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Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
Joshua Walters: ser sólo un poco loco
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En las audiciones TED Full Spectrum el comediante Joshua Walters, que sufre trastorno bipolar, cruza la frontera entre la enfermedad y la “destreza” mental. En esta charla divertida y estimulante pregunta: ¿Cuál es el equilibrio adecuado entre medicar la locura y manejar la manía fronteriza de creatividad y energía?
Joshua Walters - Comedian, activist
Joshua Walters is a bipolar comedian whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness ... Full bio
Joshua Walters is a bipolar comedian whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness ... Full bio
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My name is Joshua Walters.
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Mi nombre es Joshua Walters.
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I'm a performer.
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Soy comediante.
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(Beatboxing)
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(Percusión Vocal)
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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But as far as being a performer,
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Mientras me desempeñaba como artista
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I'm also diagnosed
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fui diagnosticado con
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bipolar.
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trastorno bipolar.
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I reframe that as a positive
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Me lo replanteé como algo positivo
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because the crazier I get onstage,
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porque cuanto más loco esté en escena
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the more entertaining I become.
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más entretenido va a ser.
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When I was 16 in San Francisco,
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A mis 16 años en San Francisco
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I had my breakthrough manic episode
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tuve un episodio maníaco
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in which I thought I was Jesus Christ.
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en el que pensé que yo era Jesucristo.
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Maybe you thought that was scary,
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Quizá piensen que es algo espeluznante
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but actually there's no amount of drugs you can take
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pero en realidad no hay ninguna dosis de droga que uno pueda tomarse
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that can get you as high
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que lo lleve a lo más alto
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as if you think you're Jesus Christ.
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como para creer que uno es Jesucristo.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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I was sent to a place,
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Me enviaron a un lugar;
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a psych ward,
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una sala de psiquiatría.
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and in the psych ward,
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Y en la sala de psiquiatría
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everyone is doing their own one-man show.
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todo el mundo está haciendo su espectáculo.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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There's no audience like this
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No hay público como éste
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to justify their rehearsal time.
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que justifique el ensayo.
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They're just practicing.
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Simplemente están practicando.
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One day they'll get here.
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Un día van a llegar hasta aquí.
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Now when I got out,
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Cuando salí,
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I was diagnosed
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fui diagnosticado
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and I was given medications
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y medicado
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by a psychiatrist.
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por un psiquiatra.
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"Okay, Josh, why don't we give you some --
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"Está bien, Josh, ¿por qué no te damos algo de...
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why don't we give you some Zyprexa.
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...por qué no te damos un poco de Zyprexa?
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Okay? Mmhmm?
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¿Bien? ¿Mmmm?
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At least that's what it says on my pen."
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Al menos eso es lo que dice en mi lapicera".
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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Some of you are in the field, I can see.
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Algunos de ustedes están en el campo, puedo verlo.
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I can feel your noise.
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Puedo sentir sus ruidos.
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The first half of high school
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La primera mitad de la escuela secundaria
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was the struggle of the manic episode,
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fue una lucha contra los episodios maníacos
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and the second half
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y la segunda mitad
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was the overmedications of these drugs,
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fue de sobremedicación
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where I was sleeping through high school.
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que me hacía dormir todo el tiempo.
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The second half was just one big nap, pretty much, in class.
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La segunda mitad fue, más o menos, una gran siesta en clase.
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When I got out
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Cuando terminé
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I had a choice.
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tenía que escoger.
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I could either deny
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O negaba
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my mental illness
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mi enfermedad mental,
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or embrace
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o me aferraba
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my mental skillness.
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a mis capacidades.
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(Bugle sound)
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(Sonido de clarín)
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There's a movement going on right now
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Hay un movimiento en este momento
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to reframe mental illness as a positive --
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para replantear la enfermedad mental como algo positivo,
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at least the hypomanic edge part of it.
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al menos la parte que roza la hipomanía.
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Now if you don't know what hypomania is,
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Ahora bien, si no saben qué es la hipomanía;
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it's like an engine that's out of control,
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es como un motor que está fuera de control;
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maybe a Ferrari engine, with no breaks.
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tal vez un motor de Ferrari, sin frenos.
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Many of the speakers here, many of you in the audience,
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Muchos de los oradores presentes, muchos de Uds. en la audiencia,
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have that creative edge,
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tienen ese toque creativo,
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if you know what I'm talking about.
