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【英语播客】我的父亲身份成谜

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0:00Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
0:07I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
0:08I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
0:14very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
0:17I'm very close.我非常亲近。
0:18I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud,我就在一条主要街道旁边 而且声音很大
0:22so I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
0:24This month, we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月,我们只需要应付噪音.
0:27You guys say that你们都这么说
0:28you don't really hear a lot of the noise.你没有听到太多的噪音。
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1Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
2I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
3I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
4very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
5I'm very close.我非常亲近。
6I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud,我就在一条主要街道旁边 而且声音很大
7so I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
8This month, we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月,我们只需要应付噪音.
9You guys say that你们都这么说
10you don't really hear a lot of the noise.你没有听到太多的噪音。
11That's great.赞曰.
12I try to minimize it in the audio editing,我试图在音频编辑中尽量减少它,
13but because this place is so loud, it's even louder than the last place in Medellin, I think但是由于这个地方如此响亮, 它甚至比麦德林最后的地方,我认为
14that you will hear some of the noises.你将听到一些声音。
15I'm sorry about that, but that's just the reality of living我很抱歉,但这只是生活的现实
16in a city and living in a place.住在一个城市和一个地方。
17Before I booked an apartment, I don't know how loud it's going to be,在订公寓之前 我不知道会有多大声
18I thought this place would be quieter, but yeah, that's just life.我以为这个地方会比较安静, 但是啊,这只是生活。
19I think it helps if you don't你不这样会有帮助的
20use headphones.使用耳机。
21If you want to use headphones, that's fine, but if you don't use headphones,如果你想用耳机,那很好, 但如果你不使用耳机,
22I think you don't hear as much of the background noise, but I don't know.我想你没有听到太多的背景噪音, 但我不知道。
23I like using headphones我喜欢用耳机
24when I listen to stuff, so yeah, you do what you want.当我听东西,所以是的, 你做你想做的。
25But anyways, if you're new to my new style不过,如果你是我新风格的新人
26of making videos, if you didn't watch the last episode where I talked about my four years in the如果你没有看上一集 我谈论我的四年
27Amazon, in Ecuador, living in the Amazon.亚马逊,厄瓜多尔人,生活在亚马逊.
28By the way, thank you to everybody who commented on that顺便说一句,谢谢大家评论
29video, who said they love it.视频,谁说他们喜欢它。
30They want more videos like this, long style, long format stories他们想要更多这样的视频, 长风格,长格式的故事
31from my life.从我的生活。
32That really encourages me and I'm really happy about that.这真的鼓励我 我真的很高兴。
33So thank you so much for所以,谢谢你这么多
34support.支助。
35I love you guys.我爱你们
36Yeah, so if you didn't watch that food video, basically my new style is是啊,所以如果你没有看 食物视频,基本上我的新风格是
37just recording myself talking for a while.刚刚录制我自己说话一段时间。
38Some videos are going to be like just podcasts, just有些视频会像播客一样
39like this, just talking from my mind.像这样,只是从我的脑海里说话。
40Some are going to be more like typical English teaching有些人会更像典型的英语教学
41videos that I do, but the difference is that I'm not going to be editing because I always视频是我做的,但区别是 我不会去编辑 因为我总是
42film myself for a long time and then I edit it and I get rid of everything to make it like super拍了很长一段时间,然后我剪辑它, 我摆脱了一切 使它像超级
43fast and jumpy and to hold your attention.动作快 动作快 注意点
44And then I end up wasting a lot of my time and energy之后我浪费了很多时间和精力
45doing that.这样做。
46And then you guys get even less material, less content to improve your English.然后,你们得到更少的材料, 更少的内容来改进你的英语。
47So I think it's good for you to be exposed to real English without all the cuts, the artificial因此,我认为这是很好的 你接触真正的英语 没有所有的切,人工
48cuts.切开。
49I think it's good for you to hear every time I say um, and every time I say um, but yeah,我觉得每次我说嗯,每次我说嗯, 对你有好处,但是是的,
50so because you know, I do that a lot, but that's real life.所以,因为你知道,我这样做很多, 但这是真实的生活。
51That's real speaking.这是真的说话。
52It's important这很重要
53to hear the real breathing, the real speed, the real rhythm, everything, because that's real life.听到真正的呼吸,真正的速度,真正的节奏,一切, 因为这是真实的生活。
54If you really want to learn a language, that's what it is.如果你真的想学习一种语言,那就是它。
55And if you don't like it or whatever,如果你不喜欢它什么的,
56if you want to change anything, you can always increase, you can increase or you can decrease如果你想改变任何事情, 你总是可以增加, 你可以增加或者可以减少
57YouTube上的视频速度。
58You can always do that and you can always also turn on the你永远可以做到这一点, 你永远可以打开
59captions.标题。
60So if you want to know what I'm saying and you don't, you don't know based off listening所以,如果你想知道我在说什么 而你不知道,你不知道基于 倾听
61to what I said and you want to see the words, you can turn on the captions and yeah, you can use those对我说的,你想看字, 你可以打开标题,是的,你可以使用这些
62resources for studying English, for learning English.学习英语、学习英语的资源。
63Whatever I don't say that you're like,无论我说什么,你喜欢,
64no sorry, whatever I say and you're like, what was that?不,对不起,无论我说什么,你喜欢什么?
65What did she say?她说什么?
66You could just turn你可以转身
67the captions go back and you'll see what it is.标题放回去,你会看到是什么。
68Hopefully, unless the captions are not very希望,除非标题不太
69accurate, but I think they are most of the time.准确的,但我想他们大部分时间。
70All right.好吧,我们走。
71So today I have another very personal所以今天我还有另一个非常私人的
72story for you from my life.从我生命中给你的故事。
73So basically I'm going to be talking about why my biological father所以,基本上,我要谈论 为什么我的生父
74is unknown.不详。
75So to tell you the story, I need to start back at the beginning.所以,告诉你的故事, 我需要从头开始。
76By the way,对了
77I consider myself to be an open book.我认为自己是一本公开的书。
78So I don't have an issue with sharing a lot of personal所以,我没有问题 分享很多个人
79things about myself.关于我自己的事
80Obviously, I don't share every single personal detail.显然,我不分享每一个个人细节。
81I pick and choose我选择
82which things I'm willing to share, but generally for the most part, I am fine with sharing a lot我愿意分享的东西, 但总的来说,我同意分享很多
83about myself in my life.关于我的生活。
84I think that the art or the practice of storytelling is a beautiful ancient我认为讲故事的艺术或实践 是一个美丽的古老
85part of human culture, humanity.人类文化 人类的一部分
86And so I love it.所以我喜欢它。
87I think it's great for us to share information我觉得我们分享情报是件好事
88and share stories from our lives and we can teach each other things, inspire each other.分享我们生活中的故事 我们可以互相教导 互相启发
89We can我们可以
90just relate to each other, learn about each other and see things through different eyes.互相交流 互相学习 透过不同的眼睛看事物
91And yeah, I just think that it's a really awesome part of being a human.是的,我只是认为这是 一个真正真棒的一部分 作为一个人类。
92And we're already so而且我们已经如此
93disconnected.已断开 。
94I think that we're so disconnected.我觉得我们很脱节
95We're living so independent.我们活得如此独立
96If you go long如果你走长
97enough back, far enough back, we lived in situations where everybody knew everything about足够回,足够回, 我们生活的情况,每个人都知道
98everyone.每个人。
99We lived in tribes and stuff like that.我们住在部落之类的地方
100There was no privacy or even just really small没有隐私甚至很小
101close-knit communities.近亲社区.
102So now a lot of you watching will never even meet me in real life.所以,现在你们很多人看 甚至永远不会见到我在现实生活中。
103I'll never even meet you.我甚至永远不会见到你。
104So we live so disconnected.所以,我们的生活是如此的脱节。
105It's strange.'然怪异.
106But yeah, I have so much personal但是,是的,我有这么多个人
107space and privacy and whatnot that I really don't see any issue with sharing stories about myself空间和隐私,什么 我并不认为任何问题 分享关于我自己的故事
108on the internet.在互联网上。
109And I think it's a beautiful thing.我觉得这是件好事
110I think we have to make effort to connect我想我们必须努力联系
111with each other because otherwise we're losing that kind of community thing.彼此之间,因为否则,我们就要失去那种社区。
112Anyways, that's总之,这是
113another tangent I could get on, but back to the point.我还可以继续 但回到重点
114Okay.摆
115So let's start at the beginning with所以让我们从头开始
116my story.我的故事。
117Okay.摆
118So where does it begin?从哪里开始的?
119It begins at my conception, but you know what?从我怀孕开始,但你知道吗?
120It goes back它会回到过去
121even further than that because it starts with my mother, my mother.更进一步,因为它开始 我的母亲,我的母亲。
122Her name was Rachel.她的名字是瑞秋。 她的名字是瑞秋。
123I say was我说是
124because she died when I was 14.因为我十四岁的时候她就死了
125She passed away.她过世了
126I like to just say she died.我想说她死了
127She died when I was我那时她死了
12814.14个
129I was a freshman in high school, my first year of high school, and she died from cancer,我是高中新生 我高中第一年 她死于癌症
130but really it was from like the cancer plus the cancer treatment plus, yeah, it's like where does但实际上,它是从像癌症 加上癌症治疗,
131the cancer and the cancer treatment line cross?癌症和癌症治疗线交叉?
132Because cancer treatment also is toxic.因为癌症治疗也有毒.
133So it's所以这是
134so yeah, anyway, she died of cancer.所以,无论如何,她死于癌症。
135But we need to go back to my mom's childhood.但我们需要回到我妈妈的童年
136My mom had a我妈妈有一个
137difficult childhood.难熬的童年
138She had a pretty horrible father for various reasons.她有一个相当可怕的父亲 出于各种原因。
139And my mom had breast我妈妈有乳房
140cancer.癌症。 癌症。
141No, sorry.不,对不起。
142I'm getting ahead of myself.我渐渐超前.
143My mom had ovarian cancer when she was 12.我妈妈12岁时得了卵巢癌
144When何时
145my mom was 12 years old, she had ovarian cancer.我妈妈12岁 她得了卵巢癌
146So cancer in the ovaries.卵巢中的癌症。
147If you're a woman,如果你是个女人
148have ovaries.还有卵巢
149You have two, two ovaries.你有两个卵巢
150My mom had ovarian cancer.我妈妈得了卵巢癌
151She had one of her她有一个
152ovaries removed and she went through chemotherapy, chemo, we call it.卵巢被切除 然后她接受了化疗 化疗 我们称之为化疗
153And she basically got better.她基本上变好了。
154She went into remission.她恢复了记忆
155She was fine.她没事
156She didn't have cancer anymore.她没有癌症了。
157So she was like所以她喜欢
158cured of that.已经痊愈了
159So she lost one of her ovaries during that experience, which was very hard for因此她失去了她的卵巢 在那次经历中,这是非常困难的
160
161She used to tell me about how hard it was.她经常告诉我这有多难
162She'd be in the hospital.她会去医院的
163She would be throwing她会扔
164up because of the chemotherapy.因为化疗
165She hated having to wear, she used to wear wigs to school and felt她讨厌穿,她曾经穿假发上学,觉得
166embarrassed about that and uncomfortable.尴尬和不舒服。
167She said it was so uncomfortable to wear a wig and她说戴假发太不舒服了
168she would get home from school and throw it off, like take it off and throw it.她会从学校回家 扔下来, 像脱下来扔出去。
169Um, so yeah, so my, my mom dealt with that when she was 12 and she lost one of her ovaries and the嗯,所以是的,所以我,我妈妈处理 当她12岁 她失去了一个她的卵巢和
170doctor told her that she might not be able to get pregnant or she would have a decreased chance of医生告诉她,她可能不能怀孕,或者,她将减少
171getting pregnant.怀孕时
172So my mom took that very seriously.所以我妈很认真对待这个
173She believed it.她相信这一点。
174I mean, she said,我的意思是,她说,
175oh wow, so I have a low chance of getting pregnant.哦,哇,所以我有一个 低的机会怀孕。
176And so I think as an adult, she wasn't so,所以我想作为一个成年人,她不是,
177my mom in general, wasn't a super, super responsible person compared to like me.我妈妈总的来讲 和我相比 不是一个超级的 超级负责任的人
178For example, I think I'm very responsible.比如说,我觉得我有责任
179My mom wasn't the most responsible person in general我妈不是最负责任的人
180compared to me, but I think she was extra irresponsible as an adult because she thought和我相比 我觉得她作为一个成年人 特别不负责任 因为她认为
181that she probably couldn't get pregnant.她可能不会怀孕。
182And so I think she didn't really try to use like birth所以我觉得她并没有像出生那样尝试使用
183control, for example.例如,控制。
184So my mom got pregnant with me and it was a miracle for her.我妈妈怀了我,这对她来说是个奇迹
185She was very她非常喜欢
186happy because she wanted to have kids, but she, she wasn't trying.因为她想生孩子而高兴,但她没有尝试。
187Uh, it was still like an嗯,它仍然像一个
188accident.意外 意外发生
189I was an accident, but like a happy accident because she didn't think that she could我是一个意外,但就像一个快乐的事故 因为她不认为她可以
190get pregnant.怀孕了。 怀孕吗?
191And she was 27 and she felt like she was ready, even though her life was kind of a mess,她27岁,她觉得自己准备好了 尽管她的生活有点乱
192but she had a job, um, and she was a teacher and she felt like she was ready and she wanted但她有份工作,嗯,她是个老师 她觉得自己准备好了,她想
193to have a child.生个孩子
194So she was happy about the surprise pregnancy and she learned that she所以她对意外怀孕感到高兴 她得知她
195can get pregnant.可能怀孕了。 。 。
196So when my mom was at this age, uh, before she realized she was pregnant,所以当我妈妈在这个年龄, 呃,在她意识到她怀孕之前,
197she was going through a hard time.她经历了一个艰难的时期。
198Uh, my mom had a lot of personal issues her whole life.呃,我妈妈有很多个人问题 她的整个生活。
199
200a lot of it is from the childhood, but, um, yeah, it's complicated, but my mom overall had a lot of,很多都是从童年时期开始的, 但是,嗯,是的,它很复杂, 但我妈妈总体上有很多,
201a lot of personal issues, emotional issues.很多个人问题 情感问题
202Um, and so she was going through a time in her life嗯,所以她经历了一个时间 在她的生活
203when she was around 27 where she was, I think my mom did have a problem with alcohol and I think她27岁左右的时候,我想我妈妈确实有酗酒的问题,我想
204she was partying a lot.她经常开派对
205I think she was, um, she was kind of, she had this on and off relationship我觉得她,嗯,她是有点, 她有这种 开和关的关系
206with this one guy who she was not compatible with at all, but was kind of obsessed with him,和一个她完全不相容的人在一起 但有点迷恋他
207like kind of was attached to him, but they would fight all the time.和他一样 但他们会一直战斗
208And so they had this on and所以他们有这个,
209off again relationship, we call it.解除关系,我们称之为。
210So sometimes they're together.所以有时他们在一起。
211Sometimes they're not on and有时候,他们不在和
212off again.再次关闭。
213My grandma always says they were like oil and water.我奶奶总是说它们就像油和水
214They didn't mix.他们没有混合。
215Um, so, but yeah,嗯,所以,但没错,
216had this kind of, kind of obsession with this, this guy, but she was, so when they were not有这种,那种迷恋 这个家伙, 但她是,所以当他们不是
217together, she was like partying and, uh, meeting other people, hanging out with other people.在一起,她就像聚会 和,呃,遇见其他人, 挂出其他人。
218And,还有,
219and so during this time she got pregnant with me and she didn't know who the father was.所以在这段时间里 她怀上了我 她不知道父亲是谁
220
221wasn't sure who the father was.不知道父亲是谁
222So instead of doing the responsible mature thing, which is而不是做负责任的 成熟的事情,这就是
223what I think I would do is say, okay, honestly, I don't know who the father is.我想我会做的是说,好吧,说实话, 我不知道谁是父亲。
224So let's wait所以,让我们等待
225until the child is born.直到孩子出生为止
226Let's take paternity tests.我们做亲子鉴定吧
227Let's figure it out before we make any我们先想清楚再说
228assumptions.假设。
229But my mom, I think that she thought I was the child of a particular guy who was,但我妈妈,我想她认为我是一个孩子 一个特殊的家伙,谁是,
230he was only in my state temporarily.他只是暂时在我的状态。
231He was like on vacation, but he was going to leave.他就像在度假, 但他要离开。
232So my mom thought that that wouldn't be a good father for me because he's,我妈妈觉得那对我来说不是一个好父亲 因为他...
233he doesn't live there.他不住这
234He's going to leave soon and he lives far away and they didn't have a他马上就要离开了 他住在很远的地方 他们没有
235relationship.关系。
236Um, so she made the decision to tell the man that did live there, the man that she's,嗯,所以她做了决定 告诉那个住在那里的男人, 那个男人,她是,
237she was obsessed with, that he is the father.她沉迷于他的父亲
238So she told this man, let's give him a name.所以她告诉了这个人 让我们给他一个名字
239It's这是
240not his real name because I want to change the names here, but, um, just, just so that we不是他的真名,因为我想在这里更改名字, 但是,嗯,只是,让我们
241understand the story, um, let's, okay, let's give some names here.了解这个故事,嗯,让我们, 好吧,让我们在这里给出一些名字。
242Um, I didn't even think about嗯,我甚至没有想到
243this.这个
244Um, whatever we can call my mom.嗯,无论我们可以叫我妈。
245Her real name is Rachel.她的真名是瑞秋(Rachel).
246I, we can say that.我,我们可以这么说。
247Let's say my这么说吧
248mom, my mom's name is Rachel.我妈妈叫瑞秋
249I want to use her real name, but we'll give a fake name to the other我想用她的真名 但我们会给另一个假名
250people.人们
251So, um, yeah.所以,嗯,对了。
252So let's say Vincent, Vincent is the guy who lived somewhere else that was所以说文森特 文森特是那个住在别的地方的人
253leaving.离开
254And let's say that, um, William, let's say William, I'm just thinking of random names.让我们假设,嗯,威廉, 让我们假设威廉,我只是在想 随机的名字。
255William is the guy who she was obsessed with and who was living there.威廉是她迷恋的那个人 住在那
256So she told, she,所以她告诉,她,
257she thought that Vincent was the child, but she was the father, sorry.她以为文森特是孩子 但她是父亲,对不起
258But she told William that但她告诉威廉
259he was the father and William was like, cause they remember, they had an on and off again他是父亲,威廉说,因为他们记得, 他们有一次和一次
260relationship, William and her.威廉和她的关系
261So he was like, I don't know if I'm the father.所以他说 我不知道我是不是父亲
262Like the dates像日期一样
263don't really seem to add up.似乎没什么好说的
264Like I don't, I don't see, I don't think so.譬如不见,不见,不觉.
265But my mom and my grandma但我妈妈和奶奶
266were like, how dare you question how, like, they denied it.你竟敢质疑他们如何否认
267They said, of course, of course他们说,当然,当然
268you're the father.你是父亲。
269How dare you say that?你怎么敢这么说?
270Don't say that.别这么说
271And William, now William should have威廉,现在威廉应该
272said, look, I'm not saying that I'm not, but let's just get a test done.说,你看,我不是说我不是, 但让我们只是做一个测试。
273But William said,但威廉说,
274okay.还好。
275And he just accepted it.他刚刚接受了
276And he didn't push it any further.他没有再推了
277He said, all right,他说,好吧,
278I'm the father.我是父亲。
279And then I was born.后生 I.
280And then I think William started to feel that feeling that然后我觉得威廉开始感觉到
281a father feels when they see their children being born.当他们看到孩子出生时 父亲会觉得
282And as a baby, they, they feel作为一个孩子,他们感到
283this connection, this excitement, not as much as a mother often.这种连接,这种兴奋, 不像一个母亲经常。
284I think my mom felt it a lot我觉得我妈妈觉得它很多
285stronger, but I think that William felt this, this kind of desire to be my father.但我觉得威廉有这种感觉 想要成为我父亲
286So he didn't bring所以他没带
287it up again.再来一次
288He said, yes, I am her father.他说,是的,我是她父亲
289Yeah.对
290And I don't know, maybe it was meant to be that我不知道,也许这是注定的
291way.就是这样
292Maybe he was just, he wanted to be a dad.也许他只是, 他想成为一个父亲。
293I don't know.师曰.
294So that's, that's the所以,这就是
295way it was.就是这样
296Now, William and my mom, they did not stay together, of course.现在,威廉和我妈妈, 他们没有在一起,当然。
297So they were quickly所以他们很快
298separated for good and they started to date other people.然后他们开始和别人约会
299And so my mom started to get with this,所以我妈妈开始接受这个
300this new guy, my stepdad, they, they ended up getting married and, and whatever.这个新人,我的继父, 他们,他们最后结婚了,等等。
301And还有
302that's still my stepfather today, even though my mom died, but they were married when she died今天我还是继父,虽然我妈妈死了,但他们是结婚的
303and he was my stepdad my whole life.他是我的继父 我的一生。
304So, so I have stepfather.所以我有继父了
305We don't need to give him a name我们不需要给他一个名字
306because he's not very important in this, in this story particularly, but yeah.因为在这个故事里 他并不重要 但是是的
307So if mother,所以如果妈妈
308so I lived half the time with my mother and stepfather and I lived half the time with my,所以我和妈妈和继父住在一起 和我的...
309the man who believed he was my father, William and his new partner.他相信自己是我父亲 威廉和他的新搭档
310That was my stepmother.那是我的继母。
311They got married and yeah, eventually later on they got a divorce and whatever, but I still他们结婚了,是的, 最终他们离婚,什么的, 但我仍然
312considered that woman like my stepmother because she was a big part of my childhood.认为那个女人像我的继母 因为她是我童年的一大部分
313And I still我依旧
314have a good relationship with those step-parents today.今天和继父母的关系很好
315Okay.摆
316So, so I, I lived between these two所以,我,我住在这两个人之间
317houses.房屋。
318I grew up like this.我这样长大的
319Eventually when I was around the age of eight, eight years old,最终当我八八岁左右
320sorry, during this time also my mom had another child.对不起,在这段时间里,我妈妈还有另一个孩子
321She had a son, my brother Logan.她有个儿子 我弟弟洛根
322He was他曾经是
323when I was about five years old, six years old.当我大约5岁,6岁。
324So his father is my stepfather.所以他的父亲是我的继父
325So we have the same所以我们有同样的
326mother and a different, different father.母亲和不同的父亲
327So when I was about eight years old, William and my stepmom我八岁的时候,威廉和我继母
328got a divorce and then William started to have a hard time.然后威廉开始很难过
329He started to kind of spiral,他开始有点螺旋形,
330started to go downhill.开始下山
331Everything in his life started to kind of go badly from my perspective.从我的角度来说,他生命中的一切 都变得很糟糕
332And he started to have new girlfriends and a new lifestyle.他开始有了新的女友和新的生活方式.
333He was drinking.他在喝东西
334He had a problem with他有一个问题
335alcohol.饮酒。
336Pretty much all my parents had problems with alcohol.差不多我父母都酗酒有问题
337Thankfully I do not.幸好我没有
338Yeah.对
339And he,还有他
340he had a problem with alcohol, with money, with just being a responsible present father in my life.他有酗酒的问题, 钱的问题, 只是一个负责任的父亲 在我的生活中。
341He started to kind of be a bad dad.他开始是一个坏爸爸。
342Like he was good before and then he started to be好像他以前是好人 然后他开始是
343kind of bad.有点糟
344But I don't know, when I say he was good before, I think he did the,但我不知道,当我说 他以前是好人时, 我认为他做了,
345I think he did the minimum of what he did, the normal thing that is required to be a father.我认为他做了他做过的最起码的事 做父亲的正常事情
346I don't like when people praise men for doing things that is just part of being a normal father.我不喜欢人们赞美男人 做一些只是做一个正常父亲的事情
347You know, like women do so much as mothers and they don't get the same praise often that men who你知道,就像女人做这么多 像母亲,她们没有得到同样的赞美 男人谁
348do like bare minimum father things with their kids get praised about.做一些像最小的父亲的事情 与他们的孩子得到称赞。
349They get praised for normal他们被称赞为正常人
350stuff.东西。
351So he was just being a normal father.所以他只是一个正常的父亲。
352But when I was around eight years old, he got a divorce但我八岁左右 他离婚了
353and he started to actually be a bad father.他开始是一个坏父亲。
354Yeah.对
355His life just got kind of messy.他的生活只是有点混乱。
356And I didn't我没有
357really want to live with him anymore.真的很想和他住在一起了。
358I didn't want to be a part.我不想成为其中的一部分。
359I wanted to see him sometimes.我有时想见他
360I still wanted him in my life, but I didn't want as much as before.我生命中仍然想要他 但我没有以前那么想要他
361And I was starting to get really我开始变得真的
362upset by his behavior because, you know, he would tell me like, oh, we're going to hang out next因为他会告诉我,我们接下来要出去玩
363weekend and then he would never show up, stuff like that.周末,然后他永远不会出现之类的东西。
364So I started to get, or a lot of things所以我开始得到很多东西
365happened.发生了
366You know, I would say how I don't want to stay at his girlfriend's house and he would get你知道,我会说,我如何不想 留在他的女朋友的房子,他会得到
367mad at me.生我的气,你疯了吗?
368And, you know, just he started to be a bad dad, basically.而且,你知道,只是他开始 一个坏爸爸,基本上。
369And when I would confront him当我面对他
370about it, he never took responsibility.他从不承担责任
371You know, he never acknowledged that I was right.他从未承认我是对的
372And so I所以我才会
373started to get really angry at him.开始对他很生气
374And my mom, my mom, she, she told me that she wanted to make me我妈妈,我妈妈,她告诉我 她想让我
375feel better.感觉好多了。
376She wanted to give me hope that maybe he wasn't my father and maybe my real father was她想给我希望,也许他不是我父亲,也许我真正的父亲是
377better.好多了,你还好吧?
378That's what she told me.这是她告诉我的。
379She said, you were so angry at him.她说,你很生他的气
380I thought, maybe if I tell you我想,也许如果我告诉你
381that he's, he might not be your father, it would make you happy.他可能不是你父亲 会让你高兴的
382That's what she said.她就是这么说的
383I'm just我只是说
384saying what she told me.说她告诉我的
385Okay.摆
386But I am glad that she told me, but that was a little crazy that she但我很高兴她告诉我, 但这是有点疯狂,她
387said that like that.这么说的
388But, but I understand, I understand where she was coming from.但是,但我知道,我知道她从哪里来。
389So she told所以她告诉
390me, she told me that he might not be my father.她告诉我他可能不是我父亲
391And she told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
392She told me about她告诉我的
393this other guy who lives in a different state.那个住在不同状态的人
394And she thinks that he is my father.她认为他是我父亲
395And she thought她认为
396that ever since I was born and that I even look more like him or there's certain, we have certain自从我出生以来,我甚至看起来更像他,或者肯定,我们有把握
397things in common.共同之处
398Yeah.对
399She gave me his name.她告诉我他的名字。
400She told me some things about him that she remembered.她告诉我一些关于他的事 她记得。
401And yeah, it was just from her memory.是的,这只是从她的记忆。
402She, she didn't have any contact with him.她没有和他有任何联系
403So she told me所以她告诉我
404that William might not be my father.威廉可能不是我父亲
405She told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
406She said, he might be, he said,她说,他可能是,他说,
407she thinks he might be.她认为他可能是。
408She didn't tell me about anyone else.她没告诉我还有谁
409So she just said it's either Vincent她只是说不是文森特
410or William.或威廉。 或威廉吗?
411She didn't give me another option.她没有给我另一个选择。
412So I thought, okay, it's between those two.所以我想,好吧,这是 在这两个之间。
413But at不过
414that age, I was like eight years old or nine years old, like one of those eight or nine.那时我八岁或九岁 就像那八九人中的一个
415And I knew that if my, I knew that if William found out about this, he would be very angry.我知道,如果我,我知道 如果威廉发现了这件事, 他会非常生气。
416He would be very upset at my mom for, for lying, for keeping this a secret.他对我妈妈很不高兴 因为她撒谎 隐瞒这件事
417And I would be caught我会被抓住的
418up in it.进去吧
419And I, I didn't want to deal with that.而我,我不想处理。
420And it kind of like protecting my mother.这就像保护我的母亲。
421I made the decision to not take a paternity test.我决定不做亲子鉴定
422I said, I don't want to know right now.我说,我现在不想知道。
423Like I don't care.就像我不在乎一样
424I don't care.我无所谓
425I said, I don't care.我说,我不在乎。
426He's been the only man that has,他是唯一一个
427you know, considered himself to be my father.你知道,认为自己是我父亲。
428He helped raise me like he is my father.他把我当父亲一样抚养长大
429So whatever,所以不管怎么样
430let's just continue with this idea that he is my father.让我们继续这个想法 他是我的父亲。
431But I always knew in the back of my head,但我总是在脑后知道
432he might not be.他也许不是。
433But I didn't, I never like saw him in a different light or felt something但我没有,我从来没有喜欢看到他 在不同的光或感觉的东西
434different toward him because of that.对他不同,因为那样。
435I truly believe that like if I was angry at him, it was我真心相信,如果我对他生气,那就是
436because of his behavior.因为他的行为
437It wasn't because I thought, oh, this man is not even my father.不是因为我想,哦,这个人甚至不是我父亲
438Like I didn't care about that.就像我不在乎那样
439I judged him for his behavior, whether he's my father or not.我评价他的行为 不管他是不是我父亲
440To me,对我来说
441father is less about the blood and more about the role that you have in someone's life.父亲不关心血 更关心你在别人生活中的角色
442And I can recognize that.我能认出来
443I could see that at that age.那年纪我看得出来
444So I said, I don't care so much.所以我说,我不在乎
445I just,и琌
446I just want him to be better.我只想让他好起来
447But to be honest, I was a little bit excited.但说实话 我有点兴奋
448I was excited by the我很兴奋
449idea of maybe my father is somebody else.也许我父亲是别人
450I don't know the idea, the mystery of it,我不知道这个想法,它的秘密,
451of this other father who is mysterious and interesting and unknown.一个神秘 有趣 未知的父亲
452It interested me at这让我感兴趣
453that age.那个年龄。
454It piqued my interest, but I didn't look into it.引起了我的兴趣 但我没有调查
455I didn't explore that further.我没有进一步探索
456So the years went by and my relationship with William did not get any better.几年过去了,我和威廉的关系也没有好转。
457And when I was当我是
45814, at this point, like they had basically, my William had basically, I keep saying my,14,在这一点上,就像他们基本上, 我的威廉基本上,我一直说,
459because I want to say like my dad, because that's what I called him most of my life.因为我想像我爸那样说 因为我一生中都这么叫他
460But, and I still refer to him.但我还是提到他
461I still call him my dad nowadays, but not always.我至今仍称他为我爸爸,但并非始终如此。
462It depends.这取决于。
463But anyways, I'm, I'm not giving anything away.但不管怎样,我,我不会放弃任何东西。
464I feel like you already know where the story is我感觉你已经知道故事在哪里了
465going.继续
466So yeah, I've given way too many clues, too many hints.所以,我放弃了太多的线索,太多的暗示。
467So, but maybe you don't know where所以,但也许你不知道在哪里
468the story is going.故事正在继续
469Let's see.让我看看。
470There are some twists and turns.有一些曲折和转弯。
471There are some unexpected twists有一些意外的曲折
472and turns that I think you don't anticipate.转过来,我认为你没有预料到。
473So buckle up.系好安全带
474All right.好吧,我们走。
475So at this point,所以现在
476like by the time I was a teenager, William basically accepted that I live at my mom's就像我十几岁的时候 威廉基本上接受了我住在我妈妈家
477house.房子,这是...
