[Script Info]
Title: 
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.15,0:00:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so many of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.84,0:00:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.68,0:00:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.30,0:00:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hid my heart under the bed,\Nbecause my mother said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.80,0:00:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you're not careful,\Nsomeday someone's going to break it."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.44,0:00:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take it from me: Under the bed\Nis not a good hiding spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.06,0:00:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know because I've been\Nshot down so many times,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.46,0:00:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get altitude sickness\Njust from standing up for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.35,0:00:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's what we were told.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.35,0:00:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Stand up for yourself."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.65,0:00:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's hard to do\Nif you don't know who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.64,0:00:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were expected to define ourselves\Nat such an early age,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.40,0:00:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we didn't do it,\Nothers did it for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.72,0:00:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Geek. Fatty.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.23,0:00:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slut. Fag.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.16,0:00:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the same time we were\Nbeing told what we were,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.65,0:00:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were being asked,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:00:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.95,0:01:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always thought\Nthat was an unfair question.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.08,0:01:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It presupposes that we can't be\Nwhat we already are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.43,0:01:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.28,0:01:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid, I wanted to be a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.36,0:01:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted a registered\Nretirement savings plan
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.56,0:01:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would keep me in candy\Nlong enough to make old age sweet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.70,0:01:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.91,0:01:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid, I wanted to shave.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.37,0:01:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, not so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.21,0:01:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.10,0:01:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was eight,\NI wanted to be a marine biologist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.51,0:01:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was nine, I saw the movie "Jaws,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.44,0:01:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thought to myself, "No, thank you."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.38,0:01:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.89,0:01:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I was 10,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.07,0:01:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was told that my parents left\Nbecause they didn't want me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.92,0:01:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 11, I wanted to be left alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.91,0:01:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 12, I wanted to die.\NWhen I was 13, I wanted to kill a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.28,0:01:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 14, I was asked\Nto seriously consider a career path.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.34,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "I'd like to be a writer."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.78,0:01:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said,\N"Choose something realistic."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.66,0:01:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said, "Professional wrestler."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.11,0:01:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, "Don't be stupid."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.44,0:01:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, they asked me what I wanted to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.20,0:01:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then told me what not to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.56,0:02:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wasn't the only one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.80,0:02:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were being told\Nthat we somehow must become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.06,0:02:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we are not, sacrificing what we are
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.05,0:02:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to inherit the masquerade\Nof what we will be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.95,0:02:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was being told to accept the identity\Nthat others will give me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.59,0:02:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wondered, what made\Nmy dreams so easy to dismiss?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.66,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Granted, my dreams are shy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.03,0:02:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're Canadian.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.74,0:02:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.88,0:02:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dreams are self-conscious\Nand overly apologetic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.26,0:02:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're standing alone\Nat the high school dance,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.57,0:02:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've never been kissed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.13,0:02:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, my dreams got called names too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.96,0:02:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silly. Foolish.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.62,0:02:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Impossible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.79,0:02:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I kept dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.54,0:02:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going to be a wrestler.\NI had it all figured out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.16,0:02:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going to be The Garbage Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.81,0:02:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.83,0:02:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My finishing move was going\Nto be The Trash Compactor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.29,0:02:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My saying was going to be,\N"I'm taking out the trash!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.43,0:02:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.29,0:03:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.06,0:03:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then this guy,\NDuke "The Dumpster" Droese,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.84,0:03:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stole my entire shtick.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.58,0:03:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.17,0:03:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was crushed,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.30,0:03:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if by a trash compactor.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.15,0:03:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.67,0:03:18.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought to myself,\N"What now? Where do I turn?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.24,0:03:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.68,0:03:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.08,0:03:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like a boomerang,\Nthe thing I loved came back to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.59,0:03:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the first lines of poetry\NI can remember writing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.26,0:03:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in response to a world\Nthat demanded I hate myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.91,0:03:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From age 15 to 18, I hated myself
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.33,0:03:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for becoming the thing that I loathed:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.15,0:03:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bully.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.73,0:03:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 19, I wrote,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.52,0:03:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will love myself\Ndespite the ease with which
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.06,0:03:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lean toward the opposite."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.18,0:03:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing up for yourself\Ndoesn't have to mean
