How Asian Parents Compare You to Your Cousin
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"Only language you speak is FAILURE!"
That's some emotional damage.
Child: Breathes
Their Parents: And I took that personally
wassup
Nani? No one here?
@Steven Shorts 🅥 no, I don’t think it is
Asian Kid: *becomes Elon Musk*
Asian Parents: “this is not how you supposed to play the game”
"He got 15 years work experience. He's 9." Timmy is the exact kind of person jobs are looking for these days! 😄
You are so right. I've seen many job ads requiring years of experience for entry level jobs. "Entry level" is supposed to be a first job, but they want you to have had a job before your first job!
There’s a reason Timmy spent 6 years in the womb
Right job says entry level in description then wants 10 years of experience. 🤔
Timmy had a job before he was born
Don’t forget child labor
“Timmy looks like Tom Holland. You look like THANK YOU NEXT!” I’m dead 💀🤣
"He had ADHD. He walked it off."
As someone with ADHD myself, this had me bursting out laughing 😂
same XD
Same bro, same 🤣🤣🤣
I thought he said he worked it off
*HDHD
Me too(technically I have ADD but that line me made laugh so hard I almost burst my own lungs!)
As an Asian child, this is exactly what happens to me. But instead of comparing me with my cousins, my mom compare me to her own childhood.
then compare her with someone else's childhood
@@manbeman1819 damnnn
@@manbeman1819 damnnn
Also as an Asian child I can’t do anything correct supposedly. Everything I talk about is somehow turned into a lecture.. 😭😭😭
Me and my family aren't Asian BUT what you said @Someone is exactly what happens to me !
“150 degree weather, barefoot in the snow” that one had me rollin 😂
Absolute gold..
so, he is crippled?
that snow's got a harder life than even Timmy
Snow ? 150 degree weather?
Asian? Makes sense
@@kpadmanabhan4558 make sure to see commas
“WE HAD TO PLAY IN THE HUNDRED DEGREE SUN… BAREFOOT… IN THE SNOW!”
I actually laughed for like an hour about that 😂 it makes no sense
How u gonna play in 100 degree heat while it’s snowing
Oh... back in his dad's time, physics wasn't invented yet.
Fr it be like it’s so hot the air turned to snow
As an Asian, yes this is what our parents will tell us😂
Because the snow is on FIRE!!!!
No excuses. You make NO EXCUSES
'he learned calculus on the back of milk cartons' had me dying of laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi Steven, would you be interested in working as a “Your Cousin”? We think you’re the perfect failure to represent our company. We can pay you $7.
Oh that’s more money than I’ve made in my entire acting career. I’ll take it.
@@StevenHe lmao
I’m interested! Or maybe it’s the fact that since I don’t have any cousins my Asian parents compare me to every living creature…TT
yes
@@StevenHe how much vietnam dong you make yearly
"We had to play in the 150 degree sun barefoot in the snow"
Timmy's just so good of a cousin he can literally break the laws of the universe itself.
@Deep Shorts 🅥 imagine advertising
well, he is his cousen after all
Physics wasn't even invented then!
That's what losing ur pigeons buddies does to u.
They were degrees Kelvin.
Timmy was so kind to his parents, he drove them to the hospital when his mom was about to give birth.
LMAO 🤣
So great, I'm done.
Asian Parents should be ashamed of themselves.
Timmy also paid her mom's hospital bill and gave her unlimited paid maternity leave
Nope, I'm dead
"back in china, we used to roundhouse kick eachother in da face" got me rolling on the ground that was a perfect ending 💀
BAREFOOT, IN THE SNOW!
“Jesus can walk on water, Timmy can run.” I’m dead
That’s the other video
@@SandeepKaur-rw2fj it’s at the end of this one
Jesus is a failure
Funny our Asian pastor got canned for saying the same thing
Asian Dad: *Contacts Me On His Phone*
Me: *Picks Up My Phone* What?
Asian Dad: Son, your Grandparents cannot make it.
Me: What!? Ok! I'm coming over! *Accelerates My Blue Aprilla Motorbike To The Hospital*
*45 Mins Later*
Me: Grandma! Grandpa! I'm sorry I did not come over to your place. Please forgive me?
Asian Grandpa: Our Grandson we can forgive you.........
