Special Books by Special Kids | Chris Ulmer | Talks at Google

you want it, yeah right, so I'm driving around and doing over 20 interviews in Seattle in a 1991 hippie van while I'm here and the term Community is often used when you're referring to community and the social media movement, It's used so much that I think it's often undervalued, but when you can land in a city you've never been to and the first thing that happens when you check your email is someone you've never met. They offer you their spare truck and they just trust that you will return it to them, it's a community, you can create a community online, so you watched these videos, I was in most of them, but I learned something, sometimes the most effective thing that What I can do is close Get out of the box and let the individuals tell the story.

This is one of those cases. When I first realized that and these two are brothers, in her eyes and seeing her smile, how does she make you feel? She makes me feel loved. I guess, how do you know she loves you? She is having seizures. She has all kinds of seizures and they usually do. happy sometimes they make her sad Now she gets happy because she really likes this, what is this, medical marijuana Mar? Now a lot of people will watch this video, if you could tell them one thing about your sister, what would you always believe? and

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and every time I watch a new video or a video that I've done in the past I interpret it in a different way of course you saw the beautiful connection.

He and his sister have done it, but I'm analyzing how I've evolved as an interviewer for 10 minutes, I asked him questions and he answered what a typical 13 year old would be like, he has his shells that he doesn't want to show. his emotions, then I asked him to look into his sister's eyes because he was looking at me while he responded. I said for the next question, focus on your sister. I want you to look at her, look into her eyes and think about her as you answer. Then he opened up, so after this interview I walked this nice young man to his car, looked him in the eyes and told him that what you did there will take you far.

The ability to open up and articulate and communicate your feelings effectively is rare. and if you keep doing that you will go far he said yes sir and I left, they also have a little brother who has no leg or foot but refuses to use a prosthetic foot he runs from one place to another plays sports they are an incredible family, like that that now I have this incredible platform, we have up to 400,000 followers, 450,000 and I realized that something that shows these children is incredible. People are learning, but they don't generalize if you see an adult in the supermarket and they're doing something.

From your sense of normality you will still call it weird, you don't understand that these children will grow up and become your neighbors, your adults, your co-workers, so I decided to start interviewing adults. This is Betty. She. She is 95 years old and lives with Alzheimer's, would you mind introducing her and the nice young woman who is next to you, hey, I'm Betty Norman, who are you? I'm Carolyn Charles and I'm your granddaughter, really, yeah H mhm, I thought she was my mom, but I'm starting to think it wasn't me, so what's it like seeing all these pictures of you?

It makes me feel big and important, but I know I'm not. Tell me about you, about me, or what I believe. I am, let's start with what you think you are, let's see, I think I'm a great princess from a different land, what a land, no man's land and who lives there with you, uh, my husband, I wouldn't live with anyone else, tell me. a little bit about your husband oh he was funnier than me that's for sure but he was a very good musician and he but the only problem I had was he insisted on being a teacher that was your dad not your husband no , that's right, he just put you.

Of course, that's my job, I'm not her caretaker, I'm just the one who sets her straight, he keeps, she keeps me in order, yes, it's appropriate to say that your memory has started to fail you, it's appropriate that you might as well admit it to yourself. same. It's very important it really definitely makes me stop and smell the roses because look, I'm good at something, there are people who think they're forgotten and they are. Did you ever think you were forgotten? I'm sure I'm no different from anyone else. There are times when I think that my friends have forgotten me and I have probably forgotten many of my friends.

One of the benefits of filming these interactions and observing them is that you can find their true meaning by watching them again for when she says people are afraid of being forgotten I thought she was referring to herself CU often when people want to open up they don't want to get to the end they use a different tense some people are afraid of this other people aren't It's not like that when they really talk about me. I thought that was what she was doing, but when I went back and edited it and watched the video, I realized that she was actually talking about other people.

Other people were afraid that she had forgotten them. I said I have Alzheimer's, it's reality, but even with that understanding she is still humanized and you understand that she is a person who laughs and smiles and does everything the same, she just perceives the world in a slightly different way compared to others, like this This was a very special moment, five minutes, okay, because for a whole year this is all I did. At this point I started to take a breath and realized that it's okay if you only make four or five videos a week, take some time for yourself and enjoy. process, so I started seeing those results and then that's when I saw my biggest progress, so I'm going to play.

I have two more left for you. This is when I really embrace the role of stepping back and focusing on the interactions. Alright ladies, are you ready for your big movie? uhhuh, could you tell me their names? Brandin DIY. I help her a lot and I help her at school and I help her here and I help her everywhere when I'm with why do you help her? so much because she asked me for help she is my best friend McKenzie why brandlin is your best friend she loves me how do you know she loves you? because she just kissed me help when you see brandlin what do you think why do you help her because she asks for help.

I could stand here and lecture all day and nothing I would say would have the same weight or meaning as that single line. I'm going to get to this last video because you absolutely need to watch it now. This has a double meaning that I didn't know at the time, the father of these two children had a viral video about 6 months before he interviewed them. I didn't know this when I met them, one parent wasn't there, you may have seen the video. He was a father of two little boys, one with Down syndrome and he was at a movie rental place and then he heard another boy ask his father what Down syndrome is because he had a movie and one of the actors had Down syndrome And the father. defined Down syndrome as lower intelligence and instead of talking, the father didn't and walked to his car and instantly grabbed his phone and filmed a rant about how he wished he had talked and that rant went viral and he said: "I just wish everyone knew the beauty that I got, the insight that I get from having my son.

I didn't know it at the time, but we provided that platform for the world to see that this video got to 20 million views and the people now understand the The beauty you described, brother, he has a lot of silly faces that he makes at home when people make fun of them or laugh at him, so I would say, hey, stop making a happy face, sad face, surprise, monster face, face, no, no, I don't see, no, I'll leave you with one last thought as his brother rubbed his face, you'll notice he looked at me like a big brother because he wanted validation and once he saw me smile and Nodding, he smiled at his brother, so remember that children, especially, are creating. your sense of reality by looking at us, so make sure you are very intentional about being positive because the only way to reverse what we see in the news today is to create that sense of normality and demonstrate what we want the world to be like in the next.

Generation, thanks for any questions, so I just want to take advantage of this moment. I know we are facing a difficult stop, but I want to take this moment Chris to thank you. We have a tradition at Google. Yes we have one. speaker uh to introduce you to a limited edition Android and I chose the one that looks like Mr. Chris with the bow tie on him so thank you so much that's so cool so we're going to go ahead and stop the video now. And anyone who wants to stay after for some questions, we have some time for that and people who have a tough stop at 2 o'clock, thank you very much for coming, thank you.