478I live with my mom and my stepdad and my brother.我和我妈妈、继父和弟弟住在一起
479And that's my home.这是我的家。
480And he just他刚刚
481would come and take me for, you know, a night, a day or two, once in a while.偶尔会来带我过一晚 一两天
482And we'd hang out.而我们挂出。
483He'd, you know, take me to his girlfriend at the times house, whichever girlfriend he had.他会,你知道,带我去他的女朋友 在时代的房子,无论他有女朋友。
484I never liked doing that.我从来没有喜欢这样做。
485I never liked any of his girlfriends or I didn't even really like him.我从来不喜欢他的任何女朋友 或者我真的不喜欢他。
486But it was my dad's, you know, I tried to make the best out of it.但这是我爸爸的,你知道的, 我试图使最好的出来。
487But yeah, I just didn't like但我不喜欢
488these kind of people.这种人。
489I felt like I had nothing in common with them.我觉得我跟他们没什么共同点
490Like they're people at the就像他们都是人一样
491end of the day, they're people, but like people are people.最后,他们是人, 但就像人是人。
492We all can relate to each other in我们都能在
493some way.某种方式。
494But I just felt like I had, I had nothing in common with these people and these但我觉得自己有, 我没有什么共同点 这些人和这些
495I would never hang out with them if I didn't have to.如果没必要,我绝不会和他们在一起
496I felt like obligated.我觉得我有义务
497Yeah.对
498And usually通常
499their house smelled like cigarettes and it made all my clothes and hair smell like cigarettes.他们的房子闻起来像香烟 它让我所有的衣服和头发闻起来像香烟
500And yeah, I just, I just didn't like a lot of things about that.是的,我只是,我只是不喜欢 很多事情。
501And I felt obligated.我感到有义务。
502I felt like my mom was like, just go make him happy.我觉得我妈妈喜欢, 只是去让他快乐。
503Go hang out with, you know,出去玩玩吧,你知道的,我...
504go hang out with them.和他们一起玩吧
505And then my dad would pressure me.然后我爸会给我施压
506William, my William would pressure威廉,我的威廉会施压
507me and my mom would pressure me and everybody would pressure me to hang out, to go spend time我和我妈会给我压力,每个人都会给我压力,让我出去玩,去花点时间
508with William, with my dad at the time.和威廉, 和我父亲在当时。
509And I think that is so wrong.我认为这是错误的。
510I think that is so wrong to我觉得这样不对
511pressure a child to spend time with a family member that they don't want to spend time with.迫使孩子和他们不想在一起的家庭成员在一起
512I don't care if it's a father or mother.不论父母.
513I don't care who it is.我不在乎是谁
514You should never pressure someone.你不应该强迫别人
515You never pressure a child to hang out with.你从不强迫一个孩子出去玩
516That's, I think it's horrible, honestly.老实说,我认为这是可怕的。
517But不过
518that's, that's how I felt.这就是我的感受
519And that's what was done.事情就是这样的
520And yeah, I mean, I have a long list of是的,我的意思是,我有一个长列表
521things I disagree with my parents about with the way that I was raised and the way that they are我不同意我父母对我成长的方式 和他们的方式
522and whatever.还有别的什么
523I am very different than my parents.我和我父母很不一样
524A lot of things they didn't, a lot of things they很多他们没有的东西, 很多他们
525didn't understand that I understood.不明白,我明白这一点。
526Yeah, a lot of, they had a lot of issues that I don't have.是啊,很多,他们有很多问题 我没有。
527Maybe I was born different.也许我生来不同
528Maybe I was, maybe I learned from their mistakes.也许我是从他们的错误中吸取教训的
529I don't know.师曰.
530But不过
531yeah, my parents had a lot of issues and they didn't really know what they were doing.是啊,我的父母有很多问题 他们真的不知道他们在做什么。
532I mean, nobody really does, but they really didn't know what they were doing.我的意思是,没有人真的做, 但他们真的不知道 他们在做什么。
533So yeah, I think I'm a lot more qualified to be a parent, but we'll see.所以,是的,我想我更有资格 当一个父母, 但我们会看到。
534I don't have my own kids我没有自己的孩子
535yet, but my mom always used to like to remind me about that.但是,但我妈妈总是喜欢提醒我这一点。
536You'll see when you have your own kids.你会看到当你有自己的孩子。
537Yeah, but we're different.是啊,但我们是不同的。
538We're very different.我们很不一样
539I am very different than my mom and my everyone,我和我妈妈和我每个人 都不一样
540everyone in my family.我家里的每一个人
541I am super different.我超级不同。
542The choices I make in my life.我生命中的选择
543Yeah.对
544Anyways,总之,
545I could talk about that all day long.我可以整天谈论这个
546But anyways, so at that point, yeah, my home was my mom,但无论如何,所以当时, 是的,我的家是我妈妈,
547my stepdad and my brother's house.我的继父和我哥哥的房子。
548But when I was 14, my mom died.但当我14岁的时候,我妈妈死了。
549She was diagnosed with cancer她被诊断患有癌症
550when I was like 11.当我11岁时
551So she'd been living with it for like a few years.所以她已经和它同居了几年了
552So it was normal, but所以这是正常的,但
553I didn't really think she was going to die.我没想到她会死
554She would always tell me there's no cure, there's no她总是告诉我没有解药,没有
555cure, whatever.治疗什么的
556But I, I always, I never thought that she would really die, but she did.但我,我总是,我从来没有想过 她会真的死,但她做到了。
557And at还有
558that point, no, what am I saying?不,我在说什么?
559What's his name?他叫什么来着?
560Oh yeah, William.哦,对,威廉。
561William, when my mom died,威廉,当我妈妈去世时
562William tried to get me to go live with him and his girlfriend or wife or whatever at the time.威廉试图让我去 与他和他的女朋友或妻子, 或任何在当时。
563I don't remember.我不记得了
564And I was like, no, no, I don't want, I live with my stepdad and my brother just我当时想,不,不,我不想,我和我继父和我弟弟住在一起
565because my mom died.因为我妈妈死了
566I don't care.我无所谓
567I'm still going to live here.我还是要住在这里。
568This is my, this is my home.这是我的,这是我的家。
569This is这是
570I'm not leaving.我不会离开的
571So yeah, I think, I think he tried to fight me about that.所以,我想,我想,他试图 跟我争这个。
572I forgot a lot of我忘记了很多
573the details, but my stepdad reminded me that I think he even called the cops because he was,细节,但我继父提醒我, 我想他甚至报警 因为他是,
574he was really trying to force me to live with him.他真的想强迫我跟他住在一起
575And I was like, are you crazy?我当时想,你疯了吗?
576Like I have就像我有一样
577not lived with you full time since I was like seven.从我七岁起就一直没跟你住在一起
578I'm not, uh-uh.我没有...
579I don't even like you, bro.我甚至不喜欢你,兄弟。
580I'm not我没有
581doing that.这样做。
582I don't even, I don't even want to hang out with you for three days.我甚至不,我甚至不想 挂与你三天。
583What do you mean你说什么
584live with you?跟你住吗?
585You freaking crazy.你这疯子
586Uh, so yeah.嗯,所以对了。
587So, but eventually he, once he saw that, like,所以,但最终他, 一旦他看到,喜欢,
588I think he called the cops and the cops in like, cop was like, she's, she lives here.我想他给警察和警察打了电话 她住在这里
589She's fine她没事
590here.在这里。
591I can't force her to go live with you, bro.我不能强迫她跟你一起住 兄弟
592Like this is her home.就像这里是她的家
593Like just because her mom就像因为她妈妈
594died, you know, she's still living with her brother and her stepdad and she wants to.她死了,你知道,她仍然 与她的哥哥和她的继父生活 她想。
595So, so then he所以,他现在
596backed off.退缩了
597He backed down and then because he was forced to basically, he had no choice.他退缩了,然后因为他基本上被迫,他别无选择。
598And then my stepdad was having a hard time.后来我继父也很难过
599All of these people, God, they had such a hard time所有这些人,上帝, 他们有这么困难的时间
600with life.与生命相伴而来。
601They just couldn't get it together.他们只是不能得到它在一起。
602He was having a hard time.他当时很辛苦
603He's abusing alcohol.他滥用酒精。
604He's琌
605starting to be rude to me and treat me not like, um, nobody in my family was ever physically abusive开始对我粗鲁对待我 不像,嗯, 没有人在我家 曾经身体虐待
606to me, but he would drink and he would get a little like verbally abusive, like bullying,对我来说,但他会喝酒, 他会得到一点点 像辱骂,像欺负,
607like, like he would say, you know, say rude things to me.就像他会说,你知道, 对我说粗鲁的事情。
608And I was like, I was, yeah,我当时想,是的,
609I didn't have a great relationship with him either.我也和他没有很好的关系
610Um, so we started to have problems and I,嗯,所以我们开始 有问题和我,
611and I really wanted to stay living with my brother, but I just started to have problems我真的很想和我哥哥住在一起 但我开始有麻烦了
612with my stepdad.和我的继父。
613And so when I started to have problems with my stepdad, William saw it as an所以当我开始跟我的继父有问题时 威廉视之为
614opportunity to come in and take me to live with him, but I was still fighting that I did not want但我仍然在战斗,我不想
615to go live with William.和威廉一起过日子
616That's the last place I wanted to go live.这是我最不想住的地方
617I'd rather live with my grandma.我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起 我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起
618So for a time I went to live with my grandma.所以有一段时间我跟我奶奶住在一起
619Um, I lived with one of my aunts.嗯,我和我的一个阿姨住在一起。
620It's complicated.这很复杂。
621It was a whole, a whole thing, but, um, basically I was like, I want to live anywhere but with him.整个事情,但,嗯,基本上,我就像, 我想住任何地方,但与他。
622Like I will live with any family member, any person except him.就像我会和家人一起生活 除了他
623And he didn't like that.他不喜欢这样
624He was, he hated that.他是,他讨厌那。
625And so he was like calling up my aunt and like basically harassing her and所以他喜欢打电话给我姨妈 基本上骚扰她
626like just even my grandma was pressuring me to go live with him.就像我奶奶逼我跟他住一样
627Everybody was kind of like,每个人都喜欢,
628I don't want to fight him.我不想和他战斗
629He's your father.他是你父亲
630He should take you.他应该带你走
631And they couldn't empathize他们无法同情
632me or understand how I felt.或者理解我的感觉
633And so it got to a point where he, William was trying so hard,威廉很努力地尝试
634fighting so hard for me to live with him that I, I got basically desperate.为了我和他住在一起 我非常绝望
635I got to, I reached我必须去,我到了
636my limit of the maximum I could take.我最大的极限,我能承受。
637I couldn't handle it anymore.我受不了了,我无法承受
638So I told him, and by the way,所以我告诉他,顺便说一句,
639I'm speaking slowly.我说话慢。
640It's not because I'm feeling emotional or because I am, um, trying to talk不是因为我情绪激动 也不是因为我...
641slower for you guys.你们慢点
642I'm just talking this because I'm literally thinking about what to say as like,我只是在说这个 因为我正想着该说什么
643how to tell you the story as I'm doing it.如何告诉你的故事 当我这样做。
644So I'm trying to focus.所以我想专注。
645Okay.摆
646What do I say next?接下来我要说什么?
647What什麽?
648do I, how do I say this?我该怎么说呢?
649That's why.故说.
650So yeah, so I hit, I hit my limit.所以,我打,我达到极限。
651I said, I can't take this我说,我受不了了
652anymore.现在。
653I can't handle this anymore.我受不了这个了
654There is one thing I know, there's one chance I have at我知道一件事,我有一个机会
655getting him to stop, to stop harassing, to stop trying to force me to live with him, to stop阻止他 停止骚扰 停止强迫我和他生活
656fighting.战斗
657There's one thing I can use.有一点我可以用
658There's one card I can play.我可以打一张牌
659And that is, you might not be my也就是说,你可能不是我的
660father.父亲
661I want a paternity test.我要做亲子鉴定
662William, now, give it to me now, you little.威廉,现在给我,你这个小家伙
663And so I wrote him a letter and I told him and he was all emotional.我给他写了封信 告诉他他很激动
664And believe me,并且相信我,
665I truly empathize with him.我真心的同情他,我爱他
666I can't imagine 15 at this point, I was 15 years old, 15 years later,我无法想象15岁,15年后
667after thinking that I'm somebody's parent, that I'm somebody's father to find out 15 years later,认为我是别人的家长 认为我是别人的爸爸 发现15年后
668that I might not be their father or that I'm not their father, crushing.我可能不是他们的父亲 或者我不是他们的父亲,粉碎。
669I mean, obviously我的意思是,很明显
670shouldn't change the way that you feel about the person, like, you know, that you should, you know,不应该改变你对人的感觉 就像,你知道,你应该,你知道,
671the way you want to still be their father.你想成为他们父亲的方式
672But just to find that out is, I think it's devastating.但是为了找出问题 我认为这很严重
673It's very upsetting.真让人心烦
674And yeah, I mean, I can't imagine.是的,我是说,我不能想象。
675I mean, I empathize with him for我是说 我同情他
676experiencing that.经历那。
677I'm sure that was very hard for him.我肯定那对他来说是很难的
678I think it's still hard for him years and我觉得对他来说还是很难过
679years later.数年后.
680So yeah, so that was very hard for him to realize that he might not be.所以他很难意识到他可能不是
681But he agreed,不过他同意了
682he agreed to do it, to get a paternity test.他同意这样做, 得到一个父子关系测试。
683And so we did it.所以,我们做到了。
684We did it.我们成功了
685We went to a lab and we我们去了实验室
686did it.已经做到了。
687And then we waited patiently for the results.然后我们耐心等待结果。
688And I'll never forget the day when he我永远不会忘记他
689picked me up with his new wife or whatever.接我和他的新妻子什么的。
690I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
691You know, it's like, I don't care.你知道,这就像, 我不在乎。
692Wife, girlfriend, whoever it was.老婆 女朋友 不管是谁
693What was her name?她叫什么来着?
694I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
695No, I remember.不,我记得
696I'm kidding.我开玩笑的
697I just didn't like her.我只是不喜欢她
698But I didn't like him either.但我也不喜欢他
699Don't get it你不要这样
700twisted.扭曲。
701I'll never forget when they picked me up and there was kind of like, I knew that this was我永远不会忘记 当他们来接我的时候... ... ......
702the day they were going to give me the results.那天他们要给我结果
703And there was this kind of tension in the air,空气中出现了这种紧张
704this kind of silence, awkward silence, tension, something in the air when I got in the car.这种沉默,尴尬的沉默,紧张, 东西在空中 当我上车。
705But I'm just like, okay.但我只是喜欢,好吗。
706Secretly, I was thinking probably he's not my father.秘密地,我在想他是不是我父亲。
707They want to tell他们想告诉
708me in person because they want to say, he wants to say, oh, but I still feel like I'm your father我亲自来,因为他们想说, 他想说,哦,但我仍然感觉我是你爸爸
709and he's going to do this emotional thing.他将会做这种情感的事情。
710And I need to just, even though I'm probably going to我需要只是, 尽管我可能要去
711be happy, I need to just pretend like be serious and be respectful because I understand that this高兴点,我需要假装认真点 尊重别人 因为我明白
712is hard for him.对他来说很难
713So I was just like, Hey guys, what's up?所以,我只是喜欢, 嘿,伙计们,怎么了?
714How you know, how you doing blah, blah,你怎么知道,你怎么样 诸如此类,
715trying to be civil, trying to be respectful.努力做到文明,努力做到尊重.
716We go to a restaurant and we sit down in the restaurant.我们去一家餐厅,坐在餐厅里
717The waitress takes our order.服务员听我们吩咐
718And then after he told me, he told me the results were negative.然后他告诉我,他告诉我 结果是负面的。
719He is not my father.他不是我父亲
720William, you are not the father.威廉 你不是父亲
721And I immediately was extremely relieved,我立即感到非常宽慰,
722extremely happy.非常快乐
723And that tells you everything you need to know.这告诉你所有你需要知道的
724But I didn't want to show this joy.但我不想展示这种快乐。
725So I just tried to maintain seriousness, like, okay, okay, okay.所以我试图保持严肃, 像,好吧,好吧,好吧。
726And he's telling me,他告诉我,
727but this doesn't change how I feel.但这并不改变我的感受
728I'm always going to be a father.我永远会是一个父亲。
729But yeah, he's telling me但是,他告诉我
730how he just, he got really mad at my mom.他对我妈很生气
731He was swearing about my mom and he was angry toward her,他发誓说我妈妈 他对她生气
732which is reasonable, justified.这是合理的,合理的。
733Of course he has every right to be angry at my mom.他当然有权利对我妈生气
734And thankfully,谢天谢地,
735she was not there.她不在场。
736She already died.她已经死了。
737So, cause if she was alive, she probably would have never所以,因为 如果她还活着, 她可能永远不会
738heard the end of that.听到结束。
739And yeah, she probably should have had to face that consequence of是的,她可能不得不面对 后果
740her action.她的行为。
741Yeah, she should have.是啊,她应该有。
742That was so wrong of her.这太错了她。
743But well, she avoided that one.但是,她避免了那个。
744And then he asked me, William asked me, like, why did you decide to bring this up now?然后他问我,威廉问我, 像,为什么你决定 现在提出这个?
745Why did you decide to tell me now and to do all of this now?为什么你现在决定告诉我 现在做这一切?
746Why now?为什么是现在?
747And to me, I'm like, bro,对我来说,我就像,兄弟,
748isn't it obvious?是不是很明显?
749Like, isn't it obvious?是不是很明显?
750You're being like a tyrant and this is the only way for你像个暴君 这是唯一的办法
751me to break free from you.我从你身上解脱出来
752But I told him, like, I just wanted to know.但我告诉他,喜欢, 我只是想知道。
753I'm just curious.我只是有点好奇
754Just刚刚
755curious.好奇吗?
756Just curious.只是好奇罢了
757Like, bro, are you stupid?像,兄弟,你傻吗?
758Are you stupid?你傻吗?
759Obviously, you're an authoritarian很明显,你是个独裁者
760prick.阴茎。
761You're, you're an asshole.你是,你是一个混蛋。
762Like, you're, you're so messed up.喜欢,你,你是如此搞砸了。
763I hate you.我讨厌你
764What the hell?什么情况?
765Of course I'm happy about not being your biological daughter.我当然很高兴没有做你的亲生女儿
766You can't act like you can control me,你不能装作可以控制我
767even though you're still on my birth certificate.即使你还在我的出生证上
768He is.没错
769He's still on my birth certificate.他还在我的出生证上
770And,还有,
771and I still have his last name.我还有他的姓
772So, um, but yeah, but I was, I was okay because I knew this was hard所以,嗯,但是是的, 但我是,我没事 因为我知道这很难
773for him.为了他
774And yeah, I spent a good amount of my childhood with him.是的,我花了很多时间 与他的童年。
775So I was okay with being,所以,我没事的,
776I was okay with continuing, like, to call him dad and to treat him like my father.我同意继续叫他爸爸 像对待我父亲一样
777But I just但我刚刚
778wanted him to know that like legally he doesn't have the right to force me to live with him.想要他知道在法律上 他无权强迫我和他一起生活
779That's all I wanted.这就是我想要的。
780You could, you could be my dad and take me to go get ice cream and whatever.你可以做我爸爸 带我去吃冰淇淋什么的
781We can ha ha and have dad daughter time, but do not force me to live with you.我们可以有爸爸的女儿时间, 但不要强迫我和你一起生活。
782So I got what I所以我得到了我的东西
783wanted.被通缉了
784And that's what I wanted.这就是我想要的。
785And yeah, so after he told me we were in the restaurant,所以在他告诉我我们在餐厅后
786right.对
787And I go to the bath, I say, I need to go to the bathroom.我得去洗个澡 我得去洗手间
788So I go to the bathroom所以我去厕所
789and I'm in the bathroom by myself and I'm just like, yes, thank you.我一个人在洗手间里,谢谢
790Oh my God.天呐
791I was so happy.我很高兴。
792I was celebrating so hard in the bathroom.我在洗手间很辛苦地庆祝
793I was like, yes, like I went in the stall,我就像,是的,就像我走进摊位,
794the toilet stall.厕所
795I was like, oh my God, I wanted, I want to have a party.我当时想,哦,我的上帝, 我想,我想有一个党。
796It's just so happy.真开心
797It's这是
798of course there was like a little bit of like, oh yeah, he's really not my dad.当然,有一样有点像, 哦,是的,他真的不是我爸爸。
799You know, obviously I have good memories with him from my childhood.很明显 我从小就和他有着美好的回忆
800Obviously I have good很明显,我有很好的
801memories with him.他的记忆
802There were many times when he was a good dad, you know, a normal dad,当他是一个好爸爸的时候 曾经有很多次 一个正常的爸爸
803but a good dad, you know, of course, of course, my family always likes to remind me that when I was但是个好爸爸,你知道, 当然,我的家人总是喜欢提醒我 当我是
804little, when I was really little, he was a good dad, you know, and I loved him.我小时候,他是个好爸爸,我爱他
805Of course, when当然,当
806kids are little, they worship their parents, you know, when their kids are little, they think孩子们很小,他们崇拜他们的父母, 你知道,当他们的孩子很小, 他们认为
807their parents are the best thing ever and they, they're gods and you know, it's very easy to be他们的父母是有史以来最好的 他们,他们是神 你知道,这很容易
808loved by little children.被小孩爱着
809And yeah, he, he's not a bad guy necessarily in general.是的,他,他不是一个坏人 必然在总体上。
810And yeah,没错,
811he always would play with me, play with me and joke around with me and, you know, spoil me.他总是和我玩,和我玩 和我开玩笑,你知道,宠坏我。
812And还有
813yeah, I mean, I have a lot of good memories of him when I was a little kid and I, I recognize是啊,我的意思是,我有很多好的回忆 他,当我还是个孩子,我承认
814that and I acknowledge that.我承认这一点。
815And it's a little sad.则稍悲.
816It's a little sad to think about that and,想想这个有点悲哀,
817and stuff, but, but you don't get a free pass to treat me however you want when I'm a teenager,但你没有免费通行证 来对待我 当我还是青少年的时候
818just because you played Barbies with me when I was four, you know, or eight or whatever.就因为我四岁时 你跟我玩芭比娃娃 或者是八岁之类的
819Just, you don't, you can't just, you don't get like a free pass.只是,你没有,你不能 只是,你没有得到像一个免费通行证。
820You people, a lot of people你们这些人,很多人
821don't understand this, but I think times are changing and younger generations are starting不明白,但我觉得时代在改变 年轻一代在开始
822to realize this.要意识到这一点。
823This idea that we need to stop objectifying children.这个想法,我们需要停止 将儿童作为对象。
824They're not your property他们不是你的财产
825that you can just do what you want with.你可以随心所欲
826They are people.他们是人。
827You need to respect them.你要尊重他们
828And you don't你没有
829have the right, once they get to a certain age, when they're little, okay, whatever, as long as有权利,一旦他们到了某个年龄, 当他们很小,好吧,随便什么,只要
830you're not like abusing them, like, okay, you're their parent, whatever.你不喜欢虐待他们, 像,好吧,你是他们的父母,随便什么。
831But, but I would say when但我会说
832they're a teenager, twenties, when they're an adult or they're getting to be adult age, you don't她们是十几岁,二十几岁, 她们成年了,或者成年了,你不会
833have a right to be in your child's life.有权进入你的孩子的生活。
834That is a privilege.这是一种特权。
835Just because you are a blood family就因为你是血族
836or just because you raised someone does not mean you have a right to be in their life when they're或者只是因为你养了一个人 并不意味着你有权利 在他们的生活,当他们
837older.年长。
838It is a privilege.这是一种特权。
839You don't get respect just by being related to someone or older than你不只是因为和某个人或比他年长的人有亲戚关系 就得不到尊重
840someone.有人吗?
841Respect is earned.尊重是赢得的。
842So, so yeah.所以,所以对了。
843So when my family always tells me like, he was a good dad所以当我的家人总是告诉我 他是个好爸爸
844when you were little.你小时候
845I'm just like, okay.我只是喜欢,好吗。
846And, you know, it's not good enough.而且,你知道,这还不够好。
847It's easy to be a做一个容易
848dad when, when your child is three and, you know, is super easy.爸爸,当你的孩子三岁, 你知道,是超级容易。
849But what about when your child is但当你的孩子是
85013?13号?
851Can you be a good dad when your child is 13?你的孩子13岁的时候能当个好爸爸吗?
852What about when your child is 23?你的孩子23岁时怎么办?
853Can you be a你能成为一个
854good dad when your child is 23?你孩子23岁的时候,是个好爸爸?
855So, yeah.对
856So that's that.就这样
857And so I went that year, I went to go live于是我去了那一年,我去了生活
858with my, my mom's sister and aunt and I lived with her and I had two more years of high school我和我妈的姐姐和阿姨住在一起 我又读了两年高中
859before I graduated.在我毕业之前
860But I, because of my state, my state allows some students, like my state allows但我,因为我的州, 我的州允许一些学生, 就像我的州允许
861you to combine the last two years into one year if you want to.如果你愿意的话,你将把过去两年合并为一年。
862So that's what I did because I所以这就是我所做的,因为我
863didn't like school and I wanted to get out and yeah.不喜欢上学 我想出去,是啊。
864So, and I was tired of living with my family我厌倦了和家人住在一起
865and I just wanted, I wanted freedom.我只是想,我想要自由。
866I wanted to leave my state and I, so I combined the last,我想离开我的州和我, 所以我结合最后一个,
867I combined the last two years.我合并过去两年。
868I graduated that, that year when I was 16 and I was able to get我16岁那年就毕业了,我得到了
869enough financial aid to allow me to go to college in Florida.足够我上佛罗里达大学的财政援助
870So I went to school, went to college所以我去学校,上大学
871in Florida.在佛罗里达州。
872So then I was kind of free.所以我就有点自由了
873I was, you know, I was, I left my home state.我,你知道,我是,我离开了我的家乡。
874I was far away我远道而来
875from, from Maine, from all my family and I was going to school and I was living there and I,来自缅因州,来自所有我的家人 我上学,我住在那里,我,
876yeah.对
877So that was the last time that I saw him.那是我最后一次见到他
878Okay, but I need to go back.好吧,但我必须回去。
879I need to rewind我要倒车
880because this is an important part of the story I forgot to tell you.因为这是我忘记告诉你的故事的一个重要部分。
881So during this last year所以去年这段日子
882of high school, after I found out that William is not my father and while I was living with my aunt,高中的时候,我发现威廉不是我父亲 当我和我姨妈住在一起时,
883I was curious about this Vincent guy.我对这个文森特很好奇
884I said, okay, well, if William's not my father, then我说,好吧,好吧, 如果威廉不是我父亲,那么
885Vincent must be my father.文森特一定是我父亲
886So I remembered Vincent's full name and I, I started to search所以我想起文森特的全名 我开始搜索
887on the internet and I found a guy with this name on Facebook and he looked like maybe he could be我在Facebook上找到一个叫这个名字的人 他看起来可能是
888my father.我的父亲。
889I don't know.师曰.
890We didn't look super alike, but maybe.我们看起来不是超级相似,但也许。
891And it's hard because I was这很难,因为我
892a teenage girl.一个少女。
893It's hard to compare to like a father aged man, you know, in physical appearance很难比得上一个像父亲的老人, 你知道,在外表上
894we're very different, but yeah, but I don't know.我们很不一样,但是是的,但我不知道。
895My aunt said we looked alike.我姨妈说我们长得像
896I didn't really see我真的没看到
897it, but anyway, so I, I contacted this guy and I, and I asked him if he remembered my mom and he我联系了这家伙 我问他是否记得我妈妈和他
898said he did.他说他做到了。
899So I said, okay, so this is the guy then.所以我说,好吧,这就是那个家伙。
900And I told him, I told him what everything我告诉他,我告诉他一切
901my mom told me.我妈妈告诉我的
902And he obviously was surprised, but I think he reacted pretty good.显然他很惊讶 但我觉得他的反应很好
903He seemed like他看起来像
904a very genuine guy.一个非常真实的人。
905He seemed to be genuinely interested, happy.他看起来很感兴趣,很快乐
906He was happy to talk to me,他很高兴能和我说话
907to get to know me.来了解我
908He thought there is a chance I am your father.他以为我是你父亲
909He was living in a different他住的地方不一样
910part of the country.国家的一部分。
911He had his own family.他有自己的家庭。
912He had two kids that were younger than me, obviously.显然他有两个比我小的孩子
913And yeah, so we started to, we started to talk, like to get to know each other.是啊,所以我们开始, 我们开始谈, 像开始了解对方。
914We started to我们开始
915talk on the phone, like multiple times a week.在电话上说话, 像每周多次。
916Like he would call me after school and we would就像他放学后打电话给我一样
917just talk.说话就好
918I don't know why we talked so long before getting a paternity test.我不知道我们为什么在做亲子鉴定之前就谈了这么久
919I think we were我想我们是
920trying to figure out how to do it because we were in different places, but I was waiting for him to试图想出怎么做,因为我们在不同的地方, 但我在等待他
921figure it out.想办法
922I think he was busy with a lot of things going on, but he made time to talk to me我觉得他忙着很多事情 但他有时间跟我说话
923to get to know me.来了解我
924And he seemed like a cool guy.他看起来是个很酷的家伙
925And I was like, Oh, this would be cool if he was我当时就想,哦,如果他是...
926my dad.我的父亲。
927Like he seemed, I wasn't looking for a father figure.就像他看起来,我不是在找一个父亲
928I never was looking for a father我从来没有找过父亲
929figure.数字。
930I just wanted to know who my biological father was because I was interested in knowing我只是想知道我的生父是谁 因为我有兴趣知道
931what he looks like, what his genetics are, what his personality is like.他的长相,他的遗传学,他的个性是什么样.
932Cause I would like to因为我想
933know who my biological father is so that I can see how we compare what we have in common,知道我的亲生父亲是谁 这样我就能看见我们如何比较 我们的共同点
934what things I might get from him.我可能从他那里得到什么
935I think that's interesting.我认为这很有趣。
936I mean, who, who wouldn't know,我的意思是,谁,谁不知道,
937who wouldn't want to know who their biological parents are, right?谁不想知道他们的亲生父母是谁?
