Bernard's Everyday Life

Brut India

When he was born, the doctors told Bernard's parents, "He will be a circus dwarf."

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00:00A lot of people ask me how I drive a car.

00:04Look, it's very simple.

00:07I open the door.

00:09I get in.

00:17And that's it.

00:18I'm going to use the words of the doctor

00:21who used them to describe my small size

00:25to my parents, to tell them about my disability.

00:28If it was Bernard, it would be a non-circus.

00:30A non-circus.

00:32How can you describe a person like that?

00:34It's humiliating.

00:35It's nonsense.

00:36We are people like everyone else.

00:38I mean, I don't work in a circus.

00:42I work in a normal company,

00:45in the communication sector, and that's it.

00:47My parents, because of their education,

00:49saw me as a completely normal person.

00:52And that's what gave me my greatest strength,

00:55because they taught me to manage my day-to-day life.

00:57The moment I really became aware of my disability,

01:00I think it was at the start of high school.

01:02Because in kindergarten, everything is small.

01:06Everything is on a small scale.

01:07Small chairs, small tables.

01:09So even very small, even smaller than the norm,

01:11it was still okay.

01:13On the other hand, when you get to high school

01:15and you discover that you really have to sit on the chair

01:20to be able to go up to the desk,

01:22then you say to yourself,

01:23ah, there may be a little problem.

01:25When I was a teenager, if there was one thing in there

01:28that marked my disability even more,

01:31it was the period of first love.

01:33Well, most of the friends I wanted to go out with

01:36were much older.

01:38And when you're a teenager,

01:41you're a little stupid,

01:43you build up,

01:45and you don't necessarily want to go out with a younger person.

01:49Even if I was always the person who was very nice,

01:52even if I was always the friend who was always there,

01:55the shoulder on which you could count on

01:57if you ever cried,

01:58if you ever had heart problems.

02:00But on the other hand, I knew that,

02:03and I tried several times,

02:05we're not going to get bored either.

02:07I've had heart attacks,

02:09I've had emotions,

02:10and every time, yes, it was a refusal.

02:13I made my first kiss when I was 24.

02:15There you go.

02:16I made my first kiss when I was 24.

02:18So, it's true that it's been a while,

02:22but I had met a girl who was,

02:25let's say, more open-minded.

02:27And at that age, at 24,

02:30well, no, you think a little more.

02:33Yes, the guy who's there, he's smaller,

02:35but in his head, he's a normal person.

02:37So, there you go.

02:39Through my videos,

02:40I really want them to discover my daily life

02:42and that these questions no longer exist,

02:45as they go along.

02:46Or that a person who turns to me in the street,

02:49says, well, yes, in fact,

02:50he's as small as Bernard that I know.

02:52There are people who are going to ask me questions

02:55in front of their friends.

02:57The first reaction of the friends

03:00will say, well, I don't know,

03:02I don't know,

03:03I don't know,

03:04I don't know,

03:05I don't know,

03:06I don't know,

03:07they're going to say,

03:08he's completely stupid to ask you this question.

03:10No, he's not stupid.

03:11He doesn't know.

03:12You, you've had me as a friend for 15 years.

03:14You've been living with me for 15 years.

03:17You've known my difficulties for 15 years.

03:20It's been 15 years that, for example,

03:21when I go to the movies,

03:22it's you who gives me my ticket

03:23because the ticket is too high.

03:26So, because you're part of my daily life,

03:28so you know how I live it.

03:30Let's get right into the life of the subject.

03:32To choose clothes,

03:33first of all,

03:34what are the sizes I choose?

03:36So, of course, no,

03:37I don't get dressed in eight years.

03:39No, it's not because I'm young

03:41that I'm necessarily going to be eight years old.

03:44One day,

03:45I ran into a child in a supermarket

03:47who was with his mother.

03:49I was doing my shopping

03:50like a normal person.

03:52The child pointed at me

03:53and said to his mother,

03:54look at the man,

03:55how small he is.

03:57And in order to make self-criticism,

03:59because we have the right to self-criticism,

04:01I said to him,

04:04that's because I didn't eat enough soup.

04:07So, be careful,

04:08because if you don't eat your soup,

04:10the same thing could happen to you.

04:12And then,

04:14the mother,

04:16she burst out laughing.

04:18She burst out laughing,

04:19but kindly,

04:20kindly.

04:21And I felt that she was getting into my game.

04:23And the child,

04:25he didn't know what to say anymore.

04:27He was shocked that his mother was laughing.

04:30He was shocked that I was laughing too.

04:32But besides that,

04:34the mother still came.

04:36The mother of the child

04:37still came to see me from behind

04:39and said to me,

04:40there is one thing

04:41that I am sure of, sir,

04:43is that if,

04:44well, when he grows up,

04:45I hope he will have your humor.

04:48I won everything.

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