00:00I had a jaw and my tongue blocks my airway from my mouth.
00:03It's hard for me to chew and breathe on my own.
00:06Kids would start picking on me.
00:08They would call me names like frog or alien.
00:11I was 10 when I started dancing,
00:13and it helped me escape from all the negativity.
00:15When I went viral on TikTok,
00:17the trolls appeared on my comment section.
00:20Negative comments got me really, really hard.
00:22You would be very emotional.
00:25This right here is my airway.
00:31I had a jaw and my tongue blocks my airway from my mouth.
00:35So having a tray helps it support me breathing a lot more better.
00:39I need to be careful how I clean it.
00:41I usually clean it like once a week.
00:43True to color,
00:43sensuality is a genetic condition that I was born with.
00:46It's a bone feature where I was born without no jaw, no ears.
00:52I had a hearing aid because I don't have ears, obviously.
00:55It's hard for me to chew and breathe on my own.
00:58There's certain things I can't do,
01:00like swim in the water or chew proper food.
01:03I have to be careful what I eat or else I will choke.
01:05What were your earliest memories of realizing
01:07you were different to other children?
01:12I would have to say first or second grade.
01:16I remember being looked at so many times,
01:18like I would get scared at, laughed at, pointed at.
01:22I remember being around sevens.
01:24Kids would start picking on me.
01:25They would call me names like a frog or alien
01:29or all these hurtful names.
01:31I didn't want to go to school because I was kind of like,
01:35I don't want to feel sad, you know?
01:37My parents told me we need to talk and they explained like,
01:40this is why people are doing this to you
01:43because you're born different.
01:44Perfect.
01:47Hey, babe.
01:48Hey, babe.
01:49Want some coffee?
01:50Yes, please.
01:51My dating life,
01:54I never dated anybody like an actual relationship.
01:57I remember being so, so scared.
02:01We met in August.
02:03Back in 2022?
02:052022, yeah.
02:06At first I was very scared of dating
02:09because I never knew what to expect.
02:11I've never dated anybody with this condition,
02:13which made me more interested about what the condition is
02:17because I never knew what it was.
02:18But I wasn't nervous about it only because
02:21how you look doesn't really bother me at all.
02:24You know, I've always told you this.
02:27You never judge a book by its cover
02:28until you actually read the book.
02:33I love you.
02:34I love you too.
02:35The relationship that I have now,
02:37it makes me feel good.
02:39I don't feel like I have a condition.
02:40I don't feel like I'm any different.
02:42I don't feel any less of a human.
02:44I don't feel any, just, I just feel good around him.
02:46And I've never met a guy like that.
02:52You know, I'm a cameraman.
02:53I got to get her recording every time she's dancing
02:55because she's so good with it, you know what I'm saying?
02:58When did you first discover you had a talent for dancing?
03:04I was 10 and my dad didn't know this.
03:07I was like moving my body around.
03:10He's like, yeah, what are you doing?
03:12I said, oh, I make the music, you know?
03:14My dad was smiling like, you know how to dance.
03:17So I'm like, okay.
03:19Dancing makes me feel stress-relieved.
03:23It helps me get my mind off of things.
03:26Dancing's my way of letting things go
03:29and letting things out of my system
03:31instead of, you know, screaming, punching walls.
03:35When I see Kayla dancing, how do I feel about that?
03:37I feel like she's living her best life.
03:43I started closing from kick-off on August of 2023.
03:47My boyfriend actually is the one that told me to post,
03:51like, hey, you should show off your talent.
03:52Imagine how many people you would uplift
03:55with your condition or disability in general.
03:58And I started like, hmm, I don't know.
04:02I was kind of scared because of the hate.
04:04There's a lot of hate comments in the world right now.
04:06I said, you know what?
04:07Screw it, I'll do it.
04:09Why not?
04:09I never thought my videos were going to be viral.
04:12It was unexpected and it's just crazy.
