every morning I wake up and think today
will be the day nobody mistakes my I’m
your brother for the twin brother I
don’t even have today will be the day
nobody mistakes my best friend for my
babysitter but then I realize that will
not never happened but there is more
this is my mum she is four eleven and a
half and this is my dad he is six foot
two so it was a 50-50 chance that I
would either be extremely tall or
extremely short I guess it’s not very
hard to figure out which one I got I
used to be stressed out about my height
in grade five and I’m almost in grade
eight and I still get stressed sometimes
because people can be mean but then I
remember it’s not about your height your
weight the color of your skin or whether
you have physical abilities or
disabilities it’s about you embracing
who you are and doing what you love I
used to be a competitive swimmer then
last year I quit because everyone out
compete against would be getting taller
and taller and my wingspan just wasn’t
there
but now I’m in competitive diving and
last summer I went a bronze medal at the
once I realized I just needed to be me
everything started to fall into place I
wasn’t focusing on how to be cool or how
to be popular
I was just me I was figuring out what I
liked to do what I’m good at and who are
my good friends and who or not this is
my best friend she is extremely tall
five foot nine to be exact and I’m
extremely small though there are many
differences between us we’re still best
friends and we don’t care what people
think about our differences there are
plenty of girls in my school who I can
overhear talking about how ugly their
face is how short they are or how fluffy
their hair is every time I hear that I
want to scream out of the stall don’t be
so hard on yourself
you are perfect no matter what anyone
says and if you’re thinking how come I
can’t be perfect all celebrities are
perfect actually you’re wrong everyone
has their own flaws oddities and
uniqueness even celebrities and everyday
don’t be applying thousands and
thousands of pounds of makeup because
you are pretty with or without makeup an
actor’s name tina Lippert said when you
know yourself you’re empowered when you
accept yourself you are invincible what
would happen if we actually listen to
these words instead of the ones that
hurt what if we retired her to people
what if we the height of the person the
hall we didn’t even know imagine how
much happier you would feel and how much
happier everyone else would feel so it
doesn’t matter what you look like as
long as you embrace who you are that’s
right
give yourself a hug a big hug embrace
you you are important it doesn’t matter
what anyone else thinks even if it’s the
most important person in the world just
be you be the kindest person you can be
be what you want to be never give up be
the bunny in a world of sheep
thank you [Applause]
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