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DISABILITY | How You See Me

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    Female 1: I feel so blessed
    to be able to just live my
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    life and have people be motivated by it.
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    [Music]
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    Female 2:
    I have a spinal cord injury.
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    And so, when I
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    was seeing people roll by I was like
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    wow, so that's what I'm gonna look like
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    Female 3:
    I think I always knew I was different.
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    I knew other kids can hear and I can't
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    Female 4: I was born
    paralyzed I
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    was born with
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    Spina Bidfia. Um so,
    I've been paralyzed my
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    whole life and its the only life I know.
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    I had to kinda
    grow into learning I
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    was different.
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    Female 1:
    My biggest insecurity is my legs.
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    So, I decided hey, if thats my biggest
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    insecurity, then I'm
    gonna I'm gonna start a jean line.
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    And all of the pictures are based around
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    my jeans
    and my legs, and other peoples legs.
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    And thats where I realized that
    its okay to be
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    different. Because, once you embrace it
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    your entire world changes.
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    Male 1:
    People usually
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    they don't know how to
    react to me a lot of times
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    So like I'll make little jokes like,
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    Hey calm down, it's okay. I'll be okay.
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    Male 2: I would have
    people treat me as if I wasn't
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    really there. And I would have people
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    treat me like they didn't want anything
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    to do with me, and perhaps
    its because they
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    were scared. And they didn't know any
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    other response.
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    Female 1: One of my favorite
    things is when I'm out
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    in public and i have all my girls with me
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    who are all in chairs.
    Who are all gorgeous.
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    And we literally love when
    we see heads, just turn.
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    Female 4: Society doesn't
    correlate disability and
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    being attractive. We are beautiful people.
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    [chuckling]
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    Everyone is beautiful in their own way.
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    But, we can be stylish.
    We can be gorgeous.
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    And stunning and fabulous, as I like to
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    say. Because, yes I see myself as being
    fabulous
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    Female 2: Being a dancer you know, once a
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    dancer always a dancer. I didn't stop
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    So, I would go out to the
    clubs and I would get my
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    boogie on. And I was surprised by how
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    guys would approach me and be like
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    hey you're hot and they wouldn't say
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    your still hot, they would say you're hot
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    Male 2: There is the black and white, there is the
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    bad and theres good. So as long as your
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    focusing on the good, then the bad just
    seems to melt away.
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    Female 1: We're only given one
    life, and you gotta be proud of it.
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    Female 2:
    you want me to bust a couple of moves?
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    [inaudible] what oh
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    [inaudible]
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    [laughing]
    director: Perfect Lets get a cut
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    [Music]
Title:
DISABILITY | How You See Me
Description:
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Video Language:
Mongolian
Duration:
03:01

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