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.41,0:03:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,embracing violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.86,0:03:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.74,0:03:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I traded in homework\Nassignments for friendship,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.47,0:03:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then gave each friend a late slip\Nfor never showing up on time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.49,0:04:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in most cases, not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.14,0:04:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave myself a hall pass\Nto get through each broken promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.28,0:04:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember this plan,\Nborn out of frustration
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.63,0:04:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a kid who kept calling me "Yogi,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.85,0:04:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then pointed at my tummy and said,\N"Too many picnic baskets."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.59,0:04:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turns out it's not that hard\Nto trick someone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.03,0:04:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one day before class, I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.63,0:04:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yeah, you can copy my homework,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.70,0:04:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I gave him all the wrong answers\Nthat I'd written down the night before.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.67,0:04:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He got his paper back\Nexpecting a near-perfect score,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.20,0:04:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and couldn't believe it when he looked\Nacross the room at me and held up a zero.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.04,0:04:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew I didn't have to hold up\Nmy paper of 28 out of 30,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.11,0:04:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my satisfaction was complete\Nwhen he looked at me, puzzled,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.14,0:04:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought to myself, "Smarter\Nthan the average bear, motherfucker."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.62,0:04:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.43,0:04:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.68,0:04:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.58,0:04:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how I stand up for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.28,0:04:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.56,0:04:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to think that pork chops\Nand karate chops were the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.45,0:05:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought they were both pork chops.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.62,0:05:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother thought it was cute,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.39,0:05:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because they were my favorite,\Nshe let me keep doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.23,0:05:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not really a big deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.70,0:05:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, before I realized fat kids\Nare not designed to climb trees,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.49,0:05:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fell out of a tree\Nand bruised the right side of my body.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.99,0:05:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to tell my grandmother
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.74,0:05:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was scared I'd get in trouble
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.64,0:05:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for playing somewhere\NI shouldn't have been.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.77,0:05:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gym teacher noticed the bruise,\Nand I got sent to the principal's office.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.42,0:05:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From there, I was sent to another\Nsmall room with a really nice lady
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.72,0:05:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who asked me all kinds of questions\Nabout my life at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.83,0:05:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw no reason to lie.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.73,0:05:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as I was concerned,\Nlife was pretty good.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.49,0:05:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told her, whenever I'm sad,\Nmy grandmother gives me karate chops.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.96,0:05:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.90,0:05:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This led to a full-scale investigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.74,0:05:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was removed\Nfrom the house for three days,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.66,0:05:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until they finally decided\Nto ask how I got the bruises.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.20,0:06:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,News of this silly little story\Nquickly spread through the school,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.37,0:06:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I earned my first nickname:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.84,0:06:05.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Porkchop.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.90,0:06:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.28,0:06:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hate pork chops.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.16,0:06:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not the only kid who grew up this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.20,0:06:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by people\Nwho used to say that rhyme
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.93,0:06:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about sticks and stones,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.36,0:06:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if broken bones hurt more\Nthan the names we got called,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.13,0:06:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we got called them all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.07,0:06:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we grew up believing\Nno one would ever fall in love with us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.65,0:06:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we'd be lonely forever,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.98,0:06:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we'd never meet someone\Nto make us feel like the sun
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.72,0:06:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was something they built\Nfor us in their toolshed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.10,0:06:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So broken heartstrings bled the blues,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.95,0:06:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we tried to empty ourselves\Nso we'd feel nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.48,0:06:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't tell me that hurts\Nless than a broken bone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.86,0:06:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that an ingrown life\Nis something surgeons can cut away,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.52,0:06:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there's no way\Nfor it to metastasize; it does.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.16,0:06:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was eight years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.89,0:06:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our first day of grade three\Nwhen she got called ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.16,0:06:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We both got moved to the back of class
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.11,0:06:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we would stop\Ngetting bombarded by spitballs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.10,0:07:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the school halls were a battleground.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.09,0:07:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found ourselves outnumbered\Nday after wretched day.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.64,0:07:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used to stay inside for recess,\Nbecause outside was worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.99,0:07:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside, we'd have\Nto rehearse running away,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.11,0:07:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or learn to stay still like statues,\Ngiving no clues that we were there.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.53,0:07:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In grade five, they taped\Na sign to the front of her desk
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.34,0:07:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that read, "Beware of dog."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.97,0:07:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.61,0:07:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite a loving husband,\Nshe doesn't think she's beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.21,0:07:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of a birthmark that takes up\Na little less than half her face.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.62,0:07:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kids used to say,\N"She looks like a wrong answer
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.88,0:07:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that someone tried to erase,\Nbut couldn't quite get the job done."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.06,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they'll never understand\Nthat she's raising two kids