*Asian Grandparents Died In Ward*
Asian Dad: Mom! Dad! I'm sorry for being such a failure. Doc, is there anything that you can bring my parents back?
Doctor: I cannot save them I'm sorry.
Asian Mom: Ok. We won't pressure you.
Me: *Angrily Left The Hospital Ward*
Asian Sister: I'm sorry lil brother.
Me: Until now then you apologize to me?
Asian Brother: But......
Me: Shut your mouth big brother! Our sibling relationship is forever broken! Now you guys can have fun living with your Girlfriend & Boyfriend! Also, you will watch Mom & Dad when I'm not around! *Wears My Blue HJC Full Face Helmet & Gets On My Blue Aprilla Motorbike & Accelerates On The Road*
As someone with ADHD, I also walked it off, sadly it followed me home afterwards beat the shit out of me and hasn’t left me alone since. Aw well good luck to Timmy.
im pretty sure he said "worked it off"
Finally it's here (it's not a real link) czcams.com/video/AAAAAAAAAAA/video.html
From Spain, this is me too. You are not alone
@@arky5674 I think it works both ways
Clearly the solution is to never stop running. Sleep is for the weak anyways.
"Timmy got HDHD, What is he a flat screen tv" uhh attention deficient disorder and you know what he did... he walked it off, *slap* what?" was the BEST line
Timmy can play golf with a bowling ball. HILARIOUS!!!!!!! I love how Steven cracks himself up!
I think it would have been funny the other way around
"Timmy had to send in his test by pigeon" made me burst out of laughter
Oh he said pigeon I thought he said pager 📟.
@@bharatsadhnani4370 he said pager only ..
I thought he said pension
Subtitles never lie
The same here🤣LOL
"Only language you speak is FAILURE." That is gold. Got me laughing so hard.
That stings
wheeze
Emotional damage
gotta include that in my insult reservoir
it was mad😂
1:39 - his face says - "Dont do it. Dont say it. Dont do it."
Few seconds later. "Hes probably not very athletic then.."
2:08. Why........
The greying out and sad music exactly reflects my experience as an Asian American child. I mean it's really funny but at the same time I think about all the actual emotional damage it did to me and how 20 years later I'm still working on fixing it. This is very very accurate. Impossible demands and expectations are around you all the time and if you don't meet them then it's like you're not only a failure but you are rejected by the family so to speak
This channel gives tips on emotional damage.
Indians- no different.
"Timmy has HDHD. What is he, a flat screen TV?" had me rolling on the floor for like 5 minutes. Keep it up Steven
"He walked it off!"
I got HDHD and I walked it off😂
I have a comparing joke for Steven’s dad to use:
“Your cousin can play Xbox, PlayStation and PC at the same time! You can’t even play Average at Mathematics!”
*Taking notes
@@StevenHe why do I feel like you're going to incorporate a taking poor notes joke with this as well
@@StevenHe ayo steve could you please block the bots in this thread?
@@StevenHe "You keep complaining about salt in food while timmy makes his own food from garbage bag"
@Steven Shorts 🅥 Impersonation 0_0
He got 15 years of work experience
He is 9
*logic has left the chat*
Logic wasn’t invented at their time. Trust me, I survived both of my parents
I got twenty years I’m fourteen
They are asians. Its ok, they are built different.
Recruiters have entered the chat
So Timmy worked 5 jobs at the same time since the age of 7. 3 years*5=15 yrs of experience. That's just hardly possible.
He forgot to mention that Timmy ran out of time to sleep as he's too busy running a job on the side... So he slept FASTER!!
"Remember your cousin Timmy? He has 15 years work experience...he is 9!" Got me 😂, Steven never fails to make me laugh!
I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on CZcams. I already make a lot of money on CZcams. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, ab
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Finish high school, don’t go to college
"Only language you speak is failure!" Wow, that one hit home! And I was a doctor at 22. Yay Asian parents.
@Steven Shorts 🅥 yesss
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE 😶😶❌❌
ONLY 22 FAILURE😊
@@justice2026 Hey mom, when did you join CZcams?
jokes aside, thats impressive!
"Timmy learn calculus from the back of milk cartons"
LMAO
2:01 " back in china we used to round house kick each other in the face!" Hahaha that part killed me the most ❤😂
“He made a violin out of orange peels. He learned to play Mozart by listening to the McDonald’s jingle” This part made me laugh so hard
Wud want to like buh can't ruin the 69 👀
Now he plays in his sleep!
