Name: 【TEDx】I Choose To Be Happy: Lizzie Valasquez at TEDxYouth@Austin
Uploaded: 2014-12-27T12:02:03.000Z
Duration: 12 min 8 s
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I want you to do something with me really quick.

every single one of you in here have done this --

when you're procrastinating  doing homework

and you're procrastinating by  listening to music on YouTube.

Now, you know, when you're looking at YouTube,

there's "related videos" on the right-hand side of the screen.

that you are listening to some random song

and you see a little picture on the right-hand side

And what you see is something  that will change your entire life.

and you realized  that somebody posted a video

and labelled it "The World's Ugliest Woman,"

How do you think somebody would feel if they found that?

Now being in this situation isn't something that's new to me,

because I was born with a very, very rare syndrome.

There are only 3 people, including myself,

I've never weighed over 62 pounds in my entire life.

and I look very different from other people.

So as you can imagine,  when people see me

they don't know who I am they know nothing about me,

the doctors prepared my parents to expect

They said I'd never talk, I'd never walk, I'd never crawl,

I would literally accomplish nothing in my life.

and we're going to raise her  as best as we can."

I was a cute kid, I'm not gonna lie. (Laughter)

I was so small that my parents  had to go to Toys “R” Us

because regular baby clothes were way too big on me.

I personally don't remember, but that's what my parents told me.

so normally to the point that, when I started kindergarten,

that I looked different  from the other kids.

as a big slap of reality for a 5-year-old.

the night before the first day of school,  when you are super excited,

you have that like anxious feeling  in your stomach,

because you don't know who's going to be in your class,

I walked in on the first day, and  I saw a little girl reading a book.

like I was the scariest thing she'd ever seen.

I'm a fun kid. She is missing out." (Laughter)

No one wanted to play with me,  no one wanted to stand by me.

No one wanted to have a single thing to do with me,

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【TEDx】I Choose To Be Happy: Lizzie Valasquez at TEDxYouth@Austin

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