Name: 【TEDx】My story is painted on my body | Chantelle Brown-Young | TEDxTeen
Uploaded: 2016-10-06T00:17:18.000Z
Duration: 6 min 30 s
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Gerund

I wanted to start off by asking a question to everyone in the room,

Modal verbs - A2

and you can take a minute to think about this question.

Past simple

I wanted to ask what do you find most beautiful?

And not in the world, like butterflies and flowers, but in a person.

What do you find the most attractive in a person?

What is it about people that we find attractive?

I think that the way that we think of beauty

social media, the Internet, magazines, especially,

I feel like those are kind of what define beauty today.

And personally to me, I feel that beauty is in everything.

Some people may say that big feet are not cute,

but there's going to be a pair of shoes that will look better

So, I find that there could be beauty in everything.

Sir, with the shiny bold head, I think that this is amazing.

As you can see, I find beauty in everything.

"I find beauty in everything" is super duper cliche.

I don't think everyone thinks that there is beauty in everything,

but the reason why I feel that there is beauty in everything

I was picked on for something that today I feel is amazing.

One thing about me connects millions of people around the world.

And that is something I think you can probably see,

it's my skin condition, it's called vitiligo.

And vitiligo is basically my immune system that feels that my melanin

I was singled out because of this skin condition.

Even by people who didn't mean to alienate me.

we would, like everyone does, take family pictures,

and my mom would bring a little top of makeup,

My mom is not the same skin color as me, she's much darker than I am.

So, could you imagine me having a dark paste of face,

but my mom was trying to make me feel comfortable.

I changed school in about grade 3, grade 2

and it's already hard to make friends when you change school

but luckily I found two girls who were willing to play with me.

They didn't really know who I was, but they wanted to play,

they wanted to check me out and see if I was one of the cool kids.

And after a few weeks of being in that school and having those friends,

And I was kind of confused as to why I was struggling to make friends.

I finally did and now, where did they go?

They would avoid me at recess, they would avoid me at lunch,

and I finally went up to them one day and was like,

"Guys, what's going on? Why aren't you talking to me anymore?"

Our parents said that we might catch your skin condition."

Can you imagine how that made me feel in grade 2, grade 3?

I was alienated, I was embarrassed, to be honest.

I didn't know what this skin condition was in grade 2 or grade 3.

I wasn't asked if I wanted this skin condition.

I didn't ask for it, yet I was alienated for it.

But here's the thing, when I got a little bit older,

I didn't want to be in that position anymore, I didn't want to be bullied.

So rather that taking myself out of the position, what did I do?

And it's not better on one side than the other.

I can tell you, because I've been on both sides.

so I kind of took lead with those people who were bullying and I said,

"Cool, those are going to be my friends now because I don't want to be bullied,

So I guess the only side is to be on this side, this must be the good side."

that I was trying to put myself into a mold that I didn't fit.