Name: Meet The 10-Year-Old Drag Kid Shaping The Future Of Drag Youth
Uploaded: 2018-08-10T05:26:02.000Z
Duration: 5 min 34 s
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I love inspiring people so that's where I got lot of um.. the confidence 'cause

I am helping other people's lives to make sure they express themselves.

Always be yourself and always be proud of who you are no matter what anyone says to you.

When I was 2, after I saw season 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race, I started using my mom's towels,

blankets, and bubble wrap, whatever I could get my hands on.

I would wrap them around my body and put them on my head

I started to going drag shows when I was 5 years old and it was really fascinating to

see these people, like, dressing how they wanted and all this fierce makeup they had on.

Overnight, I became, like, this viral superstar and when i vogued the whole way of the pride

parade and a fan started a fan page on Facebook called “Desmond is Amazing” and I really

So then I decided to keep my stage name as “Desmond is Amazing.”

And that's I've been known as to this day.

When I was, like, 6 or 7, I would make me look like a car crash, but then I quit because

I was like “I can't do makeup,” but then once I did my photoshoot for 'HARDY

Zine' my mom packed a bunch of makeup and I decided that I wanted to try out doing makeup.

And I didn't give up, even though sometimes I did it really bad, but sometimes I also

I did once geometric where I had eyeliner and I made little, like, crazy shapes and

Well, my mom thought that RuPaul just smiled at me and she thought that was going to be

the end of it, but then RuPaul was like “can you come up here?”

And I was like, I'm going to come up here no matter what.

And the thing that matters is that I got to meet my idol and that he called me the future

My mom always watched documentaries and I would watch them.

Some of them were about civil riots, club kids, blitz kids, so that's how I learned

My relationship with my mom is so amazing.

She is the biggest role model in my life.

And I sketch out outfits and she makes them into reality which is um...I don't know

I think that I, basically, would rather have a kid that feels accepted to be himself and

feels that he has a mind of his own to think with, than to feel resentful.

I think that all kids should be able to be creative and free thinking and not feel

like they have to be a mini version of their parents.

I see that I'm doing the same thing like a soccer mom might do or a mom whose kid likes

You know, they would buy them paints and paper and a soccer mom might buy uniforms and the

other equipment, whereas I'm helping to make his costumes for what he wants to do.

Bullies are people who are just jealous that you're so pretty and that you are so confident

It's not good to make fun of other people just because of what they are wearing.

You should always be yourself and always be proud of who you are no matter what anyone

And haters should just go away 'cause if you don't like it, then don't watch it.

I can only own my own feelings and I can't own what these other people's feelings are,

so I try to pay it no mind, like Desmond says.

The most positive thing is that he is visible out there and he is able to inspire others

There's really no secret to parenting anybody except to teach them to do the right thing

and to accept themselves, and just encourage them to grow into respectful citizens.

Be yourself always no matter what anyone says and just tell the haters to pay no mind.

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