Meet the Garcia Family — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi, my name is Christian Garcia.
2. 0:02>> Hi, I'm Jen Garcia.
3. 0:04>> Hi, I'm Camila Garcia.
4. 0:07>> I'm
5. 0:08I'm Mateo Garcia.
6. 0:10>> Good job.
7. 0:12>> [music]
8. 0:15>> You know, people think that just because
9. 0:17they're little, they can't live a a
10. 0:19normal {quote unquote} life like we can.
11. 0:22>> Now, when people see
12. 0:24a family like us living with dwarfism,
13. 0:27they see that we are {quote unquote}
14. 0:29normal people. We live
15. 0:32a full life. We have wives, [music] we
16. 0:34have kids, we have jobs, we're
17. 0:35entrepreneurs, and we're just changing
18. 0:38the world [music] one day at a time, so.
19. 0:40You get it right here.
20. 0:41It goes all over there. You got to do a
21. 0:43whole line, okay?
22. 0:44>> When I met [music] Christian, I mean, I
23. 0:46didn't know anything about dwarfism. And
24. 0:48we started a conversation. At that
25. 0:50moment, I didn't see him as a little
26. 0:54person or as someone who's different or
27. 0:56shorter. And the conversation was just
28. 0:58[music] so smooth, so natural, not
29. 1:01forced. And it sparked something because
30. 1:05here we are, 13 years later.
31. 1:10>> What's your favorite type of videos that
32. 1:11we do?
33. 1:12>> When we tell the the camera to like come
34. 1:15with us to get eggs and feed the dogs
35. 1:19and the chickens.
36. 1:21>> We started creating videos online for
37. 1:23fun,
38. 1:25but it turned into something way greater
39. 1:26than that. And we we love what it's
40. 1:28doing. It's representing the community
41. 1:31in a more positive way.
42. 1:33>> Well, when we first started, it was more
43. 1:35like trends. At that time, it was more
44. 1:37like dancing videos and kind of, you
45. 1:40know, like they have like the voices and
46. 1:43you kind [music] of just do like funny
47. 1:44videos. I started sharing with Camila
48. 1:46and therapy,
49. 1:49her milestones.
50. 1:51And then, you know, I was pregnant with
51. 1:53Mateo, shared my pregnancy journey.
52. 1:57So, we were trying to do like a lot of
53. 1:59dwarfism [music] awareness type of
54. 2:01videos and, you know, showing people
55. 2:03that just because they're shorter than
56. 2:06your average doesn't mean they can't
57. 2:08have a full, healthy life.
58. 2:10>> We're just trying to touch everyone's
59. 2:12heart and share our story.
60. 2:29>> [music]
61. 2:31>> So, what achondroplasia is to others is
62. 2:34that it's a type of dwarfism. There's
63. 2:35many different types of dwarfisms, but
64. 2:38ours is the most common. Majority of
65. 2:40people with achondroplasia come from
66. 2:42average height parents. So, like my
67. 2:44parents, they are average [music]
68. 2:45height. And it's pretty much just
69. 2:47shorter limbs of the arms and the legs
70. 2:49and
71. 2:50everything else [music] is pretty
72. 2:51average.
73. 2:53How do you explain achondroplasia to
74. 2:55somebody else?
75. 2:57>> Um I'll say that it's [music] a type of
76. 3:00dwarfism and we should respect it and
77. 3:03care for others [music] even though
78. 3:06they're
79. 3:07they're shorter
80. 3:08and it doesn't
81. 3:10depend on their height.
82. 3:12>> [music]
83. 3:17[music]
84. 3:19>> Give people chances because
85. 3:23just by the way they look doesn't define
86. 3:24their work ethic, doesn't define the way
87. 3:26they move, doesn't define what they're
88. 3:28capable of doing. As long as you have a
89. 3:30good heart and you're a dream [music]
90. 3:32chaser and you got dreams and you never
91. 3:34stop, you'll be all right.
92. 3:42>> [music]
93. 4:11>> Mhm.