"Now he plays in his sleep" lolololol
Nvm🥺
I am surprised he doesn’t play every instrument too
His Dad’s screensaver is just himself… what a legend.
HAHA
@Steven Не 🅥 am I getting hacked for clicking on this link?
@@TG-wt5yr that one is a bot
@@TG-wt5yr it’s an ice cream recipe with a rickroll in the middle.
"Timmy had to send in his tests by pigeon!" made me laugh so hard :D
Timmy built a dishwasher with machine learning out of Legos and sold it to Microsoft!! 😂😆🤣
"You think Timmy could afford violins? He made one out of orange peel."
"He learnt to play Mozart from listening to the McDonald's jingle."
"Now he plays in his sleep."
My Asian Twosetter heart is killing me and I'm still laughing my left lung out.
And Timmy did that before he's 9.
he plays in his sleep or because he's dead? that's what he got from eating orange peel and mcd
Repent to Jesus Christ
““Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”
Matthew 6:25 NIV
K
😂
@@praisejesusrepentorlikewis6218 Amen
Stephen's dad: "Where's your Masters degree?"
Stephen: "I'm an actor, I don't really need a Masters degree"
Stephen's dad: "You mean you're unemployed and do acting on the side." ☠️
That was the most serious REAL Burn
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo.
250 sentadillas son unos CASUAL.centre.BABY muchas y un buen ejercicio.
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados😍👍💓
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer..
"Youre such a failure you make chili jam look like MSG!"
That one got me rolling on the floor🤣😭
Steven's dad- Timmy's got HDHD.
Steven- What is he a flat screen tv.
This got me goooood i listened to it like a 43 times.
"We had to play in the 150 degree sun barefoot in the snow!" oh my goodness, you had me laughing so hard with that one!
it was probably 150 degrees celsius too
@@searlyt but, but that is even worse...
@@pedrohenrich167 thats the point, because timmy is so tough
Timmy was there before physics was invited so it could be freezing and frying, AT THAH SAME TIME!!!
I was looking for this right here!
"Timmy got HDHD!" "what is he, a flatscreen tv?" this part got me so hard lol
it's actually ADHD lol
@@buiquangminh2415 ik
LOL
@@buiquangminh2415 r/woooosh
ok
I love watching the staring they do back and forth.So cool.
I could watch this 100 times, and it would STILL crack me up!!!
My entire geometry class quotes you daily. Great job!
hahahah please tell them that makes my day
@@StevenHe omg 😂😂
That's a lot of dedication
Basically my entire school does too
haha
"He got ADHD and he walked it off!"
That line is amazing.
As someone with ADHD whose immigrant dad thinks in exactly those terms, I felt so seen!!
any children will have adhd if their parents are like that
HDHD*
lmao"he got 15 yrs work experience, and he is 9" this line always gets me 💀💀
Wait then dosen't that mean he's 15?
@@lipu781 ikr
Thankyou for addressing the issue about attention deficit disorder and how parents try to brush it off I am an Asian more precisely a South indian. I remember when I was 15 I first told my parents that something was not right with how my brain works they said im just stressing out but 3 yrs later I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and I'm currently under treatment.
“Only language you speak is FAIIIILLLURE” Steven never fails to crack me up 😭😭😭
Y didn't he say
"Then y can we communicate
Wait then how does Steven's dad understand what he's saying?
@Savetion (GREATEST VIDEOS) Your videos are failures like Steven
Yes! That is one of my favorite lines from this weejio too!!🤣🤣🤣
@@asianflex he's the owner of failure management
The most underrated line that you’ve ever said was, “Those same two lions, they do my TAXES!”
I think about that almost daily 😂
His dad puts everyone to work…….poor two lions 🤣
Glad to see that I'm not the only one
Are there two lions on the IRS logo?
@@muhsalihu I think you are thinking of something else
OMG this takes me back to my childhood! Thank you so much! I love it!!!
I think i rewatched this video like 30 times and still laughed every time...
The "WHAT THE HEEEEEELL" when mentioning Timmy's athleticism.... that was a new sonic dimension of humour that I just loved! Excellent!