938Just out of curiosity.出于好奇
939But I不过
940wasn't looking to like live with him or move to where he is or like, I don't know.不想和他住在一起 或者搬到他现在或喜欢的地方 我不知道
941And so这样
942finally we, we, he ordered a paternity test.最后我们,我们,我们, 他命令一个父子关系测试。
943And so how it works is it's like through the mail.因此,它是如何工作的,就像通过邮件。
944So they sent me a little test.所以他们送我一个小测试。
945So I take a swab of my saliva or whatever, and I mail it, mail it所以我拿我的唾液什么的, 我邮寄,邮寄
946out.出来。
947And so we did that kind of a thing because we were living in different places.所以我们做了这种事情,因为我们生活在不同的地方。
948And then finally终于
949we got the result and it was negative, which means he, he is not my father.我们得到了结果,这是负面的, 这意味着他,他不是我父亲。
950And we were both我们都是
951very surprised because like I said, my mom never gave me another name.非常惊讶,因为就像我说的, 我妈妈从来没有给我另一个名字。
952So I don't, I didn't know,所以我没有,我不知道,
953if it's not him, who would it be?如果不是他,那会是谁?
954Everybody was shocked.每个人都很震惊。
955My aunt, my grandma, like everybody was我阿姨,我奶奶,就像大家一样
956like, I don't believe that.喜欢,我不相信。
957To this day, I think my aunt and grandma think that he somehow faked it直到今天,我觉得我姑妈和奶奶都认为他伪造了
958or they think that he faked the test or he did something to, to mess it up.或者他们认为他伪造了测试 或者他做了一些事情 搞砸了它。
959But they never really但是他们从来没有真正
960talked to him.跟他谈过了
961I talked to him for months.我跟他谈了几个月
962Yes, I was 16 years old and you never know.是的,当时我16岁,你永远不知道。
963Somebody有人吗?
964might seem like a honest person and then they're really not.也许看起来是个诚实的人 然后他们真的不是
965I don't think he faked it.我不认为他伪造的。
966They think他们觉得
967he faked it.他伪造的
968I don't know.师曰.
969But he seemed very surprised by the result.但他似乎对结果非常惊讶.
970And so he decided to所以他决定
971order another one and it wasn't cheap.再点一个,不便宜
972It was kind of expensive.有点贵
973He ordered another one because he他又订了一张,因为他
974just, he didn't believe the result.只是他不相信结果
975That's what he said.他就是这么说的
976And so we took another one, came back于是我们又拿了一张回来
977negative.负.
978So at this point, it's kind of like, you just have to accept this guy is not your father所以,现在,这有点像, 你只需要接受这家伙不是你爸爸
979unless you're my aunt or my grandma.除非你是我姨妈或祖母
980They still think he is.他们仍然认为他是。
981They think he faked it.他们认为是他伪造的
982I think they're我想他们是
983in denial and they just, no, I don't really know if they still think that.在否认,他们只是, 不,我真的不知道 如果他们仍然认为。
984But yeah, I think they但是,我想他们
985just didn't want to accept that my mom had many partners at the time and she was not doing well.只是不想接受我妈妈当时有很多搭档 而她表现不好
986And she, yeah, there's more than just two options of who my father is.她,是的,有不止两个选择 谁是我父亲。
987But I can accept, I believe it.但我可以接受,我相信这一点。
988And so, yeah, so it was a little sad because I think even this guy, Vincent, he was like a little,所以,是的,所以它有点悲伤 因为我认为即使这个人,文森特, 他就像一点点,
989seemed a little disappointed that he's not my father because he'd been talking to me for months他好像有点失望,他不是我父亲 因为他已经跟我说话好几个月了
990and he thought we had a lot in common.他认为我们有很多共同点
991And I think he was a little disappointed, but he was like,我觉得他有点失望, 但他喜欢,
992okay, well, life goes on.好了,好了,生活继续。
993But he was a nice guy and I never, I never got any sign.但他是个好人,我从来没有,我没有任何迹象。
994I never felt我从来没有感觉
995any sign of like shadiness, like not being a genuine person, like lying or not having good任何像阴暗的征兆, 像不是一个真正的人, 像说谎或没有好
996intentions or I never felt that.或者我从未感觉到
997I felt like he was very genuine.我觉得他很真诚
998So that happened with Vincent.文森特就是这样
999So here I am.所以我在这里。
1000Okay.摆
1001William's not my father.威廉不是我父亲
1002Vincent's not my father.文森特不是我父亲
1003Who is it?是谁?
1004Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1005Nobody has any names.没人知道名字
1006Only my mom would know.只有我妈知道
1007This is what I thought.这就是我的想法。
1008Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1009Nobody's saying anything.没有人在说什么。
1010So the years go by, like I told you in my last video, I went to Florida岁月流逝,就像我上次录影时告诉你的,我去了佛罗里达州
1011for a few years.几年时间
1012I moved to Ecuador.我搬到了厄瓜多尔。
1013I lived in the Amazon in Ecuador for years.我在厄瓜多尔的亚马逊生活了好几年。
1014I didn't go back我没有回去
1015to my home state.去我的家乡
1016I didn't go back to Maine until 10 years later, until I was 26.直到10年后我才回到缅因州,直到26岁.
1017I left when I was我离开的时候
101816.16号.
1019I went back when I was 26.我26岁时回去了
1020That is when I started to try to rekindle my relationships那时我开始尝试重燃我的感情
1021with my family members.与我家人。 与我的家庭成员。
1022I started to try to like start over, like clean slate.我开始尝试重新开始, 像干净的板块。
1023Let's start over.让我们重新开始。
1024What happened in the past, what happened in the past, I'm older now, 10 years have gone by.过去发生的事情,过去发生的事情,我现在年纪大了,十年过去了.
1025I've gone through healing and growing up and you know, I think I've dealt with some of my trauma我经历了治疗和成长, 你知道, 我想我已经处理了一些创伤
1026and whatever.还有别的什么
1027I understand that we are very different and my family members did a lot of我知道我们很不一样 我的家人做了很多
1028But you know, everybody is living for the first time.但你知道 每个人都是第一次活着
1029Everybody is living for the first time每个人都是第一次活着
1030in this life, in their current body.在他们现在的身体里
1031Even if you believe in reincarnation, everybody即使你相信转世,每个人
1032was born very recently, at least in this lifetime.出生于最近,至少在这一辈子。
1033And so we all are just trying to figure out life所以,我们都在试图 找出生活
1034as we go and we all have different experiences and we all make different decisions and think当我们去,我们都有不同的经历, 我们都做出不同的决定和思考
1035differently and whatever.不同或别的
1036So I'll never forget things, but I forgive my family for everything所以我永远不会忘记一切 但我原谅我的家人
1037that they ever did that I didn't like or hurt me or whatever.他们做了我不喜欢或伤害我什么的。
1038There's so much more to the story,故事还有很多
1039obviously, of my childhood that I didn't share because that's not what this video is about.显然,我的童年,我没有分享 因为这不是这个视频的内容。
1040But I had a pretty good childhood in some ways, but in other ways, I had a pretty rough time.但我的童年在有些方面相当不错, 但在其他方面,我度过了相当艰难的时光。
1041Childhood was very hard for me.童年对我来说非常艰难。
1042I don't, for a second, wish I could be a kid again.我不,一秒钟, 希望我可以再次成为一个孩子。
1043You know你知道吗
1044how some adults wish that they could be a kid again?一些成年人希望他们能再次成为孩子?
1045I don't wish that for a second.我并不想那样
1046The freedom自由
1047that I have as an adult, the peace that I have as an adult that I couldn't get as a child,作为成年人,我拥有的安宁 作为成年人,我无法得到 作为一个孩子,
1048there are no words.没有字。
1049I felt like a prisoner as a child.我小时候感觉像个囚犯
1050I felt like I was forced to live with我觉得我被迫与
1051people and live in a certain way that I didn't want.以我所不希望的方式生活
1052I struggled a lot in my childhood and I我童年时经常挣扎
1053went through a lot and I needed those 10 years.经历了很多,我需要那10年。
1054I needed those four years in the Amazon to just我需要在亚马逊的四年时间
1055scream into the jungle and sleep in the jungle.尖叫进入丛林 睡在丛林里
1056So the years went by and at 26 years old, I went26岁时,我去了
1057back.回来
1058I did a big family visit and I gave everybody a fresh chance.我做了一个很大的探亲 我给了每个人一个新的机会。
1059Now I'm 28.现在我28岁了
1060I'm turning我要转身了
106128 this month.本月28号
1062I think I have a good relationship with everybody except William.我和除了威廉以外的人的关系很好
1063I'm not going to我不会
1064get into this too much, but all I can say is I tried.太多事了 但我只能说 我尽力了
1065I tried to give William another chance,我试图给威廉另一个机会,
1066a clean slate like I gave everybody else.就像我给其他人一样
1067My stepdad, my stepmom, my aunt, my grandma.我的继父 我的继母 我姨妈 我奶奶
1068Hey, nice to meet you.嘿,很高兴见到你。
1069Let's start over.让我们重新开始。
1070I did.没错
1071I really tried, but I tried to talk to him我真的试过了,但是我想跟他谈谈
1072on the phone.在电话。
1073I even tried to hang out with him in person and I just couldn't do it.我甚至想亲自和他出去玩 但我做不到
1074I tried and I我试过,我
1075realized that as a kid, I felt forced.我小时候感觉很强迫
1076I felt pressured to hang out with this person, to talk我感到压力 和这个人在一起 聊天
1077to this person, whatever, to have this person in my life.这个人,不管怎样, 拥有这个人在我的生活中。
1078And I don't want to, as an adult,我不想,作为一个成年人,
1079continue that pressure, continue to pressure myself or to let other people pressure me to继续施压 继续施压 或让别人施压
1080maintain a relationship with this person that I don't want in my life.和这个人保持一段我生活所不希望的关系
1081So I made the decision所以我决定了
1082to cut ties with William, not because he's not my father, but because of our relationship or不是因为他不是我父亲 而是因为我们的关系
1083lack thereof.没有。
1084He's just someone that I don't want to talk to.他只是一个我不想和他说话的人
1085I don't want to hang out with.我不想和他们在一起
1086He's not all bad.他不尽坏.
1087Of course, there are good things about him.当然,他有好东西。
1088He's not a bad person, necessarily,他肯定不是一个坏人
1089but I evaluated all the evidence.但我评估了所有的证据
1090I thought about everything, everything that I've ever learned我想了一切,我学到的一切
1091about him, seen from him, witnessed and felt.关于他,从他那里看见的,是见证和感觉的。
1092And I decided that it's unfortunate.我决定这是不幸的。
1093It's unfortunate,很遗憾
1094but I need to do what's right for me.但我需要做对我做的
1095And it is a privilege to be in my life.我很荣幸能进入我的生活
1096And unfortunately for很遗憾
1097him, I don't want to give him that privilege.我不想给他这种特权
1098So yes, I don't believe this thing that, oh,所以,是的, 我不相信这个东西,哦,
1099just because they are your parent or your blood family or whatever, just because they were part因为他们是你的父母 或你的血族 或什么的, 只是因为他们的一部分
1100of your childhood, you can't cut them off.在你的童年, 你不能切断他们。
1101You can't do, you know, I don't believe that.你不能这样做,你知道, 我不相信这一点。
1102I don't believe in that.不信此义.
1103Yeah, that's not what I would teach my children.是啊,这不是我会 教我的孩子。
1104And if I have kids,如果我有孩子的话
1105I don't want him in their life anyways.反正我也不想他进入他们的生活
1106So I made that decision to cut ties with him, to not talk所以我决定和他断绝联系,不说话
1107anymore.现在。
1108And he probably thinks that a big reason is because he's not my biological father.他可能认为一个大原因 因为他不是我的亲生父亲
1109And还有
1110that's unfortunate that he probably thinks that because that's not true.这很不幸,他可能认为 因为那不是真的。
1111But if that makes him但是如果那样他
1112feel better, so he doesn't feel like it's because I don't like him as a person, because that's感觉好点了,所以他不觉得 喜欢是因为我不喜欢他作为一个人,因为
1113really what it's about.真实的它是什么。
1114I don't like him as a person and I don't want him in my life.我不喜欢他作为一个人,我不想他在我的生活中。
1115It's not这不是
1116about, you know, so yeah, it's not about being my biological.关于,你知道,所以是的, 这不是关于我的生物。
1117It's not about relation.这不是关系。
1118My stepdad我的继父
1119is not biologically related to me.跟我没有生理联系
1120And I, even though my stepdad and I haven't always had the而我,虽然我的继父和我 并不总是有
1121best relationship, I want that man to be a part of my life.最好的关系, 我希望他成为我生命的一部分。
1122And I will, yeah, I would never,我会,是的,我永远不会,
1123I would never cut ties with him because I actually enjoy talking to him and hanging out with him.我绝对不会和他断绝联系 因为我真的喜欢和他交谈 和他在一起
1124I think he actually adds to my life instead of takes away.我认为他实际上增加了我的生活 而不是带走。
1125So it's not about, yeah, same thing所以,这不是关于,是的,同一件事
1126with my stepmom.我继母。
1127So it's not, it's not about blood, blood relation.所以这不是,它不是关于血,血的关系。
1128But anyways, so however但无论如何,所以
1129he's processing this is his business.他正在处理这是他的生意。
1130I don't know, but I obviously he's probably very upset我不知道,但我显然他可能很生气
1131about this.关于这个。
1132I sent him a message and that I am ending the relationship.我给他发了条信息 我要结束关系
1133And yeah, he he's对 他
1134probably very upset about it, emotional, angry, whatever.可能很生气,情绪,愤怒,随便什么。
1135And so probably out of desperation and可能是因为绝望
1136all this emotion and whatever, he ended up reaching out to my aunt, my, my mom's sister.他最后联系了我姑妈 我母亲的妹妹
1137And, you know, they don't talk, but he probably had her number and was like, let me text her.而且,你知道,他们不说话, 但他可能有她的电话号码 并喜欢,让我发短信给她。
1138So he texts her and he, he sends her the message that I sent him.所以他给她发了短信,然后,他给她发了我给他的信息。
1139And he says, like kind of playing他说,就像一种演奏
1140dumb, like, I don't, I don't know what this means.我不知道这是什么意思
1141Like, can you help me figure this out?你能帮我弄明白吗?
1142Like,喜欢,
1143my aunt is like, my, my aunt is very, she, yeah, she's just like, it is what it is.我姨妈喜欢,我姨妈非常, 她,是的,她只是喜欢,这是它是什么。
1144Like,喜欢,
1145she's very logical by the book kind of person.她很合乎逻辑的书 那种人。
1146Like, yeah, she, she was just like,喜欢,是的,她只是喜欢,
1147well, it looks, well, William, it looks pretty, pretty obvious what this is about.看起来 威廉 看起来很明显
1148She clearly does not want a relationship with you.她显然不想和你谈恋爱
1149So yeah, it's not rocket science.所以,这不是火箭科学。
1150And he's like,他喜欢,
1151okay, yeah, yeah, I, that's what I thought.好吧,是啊,是啊,我,这就是我想的。
1152But I wasn't sure.但我还不确定
1153And yeah, I mean, I think my aunt,是的,我的意思是,我认为我的姨妈,
1154my aunt, because she is a mother and she knows, you know, I think she has empathy for him too,我姨妈,因为她是母亲 她知道,你知道,我想她也同情他,
1155you know, because obviously I empathize with any parent who, whose child does not want a你知道,因为很明显我同情 任何父母 谁,谁的孩子不想要一个
1156relationship with them because I know that that hurts.和他们的关系,因为我知道那伤害。
1157That probably hurts like crazy.这可能像疯狂。
1158But I think that the child is justified.但我认为这孩子是有道理的。
1159I think if a child, no matter what their age is, if they,我认为,如果一个孩子, 无论他们的年龄, 如果他们,
1160well, when they're an adult, if they don't want a relationship with you, even a teenager, if they当他们成年了,如果他们不想和你建立关系, 即使是青少年,如果他们
1161don't want a relationship with you, I mean, even any age, even a child.不想和你谈恋爱,甚至任何年龄,甚至一个孩子
1162Yeah.对
1163If no matter the age,如果不管年龄
1164if any child does not want a relationship with their parent, it's the parent's fault.如果任何孩子不想和他们的父母建立关系,那是父母的错。
1165It's never the child's fault.这不是孩子的错。
1166It's the parent's fault because why, why would they not want a这是父母的错 因为为什么,他们为什么不想要一个
1167relationship with you?和你的关系?
1168You know, children want relationships with their parents.你知道,孩子想要 与父母的关系。
1169So to get to所以,为了得到
1170that point of deciding, nah, it's not worth it.这不值得
1171It takes a lot to get to that point.说到这一点需要很多时间。
1172So that's on所以这是在
1173the parent to spend some time reflecting on how they let it get to that point.父母会花一些时间思考 他们是如何让它达到这个地步的
1174It's usually not一般不会
1175one thing.还有一件事
1176It's usually many things accumulating.通常有很多东西在积累.
1177So yeah.对啊
1178So my aunt probably empathizes with him,所以我姨妈可能对他很同情
1179but at the same time is like saying, you know, Lao is totally justified in her decision to,但与此同时,就像说,你知道, 老挝是完全有道理的 她的决定,
1180to do that.这样做。
1181Sucks for you, William, but you know, she can make that decision.威廉,你很烂,但她可以做决定
1182And it's not like I made that decision.也不是我决定的
1183I gave him so much time, you know, I didn't make that我给了他这么多时间,你知道, 我没有做到这一点
1184decision when I was 18 and like just angry and you know, no, I, I waited until I was 27 years old.我18岁的时候决定了,就像生气,你知道, 不,我,我等了27岁。
1185I thought about this for a long time.我考虑过很久了
1186I gave him many chances and I, yeah,我给了他很多机会 我,是的,
1187I spent a lot of time thinking about this decision.我花了很多时间来考虑这个决定.
1188And so it wasn't a hasty decision.所以这不是一个仓促的决定。
1189It wasn't a decision made out of, you know, it wasn't a quick decision.这不是一个决定,你知道, 这不是一个快速的决定。
1190But so out of all of this但是,所有这一切
1191from all of this emotion, intense emotion and anger and frustration and whatever, or I don't从所有这些情感, 强烈的情感和愤怒, 挫折等等, 否则我不
1192know if that's the reason or I don't, I don't know, but for whatever reason, for whatever reason,如果这就是原因,或者我不这样做, 我不知道,但出于任何理由,出于任何理由,
1193William told my aunt that he has two names of two potential fathers, two men that he knows that my威廉告诉我姑妈 他有两个名字 两个潜在的父亲,两个男人 他知道我
1194mom was hanging out with, spending time with during the time that I was conceived that could妈妈和他在一起, 和我在一起的时间 我被孕育的时候,可以
1195be my father.做我父亲吧
1196He told my aunt that he has been sitting on these names for years.他告诉我姑妈,他多年来一直坐着这些名字。
1197Basically,基本上说
1198since we found out he's not my father, he has known of these two names, these two people,自从我们发现他不是我的父亲, 他知道这两个名字,这两个人,
1199and he never told me.他从来没有告诉我。
1200Over 10 years later, like 11, 12 years later, 11, 12 years have gone by十年之后,像11年,12年之后,11年,12年过去了
1201and he never told me, he knew, he knew that I wanted to know who my biological father was.他从来没有告诉我,他知道, 他知道我想知道谁是我的生父。
1202He knew that I wanted to know and he never revealed the names until, and maybe he, he would have他知道我想知道,他从未透露过名字 直到他,也许他,他会
1203never revealed them until I ended the relationship and then he told my aunt.直到我结束关系 他才告诉我姑妈
1204That's a good example of how problematic he is, selfish, egotistical, you know.这是一个很好的例子,证明他有多问题,自私,自私自利,你知道的。
1205I understand that我理解你的话
1206he wanted to be my father, he didn't want somebody else to be, but to hold, to guard that information,他想做我父亲,他不想让别人做,而是要守住这个消息,
1207the ego, the selfishness, and that's the kind of person he is.自我,自私, 这就是他的那种人。
1208Like that's, there's many examples就像那样,有很多例子
1209of this, you know, him not listening to me, forcing me to, no, you need to live with me,你知道,他不听我的, 强迫我,不,你需要和我一起生活,
1210it's all ego, it's all selfishness.都是自负,都是自私
1211Even his political views, even his, everything, you know,甚至他的政治观点 甚至他的一切
1212he posts on Facebook, all the propaganda he believes, all the media he believes, everything he,他在脸书上贴了 他相信的所有宣传 他相信的媒体
1213everything he thinks and does, I swear, is from having an inflated ego.我发誓,他所想和做的事 都是因为自负过度
1214That's all those people就是这些人
1215that think that we should be deporting immigrants and ego, giant ego.认为我们应该驱逐 移民和自我,巨大的自我。
1216Their life sucks.他们的生活很糟
1217They don't know why it sucks.他们不知道为什么它很烂。
1218They want, they feel powerless in their life.他们想要,他们觉得生活中无能为力。
1219They want to blame other他们想怪别人
1220people for their problems.人们为自己的问题。
1221They want to control other people and other people's lives.他们想控制别人和其他人的生活.
1222It's all没事
1223ego.自我主义。
1224Look at who they elected.看看他们选谁
1225It's all ego.都是自负
1226He is the king of ego.他是自负的国王。
1227The president of the United美国总统
1228States is the ego king.国家是自大之王。
1229It's all ego.都是自负
1230So it's an inflated ego, not being able to check yourself,因此,这是一个膨胀的自我, 无法检查自己,
1231not being able to see your place, not being able to see how you create your problems.无法看到你的位置, 无法看到你如何制造你的问题。
1232You are responsible for your problems, generally.一般来说,你对自己的问题负责。
1233And yeah, I mean, he probably blames me for not是的,我的意思是,他可能 怪我没有
1234wanting to have a relationship with him, but it's his fault, you know?想要和他建立关系, 但这是他的错,你知道吗?
1235Yeah.对
1236People not being able无法做到的人
1237to take accountability.负责。
1238This man, William, he has two, he is a felon because he has two domestic这个男人,威廉,他有两个,他是一个重罪 因为他有两个家庭
1239violence charges from his interactions with his ex-wife or ex-girlfriend, someone, two.他与前妻或前女友的交往中的暴力指控,某人,两人.
1240Now,现在,
1241I don't know.师曰.
1242I don't know if this man ever laid a finger on someone.我不知道这个人有没有碰过别人
1243Maybe he did.也许他做到了。
1244Maybe he didn't.也许他没有
1245I never thought that William was physically abusive.我从来没想过威廉在虐待别人
1246I never thought that he would be我从未想过他会
1247charged with domestic violence.被控家庭暴力。
1248He never was toward me.他从来没有对我。
1249I never witnessed that.我从来没亲眼见过
1250I never heard我从来没听说过
1251that from my mom, from my stepmom, who were in a relationship with him for many years.从我妈妈, 从我的继母, 谁与他多年的关系。
1252So I never所以我从来没有
1253thought that he was that kind of person.以为他是那种人
1254I still don't think he's that kind of person.我还是觉得他不是那种人
1255But in order但按顺序
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1257the first time, go back and disrespect someone again.第一次,回去再不尊重别人
1258Even if you didn't touch them, you get the即使你没有碰他们,你得到
1259second one by having an inflated ego, thinking that you have the right to go bother someone,第二,因为有 膨胀的自负, 认为你有权利去打扰某人,
1260even if you're just verbally, whatever, fighting with them, whatever.即使你只是口头上,什么的, 与他们战斗,什么的。
1261It's the ego.这是自负。
1262It's not这不是
1263understand, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble,明,不卑,不卑,不卑,不卑. ......
1264by your first charge and thinking that you have the right to go bother a woman again.想到你有权再去骚扰一个女人
1265And yeah, he went to jail for a month for that.他为此入狱一个月
1266Probably should have been longer.也许应该更久些
1267And yeah, then he had this grand awakening and stopped drinking alcohol and对 然后他醒了 戒了酒
1268stopped being in relationships and seemed like his life was getting better and I'm happy for him.不再有关系了 似乎他的生活越来越好 我为他感到高兴
1269But I don't know, it's not enough.但我不知道,这还不够。
1270It's not enough to make him the type of person that I want to hang这不足以让他成为我想要绞死的人
1271out with.出来。
1272And yeah, that one day I hung out with him, it was bad.是啊,有一天我和他在一起,这是不好的。
1273Okay, anyways, so that's that.好吧,无论如何,所以这就是。
1274That's the story of, I don't know who my biological father is.故事是这样的 我不知道我的亲生父亲是谁
1275The names that he gave to my aunt,他给我姑妈的名字
1276I have the names, but now it's so late.我有名字,但现在太晚了。
1277It's so late that I don't care anymore.今已迟至不思议.
1278I could try to我可以试着
1279contact to find these people.找到这些人
1280Now that I have the names, I know the states that they lived in.现在我有了名字 我知道他们住的州
1281I can't even be bothered.我甚至不会被打扰。
1282I don't even care anymore.我已经不在乎了
1283I'm not concerned.我不担心。
1284Maybe I'll do it也许我会做
1285someday.总有一天
1286I don't know.师曰.
1287I should probably do it sooner than later.我也许应该早点做
1288They might die if I wait too我等他们也会死
1289long.长。
1290I don't know.师曰.
1291But I don't know.却不知.
1292At this point, I'm just like, why?此时此刻,我只是喜欢,为什么?
1293So I can see a picture,这样我才能看到一张照片
1294so I can see what they look like.这样我就能看清他们的样子
1295Yeah, I'm curious.对,我很好奇
1296I still want to know, but I don't know我还是想知道,但我不知道
1297I want to put in the effort to try to find who these guys are.我想努力找到这些人
1298And then not only would I have我不仅会
1299to find them, we'd have to do a paternity test.为了找到他们,我们得做个亲子鉴定
1300And I don't even live in the United States.我甚至不 住在美国。
1301And还有
1302I don't want to do all that.我不想做这一切。
1303I don't want to do paternity tests again.我不想再做亲子鉴定了
1304I don't want to.我不想这样
1305It's like,这就像,
1306I just don't care.我只是不关心。
1307I don't care.我无所谓
1308So I've just accepted that I don't know who my biological所以我刚刚接受了 我不知道我的生物
1309father is.父亲是。
1310And I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1311I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1312And I'm okay with that.我不介意这样
1313Because that's what I thought it was.因为这就是我想的
1314I already accepted that before he told me the names,我已经接受了 在他告诉我名字之前
1315told my aunt the names.告诉了我阿姨名字
1316So I kind of feel like an orphan because my mom died and I don't know who所以我有点像孤儿 因为我妈妈死了 我不知道是谁
1317my biological father is.我的亲生父亲是。
1318And I don't want to have a relationship with William.我不想和威廉发生关系
1319But that's my choice.但这是我的选择
1320And I have my stepmom, my stepdad, my aunt, my brother, my grandma.还有继母,继父,姨妈,弟弟,奶奶
1321And I'm happy with those我很高兴这些
1322family relationships that I have.我有过的家庭关系。
1323I'm happy with that.我很高兴。
1324I feel good with that.我觉得很好。
1325And yeah.对
1326So I just所以,我刚刚
1327wanted to share this story because I don't know.我想分享这个故事,因为我不知道。
1328I think it's an interesting story and you could我认为这是一个有趣的故事 你可以
1329probably learn a lot of English from it.可能从中学习了很多英语.
1330And I've never really told the whole story from beginning我从来没有真正说 整个故事从一开始
1331to end like that with the latest updated details as well.以最新的细节结束。
1332Because I just got the names.因为我刚拿到名字
1333Like my就像我的一样
1334aunt just texted me like a month ago or something the names.阿姨刚发短信给我 就像一个月前什么的 名字。
1335So this is new.所以这是新的。
1336This is some news.这是新闻
1337So yeah, I've never told the whole story like this from beginning to end all in one go.所以,是的,我从来没有讲 整个故事像这样 从开始到结束 在一个去。
1338So I所以说
1339kind of wanted to do it.那种想做到这一点。
1340And yeah, it feels good.是的,感觉很好
1341And yeah, hopefully it wasn't too boring or slow.是的,希望它不是太无聊或慢。
1342But it was real.但这是真的
1343And that's the point of these kinds of videos.这就是这些视频的要点。
1344And if you don't like these kinds如果你不喜欢这些种类
1345of videos, well, I think if you've made it to the end, you probably like this kind of video.视频,嗯,我想如果你已经做到了它 结尾,你可能喜欢这种视频。
1346But if不过如果
1347I probably should have said this at the beginning, but if you don't like it, I will make other我本该在开头说这个的 但如果你不喜欢 我会做别的
1348videos like more English teaching style also.更多英语教学风格的视频。
1349But I wanted to make some kind of podcast style但我想制作一种播客风格
1350videos.视频。
1351And a lot of people seem to like it.很多人似乎都很喜欢
1352So once again, all of you who are telling me that再说一遍,你们都告诉我
1353you really appreciate and enjoy this format, this kind of video, and you like the stories,你真的很欣赏和欣赏这种格式, 这种视频, 你喜欢的故事,
1354the story time in English, I am happy to provide.用英语讲故事的时间,我很乐意提供。
1355And once again, I'm sorry about the noise.再说一遍,我对噪音感到抱歉
1356If you hear noises, I'm sure you do because yeah, main road in Lima and people are a lot,如果你听到声音,我相信你这样做,因为 是的,利马的主要道路和人们是很多,
1357people are honking like crazy.人们的鸣叫像疯了。
1358So much honking backing up big trucks.这么多的喇叭备份 大卡车。
1359I don't know why it's so我不知道为什么
1360loud right here, but it is.这里声音很大,但确实如此。
1361And the windows, it's the noise is coming from behind is because窗户,是来自后面的噪音,因为
1362over there is like a kitchen and there's there's windows that are like really thin and they don't那边就像厨房 那里有窗子,好像很薄
1363really fully shut like well.完全关闭,就像很好。
1364There's like and they're just they're too thin.好像他们太瘦了
1365And yeah, there's是的,这是
1366just there's a there's a main road over there.那边有条主干道
1367Can you hear that?你能听到吗?
1368It's like so much honking.这就像这么多的喇叭。
1369I'm like now it's probably starting to get into rush hour, but yeah, so much honking.就像现在它可能 开始进入高峰时间, 但是是的,这么多的喇叭。
1370OK, anyways, thank you for watching.好吧,无论如何,谢谢你的观看。
1371Thank you for listening.谢谢你的聆听
1372I appreciate you so much.非常感谢你
1373And还有
1374yeah, overall, I'm happy with my life.是啊,总的来说,我很高兴我的生活。
1375And despite, you know, everything that happened虽然,你知道, 发生的一切
1376and everything that that I told you, I'm doing I'm doing well.和所有我告诉你, 我做得很好。
1377You know, it's been like 14 years你知道,这就像14年
1378almost since my mom died.几乎从我妈妈死后
1379I don't regret cutting ties with William.我不后悔和威廉断绝关系
1380Like I said,就像我说的,
1381I have a great relationship with the with other family members.我和其他家庭成员的关系很好
1382Overall, I'm doing good.总的来说,我做得很好。
1383I'm happy,我很高兴
1384happy with my life and myself.与我的生活和我自己快乐。
1385And yeah, and I hope you are to wherever you are.是的,我希望你能去任何地方。
1386And if you're not,如果你没有
1387that's OK, too.也没关系
1388You don't have to be happy with it.不须欢喜.
