARKET - Topsham, ME MONTSWEAG FLEA MARKET - Woolwich, ME O'DONOGHUE'S PUB - Brunswick, ME PAMMY’S ICE CREAM PARLOR - Harpswell, ME SHERMAN'S BOOK STORE - Boothbay Harbor, ME BANDS (in order of appearance) MIDNIGHT SOUND SOCIETY Crystal Marie - Vocals TJ Swan - Vocals/ Guitar Dan Lohmeyer - Vocals/ Keys/ Guitar Cam Jones - Bass/ Vocals Josh Greenleaf - Drums CRUSHED BY AMPS Nathan Cowing Benjamin Brown Jesse Pilgrim SOURCES Williams Syndrome Association Inside Science PBS \| Nova \| Dog Tales Wikipedia GeneReviews (University of Washington) Thank you to everyone who donated! For more information on WILLIAMS SYNDROME please visit williams-syndrome.org
JAKE JAKUBOWSKI: So it has nothing to do with his politics? It has everything to do with what type of music he listens too?
JOSH DUFFY: Well, if he's gonna communicate with Putin, He mind as well get used to their music. Because who knows what they're listening to, if there listening to anything while they're politic-in, I just feel that, if I shook Trump's hand and asked him a serious questions, and if he tells me he listens to country music, while he's talking to Putin, I'm gonna laugh my --- off! Something really horribly wrong about that!

Documentary Transcript

Opening

Grandpa and the Bridge

Growing up

Birth

Schooling

High School Graduation

Special Olympics

Being a Brother

Looking out for Josh

Williams Syndrome

About Williams

Josh's Williams

Dancing

Affinity for Music

Josh living on his own

Puzzles

An Ambassador

Loneliness

Public Speaking

Spacial Relations

Sound Sensitivity

Accolades

CREDITS

A Film by JAKE JAKUBOWSKI

ADDITiONAL FOOTAGE

JOSH DUFFY

MUSIC

INTERVIEWS (in alphabetic order)

BUSINESSES (in alphabetic order)

BANDS (in order of appearance)

MIDNIGHT SOUND SOCIETY

CRUSHED BY AMPS

SOURCES