HA HA imagine if it becomes another meme
@@StevenHe I think there are enough different soundbites of Asian Dad that he deserves a placeboing style remix (placeboing - the "Turn the freaking frogs gay" remix guy)
@Depp so ur saying it’s finally here is ur dad finally get the milk?
@Steven Shorts 🅥 so ur saying it’s finally here is ur dad finally get the milk?
FUIYOH thanks for the MSG callout 😋
Chili jam! LOLOLOLOL
How this only got like 62 likes. Its from uncle roger
FUIYOH!
Today I found a Jamie Oliveoil book in my girlfriend's kitchen. It was hard, but I managed to not break up immideately. Instead, I showed her your videos. After she got enlightened we drowned the book in olive oil, burned it and made some proper egg fried rice on the fire. Our relationship was put to the test but we overcame the challenge, the ultimate proof of love.
Ayyyy uncle roger
5 jobs at the same time without electricity
“How is that even possible?”
“because I said so”
As an Asian child, I can agree this is 100% true and accurate, as exaggerated as it may sound, this is so damn accurate. This is excactly how I grew up as a child
Same.
Same,grew up as a “failure”🤣
@@user-hc8rd8gr9d ah I did that too. good times.
Same
Same with Pakistanis
That joke where you said back where we can from we play in 150 degrees barefoot on snow literally had me dying with laughter.
Dey so poor dey cannot afford teh termodynamix, la. Yu have dat and physics and shoes and still play like failure!
Oh man, I gotta say out of all the comedians nowadays, I haven`t laughed so hard even remotely. You are awesome !
ur legit my favourite CZcamsr, you deserve 10 million subscribers, Im asian so this video is relatable
While saying "Timmy has to send his texts through a pigeon" Steven almost broke character 😅 Good job as always.
Genshin refrence?
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo.
250 sentadillas son unos CASUAL.centre.BABY muchas y un buen ejercicio.
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados😍👍💓
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer..
@Steven Shorts 🅥 Df, I even fell for it.
@@ToddlerTornadoTomato Sucrose, was that you?😂
This one hurt me the most, "You mean you're unemployed and do acting on the side." I'm a musician and audio engineer and this is my mother's exact perception of my career. 🤣🤣
Me too my friend. Me too ❤️
Does your mom earn more than you? Audio engineer sounds so fancy.
@@sindri1447 I make as much as she does, thats the trip! 🤣
@@norabiddogz8673 at least, you're an engineer
at least you're not unemployed and dishwashing maid forever
This is my favorite sketch of yours, steven
Bruh this is so relatable. I’m still in middle school and my mom is comparing me to my cousins who are in college going to be doctors 💀
"He learned how to play Mozart from listening to the McDonald's jingle" has to be my new favorite quote from this channel LOL
Please keep making videos they're so much fun to watch :D
Microsoft. You mean BIG HARD. BIIIGA HAAAAARRRRD!!!!
@Steven Shorts 🅥 so ur saying it’s finally here is ur dad finally get the milk?
@Depp so ur saying it’s finally here is ur dad finally get the milk?
"what in the cinnamon toast f***" you sure?
He must be able to practice 40 hours a day like ling ling
What is accurate is, how Steven said just a single sentence and his dad starts getting angry and lectures him by shouting. He even brought up his relatives out of nowhere and discourages him even further. It happens with me and my mom all the time. 😭
Then talk back to your mom and tell her that she's wrong and if she doesnt listen she is ignorant
*B*
I lost it at the flat screen TV part.
“We had to play in the 150 degree sun barefoot in the snow.” 🤣🤣🤣
I didn't really care when my parents compare me to my cousins/neighbours/classmates cause I just got used to it, my reaction to my mom comparing me to them was just "ok that's cool" and then starts scolding me the entire day
HAHAH you are built different
American grown asian kids always come back with comparisons of the Uncles/Aunties.
unless you are super useless parents are probably doing that coz they are jealous of them or something coz they probably brag about how good their son is
Don't let her treat you like that.
Parents are suppose to love you.
@Steven Не 🅥 Screw u I knew it was a rickroll
Haki
“Learned calculus from the back of milk cartons”
Dude you never fail to make me laugh 😂😂😂
I would want such milk😊
You should make a series out of this!