1389We learn a lot from the struggles that we go我们从斗争中学到很多东西
1390through.通过。
1391And I hope that I inspired someone to I hope to inspire people to to set boundaries.我希望我激励别人,希望我激励人们 划定界限。
1392You know, I notice a lot of people struggle to set boundaries.我注意到很多人都在挣扎着去划定界限
1393I think I'm very good at that.我觉得我很擅长这个
1394I think a lot of people have a hard time setting boundaries with family members.我认为很多人很难与家人建立界限。
1395I am the type of person who always sets boundaries.我是那种总能划定界限的人
1396You know, my family knows they have你知道,我的家人知道他们有
1397to treat me with a certain level of respect now that I'm an adult.以某种程度的尊敬对待我 现在我是成年人了。
1398And yeah, I won't even是啊,我甚至不会
1399even before I was an adult, I wouldn't tolerate it.甚至在我成年之前 我也不会容忍
1400You know, I used to say, OK, well, then I你知道,我曾经说, 好吧,好吧,然后我
1401don't like you and I'm not going to talk to you.我不喜欢你,我不会跟你说话。
1402I've always been that way because, yeah, I just我总是这样,因为,是的,我只是
1403we are people.我们是人。
1404It doesn't matter that we are younger than you.我们比你年轻不重要
1405We are people.我们是人。
1406We我们
1407deserve to be respected.应受到尊重。
1408And yeah, don't settle.是的,不要解决。
1409Don't settle for bad treatment.别因治疗不当而安顿.
1410It is a privilege to be in your life.我很荣幸能进入你的生活
1411It is a privilege.这是一种特权。
1412It's not a right.谓非权.
1413Remember that.记住这一点。
1414All right.好吧,我们走。
1415Take care.小心点
1416I'll see you in the next one.后一见.
1417Have a nice day.祝你们愉快
1418Bye bye.再见
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0:00Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
0:07I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
0:08I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
0:14very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
0:17I'm very close.我非常亲近。
0:18I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud,我就在一条主要街道旁边 而且声音很大
0:22so I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
0:24This month, we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月,我们只需要应付噪音.
0:27You guys say that你们都这么说
0:28you don't really hear a lot of the noise.你没有听到太多的噪音。
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1Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
2I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
3I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
4very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
5I'm very close.我非常亲近。
6I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud,我就在一条主要街道旁边 而且声音很大
7so I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
8This month, we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月,我们只需要应付噪音.
9You guys say that你们都这么说
10you don't really hear a lot of the noise.你没有听到太多的噪音。
11That's great.赞曰.
12I try to minimize it in the audio editing,我试图在音频编辑中尽量减少它,
13but because this place is so loud, it's even louder than the last place in Medellin, I think但是由于这个地方如此响亮, 它甚至比麦德林最后的地方,我认为
14that you will hear some of the noises.你将听到一些声音。
15I'm sorry about that, but that's just the reality of living我很抱歉,但这只是生活的现实
16in a city and living in a place.住在一个城市和一个地方。
17Before I booked an apartment, I don't know how loud it's going to be,在订公寓之前 我不知道会有多大声
18I thought this place would be quieter, but yeah, that's just life.我以为这个地方会比较安静, 但是啊,这只是生活。
19I think it helps if you don't你不这样会有帮助的
20use headphones.使用耳机。
21If you want to use headphones, that's fine, but if you don't use headphones,如果你想用耳机,那很好, 但如果你不使用耳机,
22I think you don't hear as much of the background noise, but I don't know.我想你没有听到太多的背景噪音, 但我不知道。
23I like using headphones我喜欢用耳机
24when I listen to stuff, so yeah, you do what you want.当我听东西,所以是的, 你做你想做的。
25But anyways, if you're new to my new style不过,如果你是我新风格的新人
26of making videos, if you didn't watch the last episode where I talked about my four years in the如果你没有看上一集 我谈论我的四年
27Amazon, in Ecuador, living in the Amazon.亚马逊,厄瓜多尔人,生活在亚马逊.
28By the way, thank you to everybody who commented on that顺便说一句,谢谢大家评论
29video, who said they love it.视频,谁说他们喜欢它。
30They want more videos like this, long style, long format stories他们想要更多这样的视频, 长风格,长格式的故事
31from my life.从我的生活。
32That really encourages me and I'm really happy about that.这真的鼓励我 我真的很高兴。
33So thank you so much for所以,谢谢你这么多
34support.支助。
35I love you guys.我爱你们
36Yeah, so if you didn't watch that food video, basically my new style is是啊,所以如果你没有看 食物视频,基本上我的新风格是
37just recording myself talking for a while.刚刚录制我自己说话一段时间。
38Some videos are going to be like just podcasts, just有些视频会像播客一样
39like this, just talking from my mind.像这样,只是从我的脑海里说话。
40Some are going to be more like typical English teaching有些人会更像典型的英语教学
41videos that I do, but the difference is that I'm not going to be editing because I always视频是我做的,但区别是 我不会去编辑 因为我总是
42film myself for a long time and then I edit it and I get rid of everything to make it like super拍了很长一段时间,然后我剪辑它, 我摆脱了一切 使它像超级
43fast and jumpy and to hold your attention.动作快 动作快 注意点
44And then I end up wasting a lot of my time and energy之后我浪费了很多时间和精力
45doing that.这样做。
46And then you guys get even less material, less content to improve your English.然后,你们得到更少的材料, 更少的内容来改进你的英语。
47So I think it's good for you to be exposed to real English without all the cuts, the artificial因此,我认为这是很好的 你接触真正的英语 没有所有的切,人工
48cuts.切开。
49I think it's good for you to hear every time I say um, and every time I say um, but yeah,我觉得每次我说嗯,每次我说嗯, 对你有好处,但是是的,
50so because you know, I do that a lot, but that's real life.所以,因为你知道,我这样做很多, 但这是真实的生活。
51That's real speaking.这是真的说话。
52It's important这很重要
53to hear the real breathing, the real speed, the real rhythm, everything, because that's real life.听到真正的呼吸,真正的速度,真正的节奏,一切, 因为这是真实的生活。
54If you really want to learn a language, that's what it is.如果你真的想学习一种语言,那就是它。
55And if you don't like it or whatever,如果你不喜欢它什么的,
56if you want to change anything, you can always increase, you can increase or you can decrease如果你想改变任何事情, 你总是可以增加, 你可以增加或者可以减少
57YouTube上的视频速度。
58You can always do that and you can always also turn on the你永远可以做到这一点, 你永远可以打开
59captions.标题。
60So if you want to know what I'm saying and you don't, you don't know based off listening所以,如果你想知道我在说什么 而你不知道,你不知道基于 倾听
61to what I said and you want to see the words, you can turn on the captions and yeah, you can use those对我说的,你想看字, 你可以打开标题,是的,你可以使用这些
62resources for studying English, for learning English.学习英语、学习英语的资源。
63Whatever I don't say that you're like,无论我说什么,你喜欢,
64no sorry, whatever I say and you're like, what was that?不,对不起,无论我说什么,你喜欢什么?
65What did she say?她说什么?
66You could just turn你可以转身
67the captions go back and you'll see what it is.标题放回去,你会看到是什么。
68Hopefully, unless the captions are not very希望,除非标题不太
69accurate, but I think they are most of the time.准确的,但我想他们大部分时间。
70All right.好吧,我们走。
71So today I have another very personal所以今天我还有另一个非常私人的
72story for you from my life.从我生命中给你的故事。
73So basically I'm going to be talking about why my biological father所以,基本上,我要谈论 为什么我的生父
74is unknown.不详。
75So to tell you the story, I need to start back at the beginning.所以,告诉你的故事, 我需要从头开始。
76By the way,对了
77I consider myself to be an open book.我认为自己是一本公开的书。
78So I don't have an issue with sharing a lot of personal所以,我没有问题 分享很多个人
79things about myself.关于我自己的事
80Obviously, I don't share every single personal detail.显然,我不分享每一个个人细节。
81I pick and choose我选择
82which things I'm willing to share, but generally for the most part, I am fine with sharing a lot我愿意分享的东西, 但总的来说,我同意分享很多
83about myself in my life.关于我的生活。
84I think that the art or the practice of storytelling is a beautiful ancient我认为讲故事的艺术或实践 是一个美丽的古老
85part of human culture, humanity.人类文化 人类的一部分
86And so I love it.所以我喜欢它。
87I think it's great for us to share information我觉得我们分享情报是件好事
88and share stories from our lives and we can teach each other things, inspire each other.分享我们生活中的故事 我们可以互相教导 互相启发
89We can我们可以
90just relate to each other, learn about each other and see things through different eyes.互相交流 互相学习 透过不同的眼睛看事物
91And yeah, I just think that it's a really awesome part of being a human.是的,我只是认为这是 一个真正真棒的一部分 作为一个人类。
92And we're already so而且我们已经如此
93disconnected.已断开 。
94I think that we're so disconnected.我觉得我们很脱节
95We're living so independent.我们活得如此独立
96If you go long如果你走长
97enough back, far enough back, we lived in situations where everybody knew everything about足够回,足够回, 我们生活的情况,每个人都知道
98everyone.每个人。
99We lived in tribes and stuff like that.我们住在部落之类的地方
100There was no privacy or even just really small没有隐私甚至很小
101close-knit communities.近亲社区.
102So now a lot of you watching will never even meet me in real life.所以,现在你们很多人看 甚至永远不会见到我在现实生活中。
103I'll never even meet you.我甚至永远不会见到你。
104So we live so disconnected.所以,我们的生活是如此的脱节。
105It's strange.'然怪异.
106But yeah, I have so much personal但是,是的,我有这么多个人
107space and privacy and whatnot that I really don't see any issue with sharing stories about myself空间和隐私,什么 我并不认为任何问题 分享关于我自己的故事
108on the internet.在互联网上。
109And I think it's a beautiful thing.我觉得这是件好事
110I think we have to make effort to connect我想我们必须努力联系
111with each other because otherwise we're losing that kind of community thing.彼此之间,因为否则,我们就要失去那种社区。
112Anyways, that's总之,这是
113another tangent I could get on, but back to the point.我还可以继续 但回到重点
114Okay.摆
115So let's start at the beginning with所以让我们从头开始
116my story.我的故事。
117Okay.摆
118So where does it begin?从哪里开始的?
119It begins at my conception, but you know what?从我怀孕开始,但你知道吗?
120It goes back它会回到过去
121even further than that because it starts with my mother, my mother.更进一步,因为它开始 我的母亲,我的母亲。
122Her name was Rachel.她的名字是瑞秋。 她的名字是瑞秋。
123I say was我说是
124because she died when I was 14.因为我十四岁的时候她就死了
125She passed away.她过世了
126I like to just say she died.我想说她死了
127She died when I was我那时她死了
12814.14个
129I was a freshman in high school, my first year of high school, and she died from cancer,我是高中新生 我高中第一年 她死于癌症
130but really it was from like the cancer plus the cancer treatment plus, yeah, it's like where does但实际上,它是从像癌症 加上癌症治疗,
131the cancer and the cancer treatment line cross?癌症和癌症治疗线交叉?
132Because cancer treatment also is toxic.因为癌症治疗也有毒.
133So it's所以这是
134so yeah, anyway, she died of cancer.所以,无论如何,她死于癌症。
135But we need to go back to my mom's childhood.但我们需要回到我妈妈的童年
136My mom had a我妈妈有一个
137difficult childhood.难熬的童年
138She had a pretty horrible father for various reasons.她有一个相当可怕的父亲 出于各种原因。
139And my mom had breast我妈妈有乳房
140cancer.癌症。 癌症。
141No, sorry.不,对不起。
142I'm getting ahead of myself.我渐渐超前.
143My mom had ovarian cancer when she was 12.我妈妈12岁时得了卵巢癌
144When何时
145my mom was 12 years old, she had ovarian cancer.我妈妈12岁 她得了卵巢癌
146So cancer in the ovaries.卵巢中的癌症。
147If you're a woman,如果你是个女人
148have ovaries.还有卵巢
149You have two, two ovaries.你有两个卵巢
150My mom had ovarian cancer.我妈妈得了卵巢癌
151She had one of her她有一个
152ovaries removed and she went through chemotherapy, chemo, we call it.卵巢被切除 然后她接受了化疗 化疗 我们称之为化疗
153And she basically got better.她基本上变好了。
154She went into remission.她恢复了记忆
155She was fine.她没事
156She didn't have cancer anymore.她没有癌症了。
157So she was like所以她喜欢
158cured of that.已经痊愈了
159So she lost one of her ovaries during that experience, which was very hard for因此她失去了她的卵巢 在那次经历中,这是非常困难的
160
161She used to tell me about how hard it was.她经常告诉我这有多难
162She'd be in the hospital.她会去医院的
163She would be throwing她会扔
164up because of the chemotherapy.因为化疗
165She hated having to wear, she used to wear wigs to school and felt她讨厌穿,她曾经穿假发上学,觉得
166embarrassed about that and uncomfortable.尴尬和不舒服。
167She said it was so uncomfortable to wear a wig and她说戴假发太不舒服了
168she would get home from school and throw it off, like take it off and throw it.她会从学校回家 扔下来, 像脱下来扔出去。
169Um, so yeah, so my, my mom dealt with that when she was 12 and she lost one of her ovaries and the嗯,所以是的,所以我,我妈妈处理 当她12岁 她失去了一个她的卵巢和
170doctor told her that she might not be able to get pregnant or she would have a decreased chance of医生告诉她,她可能不能怀孕,或者,她将减少
171getting pregnant.怀孕时
172So my mom took that very seriously.所以我妈很认真对待这个
173She believed it.她相信这一点。
174I mean, she said,我的意思是,她说,
175oh wow, so I have a low chance of getting pregnant.哦,哇,所以我有一个 低的机会怀孕。
176And so I think as an adult, she wasn't so,所以我想作为一个成年人,她不是,
177my mom in general, wasn't a super, super responsible person compared to like me.我妈妈总的来讲 和我相比 不是一个超级的 超级负责任的人
178For example, I think I'm very responsible.比如说,我觉得我有责任
179My mom wasn't the most responsible person in general我妈不是最负责任的人
180compared to me, but I think she was extra irresponsible as an adult because she thought和我相比 我觉得她作为一个成年人 特别不负责任 因为她认为
181that she probably couldn't get pregnant.她可能不会怀孕。
182And so I think she didn't really try to use like birth所以我觉得她并没有像出生那样尝试使用
183control, for example.例如,控制。
184So my mom got pregnant with me and it was a miracle for her.我妈妈怀了我,这对她来说是个奇迹
185She was very她非常喜欢
186happy because she wanted to have kids, but she, she wasn't trying.因为她想生孩子而高兴,但她没有尝试。
187Uh, it was still like an嗯,它仍然像一个
188accident.意外 意外发生
189I was an accident, but like a happy accident because she didn't think that she could我是一个意外,但就像一个快乐的事故 因为她不认为她可以
190get pregnant.怀孕了。 怀孕吗?
191And she was 27 and she felt like she was ready, even though her life was kind of a mess,她27岁,她觉得自己准备好了 尽管她的生活有点乱
192but she had a job, um, and she was a teacher and she felt like she was ready and she wanted但她有份工作,嗯,她是个老师 她觉得自己准备好了,她想
193to have a child.生个孩子
194So she was happy about the surprise pregnancy and she learned that she所以她对意外怀孕感到高兴 她得知她
195can get pregnant.可能怀孕了。 。 。
196So when my mom was at this age, uh, before she realized she was pregnant,所以当我妈妈在这个年龄, 呃,在她意识到她怀孕之前,
197she was going through a hard time.她经历了一个艰难的时期。
198Uh, my mom had a lot of personal issues her whole life.呃,我妈妈有很多个人问题 她的整个生活。
199
200a lot of it is from the childhood, but, um, yeah, it's complicated, but my mom overall had a lot of,很多都是从童年时期开始的, 但是,嗯,是的,它很复杂, 但我妈妈总体上有很多,
201a lot of personal issues, emotional issues.很多个人问题 情感问题
202Um, and so she was going through a time in her life嗯,所以她经历了一个时间 在她的生活
203when she was around 27 where she was, I think my mom did have a problem with alcohol and I think她27岁左右的时候,我想我妈妈确实有酗酒的问题,我想
204she was partying a lot.她经常开派对
205I think she was, um, she was kind of, she had this on and off relationship我觉得她,嗯,她是有点, 她有这种 开和关的关系
206with this one guy who she was not compatible with at all, but was kind of obsessed with him,和一个她完全不相容的人在一起 但有点迷恋他
207like kind of was attached to him, but they would fight all the time.和他一样 但他们会一直战斗
208And so they had this on and所以他们有这个,
209off again relationship, we call it.解除关系,我们称之为。
210So sometimes they're together.所以有时他们在一起。
211Sometimes they're not on and有时候,他们不在和
212off again.再次关闭。
213My grandma always says they were like oil and water.我奶奶总是说它们就像油和水
214They didn't mix.他们没有混合。
215Um, so, but yeah,嗯,所以,但没错,
216had this kind of, kind of obsession with this, this guy, but she was, so when they were not有这种,那种迷恋 这个家伙, 但她是,所以当他们不是
217together, she was like partying and, uh, meeting other people, hanging out with other people.在一起,她就像聚会 和,呃,遇见其他人, 挂出其他人。
218And,还有,
219and so during this time she got pregnant with me and she didn't know who the father was.所以在这段时间里 她怀上了我 她不知道父亲是谁
220
221wasn't sure who the father was.不知道父亲是谁
222So instead of doing the responsible mature thing, which is而不是做负责任的 成熟的事情,这就是
223what I think I would do is say, okay, honestly, I don't know who the father is.我想我会做的是说,好吧,说实话, 我不知道谁是父亲。
224So let's wait所以,让我们等待
225until the child is born.直到孩子出生为止
226Let's take paternity tests.我们做亲子鉴定吧
227Let's figure it out before we make any我们先想清楚再说
228assumptions.假设。
229But my mom, I think that she thought I was the child of a particular guy who was,但我妈妈,我想她认为我是一个孩子 一个特殊的家伙,谁是,
230he was only in my state temporarily.他只是暂时在我的状态。
231He was like on vacation, but he was going to leave.他就像在度假, 但他要离开。
232So my mom thought that that wouldn't be a good father for me because he's,我妈妈觉得那对我来说不是一个好父亲 因为他...
233he doesn't live there.他不住这
234He's going to leave soon and he lives far away and they didn't have a他马上就要离开了 他住在很远的地方 他们没有
235relationship.关系。
236Um, so she made the decision to tell the man that did live there, the man that she's,嗯,所以她做了决定 告诉那个住在那里的男人, 那个男人,她是,
237she was obsessed with, that he is the father.她沉迷于他的父亲
238So she told this man, let's give him a name.所以她告诉了这个人 让我们给他一个名字
239It's这是
240not his real name because I want to change the names here, but, um, just, just so that we不是他的真名,因为我想在这里更改名字, 但是,嗯,只是,让我们
241understand the story, um, let's, okay, let's give some names here.了解这个故事,嗯,让我们, 好吧,让我们在这里给出一些名字。
242Um, I didn't even think about嗯,我甚至没有想到
243this.这个
244Um, whatever we can call my mom.嗯,无论我们可以叫我妈。
245Her real name is Rachel.她的真名是瑞秋(Rachel).
246I, we can say that.我,我们可以这么说。
247Let's say my这么说吧
248mom, my mom's name is Rachel.我妈妈叫瑞秋
249I want to use her real name, but we'll give a fake name to the other我想用她的真名 但我们会给另一个假名
250people.人们
251So, um, yeah.所以,嗯,对了。
252So let's say Vincent, Vincent is the guy who lived somewhere else that was所以说文森特 文森特是那个住在别的地方的人
253leaving.离开
254And let's say that, um, William, let's say William, I'm just thinking of random names.让我们假设,嗯,威廉, 让我们假设威廉,我只是在想 随机的名字。
255William is the guy who she was obsessed with and who was living there.威廉是她迷恋的那个人 住在那
256So she told, she,所以她告诉,她,
257she thought that Vincent was the child, but she was the father, sorry.她以为文森特是孩子 但她是父亲,对不起
258But she told William that但她告诉威廉
259he was the father and William was like, cause they remember, they had an on and off again他是父亲,威廉说,因为他们记得, 他们有一次和一次
260relationship, William and her.威廉和她的关系
261So he was like, I don't know if I'm the father.所以他说 我不知道我是不是父亲
262Like the dates像日期一样
263don't really seem to add up.似乎没什么好说的
264Like I don't, I don't see, I don't think so.譬如不见,不见,不觉.
265But my mom and my grandma但我妈妈和奶奶
266were like, how dare you question how, like, they denied it.你竟敢质疑他们如何否认
267They said, of course, of course他们说,当然,当然
268you're the father.你是父亲。
269How dare you say that?你怎么敢这么说?
270Don't say that.别这么说
271And William, now William should have威廉,现在威廉应该
272said, look, I'm not saying that I'm not, but let's just get a test done.说,你看,我不是说我不是, 但让我们只是做一个测试。
273But William said,但威廉说,
274okay.还好。
275And he just accepted it.他刚刚接受了
276And he didn't push it any further.他没有再推了
277He said, all right,他说,好吧,
278I'm the father.我是父亲。
279And then I was born.后生 I.
280And then I think William started to feel that feeling that然后我觉得威廉开始感觉到
281a father feels when they see their children being born.当他们看到孩子出生时 父亲会觉得
282And as a baby, they, they feel作为一个孩子,他们感到
283this connection, this excitement, not as much as a mother often.这种连接,这种兴奋, 不像一个母亲经常。
284I think my mom felt it a lot我觉得我妈妈觉得它很多
285stronger, but I think that William felt this, this kind of desire to be my father.但我觉得威廉有这种感觉 想要成为我父亲
286So he didn't bring所以他没带
287it up again.再来一次
288He said, yes, I am her father.他说,是的,我是她父亲
289Yeah.对
290And I don't know, maybe it was meant to be that我不知道,也许这是注定的
291way.就是这样
292Maybe he was just, he wanted to be a dad.也许他只是, 他想成为一个父亲。
293I don't know.师曰.
294So that's, that's the所以,这就是
295way it was.就是这样
296Now, William and my mom, they did not stay together, of course.现在,威廉和我妈妈, 他们没有在一起,当然。
297So they were quickly所以他们很快
298separated for good and they started to date other people.然后他们开始和别人约会
299And so my mom started to get with this,所以我妈妈开始接受这个
300this new guy, my stepdad, they, they ended up getting married and, and whatever.这个新人,我的继父, 他们,他们最后结婚了,等等。
301And还有
302that's still my stepfather today, even though my mom died, but they were married when she died今天我还是继父,虽然我妈妈死了,但他们是结婚的
303and he was my stepdad my whole life.他是我的继父 我的一生。
304So, so I have stepfather.所以我有继父了
305We don't need to give him a name我们不需要给他一个名字
306because he's not very important in this, in this story particularly, but yeah.因为在这个故事里 他并不重要 但是是的
307So if mother,所以如果妈妈
308so I lived half the time with my mother and stepfather and I lived half the time with my,所以我和妈妈和继父住在一起 和我的...
309the man who believed he was my father, William and his new partner.他相信自己是我父亲 威廉和他的新搭档
310That was my stepmother.那是我的继母。
311They got married and yeah, eventually later on they got a divorce and whatever, but I still他们结婚了,是的, 最终他们离婚,什么的, 但我仍然
312considered that woman like my stepmother because she was a big part of my childhood.认为那个女人像我的继母 因为她是我童年的一大部分
313And I still我依旧
314have a good relationship with those step-parents today.今天和继父母的关系很好
315Okay.摆
316So, so I, I lived between these two所以,我,我住在这两个人之间
317houses.房屋。
318I grew up like this.我这样长大的
319Eventually when I was around the age of eight, eight years old,最终当我八八岁左右
320sorry, during this time also my mom had another child.对不起,在这段时间里,我妈妈还有另一个孩子
321She had a son, my brother Logan.她有个儿子 我弟弟洛根
322He was他曾经是
323when I was about five years old, six years old.当我大约5岁,6岁。
324So his father is my stepfather.所以他的父亲是我的继父
325So we have the same所以我们有同样的
326mother and a different, different father.母亲和不同的父亲
327So when I was about eight years old, William and my stepmom我八岁的时候,威廉和我继母
328got a divorce and then William started to have a hard time.然后威廉开始很难过
329He started to kind of spiral,他开始有点螺旋形,
330started to go downhill.开始下山
331Everything in his life started to kind of go badly from my perspective.从我的角度来说,他生命中的一切 都变得很糟糕
332And he started to have new girlfriends and a new lifestyle.他开始有了新的女友和新的生活方式.
333He was drinking.他在喝东西
334He had a problem with他有一个问题
335alcohol.饮酒。
336Pretty much all my parents had problems with alcohol.差不多我父母都酗酒有问题
337Thankfully I do not.幸好我没有
338Yeah.对
339And he,还有他
340he had a problem with alcohol, with money, with just being a responsible present father in my life.他有酗酒的问题, 钱的问题, 只是一个负责任的父亲 在我的生活中。
341He started to kind of be a bad dad.他开始是一个坏爸爸。
342Like he was good before and then he started to be好像他以前是好人 然后他开始是
343kind of bad.有点糟
344But I don't know, when I say he was good before, I think he did the,但我不知道,当我说 他以前是好人时, 我认为他做了,
345I think he did the minimum of what he did, the normal thing that is required to be a father.我认为他做了他做过的最起码的事 做父亲的正常事情
346I don't like when people praise men for doing things that is just part of being a normal father.我不喜欢人们赞美男人 做一些只是做一个正常父亲的事情
347You know, like women do so much as mothers and they don't get the same praise often that men who你知道,就像女人做这么多 像母亲,她们没有得到同样的赞美 男人谁
348do like bare minimum father things with their kids get praised about.做一些像最小的父亲的事情 与他们的孩子得到称赞。
349They get praised for normal他们被称赞为正常人
350stuff.东西。
351So he was just being a normal father.所以他只是一个正常的父亲。
352But when I was around eight years old, he got a divorce但我八岁左右 他离婚了
353and he started to actually be a bad father.他开始是一个坏父亲。
354Yeah.对
355His life just got kind of messy.他的生活只是有点混乱。
356And I didn't我没有
357really want to live with him anymore.真的很想和他住在一起了。
358I didn't want to be a part.我不想成为其中的一部分。
359I wanted to see him sometimes.我有时想见他
360I still wanted him in my life, but I didn't want as much as before.我生命中仍然想要他 但我没有以前那么想要他
361And I was starting to get really我开始变得真的
362upset by his behavior because, you know, he would tell me like, oh, we're going to hang out next因为他会告诉我,我们接下来要出去玩
363weekend and then he would never show up, stuff like that.周末,然后他永远不会出现之类的东西。
364So I started to get, or a lot of things所以我开始得到很多东西
365happened.发生了
366You know, I would say how I don't want to stay at his girlfriend's house and he would get你知道,我会说,我如何不想 留在他的女朋友的房子,他会得到
367mad at me.生我的气,你疯了吗?
368And, you know, just he started to be a bad dad, basically.而且,你知道,只是他开始 一个坏爸爸,基本上。
369And when I would confront him当我面对他
370about it, he never took responsibility.他从不承担责任
371You know, he never acknowledged that I was right.他从未承认我是对的
372And so I所以我才会
373started to get really angry at him.开始对他很生气
374And my mom, my mom, she, she told me that she wanted to make me我妈妈,我妈妈,她告诉我 她想让我
375feel better.感觉好多了。
376She wanted to give me hope that maybe he wasn't my father and maybe my real father was她想给我希望,也许他不是我父亲,也许我真正的父亲是
377better.好多了,你还好吧?
378That's what she told me.这是她告诉我的。
379She said, you were so angry at him.她说,你很生他的气
380I thought, maybe if I tell you我想,也许如果我告诉你
381that he's, he might not be your father, it would make you happy.他可能不是你父亲 会让你高兴的
382That's what she said.她就是这么说的
383I'm just我只是说
384saying what she told me.说她告诉我的
385Okay.摆
386But I am glad that she told me, but that was a little crazy that she但我很高兴她告诉我, 但这是有点疯狂,她
387said that like that.这么说的
388But, but I understand, I understand where she was coming from.但是,但我知道,我知道她从哪里来。
389So she told所以她告诉
390me, she told me that he might not be my father.她告诉我他可能不是我父亲
391And she told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
392She told me about她告诉我的
393this other guy who lives in a different state.那个住在不同状态的人
394And she thinks that he is my father.她认为他是我父亲
395And she thought她认为
396that ever since I was born and that I even look more like him or there's certain, we have certain自从我出生以来,我甚至看起来更像他,或者肯定,我们有把握
397things in common.共同之处
398Yeah.对
399She gave me his name.她告诉我他的名字。
400She told me some things about him that she remembered.她告诉我一些关于他的事 她记得。
401And yeah, it was just from her memory.是的,这只是从她的记忆。
402She, she didn't have any contact with him.她没有和他有任何联系
403So she told me所以她告诉我
404that William might not be my father.威廉可能不是我父亲
405She told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
406She said, he might be, he said,她说,他可能是,他说,
407she thinks he might be.她认为他可能是。
408She didn't tell me about anyone else.她没告诉我还有谁
409So she just said it's either Vincent她只是说不是文森特
410or William.或威廉。 或威廉吗?