04:14This Gantz said it was going viral for a while.
04:17So I did the Gantz, it went viral overnight.
04:20It hit 11.5 million views, so yeah.
04:24Overnight, everybody was commenting like,
04:27girl, you can dance.
04:28Like, I think they were more shocked
04:30that people with condition like me
04:33can do something like that.
04:36And I saw all the nice comments.
04:37I saw all the negative comments.
04:39I was like, okay.
04:40At first, negative comments got me really, really hard.
04:42I remember at first, you would be very emotional.
04:48And that's understandable.
04:49Who's not emotional?
04:50Everybody is.
04:51And she would ask me that,
04:52why are they talking to me like this?
04:53What filter is this?
04:56They're assuming that my disability
04:59or my face is a filter, which I'm like, okay.
05:01You're trying to act slow.
05:02I don't know.
05:04How did this happen to a person?
05:08And I'm like, eh, somebody aren't smart.
05:12Or you're just trying to be funny.
05:13And it's not funny.
05:14It's stupid.
05:17The next one is a frog analogy.
05:20I'm like, okay, like, really?
05:23It's literally the same comments every single day
05:26or every time I post.
05:27So it's nothing that bothers me anymore, at least.
05:30I feel like they got too much time on their hands
05:33where they feel probably miserable themselves.
05:35They have nothing against really hurt.
05:36And if they do, they need help.
05:38We kind of just kind of like.
05:40Shrug it.
05:41Shrug it.
05:42Look at it like, okay, you want to be negative?
05:44Okay.
05:45Is there anything better you can do with your life
05:47besides being negative?
05:49I sometimes look at it as a boost to like,
05:52okay, since you want to be that negative,
05:54I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing.
05:56You're boosting me up to be a better person.
05:57If you can make a negative to a positive,
06:00then what can break you?
06:01It's kind of like, hate me some more.
06:03You're making me happier than ever.
06:04Yeah, basically.
06:07Basically, yeah.
06:08People assume that he's with me for my money
06:10or he's only with me because he deals bad for me.
06:14My understanding that a lot of the times
06:16is not about looks.
06:18When people say, oh, he's just doing it for the money,
06:21you don't know that.
06:22You don't.
06:23And it's not true.
06:24And it's not true.
06:26I make my money.
06:27She makes her money.
06:28We stick together.
06:29As long as you can be truthful and stick by my side
06:32and be yourself, that's all I need.
06:36I'm with him because I feel safe with him.
06:39I feel safe.
06:40I feel myself.
06:41I don't have to pretend to be somebody that I'm not as well.
06:46Looking back, my confidence was zero.
06:48Now it's more like, I would say like an eight.
06:51I'm not going to say 10
06:52because I'm not going to say I'm perfect.
06:54I'm not.
06:55I'm a human being.
06:56I have emotions.
06:57I have feelings.
06:58I have bad days, which is normal.
06:58Everyone has bad days.
06:59I feel so bad that people are not feeling confident
07:03about themselves.
07:04You know, people always say like,
07:05hey, you're confident.
07:06How can you be so confident?
07:08I wish I had that.
07:09I wish I had that.
07:10And I always tell them, you need to build it.
07:12What I hope when people learn from this story
07:15is never give up on yourself.
07:17Never give up on your passion, your dreams,
07:20your goals, your life goals.
07:22My visions and my goals for the future
07:24are just keep going, push hard.
07:26I will never stop doing what I love to do.
07:29And it's just me being me, me being myself,
07:32surrounded by love, positivity.
07:34You can't change the past,
07:36but you can change the future.
07:38What's going to come after?
07:39What's going to come after you next?
07:40I have a message for the people
07:42that are trying to bring me down.
07:45You can keep trying.
07:46I'm in my own place.
07:47I'm in my life.
07:49Doing what I gotta do.
07:50You're worried about what I do.
07:52You're worried about what I do.
07:54Keep watching me.
