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- So what is up, y'all?
Y'all already see by the thumbnail and the title,
today is vlog day.
I have a lot of errands to run.
Yeah, so today's vlog day.
Y'all already know,
y'all already see by the title and the thumbnail
what this video is gonna be about.
I have a couple of errands to run.
I'm supposed to be doing my makeup today,
so I have to go to the beauty supply house
to find me some eyelashes.
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My dad taught me how to drive
and that didn't take long.
So my dad takes me to an empty parking lot.
And he's like,
it came natural.
Okay, 'cause you only have two legs,
so it was like, "You're gonna hold the steering wheel
"with one foot and the other foot,
"you're gonna do the pedals."
The main thing people be shocked to know
about me is my confidence, to be honest.
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Outsiders see me,
I believe that they look at my physical appearance
because that's just automatic.
Even when I go out in public,
it's like people are gonna see my,
me not having arms first because it's not...
You're not gonna see too many people that don't have arms.
When I was younger,
I didn't too much realize how different I was
until it came to my attention that, okay,
you don't have arms and everyone else does.
I wanted to be normal as everyone else.
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Most people that supported me was my family
and mostly my parents.
They taught me how to love myself.
They taught me how to love others.
They taught me how to be independent.
- [Mom] Okay, whatever.
Where we playing "UNO" at?
- Mama, you're not playing 'cause you like to cheat.
- I don't like to cheat.
Y'all don't know how to play--
- [Kendall] Mama, but you do be cheating.
- [Kash] Kendall, that be you and you--
- [Kendall] No, that don't.
- No, Kendall cheat.
She make up the rules as she goes.
We don't follow old school--
- [Kendall] We playing doubles.
- We don't follow old school rules.
- [Kash] We're about to start this "UNO" game
and we're waiting for my mom.
She started up and now I don't know what she's doing.
- [Mom] I'm coming right back.
- (laughs) She said, "I'm coming back."
- The same number down.
- You put an eight blue, eight red, eight yellow.
- Yeah, that's the same number, not the same color.
- [Mom] She always wanna teach people,
teach people how to play her way.
- [Dad] You can't play that, that's a different color.
- [Kash] No, it's still green though.
- [Kendall] We mixed these colors up, Dad.
We not gonna do--
- [Dad] You're supposed to-- - [Mom] Whose turn is it?
Is it my turn?
- [Kash] Uno!
- [Kendall] You cheated.
- Nah, it's my turn.
What?
The reason why it take Kendall so long
'cause she always trying to figure out a way to cheat.
(Kendall laughs)
- First of all, I don't cheat so don't,
I don't care because.
No, y'all--
- UNO out.
- You cheated.
- (claps) Boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom.
- She cheated.
(Kash laughing)
- [Kendall] Can we play "Speed?"
- My mama's in the kitchen.
My brother, Kirsten, and Kendall
just got whooped by me in "UNO."
- [Mom] So she was just active.
They hung outside.
She did a lot of stuff with dirt
and she had a tricycle like everybody else.
So the tricycle was special made.
So she would get on that tricycle and go, go, go.
She had skates.
She would skate.
That was normal.
She just hung out.
She would hang outside, always active.
Even when she was a baby,
she would hold stuff with her chin.
So she either would grab it with her chin
or hold the pencil with her mouth or her chin.
So we just never really said, "Okay, pick it up like this."
It's just, she knew to do it automatically.
And brushing her teeth,
We started brushing her teeth
when she was like few months old, like how to hold,
and I did show her how to hold it
and then put the tooth paste on there and then
I guess she would just hold it with her toes
or something like that.
I don't even really remember.
But we just say, "Brush, like..."
I really would just say, "Brush like me.
Do like me."
And she would just do like me.
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So this it's my brother's room.
He likes playing the game
and he sits in this chair like every day.
And it has no more cushioning at this point.
What I do to you?
- She's clingy sometimes.
- Clingy?
- Yes, you're clingy.
- I'm not clingy.
But I always want my siblings to know I love them.
So like I always be like,
"Give me a hug." you know, randomly.
And they don't like that. (both laughing)
We have another family member.
- That's not a part of family.
- Yes she is girl, don't do her like that.
- This is Dora.
- And that Dora is not part of--
- Stop, stop, her head is already opening.
This is Dora.
This is Kirsten, Kirsten, wave your hand.
This is her baby. (laughing)
(stuttering)
Okay, let me tell you about her.
She don't like sentimental stuff.
Like, she not gonna give you a hug.
Okay, she don't like all that.
- But it doesn't mean I don't love you it's just,
- She just like tough love.
- I dunno.
I'm not that type of person that's like,
you know how some people is just perky and just,
"Ahh, I love you so much!"
That's not me, that's not me.
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- Okay, so this used to be my old closet
which is now my sister's closet
but I still have my trophies and stuff in here
and stuff I went through in high school.
This is a letter the whole school,
the athletic team wrote me
'cause I broke my shoulder in middle school.
So it's like a little, whole thing right here.
Athletics, I got my spirit award
and then we went to Medieval Times my senior year.
And then these are a couple of associates.
I'm gonna be honest when I was younger,
and it was just like, I wasn't too focused
on people worrying about people knowing
that I don't have any arms because at the time I was young.
So you know, like my mind wasn't set
on what other people were saying or thinking.
So when I got to middle school
and I started to do cheerleading,
you know, I was more aware,
okay, I don't have arms people look at you,
they're gonna talk about you.
This, this and that.
With cheerleading I used to try to hide my shoulders.
And my senior year, I said, I'm not gonna do that no more.
I'm not gonna hide my shoulders.
I'm just gonna, you know, like be free
and accept who I am and accept how I look physically.
And so, the older I got
the more comfortable I got with myself.
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- What else was it?
Tooth paste.
When it came to me learning to, or not learning
just coming naturally doing things with my feet
it was just easy.
Like even when I was younger
I used to hold the bottle with my feet instead of my hands.
I learned how to just do everything
on my feet by experience.
The more I grew up, the more, you know
I had to do the more I learned how to do.
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I have homework and I need to relax my brain.
I'm so tired.
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You think so?
- [Dad] I'll grab these.
- But I wanted you to grab them, 'cause I like them.
- [Dad] Okay, well I'll get some.
- 'Cause I like them.
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Don't diss my ability.
Just 'cause I look like I can't do anything,
don't think I can't, you know?
And even with people in wheelchairs that have arms
or just that's in wheelchairs.
I feel as if people look at them different too.
Like, you can't get around fast enough
or something like that, and that is so wrong.
Like, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter how long this person
is gonna take to do this,
if they get the job done that's all that matters.
Confidence or having self-esteem about yourself,
that doesn't come overnight.
I went through self-esteem and I went through
having to build myself up and it took me a while.
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I went through a big hump middle school and high school.
And then it was like another hump of me trying to,
'cause it was like, okay, I'm accepting myself,
I'm trying to love myself,
this, this, and that,
and finding your worth.
I'll say it took me five to six years
for me to get over this huge hump of me
accepting myself and loving myself
and caring about myself.
And right now,
and right now,
I am happy.
And now I'm in a place where I'm by myself
and I know who I am.
I know what I want.
I know my worth.
So I'm happy.
And so now I'm just working
on fulfilling all of my goals.
Handicap people are people
that are built different physically.
Needs help or whatever.
It could be regular people that needs help.
So, I just believe that I want to represent all.
It's all about being fair
and knowing that we're all human.
If we're a different color, if we're too toned
if we're huge, if we're skinny,
if we're in the middle,
if we fine, if anything.
We're all human.
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