411She didn't give me another option.她没有给我另一个选择。
412So I thought, okay, it's between those two.所以我想,好吧,这是 在这两个之间。
413But at不过
414that age, I was like eight years old or nine years old, like one of those eight or nine.那时我八岁或九岁 就像那八九人中的一个
415And I knew that if my, I knew that if William found out about this, he would be very angry.我知道,如果我,我知道 如果威廉发现了这件事, 他会非常生气。
416He would be very upset at my mom for, for lying, for keeping this a secret.他对我妈妈很不高兴 因为她撒谎 隐瞒这件事
417And I would be caught我会被抓住的
418up in it.进去吧
419And I, I didn't want to deal with that.而我,我不想处理。
420And it kind of like protecting my mother.这就像保护我的母亲。
421I made the decision to not take a paternity test.我决定不做亲子鉴定
422I said, I don't want to know right now.我说,我现在不想知道。
423Like I don't care.就像我不在乎一样
424I don't care.我无所谓
425I said, I don't care.我说,我不在乎。
426He's been the only man that has,他是唯一一个
427you know, considered himself to be my father.你知道,认为自己是我父亲。
428He helped raise me like he is my father.他把我当父亲一样抚养长大
429So whatever,所以不管怎么样
430let's just continue with this idea that he is my father.让我们继续这个想法 他是我的父亲。
431But I always knew in the back of my head,但我总是在脑后知道
432he might not be.他也许不是。
433But I didn't, I never like saw him in a different light or felt something但我没有,我从来没有喜欢看到他 在不同的光或感觉的东西
434different toward him because of that.对他不同,因为那样。
435I truly believe that like if I was angry at him, it was我真心相信,如果我对他生气,那就是
436because of his behavior.因为他的行为
437It wasn't because I thought, oh, this man is not even my father.不是因为我想,哦,这个人甚至不是我父亲
438Like I didn't care about that.就像我不在乎那样
439I judged him for his behavior, whether he's my father or not.我评价他的行为 不管他是不是我父亲
440To me,对我来说
441father is less about the blood and more about the role that you have in someone's life.父亲不关心血 更关心你在别人生活中的角色
442And I can recognize that.我能认出来
443I could see that at that age.那年纪我看得出来
444So I said, I don't care so much.所以我说,我不在乎
445I just,и琌
446I just want him to be better.我只想让他好起来
447But to be honest, I was a little bit excited.但说实话 我有点兴奋
448I was excited by the我很兴奋
449idea of maybe my father is somebody else.也许我父亲是别人
450I don't know the idea, the mystery of it,我不知道这个想法,它的秘密,
451of this other father who is mysterious and interesting and unknown.一个神秘 有趣 未知的父亲
452It interested me at这让我感兴趣
453that age.那个年龄。
454It piqued my interest, but I didn't look into it.引起了我的兴趣 但我没有调查
455I didn't explore that further.我没有进一步探索
456So the years went by and my relationship with William did not get any better.几年过去了,我和威廉的关系也没有好转。
457And when I was当我是
45814, at this point, like they had basically, my William had basically, I keep saying my,14,在这一点上,就像他们基本上, 我的威廉基本上,我一直说,
459because I want to say like my dad, because that's what I called him most of my life.因为我想像我爸那样说 因为我一生中都这么叫他
460But, and I still refer to him.但我还是提到他
461I still call him my dad nowadays, but not always.我至今仍称他为我爸爸,但并非始终如此。
462It depends.这取决于。
463But anyways, I'm, I'm not giving anything away.但不管怎样,我,我不会放弃任何东西。
464I feel like you already know where the story is我感觉你已经知道故事在哪里了
465going.继续
466So yeah, I've given way too many clues, too many hints.所以,我放弃了太多的线索,太多的暗示。
467So, but maybe you don't know where所以,但也许你不知道在哪里
468the story is going.故事正在继续
469Let's see.让我看看。
470There are some twists and turns.有一些曲折和转弯。
471There are some unexpected twists有一些意外的曲折
472and turns that I think you don't anticipate.转过来,我认为你没有预料到。
473So buckle up.系好安全带
474All right.好吧,我们走。
475So at this point,所以现在
476like by the time I was a teenager, William basically accepted that I live at my mom's就像我十几岁的时候 威廉基本上接受了我住在我妈妈家
477house.房子,这是...
478I live with my mom and my stepdad and my brother.我和我妈妈、继父和弟弟住在一起
479And that's my home.这是我的家。
480And he just他刚刚
481would come and take me for, you know, a night, a day or two, once in a while.偶尔会来带我过一晚 一两天
482And we'd hang out.而我们挂出。
483He'd, you know, take me to his girlfriend at the times house, whichever girlfriend he had.他会,你知道,带我去他的女朋友 在时代的房子,无论他有女朋友。
484I never liked doing that.我从来没有喜欢这样做。
485I never liked any of his girlfriends or I didn't even really like him.我从来不喜欢他的任何女朋友 或者我真的不喜欢他。
486But it was my dad's, you know, I tried to make the best out of it.但这是我爸爸的,你知道的, 我试图使最好的出来。
487But yeah, I just didn't like但我不喜欢
488these kind of people.这种人。
489I felt like I had nothing in common with them.我觉得我跟他们没什么共同点
490Like they're people at the就像他们都是人一样
491end of the day, they're people, but like people are people.最后,他们是人, 但就像人是人。
492We all can relate to each other in我们都能在
493some way.某种方式。
494But I just felt like I had, I had nothing in common with these people and these但我觉得自己有, 我没有什么共同点 这些人和这些
495I would never hang out with them if I didn't have to.如果没必要,我绝不会和他们在一起
496I felt like obligated.我觉得我有义务
497Yeah.对
498And usually通常
499their house smelled like cigarettes and it made all my clothes and hair smell like cigarettes.他们的房子闻起来像香烟 它让我所有的衣服和头发闻起来像香烟
500And yeah, I just, I just didn't like a lot of things about that.是的,我只是,我只是不喜欢 很多事情。
501And I felt obligated.我感到有义务。
502I felt like my mom was like, just go make him happy.我觉得我妈妈喜欢, 只是去让他快乐。
503Go hang out with, you know,出去玩玩吧,你知道的,我...
504go hang out with them.和他们一起玩吧
505And then my dad would pressure me.然后我爸会给我施压
506William, my William would pressure威廉,我的威廉会施压
507me and my mom would pressure me and everybody would pressure me to hang out, to go spend time我和我妈会给我压力,每个人都会给我压力,让我出去玩,去花点时间
508with William, with my dad at the time.和威廉, 和我父亲在当时。
509And I think that is so wrong.我认为这是错误的。
510I think that is so wrong to我觉得这样不对
511pressure a child to spend time with a family member that they don't want to spend time with.迫使孩子和他们不想在一起的家庭成员在一起
512I don't care if it's a father or mother.不论父母.
513I don't care who it is.我不在乎是谁
514You should never pressure someone.你不应该强迫别人
515You never pressure a child to hang out with.你从不强迫一个孩子出去玩
516That's, I think it's horrible, honestly.老实说,我认为这是可怕的。
517But不过
518that's, that's how I felt.这就是我的感受
519And that's what was done.事情就是这样的
520And yeah, I mean, I have a long list of是的,我的意思是,我有一个长列表
521things I disagree with my parents about with the way that I was raised and the way that they are我不同意我父母对我成长的方式 和他们的方式
522and whatever.还有别的什么
523I am very different than my parents.我和我父母很不一样
524A lot of things they didn't, a lot of things they很多他们没有的东西, 很多他们
525didn't understand that I understood.不明白,我明白这一点。
526Yeah, a lot of, they had a lot of issues that I don't have.是啊,很多,他们有很多问题 我没有。
527Maybe I was born different.也许我生来不同
528Maybe I was, maybe I learned from their mistakes.也许我是从他们的错误中吸取教训的
529I don't know.师曰.
530But不过
531yeah, my parents had a lot of issues and they didn't really know what they were doing.是啊,我的父母有很多问题 他们真的不知道他们在做什么。
532I mean, nobody really does, but they really didn't know what they were doing.我的意思是,没有人真的做, 但他们真的不知道 他们在做什么。
533So yeah, I think I'm a lot more qualified to be a parent, but we'll see.所以,是的,我想我更有资格 当一个父母, 但我们会看到。
534I don't have my own kids我没有自己的孩子
535yet, but my mom always used to like to remind me about that.但是,但我妈妈总是喜欢提醒我这一点。
536You'll see when you have your own kids.你会看到当你有自己的孩子。
537Yeah, but we're different.是啊,但我们是不同的。
538We're very different.我们很不一样
539I am very different than my mom and my everyone,我和我妈妈和我每个人 都不一样
540everyone in my family.我家里的每一个人
541I am super different.我超级不同。
542The choices I make in my life.我生命中的选择
543Yeah.对
544Anyways,总之,
545I could talk about that all day long.我可以整天谈论这个
546But anyways, so at that point, yeah, my home was my mom,但无论如何,所以当时, 是的,我的家是我妈妈,
547my stepdad and my brother's house.我的继父和我哥哥的房子。
548But when I was 14, my mom died.但当我14岁的时候,我妈妈死了。
549She was diagnosed with cancer她被诊断患有癌症
550when I was like 11.当我11岁时
551So she'd been living with it for like a few years.所以她已经和它同居了几年了
552So it was normal, but所以这是正常的,但
553I didn't really think she was going to die.我没想到她会死
554She would always tell me there's no cure, there's no她总是告诉我没有解药,没有
555cure, whatever.治疗什么的
556But I, I always, I never thought that she would really die, but she did.但我,我总是,我从来没有想过 她会真的死,但她做到了。
557And at还有
558that point, no, what am I saying?不,我在说什么?
559What's his name?他叫什么来着?
560Oh yeah, William.哦,对,威廉。
561William, when my mom died,威廉,当我妈妈去世时
562William tried to get me to go live with him and his girlfriend or wife or whatever at the time.威廉试图让我去 与他和他的女朋友或妻子, 或任何在当时。
563I don't remember.我不记得了
564And I was like, no, no, I don't want, I live with my stepdad and my brother just我当时想,不,不,我不想,我和我继父和我弟弟住在一起
565because my mom died.因为我妈妈死了
566I don't care.我无所谓
567I'm still going to live here.我还是要住在这里。
568This is my, this is my home.这是我的,这是我的家。
569This is这是
570I'm not leaving.我不会离开的
571So yeah, I think, I think he tried to fight me about that.所以,我想,我想,他试图 跟我争这个。
572I forgot a lot of我忘记了很多
573the details, but my stepdad reminded me that I think he even called the cops because he was,细节,但我继父提醒我, 我想他甚至报警 因为他是,
574he was really trying to force me to live with him.他真的想强迫我跟他住在一起
575And I was like, are you crazy?我当时想,你疯了吗?
576Like I have就像我有一样
577not lived with you full time since I was like seven.从我七岁起就一直没跟你住在一起
578I'm not, uh-uh.我没有...
579I don't even like you, bro.我甚至不喜欢你,兄弟。
580I'm not我没有
581doing that.这样做。
582I don't even, I don't even want to hang out with you for three days.我甚至不,我甚至不想 挂与你三天。
583What do you mean你说什么
584live with you?跟你住吗?
585You freaking crazy.你这疯子
586Uh, so yeah.嗯,所以对了。
587So, but eventually he, once he saw that, like,所以,但最终他, 一旦他看到,喜欢,
588I think he called the cops and the cops in like, cop was like, she's, she lives here.我想他给警察和警察打了电话 她住在这里
589She's fine她没事
590here.在这里。
591I can't force her to go live with you, bro.我不能强迫她跟你一起住 兄弟
592Like this is her home.就像这里是她的家
593Like just because her mom就像因为她妈妈
594died, you know, she's still living with her brother and her stepdad and she wants to.她死了,你知道,她仍然 与她的哥哥和她的继父生活 她想。
595So, so then he所以,他现在
596backed off.退缩了
597He backed down and then because he was forced to basically, he had no choice.他退缩了,然后因为他基本上被迫,他别无选择。
598And then my stepdad was having a hard time.后来我继父也很难过
599All of these people, God, they had such a hard time所有这些人,上帝, 他们有这么困难的时间
600with life.与生命相伴而来。
601They just couldn't get it together.他们只是不能得到它在一起。
602He was having a hard time.他当时很辛苦
603He's abusing alcohol.他滥用酒精。
604He's琌
605starting to be rude to me and treat me not like, um, nobody in my family was ever physically abusive开始对我粗鲁对待我 不像,嗯, 没有人在我家 曾经身体虐待
606to me, but he would drink and he would get a little like verbally abusive, like bullying,对我来说,但他会喝酒, 他会得到一点点 像辱骂,像欺负,
607like, like he would say, you know, say rude things to me.就像他会说,你知道, 对我说粗鲁的事情。
608And I was like, I was, yeah,我当时想,是的,
609I didn't have a great relationship with him either.我也和他没有很好的关系
610Um, so we started to have problems and I,嗯,所以我们开始 有问题和我,
611and I really wanted to stay living with my brother, but I just started to have problems我真的很想和我哥哥住在一起 但我开始有麻烦了
612with my stepdad.和我的继父。
613And so when I started to have problems with my stepdad, William saw it as an所以当我开始跟我的继父有问题时 威廉视之为
614opportunity to come in and take me to live with him, but I was still fighting that I did not want但我仍然在战斗,我不想
615to go live with William.和威廉一起过日子
616That's the last place I wanted to go live.这是我最不想住的地方
617I'd rather live with my grandma.我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起 我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起
618So for a time I went to live with my grandma.所以有一段时间我跟我奶奶住在一起
619Um, I lived with one of my aunts.嗯,我和我的一个阿姨住在一起。
620It's complicated.这很复杂。
621It was a whole, a whole thing, but, um, basically I was like, I want to live anywhere but with him.整个事情,但,嗯,基本上,我就像, 我想住任何地方,但与他。
622Like I will live with any family member, any person except him.就像我会和家人一起生活 除了他
623And he didn't like that.他不喜欢这样
624He was, he hated that.他是,他讨厌那。
625And so he was like calling up my aunt and like basically harassing her and所以他喜欢打电话给我姨妈 基本上骚扰她
626like just even my grandma was pressuring me to go live with him.就像我奶奶逼我跟他住一样
627Everybody was kind of like,每个人都喜欢,
628I don't want to fight him.我不想和他战斗
629He's your father.他是你父亲
630He should take you.他应该带你走
631And they couldn't empathize他们无法同情
632me or understand how I felt.或者理解我的感觉
633And so it got to a point where he, William was trying so hard,威廉很努力地尝试
634fighting so hard for me to live with him that I, I got basically desperate.为了我和他住在一起 我非常绝望
635I got to, I reached我必须去,我到了
636my limit of the maximum I could take.我最大的极限,我能承受。
637I couldn't handle it anymore.我受不了了,我无法承受
638So I told him, and by the way,所以我告诉他,顺便说一句,
639I'm speaking slowly.我说话慢。
640It's not because I'm feeling emotional or because I am, um, trying to talk不是因为我情绪激动 也不是因为我...
641slower for you guys.你们慢点
642I'm just talking this because I'm literally thinking about what to say as like,我只是在说这个 因为我正想着该说什么
643how to tell you the story as I'm doing it.如何告诉你的故事 当我这样做。
644So I'm trying to focus.所以我想专注。
645Okay.摆
646What do I say next?接下来我要说什么?
647What什麽?
648do I, how do I say this?我该怎么说呢?
649That's why.故说.
650So yeah, so I hit, I hit my limit.所以,我打,我达到极限。
651I said, I can't take this我说,我受不了了
652anymore.现在。
653I can't handle this anymore.我受不了这个了
654There is one thing I know, there's one chance I have at我知道一件事,我有一个机会
655getting him to stop, to stop harassing, to stop trying to force me to live with him, to stop阻止他 停止骚扰 停止强迫我和他生活
656fighting.战斗
657There's one thing I can use.有一点我可以用
658There's one card I can play.我可以打一张牌
659And that is, you might not be my也就是说,你可能不是我的
660father.父亲
661I want a paternity test.我要做亲子鉴定
662William, now, give it to me now, you little.威廉,现在给我,你这个小家伙
663And so I wrote him a letter and I told him and he was all emotional.我给他写了封信 告诉他他很激动
664And believe me,并且相信我,
665I truly empathize with him.我真心的同情他,我爱他
666I can't imagine 15 at this point, I was 15 years old, 15 years later,我无法想象15岁,15年后
667after thinking that I'm somebody's parent, that I'm somebody's father to find out 15 years later,认为我是别人的家长 认为我是别人的爸爸 发现15年后
668that I might not be their father or that I'm not their father, crushing.我可能不是他们的父亲 或者我不是他们的父亲,粉碎。
669I mean, obviously我的意思是,很明显
670shouldn't change the way that you feel about the person, like, you know, that you should, you know,不应该改变你对人的感觉 就像,你知道,你应该,你知道,
671the way you want to still be their father.你想成为他们父亲的方式
672But just to find that out is, I think it's devastating.但是为了找出问题 我认为这很严重
673It's very upsetting.真让人心烦
674And yeah, I mean, I can't imagine.是的,我是说,我不能想象。
675I mean, I empathize with him for我是说 我同情他
676experiencing that.经历那。
677I'm sure that was very hard for him.我肯定那对他来说是很难的
678I think it's still hard for him years and我觉得对他来说还是很难过
679years later.数年后.
680So yeah, so that was very hard for him to realize that he might not be.所以他很难意识到他可能不是
681But he agreed,不过他同意了
682he agreed to do it, to get a paternity test.他同意这样做, 得到一个父子关系测试。
683And so we did it.所以,我们做到了。
684We did it.我们成功了
685We went to a lab and we我们去了实验室
686did it.已经做到了。
687And then we waited patiently for the results.然后我们耐心等待结果。
688And I'll never forget the day when he我永远不会忘记他
689picked me up with his new wife or whatever.接我和他的新妻子什么的。
690I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
691You know, it's like, I don't care.你知道,这就像, 我不在乎。
692Wife, girlfriend, whoever it was.老婆 女朋友 不管是谁
693What was her name?她叫什么来着?
694I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
695No, I remember.不,我记得
696I'm kidding.我开玩笑的
697I just didn't like her.我只是不喜欢她
698But I didn't like him either.但我也不喜欢他
699Don't get it你不要这样
700twisted.扭曲。
701I'll never forget when they picked me up and there was kind of like, I knew that this was我永远不会忘记 当他们来接我的时候... ... ......
702the day they were going to give me the results.那天他们要给我结果
703And there was this kind of tension in the air,空气中出现了这种紧张
704this kind of silence, awkward silence, tension, something in the air when I got in the car.这种沉默,尴尬的沉默,紧张, 东西在空中 当我上车。
705But I'm just like, okay.但我只是喜欢,好吗。
706Secretly, I was thinking probably he's not my father.秘密地,我在想他是不是我父亲。
707They want to tell他们想告诉
708me in person because they want to say, he wants to say, oh, but I still feel like I'm your father我亲自来,因为他们想说, 他想说,哦,但我仍然感觉我是你爸爸
709and he's going to do this emotional thing.他将会做这种情感的事情。
710And I need to just, even though I'm probably going to我需要只是, 尽管我可能要去
711be happy, I need to just pretend like be serious and be respectful because I understand that this高兴点,我需要假装认真点 尊重别人 因为我明白
712is hard for him.对他来说很难
713So I was just like, Hey guys, what's up?所以,我只是喜欢, 嘿,伙计们,怎么了?
714How you know, how you doing blah, blah,你怎么知道,你怎么样 诸如此类,
715trying to be civil, trying to be respectful.努力做到文明,努力做到尊重.
716We go to a restaurant and we sit down in the restaurant.我们去一家餐厅,坐在餐厅里
717The waitress takes our order.服务员听我们吩咐
718And then after he told me, he told me the results were negative.然后他告诉我,他告诉我 结果是负面的。
719He is not my father.他不是我父亲
720William, you are not the father.威廉 你不是父亲
721And I immediately was extremely relieved,我立即感到非常宽慰,
722extremely happy.非常快乐
723And that tells you everything you need to know.这告诉你所有你需要知道的
724But I didn't want to show this joy.但我不想展示这种快乐。
725So I just tried to maintain seriousness, like, okay, okay, okay.所以我试图保持严肃, 像,好吧,好吧,好吧。
726And he's telling me,他告诉我,
727but this doesn't change how I feel.但这并不改变我的感受
728I'm always going to be a father.我永远会是一个父亲。
729But yeah, he's telling me但是,他告诉我
730how he just, he got really mad at my mom.他对我妈很生气
731He was swearing about my mom and he was angry toward her,他发誓说我妈妈 他对她生气
732which is reasonable, justified.这是合理的,合理的。
733Of course he has every right to be angry at my mom.他当然有权利对我妈生气
734And thankfully,谢天谢地,
735she was not there.她不在场。
736She already died.她已经死了。
737So, cause if she was alive, she probably would have never所以,因为 如果她还活着, 她可能永远不会
738heard the end of that.听到结束。
739And yeah, she probably should have had to face that consequence of是的,她可能不得不面对 后果
740her action.她的行为。
741Yeah, she should have.是啊,她应该有。
742That was so wrong of her.这太错了她。
743But well, she avoided that one.但是,她避免了那个。
744And then he asked me, William asked me, like, why did you decide to bring this up now?然后他问我,威廉问我, 像,为什么你决定 现在提出这个?
745Why did you decide to tell me now and to do all of this now?为什么你现在决定告诉我 现在做这一切?
746Why now?为什么是现在?
747And to me, I'm like, bro,对我来说,我就像,兄弟,
748isn't it obvious?是不是很明显?
749Like, isn't it obvious?是不是很明显?
750You're being like a tyrant and this is the only way for你像个暴君 这是唯一的办法
751me to break free from you.我从你身上解脱出来
752But I told him, like, I just wanted to know.但我告诉他,喜欢, 我只是想知道。
753I'm just curious.我只是有点好奇
754Just刚刚
755curious.好奇吗?
756Just curious.只是好奇罢了
757Like, bro, are you stupid?像,兄弟,你傻吗?
758Are you stupid?你傻吗?
759Obviously, you're an authoritarian很明显,你是个独裁者
760prick.阴茎。
761You're, you're an asshole.你是,你是一个混蛋。
762Like, you're, you're so messed up.喜欢,你,你是如此搞砸了。
763I hate you.我讨厌你
764What the hell?什么情况?
765Of course I'm happy about not being your biological daughter.我当然很高兴没有做你的亲生女儿
766You can't act like you can control me,你不能装作可以控制我
767even though you're still on my birth certificate.即使你还在我的出生证上
768He is.没错
769He's still on my birth certificate.他还在我的出生证上
770And,还有,
771and I still have his last name.我还有他的姓
772So, um, but yeah, but I was, I was okay because I knew this was hard所以,嗯,但是是的, 但我是,我没事 因为我知道这很难
773for him.为了他
774And yeah, I spent a good amount of my childhood with him.是的,我花了很多时间 与他的童年。
775So I was okay with being,所以,我没事的,
776I was okay with continuing, like, to call him dad and to treat him like my father.我同意继续叫他爸爸 像对待我父亲一样
777But I just但我刚刚
778wanted him to know that like legally he doesn't have the right to force me to live with him.想要他知道在法律上 他无权强迫我和他一起生活
779That's all I wanted.这就是我想要的。
780You could, you could be my dad and take me to go get ice cream and whatever.你可以做我爸爸 带我去吃冰淇淋什么的
781We can ha ha and have dad daughter time, but do not force me to live with you.我们可以有爸爸的女儿时间, 但不要强迫我和你一起生活。
782So I got what I所以我得到了我的东西
783wanted.被通缉了
784And that's what I wanted.这就是我想要的。
785And yeah, so after he told me we were in the restaurant,所以在他告诉我我们在餐厅后
786right.对
787And I go to the bath, I say, I need to go to the bathroom.我得去洗个澡 我得去洗手间
788So I go to the bathroom所以我去厕所
789and I'm in the bathroom by myself and I'm just like, yes, thank you.我一个人在洗手间里,谢谢
790Oh my God.天呐
791I was so happy.我很高兴。
792I was celebrating so hard in the bathroom.我在洗手间很辛苦地庆祝
793I was like, yes, like I went in the stall,我就像,是的,就像我走进摊位,
794the toilet stall.厕所
795I was like, oh my God, I wanted, I want to have a party.我当时想,哦,我的上帝, 我想,我想有一个党。
796It's just so happy.真开心
797It's这是
798of course there was like a little bit of like, oh yeah, he's really not my dad.当然,有一样有点像, 哦,是的,他真的不是我爸爸。
799You know, obviously I have good memories with him from my childhood.很明显 我从小就和他有着美好的回忆
800Obviously I have good很明显,我有很好的
801memories with him.他的记忆
802There were many times when he was a good dad, you know, a normal dad,当他是一个好爸爸的时候 曾经有很多次 一个正常的爸爸
803but a good dad, you know, of course, of course, my family always likes to remind me that when I was但是个好爸爸,你知道, 当然,我的家人总是喜欢提醒我 当我是
804little, when I was really little, he was a good dad, you know, and I loved him.我小时候,他是个好爸爸,我爱他
805Of course, when当然,当
806kids are little, they worship their parents, you know, when their kids are little, they think孩子们很小,他们崇拜他们的父母, 你知道,当他们的孩子很小, 他们认为
807their parents are the best thing ever and they, they're gods and you know, it's very easy to be他们的父母是有史以来最好的 他们,他们是神 你知道,这很容易
808loved by little children.被小孩爱着
809And yeah, he, he's not a bad guy necessarily in general.是的,他,他不是一个坏人 必然在总体上。
810And yeah,没错,
811he always would play with me, play with me and joke around with me and, you know, spoil me.他总是和我玩,和我玩 和我开玩笑,你知道,宠坏我。
812And还有
813yeah, I mean, I have a lot of good memories of him when I was a little kid and I, I recognize是啊,我的意思是,我有很多好的回忆 他,当我还是个孩子,我承认
814that and I acknowledge that.我承认这一点。
815And it's a little sad.则稍悲.
816It's a little sad to think about that and,想想这个有点悲哀,
817and stuff, but, but you don't get a free pass to treat me however you want when I'm a teenager,但你没有免费通行证 来对待我 当我还是青少年的时候
818just because you played Barbies with me when I was four, you know, or eight or whatever.就因为我四岁时 你跟我玩芭比娃娃 或者是八岁之类的
819Just, you don't, you can't just, you don't get like a free pass.只是,你没有,你不能 只是,你没有得到像一个免费通行证。
820You people, a lot of people你们这些人,很多人
821don't understand this, but I think times are changing and younger generations are starting不明白,但我觉得时代在改变 年轻一代在开始
822to realize this.要意识到这一点。
823This idea that we need to stop objectifying children.这个想法,我们需要停止 将儿童作为对象。
824They're not your property他们不是你的财产
825that you can just do what you want with.你可以随心所欲
826They are people.他们是人。
827You need to respect them.你要尊重他们
828And you don't你没有
829have the right, once they get to a certain age, when they're little, okay, whatever, as long as有权利,一旦他们到了某个年龄, 当他们很小,好吧,随便什么,只要
830you're not like abusing them, like, okay, you're their parent, whatever.你不喜欢虐待他们, 像,好吧,你是他们的父母,随便什么。
831But, but I would say when但我会说
832they're a teenager, twenties, when they're an adult or they're getting to be adult age, you don't她们是十几岁,二十几岁, 她们成年了,或者成年了,你不会
833have a right to be in your child's life.有权进入你的孩子的生活。
834That is a privilege.这是一种特权。
835Just because you are a blood family就因为你是血族
836or just because you raised someone does not mean you have a right to be in their life when they're或者只是因为你养了一个人 并不意味着你有权利 在他们的生活,当他们
837older.年长。
838It is a privilege.这是一种特权。
839You don't get respect just by being related to someone or older than你不只是因为和某个人或比他年长的人有亲戚关系 就得不到尊重
840someone.有人吗?
841Respect is earned.尊重是赢得的。
842So, so yeah.所以,所以对了。
843So when my family always tells me like, he was a good dad所以当我的家人总是告诉我 他是个好爸爸
844when you were little.你小时候
845I'm just like, okay.我只是喜欢,好吗。
846And, you know, it's not good enough.而且,你知道,这还不够好。
847It's easy to be a做一个容易
848dad when, when your child is three and, you know, is super easy.爸爸,当你的孩子三岁, 你知道,是超级容易。
849But what about when your child is但当你的孩子是
85013?13号?
851Can you be a good dad when your child is 13?你的孩子13岁的时候能当个好爸爸吗?
852What about when your child is 23?你的孩子23岁时怎么办?
853Can you be a你能成为一个
854good dad when your child is 23?你孩子23岁的时候,是个好爸爸?
855So, yeah.对
856So that's that.就这样
857And so I went that year, I went to go live于是我去了那一年,我去了生活
858with my, my mom's sister and aunt and I lived with her and I had two more years of high school我和我妈的姐姐和阿姨住在一起 我又读了两年高中
859before I graduated.在我毕业之前
860But I, because of my state, my state allows some students, like my state allows但我,因为我的州, 我的州允许一些学生, 就像我的州允许
861you to combine the last two years into one year if you want to.如果你愿意的话,你将把过去两年合并为一年。
862So that's what I did because I所以这就是我所做的,因为我
863didn't like school and I wanted to get out and yeah.不喜欢上学 我想出去,是啊。
864So, and I was tired of living with my family我厌倦了和家人住在一起
865and I just wanted, I wanted freedom.我只是想,我想要自由。
866I wanted to leave my state and I, so I combined the last,我想离开我的州和我, 所以我结合最后一个,
867I combined the last two years.我合并过去两年。
868I graduated that, that year when I was 16 and I was able to get我16岁那年就毕业了,我得到了
869enough financial aid to allow me to go to college in Florida.足够我上佛罗里达大学的财政援助
870So I went to school, went to college所以我去学校,上大学
871in Florida.在佛罗里达州。
872So then I was kind of free.所以我就有点自由了
873I was, you know, I was, I left my home state.我,你知道,我是,我离开了我的家乡。
874I was far away我远道而来
875from, from Maine, from all my family and I was going to school and I was living there and I,来自缅因州,来自所有我的家人 我上学,我住在那里,我,
876yeah.对
877So that was the last time that I saw him.那是我最后一次见到他
878Okay, but I need to go back.好吧,但我必须回去。
879I need to rewind我要倒车
880because this is an important part of the story I forgot to tell you.因为这是我忘记告诉你的故事的一个重要部分。
881So during this last year所以去年这段日子
882of high school, after I found out that William is not my father and while I was living with my aunt,高中的时候,我发现威廉不是我父亲 当我和我姨妈住在一起时,
883I was curious about this Vincent guy.我对这个文森特很好奇
884I said, okay, well, if William's not my father, then我说,好吧,好吧, 如果威廉不是我父亲,那么
885Vincent must be my father.文森特一定是我父亲
886So I remembered Vincent's full name and I, I started to search所以我想起文森特的全名 我开始搜索
887on the internet and I found a guy with this name on Facebook and he looked like maybe he could be我在Facebook上找到一个叫这个名字的人 他看起来可能是
888my father.我的父亲。
889I don't know.师曰.
890We didn't look super alike, but maybe.我们看起来不是超级相似,但也许。
891And it's hard because I was这很难,因为我
892a teenage girl.一个少女。
893It's hard to compare to like a father aged man, you know, in physical appearance很难比得上一个像父亲的老人, 你知道,在外表上
894we're very different, but yeah, but I don't know.我们很不一样,但是是的,但我不知道。
895My aunt said we looked alike.我姨妈说我们长得像
896I didn't really see我真的没看到
897it, but anyway, so I, I contacted this guy and I, and I asked him if he remembered my mom and he我联系了这家伙 我问他是否记得我妈妈和他
898said he did.他说他做到了。
899So I said, okay, so this is the guy then.所以我说,好吧,这就是那个家伙。
900And I told him, I told him what everything我告诉他,我告诉他一切
901my mom told me.我妈妈告诉我的
902And he obviously was surprised, but I think he reacted pretty good.显然他很惊讶 但我觉得他的反应很好
903He seemed like他看起来像
904a very genuine guy.一个非常真实的人。
905He seemed to be genuinely interested, happy.他看起来很感兴趣,很快乐
906He was happy to talk to me,他很高兴能和我说话
907to get to know me.来了解我
908He thought there is a chance I am your father.他以为我是你父亲
909He was living in a different他住的地方不一样
910part of the country.国家的一部分。
911He had his own family.他有自己的家庭。
912He had two kids that were younger than me, obviously.显然他有两个比我小的孩子
913And yeah, so we started to, we started to talk, like to get to know each other.是啊,所以我们开始, 我们开始谈, 像开始了解对方。
914We started to我们开始
915talk on the phone, like multiple times a week.在电话上说话, 像每周多次。
916Like he would call me after school and we would就像他放学后打电话给我一样
917just talk.说话就好
918I don't know why we talked so long before getting a paternity test.我不知道我们为什么在做亲子鉴定之前就谈了这么久
919I think we were我想我们是
920trying to figure out how to do it because we were in different places, but I was waiting for him to试图想出怎么做,因为我们在不同的地方, 但我在等待他
921figure it out.想办法
922I think he was busy with a lot of things going on, but he made time to talk to me我觉得他忙着很多事情 但他有时间跟我说话
923to get to know me.来了解我
924And he seemed like a cool guy.他看起来是个很酷的家伙
925And I was like, Oh, this would be cool if he was我当时就想,哦,如果他是...
