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College graduate Annemarie Carrigan discusses the new documentary film, “Normie,” which explores her life and the “illusion of normal” through the lens of Down syndrome.
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Crazy part is as bad as I want to watch it, I don’t think I’m ready to face my emotions on that level lol
Wow I’m crying. My little brother has down syndrome, but he had a heart defect when he was born which has stunted his growth mentally. He will never be able to live alone. It’s hard to understand his needs sometimes and that frustrates him. But I’m prepared to take care of him for the rest of his life because he is the most loving and kind person I have ever met. I have learnt so much from growing up with him, and growing up loving him. Every day I thank God that he is my brother and that we were blessed enough to have him just the way he is
Loved this video!! Such an amazing story!
I'd be so embarrassed and depressed if that was my mum
People who have down syndrome are capable of living completely normal lives. They're normal people.
Broke my heart when she said she fighting aloneness
She has a great support system
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She's a beautiful woman, in so many ways!
I work at McDonald's, we have people with special needs who clean the lobby and stuff. We treat them like family, they even get teased like everybody else. This makes me appreciate them even more🤗
Gosh, she is so gorgeous.
This is amazing! ❤️ I definitely have to see this documentary ☺️
She is an amazing young lady, so talented and intelligent and everything I want my children to grow up to be, beautiful, smart in many more ways than just book smart, kind, efficient, confident, loving, to have a voice and ultimately be happy, darn it she is everything I aspired to be as a child, she’s a girl to look up to xx
She is beautiful inside and out
This illusion that we need to be something to have value. True statement. We all have value already and it takes knowing that to achieve anything in the first place.
GET IT GIRL!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️
This is one of the best things I've watched on YT
I cried!
I hate you dr Phil! Your a bad person
I love the name Annemarie. I think it sounds beautiful when spoken.
Well done Girl! 💪🤗💕💕💕
Oh that sentence broke my heart.
Well something positive for once and I still clicked. She’s so sweet. It breaks my heart so many Downs people are so aware of their differences. Hope she knows she is loved
Where can I watch this?!
She’s one strong smart beautiful young lady 🌹
I thought we aborted these tards now before they were born? Makes me want to live in china
She's such a relatable woman. I'm on the autism spectrum and I definitely understand the feeling of being alone and having trouble expressing/ proving yourself to others. She's clearly very intelligent saved kind. This brought me to tears
This so cute
Okay I'm crying so hard right now
Who are the 39 people who downvoted this video?
I think the fact that we all relate to being alone definitely means we lack connectivity to each other. Social media is not connecting the way we're meant to.
Such a beautiful soul and girl ❤️❤️❤️ I would be honored to be her friend
She’s so smart! I’m glad dr Phil talked to her like he would anybody else
I'm sorry but children with Down's disease get too much focus as the token "retarded person" If this was about an Autistic child, the whole premise will be completely different. Down's is not Autism. Autism is less accepted more prevalent, over diagnosed, but also under represented. Everyone recognizes a Down Syndrome child and goes "oh, okay, retarded" The autism child has way more issues but appears physically fine so people can't recognize it, they basically can't understand nor define it, so they ignore it. Shame on Dr.Phil for defaulting yet again to Down Syndrome exploitation because it is easier and recognizable.
She is adorable and amazing. God bless her!
Love her ❤️❤️
What an inspiring woman. Damn. 👏🏻
She's the highest functioning person with down syndrome that I've personally ever seen. I've known a young man with down syndrome in the past that lived/lives in a group for crying out loud and then I look at this young woman and think what a shame some of these people like the young man I mentioned aren't encouraged and allowed to reach their full potential like this young lady is. Of course some people with DS aren't high functioning and they need assistance to meet their needs but some are very capable but are treated like they're dumb and have no potential.
There is no such thing as "normal". What is normal for a spider is chaos for the fly.
I read this somewhere and it stuck.
What an absolute doll. ❤️
What a Beautiful and inspiring soul this young woman is!
Fighting aloneness… such a deep struggle
I congratulate her for her achievements.
What a beautiful girl x
This made me want to cry, my daughter had down syndrome and we found out while I was pregnant but due to complications she was still born. I was always so scared of what her life would be like but this just makes me feel so happy to know that everything might have been okay.😭❤️
She is so incredibly beautiful🥰
You can see how intelligent she is, it’s her outer disabilities, just like everyone else 🙏🏽