Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • <City Noise>

  • <Train Brakes>

  • <Children Playing>

  • "Here I come!"

  • "Whoaaaa!"

  • "Here I am Dad! Here I am!"

  • "Yeah, there you are!"

  • "Whoa!"

  • "I don't think there is a certain point in anyone's life where they grow up."

  • "I think that we're growing up all the time and we always will be."

  • "My name is Jon Novick, I'm 22 years old, and I am a dwarf with Achondroplasia."

  • "Before I was even born my mother studied genetics in graduate school,"

  • "specifically she had an interest in Achondroplastic dwarfism that she did a study on."

  • "Achondroplastic dwarfism is the kind of dwarfism that I have"

  • "So when I was born she had a lot of extra information and she had a lot of books to help her parent me."

  • "The definition for dwarfism..."

  • "is the abnormal underdevelopment of the body characterized predominantly by extreme shortness of stature."

  • "Now there’s a lot of different kind of dwarfism as I mentioned before, and the most common kind is the kind that I have, which is achondroplasia."

  • "Achondroplasia is characterized by disproportionately short limbs, a normal-sized torso, large head, and with a depressed nasal bridge-"

  • "-right here"

  • "small face and stubby hands, as well as the curvature of the spine."

  • The term is dwarf or little person. One or the other is totally fine, just not 'midget'

  • "A lot of times, “midgetis thrown around asthe termto describe someone who has dwarfism, and not only is that incorrect but it’s incredibly offensive."

  • "I moved to New York City a year ago, and although I consider it ultimately a good experience, it was made a lot more difficult because of my dwarfism."

  • <Kids in field>

  • "I grew up in a small town and I would have, you know, negative encounters now and then but I had friends and I had family who supported me."

  • "School wasn’t a nightmare and I was just able to have a pretty average childhood."

  • "A year ago when I moved to the city, I noticed that there was a lot of people - a lot a lot of people."

  • "And because of that, I would have a lot of encounters."

  • "I would have people take pictures of me on the subway. I would have people who would harass me."

  • And just all these things, all these almost daily occurrences. And it would continue happening, continue happening

  • "until I got to a point where I was just fed up with it."

  • "I wanted to stop telling people what happened to me and I wanted to start showing people what happened to me."

  • "I wanted to show everyone what a day in my life was like."

  • "I was fortunate enough to be able to use this camera which is actually known as a button camera"

  • "because the lens I'm using is so tiny that it has a button cover up"

  • "that I'm going to be slipping through a shirt that will be completely unnoticeable."

  • "So we are all packed up, camera is all ready and going, I'm gonna turn it on right now."

  • "It's rolling"

  • "And we're going to go see what we can capture"

  • "So let's head out"

  • Man - "Have you been on TV?"

  • Jon - "I have not"

  • Man - "You know who you look like?"

  • Jon - "Who?"

  • "Have you ever seen that show, 'Little People Big World'?"

  • Jon - "Yeah"

  • Man - "Yeah..."

  • Man - "You look like the son man."

  • Jon - "I do?"

  • Man - "Yeah"

  • Jon - "Why do you say that?"

  • "Do you see a lot of little people?"

  • Man - "Man, I'm from Oklahoma"

  • Jon - "Oh yeah?"

  • Jon - "What?"

  • Jon - "What did you say?"

  • Jon - "Wow"

  • Man - "Yeah I hope I didn't offend you."

  • Jon - "Oh no, it's okay"

  • Jon - "I appreciate that, no it's fine"

  • Man - "Yeah..."

  • Man - "Can I get your picture?"

  • Jon - "Uh...no"

  • Woman - "You from one of the show with the little people?"

  • Jon - "Uh...not that I know of- no I'm not."

  • Woman (Baby voice) - "Awwww you look like identical as the guy..." <fade>

  • Jon - "I don't want to tell anyone what to do, or how to think, or what to feel."

  • "But instead what I'll do is I'll ask."

  • "I'll ask that the next time you see someone who is different from you, think about what their days is like"

  • "Think about all of the events leading up to that point and think about their day,"

  • "And think about, what part of their day do you want to be?"

<City Noise>

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it