926my dad.我的父亲。
927Like he seemed, I wasn't looking for a father figure.就像他看起来,我不是在找一个父亲
928I never was looking for a father我从来没有找过父亲
929figure.数字。
930I just wanted to know who my biological father was because I was interested in knowing我只是想知道我的生父是谁 因为我有兴趣知道
931what he looks like, what his genetics are, what his personality is like.他的长相,他的遗传学,他的个性是什么样.
932Cause I would like to因为我想
933know who my biological father is so that I can see how we compare what we have in common,知道我的亲生父亲是谁 这样我就能看见我们如何比较 我们的共同点
934what things I might get from him.我可能从他那里得到什么
935I think that's interesting.我认为这很有趣。
936I mean, who, who wouldn't know,我的意思是,谁,谁不知道,
937who wouldn't want to know who their biological parents are, right?谁不想知道他们的亲生父母是谁?
938Just out of curiosity.出于好奇
939But I不过
940wasn't looking to like live with him or move to where he is or like, I don't know.不想和他住在一起 或者搬到他现在或喜欢的地方 我不知道
941And so这样
942finally we, we, he ordered a paternity test.最后我们,我们,我们, 他命令一个父子关系测试。
943And so how it works is it's like through the mail.因此,它是如何工作的,就像通过邮件。
944So they sent me a little test.所以他们送我一个小测试。
945So I take a swab of my saliva or whatever, and I mail it, mail it所以我拿我的唾液什么的, 我邮寄,邮寄
946out.出来。
947And so we did that kind of a thing because we were living in different places.所以我们做了这种事情,因为我们生活在不同的地方。
948And then finally终于
949we got the result and it was negative, which means he, he is not my father.我们得到了结果,这是负面的, 这意味着他,他不是我父亲。
950And we were both我们都是
951very surprised because like I said, my mom never gave me another name.非常惊讶,因为就像我说的, 我妈妈从来没有给我另一个名字。
952So I don't, I didn't know,所以我没有,我不知道,
953if it's not him, who would it be?如果不是他,那会是谁?
954Everybody was shocked.每个人都很震惊。
955My aunt, my grandma, like everybody was我阿姨,我奶奶,就像大家一样
956like, I don't believe that.喜欢,我不相信。
957To this day, I think my aunt and grandma think that he somehow faked it直到今天,我觉得我姑妈和奶奶都认为他伪造了
958or they think that he faked the test or he did something to, to mess it up.或者他们认为他伪造了测试 或者他做了一些事情 搞砸了它。
959But they never really但是他们从来没有真正
960talked to him.跟他谈过了
961I talked to him for months.我跟他谈了几个月
962Yes, I was 16 years old and you never know.是的,当时我16岁,你永远不知道。
963Somebody有人吗?
964might seem like a honest person and then they're really not.也许看起来是个诚实的人 然后他们真的不是
965I don't think he faked it.我不认为他伪造的。
966They think他们觉得
967he faked it.他伪造的
968I don't know.师曰.
969But he seemed very surprised by the result.但他似乎对结果非常惊讶.
970And so he decided to所以他决定
971order another one and it wasn't cheap.再点一个,不便宜
972It was kind of expensive.有点贵
973He ordered another one because he他又订了一张,因为他
974just, he didn't believe the result.只是他不相信结果
975That's what he said.他就是这么说的
976And so we took another one, came back于是我们又拿了一张回来
977negative.负.
978So at this point, it's kind of like, you just have to accept this guy is not your father所以,现在,这有点像, 你只需要接受这家伙不是你爸爸
979unless you're my aunt or my grandma.除非你是我姨妈或祖母
980They still think he is.他们仍然认为他是。
981They think he faked it.他们认为是他伪造的
982I think they're我想他们是
983in denial and they just, no, I don't really know if they still think that.在否认,他们只是, 不,我真的不知道 如果他们仍然认为。
984But yeah, I think they但是,我想他们
985just didn't want to accept that my mom had many partners at the time and she was not doing well.只是不想接受我妈妈当时有很多搭档 而她表现不好
986And she, yeah, there's more than just two options of who my father is.她,是的,有不止两个选择 谁是我父亲。
987But I can accept, I believe it.但我可以接受,我相信这一点。
988And so, yeah, so it was a little sad because I think even this guy, Vincent, he was like a little,所以,是的,所以它有点悲伤 因为我认为即使这个人,文森特, 他就像一点点,
989seemed a little disappointed that he's not my father because he'd been talking to me for months他好像有点失望,他不是我父亲 因为他已经跟我说话好几个月了
990and he thought we had a lot in common.他认为我们有很多共同点
991And I think he was a little disappointed, but he was like,我觉得他有点失望, 但他喜欢,
992okay, well, life goes on.好了,好了,生活继续。
993But he was a nice guy and I never, I never got any sign.但他是个好人,我从来没有,我没有任何迹象。
994I never felt我从来没有感觉
995any sign of like shadiness, like not being a genuine person, like lying or not having good任何像阴暗的征兆, 像不是一个真正的人, 像说谎或没有好
996intentions or I never felt that.或者我从未感觉到
997I felt like he was very genuine.我觉得他很真诚
998So that happened with Vincent.文森特就是这样
999So here I am.所以我在这里。
1000Okay.摆
1001William's not my father.威廉不是我父亲
1002Vincent's not my father.文森特不是我父亲
1003Who is it?是谁?
1004Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1005Nobody has any names.没人知道名字
1006Only my mom would know.只有我妈知道
1007This is what I thought.这就是我的想法。
1008Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1009Nobody's saying anything.没有人在说什么。
1010So the years go by, like I told you in my last video, I went to Florida岁月流逝,就像我上次录影时告诉你的,我去了佛罗里达州
1011for a few years.几年时间
1012I moved to Ecuador.我搬到了厄瓜多尔。
1013I lived in the Amazon in Ecuador for years.我在厄瓜多尔的亚马逊生活了好几年。
1014I didn't go back我没有回去
1015to my home state.去我的家乡
1016I didn't go back to Maine until 10 years later, until I was 26.直到10年后我才回到缅因州,直到26岁.
1017I left when I was我离开的时候
101816.16号.
1019I went back when I was 26.我26岁时回去了
1020That is when I started to try to rekindle my relationships那时我开始尝试重燃我的感情
1021with my family members.与我家人。 与我的家庭成员。
1022I started to try to like start over, like clean slate.我开始尝试重新开始, 像干净的板块。
1023Let's start over.让我们重新开始。
1024What happened in the past, what happened in the past, I'm older now, 10 years have gone by.过去发生的事情,过去发生的事情,我现在年纪大了,十年过去了.
1025I've gone through healing and growing up and you know, I think I've dealt with some of my trauma我经历了治疗和成长, 你知道, 我想我已经处理了一些创伤
1026and whatever.还有别的什么
1027I understand that we are very different and my family members did a lot of我知道我们很不一样 我的家人做了很多
1028But you know, everybody is living for the first time.但你知道 每个人都是第一次活着
1029Everybody is living for the first time每个人都是第一次活着
1030in this life, in their current body.在他们现在的身体里
1031Even if you believe in reincarnation, everybody即使你相信转世,每个人
1032was born very recently, at least in this lifetime.出生于最近,至少在这一辈子。
1033And so we all are just trying to figure out life所以,我们都在试图 找出生活
1034as we go and we all have different experiences and we all make different decisions and think当我们去,我们都有不同的经历, 我们都做出不同的决定和思考
1035differently and whatever.不同或别的
1036So I'll never forget things, but I forgive my family for everything所以我永远不会忘记一切 但我原谅我的家人
1037that they ever did that I didn't like or hurt me or whatever.他们做了我不喜欢或伤害我什么的。
1038There's so much more to the story,故事还有很多
1039obviously, of my childhood that I didn't share because that's not what this video is about.显然,我的童年,我没有分享 因为这不是这个视频的内容。
1040But I had a pretty good childhood in some ways, but in other ways, I had a pretty rough time.但我的童年在有些方面相当不错, 但在其他方面,我度过了相当艰难的时光。
1041Childhood was very hard for me.童年对我来说非常艰难。
1042I don't, for a second, wish I could be a kid again.我不,一秒钟, 希望我可以再次成为一个孩子。
1043You know你知道吗
1044how some adults wish that they could be a kid again?一些成年人希望他们能再次成为孩子?
1045I don't wish that for a second.我并不想那样
1046The freedom自由
1047that I have as an adult, the peace that I have as an adult that I couldn't get as a child,作为成年人,我拥有的安宁 作为成年人,我无法得到 作为一个孩子,
1048there are no words.没有字。
1049I felt like a prisoner as a child.我小时候感觉像个囚犯
1050I felt like I was forced to live with我觉得我被迫与
1051people and live in a certain way that I didn't want.以我所不希望的方式生活
1052I struggled a lot in my childhood and I我童年时经常挣扎
1053went through a lot and I needed those 10 years.经历了很多,我需要那10年。
1054I needed those four years in the Amazon to just我需要在亚马逊的四年时间
1055scream into the jungle and sleep in the jungle.尖叫进入丛林 睡在丛林里
1056So the years went by and at 26 years old, I went26岁时,我去了
1057back.回来
1058I did a big family visit and I gave everybody a fresh chance.我做了一个很大的探亲 我给了每个人一个新的机会。
1059Now I'm 28.现在我28岁了
1060I'm turning我要转身了
106128 this month.本月28号
1062I think I have a good relationship with everybody except William.我和除了威廉以外的人的关系很好
1063I'm not going to我不会
1064get into this too much, but all I can say is I tried.太多事了 但我只能说 我尽力了
1065I tried to give William another chance,我试图给威廉另一个机会,
1066a clean slate like I gave everybody else.就像我给其他人一样
1067My stepdad, my stepmom, my aunt, my grandma.我的继父 我的继母 我姨妈 我奶奶
1068Hey, nice to meet you.嘿,很高兴见到你。
1069Let's start over.让我们重新开始。
1070I did.没错
1071I really tried, but I tried to talk to him我真的试过了,但是我想跟他谈谈
1072on the phone.在电话。
1073I even tried to hang out with him in person and I just couldn't do it.我甚至想亲自和他出去玩 但我做不到
1074I tried and I我试过,我
1075realized that as a kid, I felt forced.我小时候感觉很强迫
1076I felt pressured to hang out with this person, to talk我感到压力 和这个人在一起 聊天
1077to this person, whatever, to have this person in my life.这个人,不管怎样, 拥有这个人在我的生活中。
1078And I don't want to, as an adult,我不想,作为一个成年人,
1079continue that pressure, continue to pressure myself or to let other people pressure me to继续施压 继续施压 或让别人施压
1080maintain a relationship with this person that I don't want in my life.和这个人保持一段我生活所不希望的关系
1081So I made the decision所以我决定了
1082to cut ties with William, not because he's not my father, but because of our relationship or不是因为他不是我父亲 而是因为我们的关系
1083lack thereof.没有。
1084He's just someone that I don't want to talk to.他只是一个我不想和他说话的人
1085I don't want to hang out with.我不想和他们在一起
1086He's not all bad.他不尽坏.
1087Of course, there are good things about him.当然,他有好东西。
1088He's not a bad person, necessarily,他肯定不是一个坏人
1089but I evaluated all the evidence.但我评估了所有的证据
1090I thought about everything, everything that I've ever learned我想了一切,我学到的一切
1091about him, seen from him, witnessed and felt.关于他,从他那里看见的,是见证和感觉的。
1092And I decided that it's unfortunate.我决定这是不幸的。
1093It's unfortunate,很遗憾
1094but I need to do what's right for me.但我需要做对我做的
1095And it is a privilege to be in my life.我很荣幸能进入我的生活
1096And unfortunately for很遗憾
1097him, I don't want to give him that privilege.我不想给他这种特权
1098So yes, I don't believe this thing that, oh,所以,是的, 我不相信这个东西,哦,
1099just because they are your parent or your blood family or whatever, just because they were part因为他们是你的父母 或你的血族 或什么的, 只是因为他们的一部分
1100of your childhood, you can't cut them off.在你的童年, 你不能切断他们。
1101You can't do, you know, I don't believe that.你不能这样做,你知道, 我不相信这一点。
1102I don't believe in that.不信此义.
1103Yeah, that's not what I would teach my children.是啊,这不是我会 教我的孩子。
1104And if I have kids,如果我有孩子的话
1105I don't want him in their life anyways.反正我也不想他进入他们的生活
1106So I made that decision to cut ties with him, to not talk所以我决定和他断绝联系,不说话
1107anymore.现在。
1108And he probably thinks that a big reason is because he's not my biological father.他可能认为一个大原因 因为他不是我的亲生父亲
1109And还有
1110that's unfortunate that he probably thinks that because that's not true.这很不幸,他可能认为 因为那不是真的。
1111But if that makes him但是如果那样他
1112feel better, so he doesn't feel like it's because I don't like him as a person, because that's感觉好点了,所以他不觉得 喜欢是因为我不喜欢他作为一个人,因为
1113really what it's about.真实的它是什么。
1114I don't like him as a person and I don't want him in my life.我不喜欢他作为一个人,我不想他在我的生活中。
1115It's not这不是
1116about, you know, so yeah, it's not about being my biological.关于,你知道,所以是的, 这不是关于我的生物。
1117It's not about relation.这不是关系。
1118My stepdad我的继父
1119is not biologically related to me.跟我没有生理联系
1120And I, even though my stepdad and I haven't always had the而我,虽然我的继父和我 并不总是有
1121best relationship, I want that man to be a part of my life.最好的关系, 我希望他成为我生命的一部分。
1122And I will, yeah, I would never,我会,是的,我永远不会,
1123I would never cut ties with him because I actually enjoy talking to him and hanging out with him.我绝对不会和他断绝联系 因为我真的喜欢和他交谈 和他在一起
1124I think he actually adds to my life instead of takes away.我认为他实际上增加了我的生活 而不是带走。
1125So it's not about, yeah, same thing所以,这不是关于,是的,同一件事
1126with my stepmom.我继母。
1127So it's not, it's not about blood, blood relation.所以这不是,它不是关于血,血的关系。
1128But anyways, so however但无论如何,所以
1129he's processing this is his business.他正在处理这是他的生意。
1130I don't know, but I obviously he's probably very upset我不知道,但我显然他可能很生气
1131about this.关于这个。
1132I sent him a message and that I am ending the relationship.我给他发了条信息 我要结束关系
1133And yeah, he he's对 他
1134probably very upset about it, emotional, angry, whatever.可能很生气,情绪,愤怒,随便什么。
1135And so probably out of desperation and可能是因为绝望
1136all this emotion and whatever, he ended up reaching out to my aunt, my, my mom's sister.他最后联系了我姑妈 我母亲的妹妹
1137And, you know, they don't talk, but he probably had her number and was like, let me text her.而且,你知道,他们不说话, 但他可能有她的电话号码 并喜欢,让我发短信给她。
1138So he texts her and he, he sends her the message that I sent him.所以他给她发了短信,然后,他给她发了我给他的信息。
1139And he says, like kind of playing他说,就像一种演奏
1140dumb, like, I don't, I don't know what this means.我不知道这是什么意思
1141Like, can you help me figure this out?你能帮我弄明白吗?
1142Like,喜欢,
1143my aunt is like, my, my aunt is very, she, yeah, she's just like, it is what it is.我姨妈喜欢,我姨妈非常, 她,是的,她只是喜欢,这是它是什么。
1144Like,喜欢,
1145she's very logical by the book kind of person.她很合乎逻辑的书 那种人。
1146Like, yeah, she, she was just like,喜欢,是的,她只是喜欢,
1147well, it looks, well, William, it looks pretty, pretty obvious what this is about.看起来 威廉 看起来很明显
1148She clearly does not want a relationship with you.她显然不想和你谈恋爱
1149So yeah, it's not rocket science.所以,这不是火箭科学。
1150And he's like,他喜欢,
1151okay, yeah, yeah, I, that's what I thought.好吧,是啊,是啊,我,这就是我想的。
1152But I wasn't sure.但我还不确定
1153And yeah, I mean, I think my aunt,是的,我的意思是,我认为我的姨妈,
1154my aunt, because she is a mother and she knows, you know, I think she has empathy for him too,我姨妈,因为她是母亲 她知道,你知道,我想她也同情他,
1155you know, because obviously I empathize with any parent who, whose child does not want a你知道,因为很明显我同情 任何父母 谁,谁的孩子不想要一个
1156relationship with them because I know that that hurts.和他们的关系,因为我知道那伤害。
1157That probably hurts like crazy.这可能像疯狂。
1158But I think that the child is justified.但我认为这孩子是有道理的。
1159I think if a child, no matter what their age is, if they,我认为,如果一个孩子, 无论他们的年龄, 如果他们,
1160well, when they're an adult, if they don't want a relationship with you, even a teenager, if they当他们成年了,如果他们不想和你建立关系, 即使是青少年,如果他们
1161don't want a relationship with you, I mean, even any age, even a child.不想和你谈恋爱,甚至任何年龄,甚至一个孩子
1162Yeah.对
1163If no matter the age,如果不管年龄
1164if any child does not want a relationship with their parent, it's the parent's fault.如果任何孩子不想和他们的父母建立关系,那是父母的错。
1165It's never the child's fault.这不是孩子的错。
1166It's the parent's fault because why, why would they not want a这是父母的错 因为为什么,他们为什么不想要一个
1167relationship with you?和你的关系?
1168You know, children want relationships with their parents.你知道,孩子想要 与父母的关系。
1169So to get to所以,为了得到
1170that point of deciding, nah, it's not worth it.这不值得
1171It takes a lot to get to that point.说到这一点需要很多时间。
1172So that's on所以这是在
1173the parent to spend some time reflecting on how they let it get to that point.父母会花一些时间思考 他们是如何让它达到这个地步的
1174It's usually not一般不会
1175one thing.还有一件事
1176It's usually many things accumulating.通常有很多东西在积累.
1177So yeah.对啊
1178So my aunt probably empathizes with him,所以我姨妈可能对他很同情
1179but at the same time is like saying, you know, Lao is totally justified in her decision to,但与此同时,就像说,你知道, 老挝是完全有道理的 她的决定,
1180to do that.这样做。
1181Sucks for you, William, but you know, she can make that decision.威廉,你很烂,但她可以做决定
1182And it's not like I made that decision.也不是我决定的
1183I gave him so much time, you know, I didn't make that我给了他这么多时间,你知道, 我没有做到这一点
1184decision when I was 18 and like just angry and you know, no, I, I waited until I was 27 years old.我18岁的时候决定了,就像生气,你知道, 不,我,我等了27岁。
1185I thought about this for a long time.我考虑过很久了
1186I gave him many chances and I, yeah,我给了他很多机会 我,是的,
1187I spent a lot of time thinking about this decision.我花了很多时间来考虑这个决定.
1188And so it wasn't a hasty decision.所以这不是一个仓促的决定。
1189It wasn't a decision made out of, you know, it wasn't a quick decision.这不是一个决定,你知道, 这不是一个快速的决定。
1190But so out of all of this但是,所有这一切
1191from all of this emotion, intense emotion and anger and frustration and whatever, or I don't从所有这些情感, 强烈的情感和愤怒, 挫折等等, 否则我不
1192know if that's the reason or I don't, I don't know, but for whatever reason, for whatever reason,如果这就是原因,或者我不这样做, 我不知道,但出于任何理由,出于任何理由,
1193William told my aunt that he has two names of two potential fathers, two men that he knows that my威廉告诉我姑妈 他有两个名字 两个潜在的父亲,两个男人 他知道我
1194mom was hanging out with, spending time with during the time that I was conceived that could妈妈和他在一起, 和我在一起的时间 我被孕育的时候,可以
1195be my father.做我父亲吧
1196He told my aunt that he has been sitting on these names for years.他告诉我姑妈,他多年来一直坐着这些名字。
1197Basically,基本上说
1198since we found out he's not my father, he has known of these two names, these two people,自从我们发现他不是我的父亲, 他知道这两个名字,这两个人,
1199and he never told me.他从来没有告诉我。
1200Over 10 years later, like 11, 12 years later, 11, 12 years have gone by十年之后,像11年,12年之后,11年,12年过去了
1201and he never told me, he knew, he knew that I wanted to know who my biological father was.他从来没有告诉我,他知道, 他知道我想知道谁是我的生父。
1202He knew that I wanted to know and he never revealed the names until, and maybe he, he would have他知道我想知道,他从未透露过名字 直到他,也许他,他会
1203never revealed them until I ended the relationship and then he told my aunt.直到我结束关系 他才告诉我姑妈
1204That's a good example of how problematic he is, selfish, egotistical, you know.这是一个很好的例子,证明他有多问题,自私,自私自利,你知道的。
1205I understand that我理解你的话
1206he wanted to be my father, he didn't want somebody else to be, but to hold, to guard that information,他想做我父亲,他不想让别人做,而是要守住这个消息,
1207the ego, the selfishness, and that's the kind of person he is.自我,自私, 这就是他的那种人。
1208Like that's, there's many examples就像那样,有很多例子
1209of this, you know, him not listening to me, forcing me to, no, you need to live with me,你知道,他不听我的, 强迫我,不,你需要和我一起生活,
1210it's all ego, it's all selfishness.都是自负,都是自私
1211Even his political views, even his, everything, you know,甚至他的政治观点 甚至他的一切
1212he posts on Facebook, all the propaganda he believes, all the media he believes, everything he,他在脸书上贴了 他相信的所有宣传 他相信的媒体
1213everything he thinks and does, I swear, is from having an inflated ego.我发誓,他所想和做的事 都是因为自负过度
1214That's all those people就是这些人
1215that think that we should be deporting immigrants and ego, giant ego.认为我们应该驱逐 移民和自我,巨大的自我。
1216Their life sucks.他们的生活很糟
1217They don't know why it sucks.他们不知道为什么它很烂。
1218They want, they feel powerless in their life.他们想要,他们觉得生活中无能为力。
1219They want to blame other他们想怪别人
1220people for their problems.人们为自己的问题。
1221They want to control other people and other people's lives.他们想控制别人和其他人的生活.
1222It's all没事
1223ego.自我主义。
1224Look at who they elected.看看他们选谁
1225It's all ego.都是自负
1226He is the king of ego.他是自负的国王。
1227The president of the United美国总统
1228States is the ego king.国家是自大之王。
1229It's all ego.都是自负
1230So it's an inflated ego, not being able to check yourself,因此,这是一个膨胀的自我, 无法检查自己,
1231not being able to see your place, not being able to see how you create your problems.无法看到你的位置, 无法看到你如何制造你的问题。
1232You are responsible for your problems, generally.一般来说,你对自己的问题负责。
1233And yeah, I mean, he probably blames me for not是的,我的意思是,他可能 怪我没有
1234wanting to have a relationship with him, but it's his fault, you know?想要和他建立关系, 但这是他的错,你知道吗?
1235Yeah.对
1236People not being able无法做到的人
1237to take accountability.负责。
1238This man, William, he has two, he is a felon because he has two domestic这个男人,威廉,他有两个,他是一个重罪 因为他有两个家庭
1239violence charges from his interactions with his ex-wife or ex-girlfriend, someone, two.他与前妻或前女友的交往中的暴力指控,某人,两人.
1240Now,现在,
1241I don't know.师曰.
1242I don't know if this man ever laid a finger on someone.我不知道这个人有没有碰过别人
1243Maybe he did.也许他做到了。
1244Maybe he didn't.也许他没有
1245I never thought that William was physically abusive.我从来没想过威廉在虐待别人
1246I never thought that he would be我从未想过他会
1247charged with domestic violence.被控家庭暴力。
1248He never was toward me.他从来没有对我。
1249I never witnessed that.我从来没亲眼见过
1250I never heard我从来没听说过
1251that from my mom, from my stepmom, who were in a relationship with him for many years.从我妈妈, 从我的继母, 谁与他多年的关系。
1252So I never所以我从来没有
1253thought that he was that kind of person.以为他是那种人
1254I still don't think he's that kind of person.我还是觉得他不是那种人
1255But in order但按顺序
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1257the first time, go back and disrespect someone again.第一次,回去再不尊重别人
1258Even if you didn't touch them, you get the即使你没有碰他们,你得到
1259second one by having an inflated ego, thinking that you have the right to go bother someone,第二,因为有 膨胀的自负, 认为你有权利去打扰某人,
1260even if you're just verbally, whatever, fighting with them, whatever.即使你只是口头上,什么的, 与他们战斗,什么的。
1261It's the ego.这是自负。
1262It's not这不是
1263understand, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble, not being humble,明,不卑,不卑,不卑,不卑. ......
1264by your first charge and thinking that you have the right to go bother a woman again.想到你有权再去骚扰一个女人
1265And yeah, he went to jail for a month for that.他为此入狱一个月
1266Probably should have been longer.也许应该更久些
1267And yeah, then he had this grand awakening and stopped drinking alcohol and对 然后他醒了 戒了酒
1268stopped being in relationships and seemed like his life was getting better and I'm happy for him.不再有关系了 似乎他的生活越来越好 我为他感到高兴
1269But I don't know, it's not enough.但我不知道,这还不够。
1270It's not enough to make him the type of person that I want to hang这不足以让他成为我想要绞死的人
1271out with.出来。
1272And yeah, that one day I hung out with him, it was bad.是啊,有一天我和他在一起,这是不好的。
1273Okay, anyways, so that's that.好吧,无论如何,所以这就是。
1274That's the story of, I don't know who my biological father is.故事是这样的 我不知道我的亲生父亲是谁
1275The names that he gave to my aunt,他给我姑妈的名字
1276I have the names, but now it's so late.我有名字,但现在太晚了。
1277It's so late that I don't care anymore.今已迟至不思议.
1278I could try to我可以试着
1279contact to find these people.找到这些人
1280Now that I have the names, I know the states that they lived in.现在我有了名字 我知道他们住的州
1281I can't even be bothered.我甚至不会被打扰。
1282I don't even care anymore.我已经不在乎了
1283I'm not concerned.我不担心。
1284Maybe I'll do it也许我会做
1285someday.总有一天
1286I don't know.师曰.
1287I should probably do it sooner than later.我也许应该早点做
1288They might die if I wait too我等他们也会死
1289long.长。
1290I don't know.师曰.
1291But I don't know.却不知.
1292At this point, I'm just like, why?此时此刻,我只是喜欢,为什么?
1293So I can see a picture,这样我才能看到一张照片
1294so I can see what they look like.这样我就能看清他们的样子
1295Yeah, I'm curious.对,我很好奇
1296I still want to know, but I don't know我还是想知道,但我不知道
1297I want to put in the effort to try to find who these guys are.我想努力找到这些人
1298And then not only would I have我不仅会
1299to find them, we'd have to do a paternity test.为了找到他们,我们得做个亲子鉴定
1300And I don't even live in the United States.我甚至不 住在美国。
1301And还有
1302I don't want to do all that.我不想做这一切。
1303I don't want to do paternity tests again.我不想再做亲子鉴定了
1304I don't want to.我不想这样
1305It's like,这就像,
1306I just don't care.我只是不关心。
1307I don't care.我无所谓
1308So I've just accepted that I don't know who my biological所以我刚刚接受了 我不知道我的生物
1309father is.父亲是。
1310And I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1311I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1312And I'm okay with that.我不介意这样
1313Because that's what I thought it was.因为这就是我想的
1314I already accepted that before he told me the names,我已经接受了 在他告诉我名字之前
1315told my aunt the names.告诉了我阿姨名字
1316So I kind of feel like an orphan because my mom died and I don't know who所以我有点像孤儿 因为我妈妈死了 我不知道是谁
1317my biological father is.我的亲生父亲是。
1318And I don't want to have a relationship with William.我不想和威廉发生关系
1319But that's my choice.但这是我的选择
1320And I have my stepmom, my stepdad, my aunt, my brother, my grandma.还有继母,继父,姨妈,弟弟,奶奶
1321And I'm happy with those我很高兴这些
1322family relationships that I have.我有过的家庭关系。
1323I'm happy with that.我很高兴。
1324I feel good with that.我觉得很好。
1325And yeah.对
1326So I just所以,我刚刚
1327wanted to share this story because I don't know.我想分享这个故事,因为我不知道。
1328I think it's an interesting story and you could我认为这是一个有趣的故事 你可以
1329probably learn a lot of English from it.可能从中学习了很多英语.
1330And I've never really told the whole story from beginning我从来没有真正说 整个故事从一开始
1331to end like that with the latest updated details as well.以最新的细节结束。
1332Because I just got the names.因为我刚拿到名字
1333Like my就像我的一样
1334aunt just texted me like a month ago or something the names.阿姨刚发短信给我 就像一个月前什么的 名字。
1335So this is new.所以这是新的。
1336This is some news.这是新闻
1337So yeah, I've never told the whole story like this from beginning to end all in one go.所以,是的,我从来没有讲 整个故事像这样 从开始到结束 在一个去。
1338So I所以说
1339kind of wanted to do it.那种想做到这一点。
1340And yeah, it feels good.是的,感觉很好
1341And yeah, hopefully it wasn't too boring or slow.是的,希望它不是太无聊或慢。
1342But it was real.但这是真的
1343And that's the point of these kinds of videos.这就是这些视频的要点。
1344And if you don't like these kinds如果你不喜欢这些种类
1345of videos, well, I think if you've made it to the end, you probably like this kind of video.视频,嗯,我想如果你已经做到了它 结尾,你可能喜欢这种视频。
1346But if不过如果
1347I probably should have said this at the beginning, but if you don't like it, I will make other我本该在开头说这个的 但如果你不喜欢 我会做别的
1348videos like more English teaching style also.更多英语教学风格的视频。
1349But I wanted to make some kind of podcast style但我想制作一种播客风格
1350videos.视频。
1351And a lot of people seem to like it.很多人似乎都很喜欢
1352So once again, all of you who are telling me that再说一遍,你们都告诉我
1353you really appreciate and enjoy this format, this kind of video, and you like the stories,你真的很欣赏和欣赏这种格式, 这种视频, 你喜欢的故事,
1354the story time in English, I am happy to provide.用英语讲故事的时间,我很乐意提供。
1355And once again, I'm sorry about the noise.再说一遍,我对噪音感到抱歉
1356If you hear noises, I'm sure you do because yeah, main road in Lima and people are a lot,如果你听到声音,我相信你这样做,因为 是的,利马的主要道路和人们是很多,
1357people are honking like crazy.人们的鸣叫像疯了。
1358So much honking backing up big trucks.这么多的喇叭备份 大卡车。
1359I don't know why it's so我不知道为什么
1360loud right here, but it is.这里声音很大,但确实如此。
1361And the windows, it's the noise is coming from behind is because窗户,是来自后面的噪音,因为
1362over there is like a kitchen and there's there's windows that are like really thin and they don't那边就像厨房 那里有窗子,好像很薄
1363really fully shut like well.完全关闭,就像很好。
1364There's like and they're just they're too thin.好像他们太瘦了
1365And yeah, there's是的,这是
1366just there's a there's a main road over there.那边有条主干道
1367Can you hear that?你能听到吗?
