Viewers of Monday night's Australian Story will be treated to one of the purest love stories they are ever likely to come across.The series will introduce the audience to Michael Cox and Taylor Anderton, a young couple who met while competing at an elite sporting event in Mexico.
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Their parents were socialising on a coincidental trip to Las Vegas after the swimming world championships in Mexico when the pair met.
"We all just started just meeting up casually," Michael's dad Simon said.
"Michael and Taylor started gravitating towards each other and by the end of the trip we looked over at them and they were looking in a shop window holding hands."
Australian Story will lay bare the couple's heart-warming love story on Monday night, from Michael getting dressed up in his suit to ask Taylor out to make himself feel more comfortable to their plans for the future.
Michael and Taylor both have Down Syndrome and Simon said that made the telling of their story particularly interesting because they are both incredibly honest.
"I guess that is one of the characteristics, in general, of people with intellectual impairment," he said.
"They have a completely unfiltered emotional response to the way they tell their story and to their own attraction and desire for each other."
Michael and Taylor shot to fame when ABC News featured the couple in a story about the Gold Coast debutante ball for young women with disabilities.
The video has been viewed more than 13 million times.
Australian Story looks deeper into the couple's relationship and, specifically, the challenges they and their parents face as they begin their lives together.
"The four parents are 100 per cent supportive of them having a relationship, getting married, living as independently as they are able to and enjoying a beautiful, intimate relationship," Simon said.
"But they are quite fixated on having kids."
In the program Michael explains his own frustrations about the lack of support he feels he is getting from his parents for his desire to have a child.
"I know that their heart's in the right place but being overprotective is strictly not on with your child, even if they have Down Syndrome," he said.
"I know that me and Taylor have the skills to be married and start our own family."
But despite both parents having raised Michael and Taylor to believe they can achieve anything, they are also aware of the limitations both have.
"They have some amazing competencies and some deeply needed to be addressed issues," Simon said.
"Michael can't get behind the wheel of a car, it would be a disaster, if they were to go out at night time they don't necessarily understand some of the consequences of the decisions they make.
"Yes, cooking a meal or travelling on a bus, they can do that, but it's not just having a baby and loving a child, it's bringing up an adolescent, dealing with social issues, school issues and so on.
"People tell us they have this right but with rights come responsibilities and they don't have the capacity to understand those obligations."
Michael is quick to say the parents aren't against Michael and Taylor becoming parents, they just don't know how it would work.
"This is uncharted territory," he said.
"We can't find any examples of a couple with Down Syndrome having children and raising them independently.
"We don't know where to go with it."
Michael and Taylor's Australian Story episode Tough Love airs on ABC on Monday, October 3 at 8pm.