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.03,0:07:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose definition of beauty\Nbegins with the word "Mom,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.16,0:07:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they see her heart\Nbefore they see her skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.64,0:07:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she's only ever\Nalways been amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.68,0:07:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a broken branch grafted\Nonto a different family tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.70,0:07:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adopted,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.62,0:07:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because his parents opted\Nfor a different destiny.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.46,0:07:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was three when he became a mixed drink
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.44,0:07:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of one part left alone\Nand two parts tragedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.76,0:08:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started therapy in eighth grade,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.94,0:08:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a personality\Nmade up of tests and pills,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.77,0:08:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lived like the uphills were mountains\Nand the downhills were cliffs,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.56,0:08:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four-fifths suicidal,\Na tidal wave of antidepressants,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.97,0:08:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an adolescent being called "Popper,"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.88,0:08:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one part because of the pills,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.98,0:08:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,99 parts because of the cruelty.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.71,0:08:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He tried to kill himself in grade 10
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.28,0:08:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a kid who could still\Ngo home to Mom and Dad
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.92,0:08:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had the audacity to tell him,\N"Get over it."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.32,0:08:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if depression is something\Nthat could be remedied
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.79,0:08:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by any of the contents\Nfound in a first-aid kit.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.46,0:08:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day, he is a stick of TNT\Nlit from both ends,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.06,0:08:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could describe to you in detail\Nthe way the sky bends
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.58,0:08:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the moment before it's about to fall,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.54,0:08:44.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and despite an army of friends\Nwho all call him an inspiration,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.53,0:08:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he remains a conversation piece\Nbetween people who can't understand
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.85,0:08:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes being drug-free\Nhas less to do with addiction
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.88,0:08:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more to do with sanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.96,0:08:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We weren't the only kids\Nwho grew up this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.21,0:08:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day, kids are still\Nbeing called names.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.92,0:09:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The classics were\N"Hey, stupid," "Hey, spaz."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.81,0:09:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seems like every school\Nhas an arsenal of names
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.59,0:09:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting updated every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.79,0:09:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if a kid breaks in a school\Nand no one around chooses to hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.95,0:09:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do they make a sound?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.33,0:09:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are they just background noise\Nfrom a soundtrack stuck on repeat,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.49,0:09:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people say things like,\N"Kids can be cruel."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.53,0:09:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every school was a big top circus tent,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.78,0:09:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pecking order\Nwent from acrobats to lion tamers,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.62,0:09:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from clowns to carnies,\Nall of these miles ahead of who we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.99,0:09:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were freaks --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.44,0:09:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lobster-claw boys and bearded ladies,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.06,0:09:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oddities juggling\Ndepression and loneliness,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.17,0:09:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing solitaire, spin the bottle,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.92,0:09:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to kiss the wounded\Nparts of ourselves and heal,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.56,0:09:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but at night, while the others slept,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.18,0:09:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we kept walking the tightrope.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.81,0:09:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was practice, and yes, some of us fell.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.64,0:09:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to tell them that all of this
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.66,0:09:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just debris
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.70,0:10:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left over when we finally decide to smash\Nall the things we thought we used to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.43,0:10:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you can't see anything\Nbeautiful about yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.38,0:10:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get a better mirror, look\Na little closer, stare a little longer,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.08,0:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's something inside you\Nthat made you keep trying
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.02,0:10:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite everyone who told you to quit.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.95,0:10:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You built a cast around your broken heart
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.02,0:10:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and signed it yourself, "They were wrong."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.08,0:10:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because maybe you didn't belong\Nto a group or a clique.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.71,0:10:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they decided to pick you last\Nfor basketball or everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.79,0:10:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you used to bring bruises and broken\Nteeth to show-and-tell, but never told,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.67,0:10:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because how can you hold your ground
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.42,0:10:32.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if everyone around you\Nwants to bury you beneath it?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.87,0:10:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to believe that they were wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.44,0:10:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to be wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.12,0:10:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why else would we still be here?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.77,0:10:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We grew up learning\Nto cheer on the underdog
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.11,0:10:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we see ourselves in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.85,0:10:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We stem from a root planted in the belief
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.100,0:10:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are not what we were called.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.72,0:10:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not abandoned cars stalled out\Nand sitting empty on some highway,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.04,0:10:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if in some way we are, don't worry.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.96,0:11:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We only got out to walk and get gas.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.97,0:11:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are graduating members\Nfrom the class of We Made It,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.28,0:11:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the faded echoes of voices crying out,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.30,0:11:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Names will never hurt me."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.01,0:11:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.59,0:11:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But our lives will only ever always\Ncontinue to be a balancing act
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.62,0:11:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has less to do with pain
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.59,0:11:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more to do with beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.40,0:11:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)