1368It's like so much honking.这就像这么多的喇叭。
1369I'm like now it's probably starting to get into rush hour, but yeah, so much honking.就像现在它可能 开始进入高峰时间, 但是是的,这么多的喇叭。
1370OK, anyways, thank you for watching.好吧,无论如何,谢谢你的观看。
1371Thank you for listening.谢谢你的聆听
1372I appreciate you so much.非常感谢你
1373And还有
1374yeah, overall, I'm happy with my life.是啊,总的来说,我很高兴我的生活。
1375And despite, you know, everything that happened虽然,你知道, 发生的一切
1376and everything that that I told you, I'm doing I'm doing well.和所有我告诉你, 我做得很好。
1377You know, it's been like 14 years你知道,这就像14年
1378almost since my mom died.几乎从我妈妈死后
1379I don't regret cutting ties with William.我不后悔和威廉断绝关系
1380Like I said,就像我说的,
1381I have a great relationship with the with other family members.我和其他家庭成员的关系很好
1382Overall, I'm doing good.总的来说,我做得很好。
1383I'm happy,我很高兴
1384happy with my life and myself.与我的生活和我自己快乐。
1385And yeah, and I hope you are to wherever you are.是的,我希望你能去任何地方。
1386And if you're not,如果你没有
1387that's OK, too.也没关系
1388You don't have to be happy with it.不须欢喜.
1389We learn a lot from the struggles that we go我们从斗争中学到很多东西
1390through.通过。
1391And I hope that I inspired someone to I hope to inspire people to to set boundaries.我希望我激励别人,希望我激励人们 划定界限。
1392You know, I notice a lot of people struggle to set boundaries.我注意到很多人都在挣扎着去划定界限
1393I think I'm very good at that.我觉得我很擅长这个
1394I think a lot of people have a hard time setting boundaries with family members.我认为很多人很难与家人建立界限。
1395I am the type of person who always sets boundaries.我是那种总能划定界限的人
1396You know, my family knows they have你知道,我的家人知道他们有
1397to treat me with a certain level of respect now that I'm an adult.以某种程度的尊敬对待我 现在我是成年人了。
1398And yeah, I won't even是啊,我甚至不会
1399even before I was an adult, I wouldn't tolerate it.甚至在我成年之前 我也不会容忍
1400You know, I used to say, OK, well, then I你知道,我曾经说, 好吧,好吧,然后我
1401don't like you and I'm not going to talk to you.我不喜欢你,我不会跟你说话。
1402I've always been that way because, yeah, I just我总是这样,因为,是的,我只是
1403we are people.我们是人。
1404It doesn't matter that we are younger than you.我们比你年轻不重要
1405We are people.我们是人。
1406We我们
1407deserve to be respected.应受到尊重。
1408And yeah, don't settle.是的,不要解决。
1409Don't settle for bad treatment.别因治疗不当而安顿.
1410It is a privilege to be in your life.我很荣幸能进入你的生活
1411It is a privilege.这是一种特权。
1412It's not a right.谓非权.
1413Remember that.记住这一点。
1414All right.好吧,我们走。
1415Take care.小心点
1416I'll see you in the next one.后一见.
1417Have a nice day.祝你们愉快
1418Bye bye.再见
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0:00Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
0:07I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
0:08I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
0:14very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
0:17I'm very close.我非常亲近。
0:18I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud.我就在一条主要街道旁边 声音很大
0:22So I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
0:24This month we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月我们只得应付噪音.
0:27You guys say that you don't你们说你们不会
0:28really hear a lot of the noise.真的听到很多声音。
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1Hello everyone, welcome to episode number two of my new video podcast series.大家好 欢迎收看第二集 我的新视频播客系列。
2I am in Lima, Peru.我在秘鲁利马。
3I just got here a few days ago and I'm in my apartment, which is nice,我几天前刚到这里,我在我的公寓,这是很好的,
4very nice, but it is very noisy.很不错,但很吵
5I'm very close.我非常亲近。
6I'm right next to a main street and it's very loud.我就在一条主要街道旁边 声音很大
7So I'm sorry.所以,对不起。
8This month we're just going to have to deal with the noise.这个月我们只得应付噪音.
9You guys say that you don't你们说你们不会
10really hear a lot of the noise.真的听到很多声音。
11That's great.赞曰.
12I try to minimize it in the audio editing, but我试图在音频编辑中尽量减少它,但
13because this place is so loud, it's even louder than the last place in Medellin, I think that因为这地方太吵了 比麦德林的最后一个地方还响
14you will hear some of the noises.你会听到一些噪音。
15So I'm sorry about that, but that's just the reality of所以,我很抱歉,但这只是现实
16living in a city and living in a place.住在一个城市,住在一个地方。
17Before I booked an apartment, I don't know how loud在订公寓之前,我不知道有多大声
18it's going to be, how quiet.它会是,多么安静。
19I thought this place would be quieter, but yeah, that's just life.我以为这个地方会比较安静, 但是啊,这只是生活。
20So I think it helps if you don't use headphones.所以我觉得如果你不使用耳机会有所帮助。
21If you want to use headphones, that's fine,如果你想用耳机, 没关系,
22but if you don't use headphones, I think you don't hear as much of the background noise, but但是如果你不使用耳机, 我想你没有听到 太多的背景噪音,但
23I don't know.师曰.
24But I like using headphones when I listen to stuff.但我喜欢听东西的时候用耳机
25So yeah, you do what you want.所以,是的,你做你想做的。
26But anyways, if you're new to my new style of making videos, if you didn't watch the last但是无论如何,如果你是新颖的 我的新风格制作视频, 如果你没有看最后一个
27episode where I talked about my four years in the Amazon, in Ecuador, living in the Amazon.讲述我在亚马逊的四年生活,
28By the way, thank you to everybody who commented on that video, who said they love it.顺便说一下,谢谢大家 对这段视频的评论, 谁说他们喜欢它。
29They want他们想要
30more videos like this, long style, long format stories from my life.更多这样的视频, 长风格,长格式的故事 从我的生活。
31That really encourages me这真的鼓励了我
32and I'm really happy about that.我真的很高兴
33So thank you so much for the support.所以,非常感谢你的支持。
34I love you guys.我爱你们
35Yeah.对
36So if you didn't watch that food video, basically my new style is just recording myself所以,如果你没有看 食物视频,基本上 我的新风格只是录制我自己
37talking for a while.聊一会
38Some videos are going to be like just podcasts, just like this, just talking有些视频会像播客一样 像这样 说话
39from my mind.从我的脑海。
40Some are going to be more like typical English teaching videos that I do,有些人会更像 典型的英语教学视频 我做,
41but the difference is that I'm not going to be editing because I always film myself for a long但不同之处在于 我不会被剪辑 因为我总是拍摄自己很长一段时间
42time and then I edit it and I get rid of everything to make it like super fast and jumpy and to hold时间,然后我编辑它,我摆脱一切 使它像超级快速, 狂躁和持有
43your attention.请注意
44And then I end up wasting a lot of my time and energy doing that.最后我浪费了我很多时间和精力
45And then you guys然后你们
46get even less material, less content to improve your English.获得更少的材料, 更少的内容来改进你的英语。
47So I think it's good for you to be所以我觉得这样对你有好处
48exposed to real English without all the cuts, the artificial cuts.接触到真正的英语 没有所有的切,人工切。
49I think it's good for you to hear我想这对你有好处
50every time I say, um, and every time I say, um, but yeah, so cause you know, I do that a lot,每次我说,嗯, 每次我说,嗯,但 是的,所以你知道, 我做很多,
51but that's real life.但这是真实的生活。
52That's real speaking.这是真的说话。
53It's important to hear the real breathing,听到真正的呼吸声很重要
54the real speed, the real rhythm, everything, because that's, that's real life.真正的速度,真正的节奏,一切, 因为,这就是真正的生活。
55If you really如果你真的这样
56want to learn a language, that's what it is.想学习一种语言,这就是它是什么。
57And if you don't like it or whatever, if you want to如果你不喜欢什么的, 如果你想
58change anything, you can always increase, you can increase, or you can decrease the speed of the改变任何东西,你总是可以增加,你可以增加,或者你可以降低速度
59video, um, on YouTube, you can always do that.视频,嗯,在YouTube上, 你可以永远做到这一点。
60And you can always also turn on the captions.你也可以打开字幕。
61So这么说
62if you want to know what I'm saying and you don't, you don't know based off listening to what I said如果你想知道我在说什么,你不知道,你不知道基于 倾听我的话
63and you want to see the words, you can turn on the captions and yeah, you can use those resources你想看字,你可以打开 标题,是的,你可以使用这些资源
64for studying English, for learning English, whatever I don't say that you're like, no, sorry,学习英语,学习英语, 无论我说什么,你喜欢,不,对不起,
65whatever I say.随便我怎么说
66And you're like, what was that?你长什么样?
67What did she say?她说什么?
68You could just turn on the你可以打开
69captions, go back and you'll see what it is.标题,回去,你会看到是什么。
70Hopefully, unless the captions are not very希望,除非标题不太
71accurate, but I think they are most of the time.准确的,但我想他们大部分时间。
72All right.好吧,我们走。
73Um, so today I have another very嗯,所以今天我有另一个非常
74personal story for you, uh, from my life.为你写的个人故事,呃,从我的生活。
75So basically I'm going to be talking about所以,基本上我要去谈论
76why my biological father is unknown.为什么我的亲生父亲不知道
77So for it to tell you the story, I need to start back因此,为了告诉你这个故事,我需要从头开始
78at the beginning.在开始。
79Um, by the way, uh, I consider myself to be an open book, so I don't have an嗯,顺便说一句,我认为自己是一本公开的书, 所以我没有一本
80issue with sharing a lot of personal things about myself.和很多关于我个人的事情
81Obviously I don't share every single显然,我不分享每一个
82personal detail.个人细节
83I pick and choose which things I'm willing to share, but generally for the most我选择我愿意分享的事物 但一般情况下
84part, I am fine with sharing a lot about myself in my life.部分,我很好 分享很多关于我自己在我的生活。
85I think that the, the art or the practice我认为,艺术或实践
86of storytelling is a beautiful, ancient part of human, human culture, humanity.讲故事是人类、人类文化、人类的一个美丽、古老的部分。
87And so I love it.所以我喜欢它。
88I think it's great for us to share information and share stories from our lives我觉得我们分享信息 分享我们生活中的故事是件好事
89and we can teach each other things, inspire, inspire each other.我们可以互相教导 互相启发
90We can just relate to each我们可以只与每个
91other, um, learn about each other and see things through different eyes.互相学习 透过不同的眼睛看事物
92And yeah, I just think是啊,我只是觉得
93that it's a really awesome part of being a human.这是作为人类真正令人惊叹的一部分。
94And I, we're already so disconnected.而我,我们已经如此脱节。
95I already think that, I think that we're so disconnected.我已经这么想了 我觉得我们很脱节
96We were living so independent,我们生活如此独立
97you know, compared like we used to, if you go, you know, long enough back, far enough back,你知道,比起我们以前, 如果你去,你知道, 足够长的回,足够远的回,
98we lived in situations where everybody knew everything about every, everyone, you know,我们生活在一个人人皆知的境地, 每个人,你知道,
99like we lived in tribes and stuff like that.就像我们住在部落里之类的
100There was no privacy.没有隐私。
101So, uh, or even just really small,所以,呃,甚至只是很小,
102like close knit communities.喜欢紧密的编织社区。
103So now, you know, a lot of you watching will never even meet me所以,现在,你知道, 很多你们看 甚至永远不会见到我
104in real life.在现实生活中。
105I'll never even meet you.我甚至永远不会见到你。
106Um, we, so we live so disconnected.嗯,我们,所以我们生活 如此断续续。
107It's strange, but, um,这很奇怪,但是,嗯,
108but yeah, I, I have so much personal space and privacy and whatnot that I really don't see any但是,我,我,我有这么多的个人空间和隐私 和什么,我没有看到任何
109issue with, uh, sharing, you know, stories about myself on the internet.在互联网上分享关于我自己的故事
110And, and I, and I, I think还有,我,我,我想
111it's a, I think it's a beautiful thing.这是一个,我认为这是一个美丽的东西。
112I think, um, we have to make effort to connect with each我想,嗯,我们必须努力 连接每一个
113other because otherwise we're, you know, we're losing that, that kind of community thing.其他的,否则我们,你知道, 我们正在失去, 那种社区的事情。
114Anyways, that's another tangent I could get on, but back to the point.无论如何,这是另一个切合 我可以得到,但回到重点。
115Okay.摆
116So let's start at所以,让我们开始
117the beginning with my story.从我的故事开始
118Um, okay.嗯,还好。
119So where does it begin?从哪里开始的?
120It begins at my conception,从我怀孕开始
121but you know what?你知道吗?
122It goes back even further than that because it starts with my mother,它比那还远 因为它从我妈妈开始,
123my mother, uh, her name was Rachel.我妈妈 她叫瑞秋
124I say was because she died when I was 14.我说是因为我14岁时她死了
125She passed away.她过世了
126I like to just say she died.我想说她死了
127She died when I was 14.我14岁的时候她就死了
128I was a freshman in high school,我高中的时候是新生
129my first year of high school and she died from cancer, but really it was from like the cancer我高中一年级的时候 她死于癌症 但其实是癌症造成的
130treatment plus, uh, yeah, it's, it's, you know, it's like, where does the cancer and the cancer治疗加,嗯,是的,这是, 它,你知道,就像,哪里有癌症和癌症
131treatment line cross?治疗线交叉?
132Like, you know, cause cancer treatment also is toxic.比如说,因为癌症治疗也有毒
133So it's like,所以说,
134you know, which one really killed her?你知道,谁真的杀了她?
135I don't know, but they both did together.我不知道,但他们都在一起
136So yeah,所以,没错,
137anyway, she died of cancer.无论如何,她死于癌症。
138Um, but we need to go back to my mom's childhood.嗯,但我们需要回到 我妈妈的童年。
139My mom had a difficult我妈妈有困难
140childhood.童年时
141She had a pretty horrible father for various reasons.她有一个相当可怕的父亲 出于各种原因。
142And my mom had breast cancer.我妈妈得了乳腺癌
143No, sorry.不,对不起。
144I'm getting ahead of myself.我渐渐超前.
145My mom had ovarian cancer when she was 12.我妈妈12岁时得了卵巢癌
146When my mom当我妈妈
147was 12 years old, she had ovarian cancer.她12岁时得了卵巢癌
148So cancer in the ovaries.卵巢中的癌症。
149If you're a woman, you have如果你是一个女人,你有
150ovaries, you have two, two ovaries.卵巢,你有两个,两个卵巢。
151Um, my mom had ovarian cancer.我妈妈得了卵巢癌
152She had one of her ovaries她有一个卵巢
153removed and she went through chemotherapy, chemo, we call it.她接受了化疗 化疗 我们称之为化疗
154And she basically got better.她基本上变好了。
155She went into remission.她恢复了记忆
156She was, she was fine.她,她没事。
157She didn't have cancer anymore.她没有癌症了。
158Um, so she was like嗯,所以她喜欢
159cured of that.已经痊愈了
160Um, so she lost one of her ovaries during that experience, which was very hard for嗯,所以她失去了一个她的卵巢 在那次经历,这是非常困难的
161
162She used to tell me about how hard it was.她经常告诉我这有多难
163She'd be in the hospital.她会去医院的
164She would be throwing up她会吐的
165because of the chemotherapy.因为化疗。
166Um, she hated having to wear, she used to wear wigs to school她讨厌戴假发去上学
167and felt embarrassed about that.觉得很尴尬
168Uh, and uncomfortable.呃,还有不舒服。
169She said it was so uncomfortable她说很不舒服
170to wear a wig and she would get home from school and throw it off, like take it off and throw it.戴假发 然后她就从学校回家扔下来 比如脱下来扔出去
171Um, so yeah, so my, my mom dealt with that when she was 12 and she lost one of her ovaries and the嗯,所以是的,所以我,我妈妈处理 当她12岁 她失去了一个她的卵巢和
172doctor told her that she might not be able to get pregnant or she would have a decreased chance医生告诉她,她可能不能怀孕 或者她的机会会减少
173of getting pregnant.怀孕时
174So my mom took that very seriously.所以我妈很认真对待这个
175She believed it.她相信这一点。
176I mean, she said,我的意思是,她说,
177oh wow.哦,哇呜。
178So I have a low chance of getting pregnant.所以我怀孕的机会很小
179And so I think as an adult, she wasn't so,所以我想作为一个成年人,她不是,
180my mom in general, wasn't a super, super responsible person compared to like me,我妈妈总的说 和我一样 不是一个超级的 超级负责任的人
181for example, I think I'm very responsible.比如说,我觉得我很负责
182My mom wasn't the most responsible person in general我妈不是最负责任的人
183compared to me, but I think she was extra irresponsible as an adult because she thought和我相比 我觉得她作为一个成年人 特别不负责任 因为她认为
184that she probably couldn't get pregnant.她可能不会怀孕。
185And so I think she didn't really try to use like birth所以我觉得她并没有像出生那样尝试使用
186control, for example.例如,控制。
187So my mom got pregnant with me and it was a miracle for her.我妈妈怀了我,这对她来说是个奇迹
188She was very happy她很开心
189because she wanted to have kids, but she, she wasn't trying.因为她想生孩子, 但她,她没有尝试。
190It was still like an accident.那还是个意外
191I一、导 言
192was an accident, but like a happy accident because she didn't think that she could get pregnant.是一个意外,但就像一个快乐的意外 因为她认为她不能怀孕。
193And she was 27 and she felt like she was ready, even though her life was kind of a mess, but她27岁,她觉得自己准备好了 尽管她的生活有点乱,但是...
194she had a job and she was a teacher and she felt like she was ready and she wanted to have a child.她有工作,她是个老师 她觉得自己准备好了,她想生个孩子
195So she was happy about the surprise pregnancy and she learned that she can get pregnant.于是她对意外怀孕感到高兴,得知自己可以怀孕.
196So when my mom was at this age, before she realized she was pregnant, she was going所以当我妈妈在这个年龄, 在她意识到她怀孕之前, 她要去
197through a hard time.经历了一段艰难的时光。
198My mom had a lot of personal issues her whole life.我妈妈一生都有私人问题
199She, which a lot of it is她,这是很多
200from the childhood, but yeah, it's complicated.童年时期的,但是是的,这是复杂的。
201But my mom overall had a lot of personal issues,我妈妈总的来讲有很多个人问题
202emotional issues.感情问题。
203And so she was going through a time in her life when she was around 27所以她经历了一个时期 在她27岁左右
204where she was, I think my mom did have a problem with alcohol and I think she was她在哪里,我想我妈妈确实有 酗酒的问题,我认为她是
205partying a lot.派对很多。
206I think she was, she was kind of, she had this on and off relationship我想她是,她是有点, 她有这种开和关的关系
207with this one guy who she was not compatible with at all, but was kind of obsessed with him,和一个她完全不相容的人在一起 但有点迷恋他
208like kind of was attached to him, but they would fight all the time.和他一样 但他们会一直战斗
209And so they had this on and off again relationship, we call it.因此,他们有这个和关闭 关系,我们称之为。
210So sometimes they're所以有时候他们
211together, sometimes they're not on and off again.在一起,有时他们不 打开和关闭。
212My grandma always says they were like oil and我奶奶总是说他们像油一样
213water水.
214They didn't mix.他们没有混合。
215So, but yeah, she had this kind of kind of obsession with this, this guy,所以,但是是的,她有这种 迷恋这个,这家伙,
216but she was, so when they were not together, she was like partying and meeting other people,但她是,所以当他们不在一起, 她喜欢聚会和会见其他人,
217hanging out with other people.和别人一起玩
218And so during this time she got pregnant with me and she didn't know所以在这段时间里 她怀上了我 她不知道
219who the father was.谁是父亲。
220She wasn't sure who the father was.她不知道父亲是谁
221So instead of doing the responsible,所以,不做责任人,
222mature thing, which is what I think I would do is say, okay, honestly, I don't know who the father成熟的事情,这就是我想 我会说,好吧,说实话,我不知道谁是父亲
223is.没错
224So let's wait until the child is born.故当等生子.
225Let's take paternity tests.我们做亲子鉴定吧
226Let's figure it out before我们先想办法
227we make any assumptions.我们做任何假设。
228But my mom, I think that she thought I was the child of a particular guy但我妈妈,我觉得她觉得我是某个人的孩子
229who was, he was only in my state temporarily.他是,他只是暂时在我的状态。
230He was like on vacation, but he was going to leave.他就像在度假, 但他要离开。
231So my mom thought that that wouldn't be a good father for me because he's, he doesn't live there.我妈妈觉得那对我来说不是一个好父亲 因为他不住在那里
232He's going to leave soon and he lives far away and they didn't have a relationship.他很快就要离开,他住在很远的地方,他们没有关系.
233And so she所以说她
234made the decision to tell the man that did live there, the man that she's, she was obsessed with决定告诉那个住在那里的男人 她的那个人 她迷上了
235that he is the father.他是他的父亲。
236So she told this man, let's give him a name.所以她告诉了这个人 让我们给他一个名字
237It's not his real name这不是他的真名
238because I want to change the names here, but just, just so that we understand the story,因为我想在这里改变名字, 但只是,只是为了让我们了解故事,
239um, let's, okay, let's give some names here.嗯,让我们,好吧, 让我们在这里给出一些名字。
240Um, I didn't even think about this.嗯,我什至没有想到这一点。
241Um, whatever,嗯,不管怎样,
242we can call my mom.我们可以打电话给我妈妈。
243Her real name is Rachel.她的真名是瑞秋(Rachel).
244I, we can say that let's say my mom, my mom's name is我们可以说我妈妈,我妈妈的名字
245Rachel.雷切尔
246I want to use her real name, but we'll give a fake name to the other people.我想用她的真名 但我们会给其他人一个假名
247So, um,所以,嗯,我们...
248yeah.对
249So let's say Vincent, Vincent is the guy who lived somewhere else that was leaving.所以说文森特 文森特就是那个 住在别处的人
250And let's say that, um, William, let's say William, I'm just thinking of random names.让我们假设,嗯,威廉, 让我们假设威廉,我只是在想 随机的名字。
251William is the guy who she was obsessed with and who was living there.威廉是她迷恋的那个人 住在那
252So she told, she,所以她告诉,她,
253she thought that Vincent was the child, but she was the father, sorry.她以为文森特是孩子 但她是父亲,对不起
254But she told William that但她告诉威廉
255he was the father and William was like, cause they remember they had an on and off again他是他的父亲,威廉一样, 因为他们记得 他们有一次和一次
256relationship, William and her.威廉和她的关系
257So he was like, I don't know if I'm the father.所以他说 我不知道我是不是父亲
258Like the dates像日期一样
259don't really seem to add up.似乎没什么好说的
260Like, I don't, I don't see, I don't think so, but my mom and my喜欢,我不,我不看,我不认为, 但我的妈妈和我
261grandma were like, how dare you question how, like they denied it.奶奶说,你竟敢质疑,好像他们否认了
262They said, of course, of course他们说,当然,当然
263you're the father.你是父亲。
264How dare you say that?你怎么敢这么说?
265Don't say that.别这么说
266And William, now William should have威廉,现在威廉应该
267said, look, I'm not saying that I'm not, but let's just get a test done.说,你看,我不是说我不是, 但让我们只是做一个测试。
268But William said, okay.但是威廉说,好吧。
269And he just accepted it.他刚刚接受了
270And he didn't push it any further.他没有再推了
271He said, all right, I'm the father.他说,好吧,我是父亲。
272Um, and then I was born.嗯,然后我诞生了。
273And then I think William started to feel that feeling that a father feels然后我觉得威廉开始感觉到 父亲的感觉
274when they see their children being born.当他们看见他们的孩子出生的时候
275And as a baby, they, they feel this connection,作为一个婴儿,他们感觉到这种联系,
276this excitement, not as much as a mother often.这种兴奋, 不像一个母亲经常。
277I think my mom felt it a lot stronger, but I think我觉得我妈妈觉得它更强壮 但我想
278that William felt this, this kind of desire to be my father.威廉有这种感觉, 这种渴望成为我父亲。
279So he didn't bring it up again.所以他没再提了
280He said,他说,
281yes, I am her father.是的,我是她的父亲。
282Um, yeah.对
283And I don't know, maybe it was meant to be that way.我不知道,也许这是注定的。
284Maybe也许
285he was just, he wanted to be a dad.他只是, 他想成为一个父亲。
286I don't know.师曰.
287So that's, that's the way it was.所以,这是它的方式。
288Now, William and my mom, they did not stay together, of course.现在,威廉和我妈妈, 他们没有在一起,当然。
289So they were quickly separated所以他们很快就分开了
290for good and they started to date other people.他们开始和别人约会
291And so my mom started to get with this, this new所以我妈妈开始接受这个,这个新的
292guy, my stepdad, they, they ended up getting married and, and whatever.我继父,他们最终结婚了,什么的。
293And, uh, that's still而且,呃,这仍然是
294my stepfather today, even though my mom died, but they were married when, uh, she died and he was今天我的继父,虽然我妈妈死了, 但他们结婚了,当,呃,她死了,他是
295my stepdad my whole life.我继父的一生
296So, so I have stepfather.所以我有继父了
297Um, we don't need to give him a name because he's嗯,我们不需要给他一个名字 因为他是
298not very important in this, in this story particularly, but yeah.在这件事情中并不重要 特别是在这个故事中
299So if mother, so I lived所以,如果妈妈, 所以我生活
300half the time with my mother and stepfather and I lived half the time with my, the man who believed一半的时间与我的母亲和继父 我住 一半的时间与我的, 男人谁相信
301he was my father, William, and his new partner, um, that was my stepmother.他是我的父亲,威廉 他的新搭档,嗯,那是我的继母。
302They got married and他们结婚了
303yeah, eventually later on they got a divorce and whatever, but I still considered that woman like是啊,后来他们离婚了 但我仍然认为那个女人喜欢
304my stepmother because she was a big part of my childhood.我的继母,因为她是 我童年的一大部分。
305And I still have a good, I still have我还有好东西,我还有
306a good relationship with those stepparents today.今天跟继父母的关系很好
307Um, okay.嗯,还好。
308So, so I, I lived between these two houses.所以我就住在这两栋房子之间
309I grew up like this.我这样长大的
310Um, eventually when I was around the age of eight, eight years old, um, uh,最终当我八八岁的时候
311sorry, during this time, also my mom had another child.对不起,在这期间, 我妈妈还有另一个孩子。
312She had a son, my brother Logan.她有个儿子 我弟弟洛根
313Um, he was嗯,他曾经是
314born when, when I was about five years old, six years old.生于五岁左右六岁时.
315And so his father is my stepfather.所以他的父亲是我的继父
316So这么说
317when I was about eight years old, um, my, uh, William and my stepmom got a divorce and then我八岁的时候 我... 威廉和继母离婚了
318William started to have a, a hard time.威廉开始过着艰难的生活
319He started to kind of spiral, started to go downhill.他开始有点螺旋,开始下坡。
320Um,额...
321everything in his life started to kind of go badly from my perspective and he started to have从我的角度来说 他生命中的一切开始变得很糟 他开始有
322new girlfriends and a new lifestyle.新的女朋友和新的生活方式。
323He was, um, drinking.他,嗯, 喝着。
324He had a problem with alcohol.他酗酒有问题
325Pretty much all my parents had problems with alcohol.差不多我父母都酗酒有问题
326Thankfully I do not.幸好我没有
327Um, yeah.对
328And he,还有他
329yeah, he had a problem with alcohol, with money, with, uh, just being a responsible present father是啊,他有一个问题 酒精,钱, 和,呃,只是一个负责任的 现任父亲
330in my life.在我的生命中,我曾经是
331Um, he started to kind of be a bad dad, like he was good before.嗯,他开始 有点坏爸爸, 像他以前很好。
332And then he started然后他开始
333to be kind of bad, but I don't know when I say he was good before, I think he did the, I think he有点坏,但我不知道什么时候 我说他以前是好, 我认为他做了,我认为他
334did the minimum of what he did.做了他做过的最起码的事
335The normal thing that is required to be a father.做父亲需要的正常东西
336I don't like我不喜欢
337when people praise men for doing things that is just part of being a normal father, you know,当人们称赞男人 做一些只是 作为正常父亲的一部分,你知道,
338like women do so much as mothers and they don't get the same praise often that men who do like就像女人做这么多 母亲和她们不 得到同样的赞美 男人谁喜欢
339bare minimum father things with their kids get praised about.最小的父亲和孩子的事情 得到赞扬。
340Okay.摆
341They get praised for他们被称赞
342normal stuff.正常的东西。
343So he was just being a normal father.所以他只是一个正常的父亲。
344But when I was around eight years old,但当我8岁左右,
345he got a divorce and his, he started to actually be a bad father.他离婚了 他开始做一个坏父亲
346Um, yeah, his, his life just got嗯,是的,他的, 他的生活刚刚得到
347kind of messy and, and I didn't really want to live with him anymore.有点乱,我不想再和他住在一起了
348I didn't want to be a part.我不想成为其中的一部分。
349I wanted to see him sometimes.我有时想见他
350I still wanted him in my life, but I didn't want as much as before.我生命中仍然想要他 但我没有以前那么想要他
351And I was starting to get really upset by his behavior because, you know, he would tell me like,我开始对他的行为感到很不安 因为,你知道,他会告诉我,
352Oh, we're going to hang out next weekend.哦,我们下周要出去玩
353And then he would never show up, stuff like that.然后他永远不会出现 像这样的东西。
354So I started to get, or a lot of things happened.所以我开始得到, 或者很多事情发生。
355You know, I would say how I don't want to stay at你知道,我会说如何 我不想呆在那里
356his girlfriend's house and he would get mad at me and, you know, just, he started to be a bad dad.他女朋友的房子,他会生我的气 而且,你知道,只是,他开始是一个坏爸爸。
357Basically.基本上是这样。
358Um, and he, and I, when I, when I would confront him about it, he never took responsibility.嗯,他,我,当我, 当我会面对他 这件事,他从来没有承担责任。
359You know, he never, he never acknowledged that I was right.他从来不承认我是对的
360And so I started to get really angry所以我开始生气
361at him and my mom, my mom, she, she told me that she wanted to make me feel better.她告诉我她想让我好过点
362She wanted to她想这样
363give me hope that maybe he wasn't my father and maybe my real father was better.希望他不是我父亲 或许我真正的父亲更好
364That's what she这就是她
365told me.告诉我。
366She said, you were so angry at him.她说,你很生他的气
367I thought maybe if I tell you that he's, he might我想也许如果我告诉你,他可能
368not be your father, it would make you happy.不是你的父亲, 它会让你快乐。
369That's what she said.她就是这么说的
370I'm just quoting.我只是引证一下
371I'm just saying我只是说
372what she told me.她告诉我的
373Okay.摆
374Um, but I, I am glad that she told me, but that was a little crazy what嗯,但我,我很高兴 她告诉我, 但这是有点疯狂什么
375she said that like that.她这么说的
376But, but I understand.不过,我明白
377I understand where she was coming from.我知道她从哪里来
378Um, so she所以说她
379told me, she told me that he might not be my father.她告诉我 他可能不是我父亲
380And she told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
381She told她告诉
382me about this other guy who lives in a different state.关于另一个住在不同状态的人
383And she thinks that he is my father.她认为他是我父亲
384And还有
385she thought that ever since I was born and that I even look more like him or there's certain,她觉得自从我出生以来 我更像他 或者肯定
386we have certain things in common.我们有些共同点
387Um, yeah, she gave me his name.嗯,是的,她给我他的名字。
388She told me some things about她告诉我一些事情
389him that she remembered.她记得的那个人
390And yeah, it was just from her memory.是的,这只是从她的记忆。
391She, she didn't have any contact她没有联系人
392with him.跟着他
393So she told me that William might not be my father.她告诉我威廉可能不是我父亲
394She told me about Vincent.她跟我说了文森特的事
395She said她说
396he might be, he said she thinks he might be.他可能,他说她认为他可能是。
397She didn't tell me about anyone else.她没告诉我还有谁
398So she just said所以她说
399it's either Vincent or William.是文森特还是威廉
400She didn't give me another option.她没有给我另一个选择。
401So I thought, okay, it's between所以我想,好吧,这是
402those two.那两个
403But at that age, I was like eight years old or nine years old, like one of those,那时我八岁或九岁 就像其中一个
404eight or nine.八九岁.
