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♪ (ABILITY Magazine jazzy piano intro) ♪

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This condition started when I was

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seven years old.

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(grunts, thud against body)

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I was in my house in the backyard,

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playing soccer.

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Then all of a sudden, I fell down.

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When I got up in the night,

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I started this condition.

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I started hitting myself

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and I screamed.

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Every night, I saw spirit.

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In fact, I saw a dark shadow.

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He was holding an ax and a chain.

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Every night he would wake me up

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and I would cry.

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When I woke up, I saw my parents

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watching TV down the hall.

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I told them, “Someone was getting me!”

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But my parents thought it was a nightmare.

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But it wasn't,

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because it happened every night.

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So I went to all kinds of religions

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from the east to west to north to south.

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Some Chinese say, “Maybe bring your son

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to go and see some Buddhist or medium,

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maybe pray for you, eat or drink something

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it might cure him!"

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But it was getting me more scared.

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In 1995 I went to Australia.

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(grunts, smacking noise)

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I got my advanced degree

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to study in Australia, Tasmania.

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When I went there to study, the students

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complained about my being very

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noisy in my hostel.

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I was told to go and see

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the psychiatry doctor.

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So the doctor then told me, “What you’re

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having is a condition called

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Tourette’s syndrome.”

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I used to hurt my chin very badly,

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it would bruise and crack, black.

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And yellowish.

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(Female interviewer) You mentioned when

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you’re dancing, it stops.

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I don’t jerk at all.

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I don’t jerk at all (grunts).

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(Male interviewer) What about your painting?

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(grunts) I used to jerk, I stopped.

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But my mentor told me,

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“When you jerk (grunts)

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let the jerk of the movement,

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leave it in the painting.

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That is Gods creation!"

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