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I know exactly what you're saying when you

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say when you're sitting at home writing

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and you're not like, I'm deaf, I'm deaf

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I say the same for me When I'm

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sitting down doing my makeup

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I'm not like uh I'm blind, I'm blind

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Like, I'm not thinking about my

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blindness, I'm just living my life

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because this is our normal (Music)

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Hello everybody, we are back

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with my series , when I sit down

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with another person

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from the disability community

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and we disscuss all things

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life and disability related

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and this one is probably the

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most requested that I've seen.

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So we finally have Jessica

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and I'm gonna let you say your

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last name

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(Laughs) Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

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It's ok, I know, it's a difficult surname

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we literally went over this before

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we started filming

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We've just been like talking on

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Google Meet

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And I was like, practicing the name

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and I was like no, you know what,

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I got here, I was too deep,

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I was like, I'm jumping

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out of the pool.

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She'll take over. So thank you-

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It's complex. The Kellgren bit is Swedish,

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the Fozard is my wife's surname,

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it's from Normandy, smush it together,

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it's complicated for everyone.

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Or Jessica Out Of The Closet,

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which I think is a brilliant name

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because not only are you one of

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the most fabulous fashionistas

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that I follow on social media,

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but you are also in fact out of

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the closet, and so I think it's just

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such a fun username.

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(Laughs) Yeah,

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out of the closet in many ways.

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Out of the gay closet, out of the

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disability closet, just living life open.

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That's the way to live life.

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Being your best, most authentic,

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confident queen self. And that is

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exactly what you do.

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I watch your videos and I

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legitimately laugh out loud.

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Like you're one of, not only the most

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fashionable people I follow but one of

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the funniest people I follow,

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and I think that you, just by simply

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being you, break so many disability

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stereotypes and misconceptions,

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and I think it's so fabulous for just-

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so thank you for just exisiting

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on the internet.

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(Laughs) I mean, I could say

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the same thing about you, Molly.

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I woke up this morning and I was like,

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OK, Molly, you have to try to look, like,

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a little bit half fabulous

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because you're going to be sitting next to

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Jessica in a video and it's going

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to be embarrassing.

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Oh no, I think you are incredibly stylish,

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I must say. I always enjoy

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your Instagram as well.

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Thank you, I appreciate it.

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So, I know a ton of my audience

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knows and loves your content already

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but for those who don't, would you like to

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kind of give the brief introduction of who

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Jessica is in a nutshell.

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My goodness, okay, the elevator pitch

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of me, then, I guess.

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So, I'm Jessica, I'm a YouTuber,

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content creator. I make content that is

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generally fun, informative, educational,

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amusing, around things that are to do with

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disability, chronic illness, and LGBTQ+

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issues. So I have two genetic conditions,

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hereditary neuropathy with pressure

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palsies, which means that there are gaps

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in the myelin sheaths around your nerves.

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For me that means that I can paralyze

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parts of myself, that my nerves are more

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easily damaged, which does things like

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affect my hearing and I have loss of

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vision in one eye because of it, and it

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can do things like my hands don't have

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any feeling because I paralyzed both of

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my arms for a year and a half when I was

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a teenager. And they came back to a

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certain degree, but they can't now feel

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anything, so it's like wearing gloves

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all of the time. And I don't get hot and

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cold, any of those kinds of things,

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or wet. Which is really annoying when

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you're trying to hang up the washing,

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'cause you're like, is this wet?

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Is this dry? Absolutely no idea.

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And I end up having to like, press my face

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to all of my laundry to see whether it's

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dry or not. Very strange thing.

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And then you just get a random cheek stain

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or random foundation stain on the side

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of your white shirt.

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I mean, I should add, I only do this when

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I'm not wearing makeup. (Laughs)

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Pro tip.

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And then I also have Ehlers Danlos

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Syndrome, which is about my connective

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tissue, and means that not only am I

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hyper mobile, and very flexible and bendy,

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which most people think is like, whoa,

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what a great party trick, and it is,

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it's a pretty good party trick that I

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perhaps overused when I was a child.

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I dislocated various things just to prove

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to people that I could. Don't do that.

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That's a terrible idea. Don't do that.

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But it also affects connective tissue in

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things like my internal organs,

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so I have some issues with my heart, and

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I have postural orthostatic tachycardia

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syndrome, which comes from that,

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which is just a regulating blood pressure

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issue, so I faint a lot. And I can't exert

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myself too much, basically I go up two

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flights of stairs and I'm like, oh gosh,

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there's a heart attack coming.

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Ok, wonderful, and then I've got to lie

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on the floor for half an hour.

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And the vintage fashion is just a layer

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over the top, just to make everything look

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gorgeous while we're here.

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I think you should

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make more fashion content.

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I'm putting the pitch in now,

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and I think a lot of people

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in the comments will agree

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that you should have like a whole segment

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of your channel devoted to

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fashion content because we need that

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vintage inspo that you bring,

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we need your vintage wisdom.

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