" My name is Maysoon Zāyid doctor who assisted in my birth was
drunk. A mother cut six times in six different directions, suffocating me on
poor me all the time. Accordingly, we cerebral palsy, which means that always
shaking. It's exhausting. I'm like Shakira, Shakira face to face with Muhammad
Ali.
It's not genetic. There is a birth defect. Not transmitted.
Nobody has cursed my mother's womb, and I did it because my parents are first
cousins. It happens only in case of accidents, as happened to me the day I was
born.
My hometown is New Jersey , Cliffside Park . I always liked the fact that my suffering
and my neighborhood have the same initials. I like the fact that if I wanted to
walk from my home to New York City ,
I could.
A lot of people do not go, but my parents did not believe in
"can not". My father's mantra was: "You can do it, yes, you
can." So if the three older sisters wiped my floor, I did the same. If my
sisters went to state school, my parents sued the school system and made sure
that I went, and if we do not all high scores all had meeting with slipper
mother. My father taught me when I was five years to go putting my heels on his
feet and walking. Another tactic that was used to wave a dollar banknote in
front of me to make me follow him. Stripper of me was very strong, and ...
Yeah. Not until the first day of kindergarten, I went as a champion punched too
often.
I danced on Broadway step. Yeah, on Broadway. A crazy. My
parents did not permit physical therapy, soJersey , and we are very concerned to be chic, so if my
friends were wearing heels, so I did.
But a miracle cure that I found was yoga. I must say, it's
very boring, but before practicing yoga, I was stand-up comedian who could not
stand. And now I can stay in my head. My parents have reinforced this notion as
I can do anything, that no dream is impossible, and my dream was to play in the
soap opera "General
Hospital Arizona State University Jackson ." It's a
song about a girl with PC I was the girl with P. So I started to shout from the
housetops, "Finally I would have a role! I have cerebral palsy! Free at
last! Free at last! Thank Almighty, I'm free at last! "I got the part.
Brown Sherry it was obtained. I ran the theater department head crying
hysterically, as if someone shot my cat to ask why, and he said he did not
think I can do stunts. I said, "Excuse me, if I can not do stunts, any
character can not do." It was a role for which I was born and gave him an
actress without palsy. College imitate life. Hollywood has a sordid history of
distributing actors physically able to interpret characters with disabilities.
After graduation, I returned home and my first job was as an
extra actor in a soap opera. My dream became reality. And I knew that I would
be promoted to "one who dine" to "nebunaticul friend"
blink. Instead, I was a glorious piece of furniture that could only recognize
back and I was clear that the directors did not hire actors distribution "fluffy",
ethnic, disabled. Employers only perfect people. But there were exceptions to
the rule. I grew up watching Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr, Ellen. All these
women had something in common: they were comedienne. So I became a comedian.
My first task was to take away famous comedians in New York City to perform in New Jersey , and I'll never forget the face
of the first comic that I took, when he realized he was speeding on New Jersey
Turnpike with a girl with PC who was driving. We had performances in clubs
across America ,
and I played in the Arab Middle East, uncensored and uncovered. Some say it is
the first stand-up comedian in the Arab world. I do not like to pretend to be
first, but I know I have never heard that rumor annoying that women are not
funny, and we consider hysterical. In 2003, my brother from another mother and
another father, Dean Obeidallah and I initiated the Arab-American Comedy
Festival in New York ,
now in its tenth edition. Our goal was to change the negative image in the
media about Arab-Americans, while distribution remind directors that South
Asians and Arabs are not the same. It was much, much easier to integrate Arabs
than to fight the challenge to overcome the stigma of those with disabilities.
My big break came in 2010. I was invited to show cable news
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann". I walked as if I was going to the
prom, and put me in a studio and I was sitting on a chair with wheels that
spin. I looked at the stage director and said, "Excuse me, can you give me
another chair?" He looked at me and said, "Five, four, three, two
..." And we went live, right? I had to hold fast to the presenter table do
not disappear from the screen on rollers during fragment, and ended the
interview, I was livid. I had the great chance and gave it a mess, and I knew he
would not invite me. But not only that Mr. Olbermann invited me again, but I
and appointed full-time employee, and he stuck to the seat belt to the floor.
The doctors said that I could not go, but if I grew up with
social media, I do not think I'd be what they are today. Perhaps if there were
more positive image of people with disabilities would be less hate on the
Internet. Or maybe not. May still need a village to raise our children play.
My journey took me to places spectacular curved. We got to
walk the red carpet flanked by Susan Lucci and iconic soap opera diva Lorraine
Arbus. I got to play in a movie with Adam Sandler and work with my idol, Dave
Matthews amazing. I went around the world as the star Arabs Gone Wild. I was a
delegate representing the great state of New
Jersey at the DNC in 2008. And I founded Maysoon's
Kids, a charity which hopes to Palestinian refugee children even less of a
chance that my parents gave me.
My name is Maysoon Zāyid, and if I may I could, and you can."
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