Idk why but the second stevens dad does the slow turn around with the side eye, I can’t help but chuckle
I love that when Steven started making these, they were kinda realistic but since then they've gotten more and more insane and I am here for that transformation
1:52 When Steven says "He's Nine" , That was so much realistic, I watched it 0.25x.
These are realistic. As an Asian, believe me it doesn't stop 🤣
"Back in China we used to roundhouse kick each other in the face" 🤣🤣💀💀
I can't get enough of Steven's Dad! Please keep these coming!
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE
Sholin Soccor
What is roundhouse ?
@@fangfend7995 Kind of a high kick but you spin in the air while doing it
TIMMY HAD TO MAKE HIS OWN CHAIR 🤣🤣
"We played in 150° heat, in the snow" 😂 why was this so funny
"Timmy was so generous that he donated his lungs and still was able to breathe" 😂😂😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Timmy is so smart, he don't even need a brain
Timmy is so epic, he can donate his eyes and still be able to see
Underwater
😅
I love the line JESUS CAN WALK ON WATER , TIMMY CAN RUN 🤣🤣🤣
Got sent to Jesus by Steven’s dad earlier. :)
"150 degrees of sun barefoot in the snow" 😭🤣 omg I'm dying
Had to play in 150 degree sun, bare foot, in the snow. Poor guy got frostbite and sunburnt
laughed hard at "what is he, a flat screen tv?" that was really unexpected and hilarious
I have adhd lol
yuppp 🤣
Lol I thought that was the funniest part
1:59
> 150° temp
> Barefoot in the snow
😂
I think he mean is *150 Fahrenheit degree*
@@MAXIMUM-pc1ch that's still hot lmao
150 degree kelvin 💀
That was probably the best “What the Hellllll!” I’ve seen from all of his videos
“You think he could afford violins!? He made one out of ORANGE PEEL!!!” Could not stop laughing.
he learned to play mozart from listening to the *M C D O N A L D ' S J I N G L E*
@@NLite486Now he plays I N H I S S L E E P !
"He's probably not that athletic then."
"WHAT THE HEYL"
This scripting is genius
WHUT DA HEO U SAY?
@@lord.d1_ "He got 15 years experience. He's 9."
How is this only have 17 likes!
@@techwings001 this is an older video and I commented pretty late. So not as many people will see it. I do appreciate the like though, thank you.
"Why can't you be as handsome as timmy"
"He looks like Tom Holland "
"You look like Thank you Next"
hahahahahahaha
Ouch
Emotional damage 💔
if your parent ever asks you why u ugly, just say "bad genetics"
@@amoral_minority oof
Steven’s Dad: Timmy had ADHD.
Steven: Is he a flatscreen TV?
Steven’s Dad: Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, and you know what he did?!…He walked it off!
That had me dying the whole time!😂😂😂😂😂
"I gave him a lego set once. He built a dishwasher." 🤣🤣
The way steven exhausts after giving the whole lecture about Timmy and then screams "WHAT THE HELLLLLLL" just makes me laugh so hard 😂
@Steven Shorts 🅥 so ur saying it’s finally here is ur dad finally get the milk?
@Steven Shorts 🅥 can I say.....WHAT DA HAIL
SAME 😂😂
Timmy was so self reliant that he assisted the doctors while his own delivery.
That means he came to the world... BOTH WAYS.
@@Gunsmith-rj5ur BAREFOOT
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo.
250 sentadillas son unos CASUAL.centre.BABY muchas y un buen ejercicio.
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados😍👍💓
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer..
Indonesian look like Indian
Meanwhile Timmy's parents : Look at Steven, eh?? Looking for jobs...
Timmy : * Emotional Daaaamage *
Dude you are hilarious! I literally cannot stop watching
This is painfully accurate lol. I get compared to my cousin, and my cousin gets compared to me in her house, the cycle never ends :')
@Alexander David Ariado bot wouldn't see it ofcourse
“Timmy learned calculus from the back of milk cartons!” You sold me with that one. Keep it up! ✊🏾👌🏾
I had to think about that one for a second before I court on
There’s so many CZcamsrs outhere not even trying. This one is top notch. 👍🏼
This skit had me dying throughout the whole thing. Especially the athletic part.