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saben de lo que estoy hablando.
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You're driven to do something
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Se sienten movidos a hacer algo
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that everyone has told you is impossible.
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que todo el mundo les ha dicho que es imposible.
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And there's a book -- John Gartner.
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Hay un libro... John Gartner.
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John Gartner wrote this book called "The Hypomanic Edge"
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John Gartner escribió un libro llamado "The Hypomanic Edge"
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in which Christopher Columbus and Ted Turner and Steve Jobs
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en el que Cristóbal Colón, Ted Turner, Steve Jobs
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and all these business minds
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y todas estas mentalidades de negocio
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have this edge to compete.
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tienen esta ventaja para competir.
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A different book was written not too long ago
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Hay otro libro escrito no hace mucho,
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in the mid-90s
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a mediados de los '90,
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called "Touched With Fire" by Kay Redfield Jamison
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llamado "Touched With Fire", de Kay Redfield Jamison,
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in which it was looked at in a creative sense
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en el que esto se mira con sentido creativo
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in which Mozart and Beethoven and Van Gogh
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en el que Mozart, Beethoven y Van Gogh
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all have this manic depression that they were suffering with.
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todos padecían esa depresión maníaca.
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Some of them committed suicide.
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Algunos de ellos se suicidaron.
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So it wasn't all
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O sea, no todo era
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the good side of the illness.
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bueno con esta enfermedad.
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Now recently,
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Pero, hace poco,
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there's been development in this field.
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se han producido avances en este campo.
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And there was an article written in the New York Times,
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Salió un artículo escrito en el New York Times,
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September 2010,
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en septiembre de 2010,
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that stated:
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que decía:
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"Just Manic Enough."
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"La manía justa" (Just Manic Enough, NT)
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Just be manic enough
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Tener la manía justa
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in which investors who are looking for entrepreneurs
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para ser elegidos por inversores que buscan empresarios
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that have this kind of spectrum --
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con este tipo de espectro
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you know what I'm talking about --
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-ya saben de qué hablo-
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not maybe full bipolar,
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quizá no bipolares totales
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but they're in the bipolar spectrum --
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pero que estén en el espectro bipolar
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where on one side,
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donde por un lado,
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maybe you think you're Jesus,
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quizá uno piensa que es Jesús
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and on the other side
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y por otro lado
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maybe they just make you a lot of money.
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tal vez genera un montón de dinero.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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Your call. Your call.
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Elijan. Elijan.
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And everyone's somewhere in the middle.
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Y todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.
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Everyone's somewhere in the middle.
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Todos caen en un punto intermedio.
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So maybe, you know,
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Así que tal vez, ya saben,
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there's no such thing
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no es que
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as crazy,
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uno esté loco;
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and being diagnosed with a mental illness
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ser diagnosticado con una enfermedad mental
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doesn't mean you're crazy.
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no significa que uno esté loco.
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But maybe it just means
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Quizá significa
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you're more sensitive
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que uno es más sensible
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to what most people can't see
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a lo que la mayoría de la gente puede ver
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or feel.
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o sentir.
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Maybe no one's really crazy.
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Tal vez nadie está realmente loco.
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Everyone is just a little bit mad.
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Todos estamos un poco locos.
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How much
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Cuánto,
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depends on where you fall in the spectrum.
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depende de en qué parte del espectro caemos.
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How much
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Cuánto,
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depends on how lucky you are.
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depende de la suerte que tengamos.
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Thank you.
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Gracias.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Walters - Comedian, activistJoshua Walters is a bipolar comedian whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness ...
Why you should listen
Joshua Walters is a comedian, poet, educator and performer. He incorporates elements of spoken word and beatbox into his shows in a mash-up of comedy, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. In the last two years, Walters has performed at theaters and universities throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.
His eclectic combination of performance disciplines and activity as an educator in mental health has given Walters a national platform and audience. In 2002, Walters co-founded the DBSA (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) Young Adults Chapter in San Francisco, one of the few support groups specifically for mentally ill young adults in the country. As a facilitator, Walters developed humor to address the subject of mental illness, reframing it as a positive. Walters speaks as a mental health educator and has engaged in mental health advocacy at conventions and in classrooms nationwide.
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