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The Buddy - Everyone Saw This Autistic Boy As A Misfit, One Classmate Saw A Friend // Viddsee.com

Jason Lee · Singapore · Drama / Family · 17 min · 3.7M views

In 1990s Singapore, eight-year-old Hidayat is assigned to buddy a classmate everyone calls weird, and he slowly learns to see past the boy's unusual behaviour.

A tender, child's-eye story of friendship and acceptance at a time when autism was barely understood.

Hidayat is an 8-year-old boy tasked to be a buddy to his classmate, Tam, and finds that he is frightened by Tam's erratic behaviour. Despite having Tam's parents and teachers dismiss him as reclusive and "weird", Hidayat

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