“Only language you speak is FAILURE”
That was so relatable I almost cried
@The Game Shorts 🅥 ratio+didn't asked
that one hit a bit close to home hahhahaha
@Steven Shorts 🅥 didn't ask+ratio+don't care
@Savetion (GREATEST VIDEOS) cap
@Depp not again
Timmy: Works 5 jobs at the same time for 15 years
Also Timmy: can't afford a chair
And that's the point at which Steven's dad, backed into a corner of his own contradiction, simply pulled off his sandal and said, "I will send you to Jesus."
@@themesongfan452 lol 😂😂
He is a child and child labour is illegal. Therefore he doesn't get payed.
It's all for bragging rights.
Chairs weren't invented yet
That's because Timmy had to pay for the whole village elders on livesupport. (Who did the same thing as timmy when they were young just for all of china, of course)
This man is dedicated.
He makes the flipping SPONSORSHIP BREAKS funny. Keep up the great work!
If you are gonna reply please use one of your famous quotes Steven
as the cousin that other cousins got compared to, I can tell you that the lack of emotional damage from judgement is thoroughly compensated by the suffocating pressure to reach the level of excellence everyone expects you to.
lol
OMG- I'm literally the same!!! I get so much pressure when I'm having my test cuz my family gives me so much frickin anxiety
Also it feels kinda awkward when your cousins are in front of you and you see their parents scolding them bc they are not as good as you... I feel bad for them😔
same man, same
So true. That's how things balance the damage scale😂
“We had to play in the 150 degree sun, barefoot, in the snow” is underrated 😭😭😭
Timmy can play golf with a bowling ball🤣🤣 damn! that should have been included
I REALLY LIKE HOW HE SAID " YOU LOOK LIKE THANK YOU NEXT " 😂 I CANT STOP LAUGHING -
@The Game Shorts 🅥 why you too 😡😡😡
still hurts till this day
How does he know about Ariana Grande lol XD
@Steven He Yeah, but you're doing it... And not just working to fulfill your dreams, but becoming successful at it too! Compare your success to my sad but true story: I'm older now, but could never shake my mother's voice in my head telling me I wasn't pretty enough to be an actress, and that I should be a lawyer. All I dreamed of since age 3 was acting--it was simply who I was at my core. My parents turned down the invitation we got for me to audition at age 5 for one of the old Hollywood studios. Still don't know how they saw a pic of me. We lived in Northern California, so driving there was possible, but my parents wouldn't take me. I was crushed; I cried and cried. I wanted acting, singing, and/or dancing lessons but got none. Yet, I was forced to take ACCORDION lessons 🤦♀️ that I hated. Even with no help and threats from my parents, I auditioned in high school and got virtually all leading roles. In my Senior year, I was voted most talented in our school, and unexpectedly a won a Bank of America acting award/small scholarship (I didn't even know I was being considered for) to college. Fought my parents to go to UCLA (my father didn't even believe in education for girls though it was the 80s not the 30s!) and I had to work all during college to pay for much of my expenses. I began majoring in Theatre Arts, but inside, I felt inferior and ugly, even though I was not (wasn't gorgeous either, but acceptably cute). So I changed majors. My mother died unexpectedly in my Junior year, and I was devastated. You already can tell that after graduation, I tried to force myself to go to law school. I was always academically smart, so I got into some very good schools, but hated law school so much that I dropped out. (Probably wouldn't have dared to do that if my mom were still alive.) Taught Junior High & High School English and Theatre for a few years while I got my Master's Degree in Theatre, then tried to force myself to go back to work as a paralegal for severals years!! During the end of my 20s and early 30s, I was sooo unhappy and unfulfilled. After other life difficulties, such as my only sibling becoming a severely brain-injured quadriplegic on life support, my immune system gave out, and I became ill. I never used my Theatre Master's Degree professionally, and I never returned to acting. The rest of my story just remains sad, so I'll stop there.
Looking back now and comparing my raw talent and appearance as a 20 and 30-year-old, I can see that I would have at least had a chance in Hollywood. And as a child, I was really precocious and cute, and certainly with a studio's backing, I would have been cast. But my parents wouldn't give me a chance, and later when their voices remained in my head, I wouldn't give myself permission either. So to Steven, and everyone who has been insistent enough to go after their dreams, I say BRAVO! Never Give Up because life is shorter than you think, and it was never intended to be lived unhappily!