405And I knew that if my, I knew that if William found out about this, he would be我知道,如果我的,我知道 如果威廉发现了这一点,他会
406very angry.非常愤怒。
407He would be very upset at my mom for, for lying, for keeping this a secret.他对我妈妈很不高兴 因为她撒谎 隐瞒这件事
408And I would be caught up in it.我也会被卷入其中
409And I, I didn't want to deal with that.而我,我不想处理。
410And it kind of like有点像
411protecting my mother.保护我的母亲
412I made the decision to not take a paternity test.我决定不做亲子鉴定
413I said, I, I don't want to我说,我不想
414know right now.现在知道。
415Like I don't care.就像我不在乎一样
416I don't care.我无所谓
417I said, I don't care.我说,我不在乎。
418Um, he's been the only man他是唯一一个
419that has, you know, considered himself to be my father.这已经,你知道, 认为自己是我父亲。
420He helped raise me like he is my father.他把我当父亲一样抚养长大
421So whatever, let's just continue with this idea that he is my father, but I always knew in the所以不管怎样,让我们继续这个想法 他是我的父亲,但我一直知道
422back of my head, he might not be.在我的脑后,他可能不是。
423Um, but I didn't, I never like saw him in a different light or felt嗯,但是我没有,我从来没有喜欢看到他 在不同的光 或感觉
424something different toward him because of that.对他来说是不一样的
425I truly believe that like, if I was angry at him,我真的相信,就像, 如果我对他生气,
426it was because of his behavior.是因为他的行为
427It wasn't because I thought, oh, this man is not even my father.不是因为我想,哦,这个人甚至不是我父亲
428And, you know, like I didn't care about that.而且,你知道,就像我不在乎这一点。
429I, I judged him for his behavior,我评价他的行为
430whether he's my father or not.不管他是不是我父亲
431To me, father is less about the blood and more about the role that对我来说,父亲不太关心血,更关心角色
432you have in someone's life.你有在别人的生活中。
433And I can recognize that I could see that at that age.我能认出那个年龄的我可以看到。
434So I said, I所以我说,我
435to be honest, I was a little bit excited.老实说 我有点兴奋
436I was excited by the idea of maybe my father is somebody我对父亲是某个人的想法很兴奋
437else.别的
438I don't know the idea, the mystery of it, of this other father who is mysterious and interesting我不知道这个神秘而有趣的父亲的想法,神秘之处
439and unknown.和未知数。
440It interested me at that age.那时我对这个年龄感兴趣
441It piqued my interest, but I didn't look into it.引起了我的兴趣 但我没有调查
442I didn't explore that further.我没有进一步探索
443So the years went by and my relationship with William did not get几年过去了,我和威廉的关系没有
444better.好多了,你还好吧?
445And when I was 14, at this point, like they had basically my William had basically,当我14岁的时候,现在, 就像他们基本上有 我的威廉基本上,
446I keep saying my, because I want to say like my dad, because that's what I called him most of my我不停地说,因为我想说 像我爸爸一样, 因为我叫他大多数我
447life.活着
448But, and I still refer to him.但我还是提到他
449I still call him my dad nowadays, but not always.我至今仍称他为我爸爸,但并非始终如此。
450It depends.这取决于。
451But anyways, I'm, I'm not giving anything away.但不管怎样,我,我不会放弃任何东西。
452I feel like you already know where this story is我感觉你已经知道这个故事在哪里了
453going.继续
454So yeah, I've given way too many clues, too many hints.所以,我放弃了太多的线索,太多的暗示。
455So, but maybe you don't know where所以,但也许你不知道在哪里
456the story is going.故事正在继续
457Let's see.让我看看。
458There are some twists and turns.有一些曲折和转弯。
459There are some unexpected twists有一些意外的曲折
460and turns that I think you don't anticipate.转过来,我认为你没有预料到。
461So buckle up.系好安全带
462All right.好吧,我们走。
463So at this point, like所以,现在,像
464by the time I was a teenager, William basically accepted that I live at my mom's house.我十几岁的时候 威廉基本上接受了我住在我妈家
465I live我活着
466with my mom and my stepdad and my brother, and that's my home.和我妈妈,我的继父 和我的兄弟, 这是我的家。
467And he just would come and take他只会来带走
468me for a night, a day or two, once in a while.我过一晚,一两天,偶尔
469And we'd hang out.而我们挂出。
470He'd take me to his girlfriend他会带我去见他的女朋友
471at the times house, whichever girlfriend he had.在那个时候,房子, 无论他有女朋友。
472I never liked doing that.我从来没有喜欢这样做。
473I never liked any of his我从来不喜欢他的
474girlfriends or I didn't even really like him, but it was my dad's.女朋友或我甚至不喜欢他, 但这是我爸爸的。
475I tried to make the best out of我试着让最好的
476it.这个
477But yeah, I just didn't like these kind of people.但我只是不喜欢这种人
478I felt like I had nothing in common with我觉得我没有什么共同点
479them.他们。
480Like they're people at the end of the day, they're people, but like people are people.犹如临终是人,是人但如人.
481We all我们都是
482can relate to each other in some way.能够以某种方式互相联系。
483But I just felt like I had nothing in common with these但我觉得自己和这些没什么共同点
484people and these people, I would never hang out with them if I didn't have to.人和这些人,我永远不会 与他们挂出,如果我没有必要。
485I felt like我觉得
486obligated.义务。
487Yeah.对
488And usually their house smelled like cigarettes and it made all my clothes and通常他们的房子闻起来像香烟 它让我所有的衣服和
489hair smell like cigarettes.头发闻起来像香烟
490And yeah, I just didn't like a lot of things about that.是的,我只是不喜欢很多事情。
491And I还有我
492felt obligated.觉得有义务。
493I felt like my mom was like, just go make him happy.我觉得我妈妈喜欢, 只是去让他快乐。
494Go hang out with, you know,出去玩玩吧,你知道的,我...
495go hang out with them.和他们一起玩吧
496And then my dad would pressure me, William.然后我爸会给我压力,威廉
497William would pressure me威廉会给我压力
498and my mom would pressure me and everybody would pressure me to hang out, to go spend time with我妈妈会给我压力 所有人都会给我压力 来陪我
499William, with my dad at the time.威廉,当时和我爸在一起
500And I think that is so wrong.我认为这是错误的。
501I think that is so wrong to我觉得这样不对
502pressure a child to spend time with a family member that they don't want to spend time with.迫使孩子和他们不想在一起的家庭成员在一起
503I don't care if it's a father or mother.不论父母.
504I don't care who it is.我不在乎是谁
505You should never pressure someone.你不应该强迫别人
506You never pressure a child to hang out with.你从不强迫一个孩子出去玩
507I think it's horrible, honestly.我觉得这很可怕,说实话。
508But that's how I但我就是这样
509felt and that's what was done.感觉就是这样的
510And yeah, I mean, I have a long list of things I disagree with是啊,我的意思是,我有很多 我不同意的东西
511my parents about, with the way that I was raised and the way that they are and whatever.我的父母,我长大的方式, 他们的方式和什么的。
512I am very different than my parents.我和我父母很不一样
513A lot of things they didn't, a lot of things they just很多他们没有的东西, 很多他们只是的东西
514didn't understand that I understood.不明白,我明白这一点。
515Yeah, a lot of, they had a lot of issues that I don't have.是啊,很多,他们有很多问题 我没有。
516Maybe I was born different.也许我生来不同
517Maybe I was, maybe I learned from their mistakes.也许我是从他们的错误中吸取教训的
518I don't know.师曰.
519But不过
520yeah, my parents had a lot of issues and they didn't really know what they were doing.是啊,我的父母有很多问题 他们真的不知道他们在做什么。
521I mean, nobody really does, but they really didn't know what they were doing.我的意思是,没有人真的做, 但他们真的不知道 他们在做什么。
522So yeah, I think I'm a lot more qualified to be a parent, but we'll see.所以,是的,我想我更有资格 当一个父母, 但我们会看到。
523I don't have my own我没有自己的
524kids yet, but my mom always used to like to remind me about that.孩子们,但我妈妈总是喜欢 提醒我这一点。
525You'll see when you have你会看到当你有
526your own kids.亲生孩子
527Yeah, but we're different.是啊,但我们是不同的。
528We're very different.我们很不一样
529I am very different than my mom我跟我妈不一样
530and my, everyone, everyone in my family.还有我的,每个人,我的家人
531I am super different.我超级不同。
532The choices I make in my life.我生命中的选择
533Yeah.对
534Anyways, I could talk about that all day long.总之,我可以整天谈论这个
535But anyways, so at that point, yeah,但无论如何,所以当时,是的,
536my home was my mom, my stepdad and my brother's house.我的家是我妈妈 我的继父和哥哥的房子
537But when I was 14, my mom died.但当我14岁的时候,我妈妈死了。
538She was她曾经是
539diagnosed with cancer when I was like 11.我11岁时被诊断患有癌症
540So she'd been living with it for like a few years.所以她已经和它同居了几年了
541So it就这样
542was normal, but I didn't really think she was going to die.虽然很正常 但我没想到她会死
543She would always tell me there's她总是告诉我有
544no cure, there's no cure, whatever.没有治疗,没有治疗,什么的。
545But I, I always, I never thought that she would really die,但我,我总是, 我从没想过她会真的死,
546but she did.但她确实这么做了
547And at that point, no, what am I saying?这时候,不,我说什么?
548What's his name?他叫什么来着?
549Oh yeah, William.哦,对,威廉。
550William, when my mom died, William tried to get me to go live with him and his girlfriend or wife威廉,当我妈妈去世时, 威廉试图让我去 与他和他的女朋友或妻子生活
551or whatever at the time.或任何时间。
552I don't remember.我不记得了
553And I was like, no, no, I don't want, I live with my我当时想,不,不,我不想,我和我的
554stepdad and my brother just because my mom died.繼父和我弟弟只是因为我妈妈死了
555I don't care.我无所谓
556I'm still going to live here.我还是要住在这里。
557This这个
558is my home.就是我的家,你在这里干什么?
559This is where I live.这就是我住的地方。
560I'm not leaving.我不会离开的
561So yeah, I think, I think he tried to fight me所以,我想,我想,他试图打我
562about that.关于那个。
563I forgot a lot of the details, but my stepdad reminded me that I think he even called我忘了很多细节 但我的继父提醒我 我想他甚至打过电话
564the cops because he was, he was really trying to force me to live with him.因为是警察,他真的想逼我跟他住
565And I was like,我当时想,
566are you crazy?你疯了吗?
567Like I have not lived with you full time since I was like seven.就像我从七岁起就没跟你住过一样
568I'm not, uh-uh.我没有...
569I don't even like you, bro.我甚至不喜欢你,兄弟。
570I'm not doing that.我不会那么做的
571I don't even, I don't even want to hang out with我甚至不,我甚至不想 挂出来
572you for three days.给你三天时间
573What do you mean live with you?你说跟你住在一起是什么意思?
574You freaking crazy.你这疯子
575Uh, so yeah.嗯,所以对了。
576So, but所以,虽然
577eventually he, once he saw that, like, I think he called the cops and the cops in like cop was like,最后,他,一旦他看到, 像,我想他叫警察和警察一样,
578she's, she lives here.她是,她住在这里。
579She's fine here.她在这里很好。
580I can't force her to go live with you, bro.我不能强迫她跟你一起住 兄弟
581Like this is像这样
582her home.產
583Like just because her mom died, you know, she's still living with her brother and her就像因为她妈妈死了, 你知道,她仍然 和她的兄弟和她住在一起
584stepdad and she wants to.继父和她想。
585So, so then he backed, he backed off, he backed down and then because he所以,然后他备份, 他退出, 他退缩,然后因为他
586was forced to basically, he had no choice.基本上,他别无选择。
587And then my stepdad was having a hard time.后来我继父也很难过
588All of全体
589these people, God, they had such a hard time with life.这些人,上帝, 他们有一个如此艰难的生活。
590They just couldn't get it together.他们只是不能得到它在一起。
591He was他曾经是
592having a hard time.很难过
593He's abusing alcohol.他滥用酒精。
594He's starting to be rude to me and treat me not like,他开始对我粗鲁对待我
595nobody in my family was ever physically abusive to me, but he would drink and he would get a little我家里没有人对我施虐 但他会喝酒 然后得到一点
596like verbally abusive, like bullying, like, like he would say, you know, say rude things to me.像辱骂 欺凌 喜欢,像, 他会说,你知道, 说粗鲁的事情给我。
597And I was like, I was, yeah, I didn't have a great relationship with him either.我很喜欢,我,是的, 我和他没有 一个伟大的关系。
598So we started to所以我们开始
599have problems and I, and I really wanted to stay living with my brother, but I just started to have我真的很想和我哥哥住在一起 但我刚开始
600problems with my stepdad.我继父有问题
601And so when I started to have problems with my stepdad, William saw it as所以当我开始跟我的继父有问题时 威廉认为
602an opportunity to come in and take me to live with him.有机会来带我和他一起生活
603But I was still fighting that I did not want但我还在战斗,我不想
604to go live with William.和威廉一起过日子
605That's the last place I wanted to go live.这是我最不想住的地方
606I'd rather live with my grandma.我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起 我宁愿和我奶奶住在一起
607So for a time I went to live with my grandma.所以有一段时间我跟我奶奶住在一起
608I lived with one of my aunts.我和我姨妈住在一起
609It's complicated.这很复杂。
610It这个
611was a whole thing, but basically I was like, I want to live anywhere but with him.整个事情,但基本上,我一样, 我想住任何地方,但与他。
612Like I will就像我会
613live with any family member, any person except him.与任何家庭成员,除他外的任何人住在一起。
614And he didn't like that.他不喜欢这样
615He was, he hated that.他是,他讨厌那。
616And so he was like calling up my aunt and like basically harassing her and like just even my所以他喜欢打电话给我姑妈 喜欢基本上骚扰她 就像只是我的
617grandma was pressuring me to go live with him.奶奶逼我跟他住在一起
618Everybody was kind of like, I don't want to fight每个人都喜欢,我不想打架
619him.他,他是谁?
620He's your father.他是你父亲
621He should take you.他应该带你走
622And they couldn't empathize with me or understand他们无法同情我 也无法理解
623how I felt.我的感觉
624And so it got to a point where he, William was trying so hard, fighting so hard for威廉很努力地为他而战
625me to live with him, that I got basically desperate.我和他住在一起, 我基本上绝望。
626I got to, I reached my limit of the maximum我到了极限
627我可以带走 I could take.
628I couldn't handle it anymore.我受不了了,我无法承受
629So I told him, and by the way, I'm speaking slowly.所以我告诉他,顺便说一句,我说话很慢。
630It's not because I'm feeling emotional or because I am trying to talk slower for you guys.不是因为我情绪激动 也不是因为我想为你们慢慢说话
631I'm just我只是说
632talking this because I'm literally thinking about what to say as like how to tell you the story as说这些是因为我正想着该说什么 就像如何告诉你的故事
633I'm doing it.我这样做。
634So I'm trying to focus.所以我想专注。
635Okay.摆
636What do I say next?接下来我要说什么?
637How do I say this?我该怎么说呢?
638That's why.故说.
639So yeah.对啊
640So I hit my limit.所以我达到了极限。
641I said, I can't take this anymore.我说 我受不了了
642I can't handle this anymore.我受不了这个了
643There is one thing I know.有一件事我知道,我记得
644There's one chance I have at getting him to stop, to stop harassing,我有机会让他停止骚扰
645to stop trying to force me to live with him, to stop fighting.停止强迫我和他一起生活 停止战斗
646There's one thing I can use.有一点我可以用
647There's one card I can play.我可以打一张牌
648And that is, you might not be my father.也就是说,你可能不是我父亲
649I want a paternity test.我要做亲子鉴定
650I want a paternity test, William, now.我要做个亲子鉴定,威廉
651Give it to me now, you little.现在给我,你这个小东西。
652And so I wrote him a letter and I told him, and he was all emotional.我给他写了封信 告诉他,他很情绪化
653And believe me,并且相信我,
654I truly empathize with him.我真心的同情他,我爱他
655I can't imagine 15, at this point I was 15 years old, 15 years later我无法想象15岁,此时我15岁,15年后
656after thinking that I'm somebody's parent, that I'm somebody's father, to find out 15 years later想到我是别人的家长,我是别人的父亲,15年后才发现
657that I might not be their father or that I'm not their father, crushing.我可能不是他们的父亲 或者我不是他们的父亲,粉碎。
658I mean, obviously,我的意思是,很明显,
659it shouldn't change the way that you feel about the person, like, you know, that you should, you它不应该改变你对一个人的感觉, 比如,你知道,你应该,你
660know, the way you want to still be their father.你知道,你想成为他们父亲的方式。
661But just to find that out is, I think it's但为了找出问题 我认为
662devastating.毁灭性的。
663It's very upsetting.真让人心烦
664And yeah, I mean, I can't imagine.是的,我是说,我不能想象。
665I mean, I empathize with him for我是说 我同情他
666experiencing that.经历那。
667I'm sure that was very hard for him.我肯定那对他来说是很难的
668I think it's still hard for him years我觉得对他来说还是很难过
669and years later.和多年之后, 。 。
670So yeah, so that was very hard for him to realize that he might not be.所以他很难意识到他可能不是
671But he不过他
672agreed.已经同意了。
673He agreed to do it, to get a paternity test.他同意这样做, 得到一个父子关系测试。
674And so we did it.所以,我们做到了。
675We did it.我们成功了
676We went to a我们去了一个
677lab and we did it.实验室和我们做到了。
678And then we waited patiently for the results.然后我们耐心等待结果。
679And I'll never forget the day我永远不会忘记这一天
680when he picked me up with his new wife or whatever.当他接我和他的新妻子什么的。
681I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
682You know, it's like,你知道,这就像,
683I don't care.我无所谓
684Wife, girlfriend, whoever it was.老婆 女朋友 不管是谁
685What was her name?她叫什么来着?
686I don't even know.我什至不晓得。
687No, I remember.不,我记得
688I'm kidding.我开玩笑的
689I just didn't like her.我只是不喜欢她
690But I didn't like him either.但我也不喜欢他
691Don't get it你不要这样
692twisted.扭曲。
693I'll never forget when they picked me up and there was kind of like, I knew that this was我永远不会忘记 当他们来接我的时候... ... ......
694they were going to give me the results.他们打算给我结果
695And there was this kind of tension in the air,空气中出现了这种紧张
696this kind of silence, awkward silence, tension, something in the air when I got in the car.这种沉默,尴尬的沉默,紧张, 东西在空中 当我上车。
697But I'm just like, okay.但我只是喜欢,好吗。
698Secretly, I was thinking probably he's not my father.秘密地,我在想他是不是我父亲。
699They want to tell me他们想告诉我
700in person because they want to say, he wants to say, oh, but I still feel like I'm your father因为他们想说,他想说,哦,但我仍然感觉我是你父亲
701and he's going to do this emotional thing.他将会做这种情感的事情。
702And I need to just, even though I'm probably going to我需要只是, 尽管我可能要去
703be happy, I need to just pretend like be serious and be respectful because I understand that this高兴点,我需要假装认真点 尊重别人 因为我明白
704is hard for him.对他来说很难
705So I was just like, Hey guys, what's up?所以,我只是喜欢, 嘿,伙计们,怎么了?
706How you know, how you doing blah, blah,你怎么知道,你怎么样 诸如此类,
707trying to be civil, trying to be respectful.努力做到文明,努力做到尊重.
708We go to a restaurant and we sit down in the restaurant.我们去一家餐厅,坐在餐厅里
709The waitress takes our order.服务员听我们吩咐
710And then after he told me, he told me the results were negative.然后他告诉我,他告诉我 结果是负面的。
711He is not my father.他不是我父亲
712William, you are not the father.威廉 你不是父亲
713And I immediately was extremely relieved,我立即感到非常宽慰,
714extremely happy.非常快乐
715And that tells you everything you need to know.这告诉你所有你需要知道的
716But I didn't want to show this joy.但我不想展示这种快乐。
717So I just tried to maintain seriousness, like, okay, okay, okay.所以我试图保持严肃, 像,好吧,好吧,好吧。
718And he's telling me,他告诉我,
719but this doesn't change how I feel.但这并不改变我的感受
720I'm always going to be a father.我永远会是一个父亲。
721But yeah, he's telling me但是,他告诉我
722how he just, he got really mad at my mom.他对我妈很生气
723He was swearing about my mom and he was angry toward her,他发誓说我妈妈 他对她生气
724which is reasonable, justified.这是合理的,合理的。
725Of course he has every right to be angry at my mom.他当然有权利对我妈生气
726And thankfully谢天谢地
727she was not there.她不在场。
728She already died.她已经死了。
729So, cause if she was alive, she probably would have never heard所以,因为 如果她还活着, 她可能永远不会听到
730the end that.结束这一点。
731And yeah, she probably should have had to face that consequence of her action.是的,她可能不得不面对 她的行为的后果。
732Yeah,对
733she should have.她应该有。
734That was so wrong of her.这太错了她。
735But well, she avoided that one.但是,她避免了那个。
736And then he asked me,然后他问我,
737William asked me, like, why did you, why did you decide to bring this up now?威廉问我,像,为什么你, 为什么你决定 现在提出这个?
738Why did you decide你为什么决定
739to tell me now and to do all of this now?现在告诉我,现在做这一切?
740Why now?为什么是现在?
741And to me, I'm like, bro, isn't it obvious?对我来说,我就像,兄弟, 是不是很明显?
742Isn't it obvious?这不明显吗?
743You're being like a tyrant and this is the only way for me to你像个暴君 这是我唯一的办法
744break free from you.离开你
745But I told him, like, I just wanted to know.但我告诉他,喜欢, 我只是想知道。
746I'm just curious.我只是有点好奇
747Just curious.只是好奇罢了
748Like, bro, are you stupid?像,兄弟,你傻吗?
749Are you stupid?你傻吗?
750Obviously you're an authoritarian很明显你是个独裁者
751prick.阴茎。
752You're, you're an asshole.你是,你是一个混蛋。
753Like you're, you're so messed up.就像你一样,你太乱了
754I hate you.我讨厌你
755The hell?见鬼?
756Of course I'm happy about not being your biological daughter.我当然很高兴没有做你的亲生女儿
757You can't act like you can你不能表现得像自己
758control me, even though you're still on my birth certificate.尽管你还在我的出生证上
759He is.没错
760He's still on my birth他还在我出生的时候
761certificate.证书。
762And, and I still have his last name.我还有他的姓
763So, but yeah, but I was, I was okay because I knew所以,但是是的, 但我是,我没事 因为我知道
764this was hard for him.这对他来说很难
765And yeah, I spent a good amount of my childhood with him.是的,我花了很多时间 与他的童年。
766So I was okay所以我没事
767with being, I was okay with continuing like to call him dad and to treat him like my father.和父亲一样对待他
768But I just wanted him to know that like legally he doesn't have the right to force me to live with但我只想让他知道 法律上他无权强迫我
769him.他,他是谁?
770That's all I wanted.这就是我想要的。
771You could, you could be my dad and take me to go get ice cream and你可以做我爸爸 带我去吃冰淇淋
772whatever.随便吧
773We can ha ha and have dad daughter time, but do not force me to live with you.我们可以有爸爸的女儿时间, 但不要强迫我和你一起生活。
774So I got┮и眔
775what I wanted and that's what I wanted.我想要的,这就是我想要的。
776And yeah.对
777So after he told me we were in the restaurant,所以在他告诉我我们在餐厅后
778right.对
779And I go to the bath, I say, I need to go to the bathroom.我得去洗个澡 我得去洗手间
780So I go to the bathroom所以我去厕所
781and I'm in the bathroom by myself and I'm just like, yes, thank you.我一个人在洗手间里,谢谢
782Oh my God.天呐
783I was so happy.我很高兴。
784I was celebrating so hard in the bathroom.我在洗手间很辛苦地庆祝
785I was like, yes.我很喜欢,是的。
786Like I went in the stall,就像我走进摊子一样
787the toilet stall.厕所
788I was like, oh my God, I wanted, I want to have a party.我当时想,哦,我的上帝, 我想,我想有一个党。
789It's just so happy.真开心
790It's这是
791such a happy moment.这么开心的时刻
792It's such a joyful moment in my life.我生命中如此快乐的时刻
793So much relief.如此解脱.
794And yeah, of course there当然了
795was like a little bit of like, oh yeah, he's really not my dad.有点像,哦,是啊,他真的不是我爸爸。
796You know, obviously I have good你知道,显然我有很好的
797memories with him from my childhood.我小时候和他在一起的回忆
798Obviously I have good memories with him.显然我和他有美好的回忆
799There were many times有过很多次
800he was a good dad, you know, a normal dad, but a good dad, you know, of course, of course,他是个好爸爸,你知道, 一个正常的爸爸, 但是个好爸爸,你知道, 当然,
801my family always likes to remind me that when I was little, when I was really little, he was我的家人总是喜欢提醒我, 当我很小, 当我真的很小,他是
802a good dad, you know, and I loved him.一个好爸爸,你知道, 我爱他。
803Of course, when kids are little, they worship their parents,当然,当孩子很小, 他们崇拜他们的父母,
804you know, when their kids are little, they think their parents are the best thing ever and they你知道,当他们的孩子是小, 他们认为他们的父母是最好的事情,他们
805gods and, you know, it's very easy to be loved by little children.和,你知道,这是非常容易 被小孩子们爱。
806And yeah, he, he's not a bad guy对,他不是坏人
807necessarily in general.绝对是一般的。
808And yeah, he always would play with me, play with me and joke around with me是啊,他总是和我玩 和我玩 和我开玩笑
809and, you know, spoil me.而且,你知道,宠坏我。
810And yeah, I mean, I have a lot of good memories of him when I was a little是的,我的意思是,我有很多好的回忆 他的时候,我有点
811kid.孩子们。
812And I recognize that and I acknowledge that.我承认这一点,我承认这一点。
813And it's a little sad.则稍悲.
814It's a little sad to think想起来有点悲哀
815about that and stuff.关于那个之类的。
816But you don't get a free pass to treat me however you want when I'm a但你没有免费的通行证 来对待我 当我是一个
817teenager, just because you played Barbies with me when I was four, you know, or eight or whatever.青少年,只是因为你玩芭比 和我,当我四,你知道,或八或什么的。
818Just you don't, you can't just, you don't get like a free pass.只是你没有,你不能只是, 你没有得到像自由通行证。
819People, a lot of people don't很多人不会
820understand this, but I think times are changing and younger generations are starting to realize但是我觉得时代正在改变 年轻一代开始意识到
821this.这个
822This idea that we need to stop objectifying children.这个想法,我们需要停止 将儿童作为对象。
823They're not your property that you can他们不是你可以拥有的财产
824just do what you want with.随你便
825They are people.他们是人。
826You need to respect them.你要尊重他们
827And you don't have the right,而你没有权利
828once they get to a certain age, when they're little, okay, whatever, as long as you're not一旦他们到了某个年龄, 当他们很小, 好吧,随便,只要你不是
829like abusing them, like, okay, you're their parent, whatever.就像虐待他们一样,好吧,你是他们的父母,什么的。
830But, but I would say when they're但我会说,当他们
831teenager twenties, when they're an adult or they're getting to be adult age, you don't have a right二十几岁,当他们成年了 或者他们成年了,你没有权利
832to be in your child's life.在你孩子的生活中。
833That is a privilege.这是一种特权。
834Just because you are a blood family or just because只是因为你是一个血族或仅仅因为
835you raised someone does not mean you have a right to be in their life when they're older.你养大一个人,并不意味着你有权利 在他们的生活,当他们长大。
836It is a这是一个
837privilege.特权。
838You don't get respect just by being related to someone or older than someone.你不只是因为与某个人或比某个人年长的人有亲戚关系而得到尊重.
839Respect尊重
840is earned.被获取。
841So, so yeah, so when my family always tells me like, he was a good dad when you were所以,所以是的,所以当我的家人 总是告诉我喜欢, 他是个好爸爸,当你是
842little, I'm just like, okay.一点点,我只是喜欢,好吗。
843And, you know, it's not good enough.而且,你知道,这还不够好。
844It's easy to be a dad when做爸爸很简单
845your child is three and, you know, is super easy.你的孩子是三,你知道, 超级容易。
846But what about when your child is 13?但你的孩子13岁的时候呢?
847Can you be a good dad when your child is 13?你的孩子13岁的时候能当个好爸爸吗?
848What about when your child is 23?你的孩子23岁时怎么办?
849Can you be a good你能成为一个好人吗?
850dad when your child is 23?23岁的时候爸爸?
851So, yeah.对
852So that's that.就这样
853And so I went that year, I went to go live于是我去了那一年,我去了生活
854with my mom's sister and aunt and I lived with her and I had two more years of high school我跟我妈的姐姐和阿姨住在一起 我又读了两年高中
855before I graduated.在我毕业之前
856But I because of my state, my state allows some students, like my state allows但我因为我的状态, 我的状态允许一些学生, 就像我的状态允许
857you to combine the last two years into one year if you want to.如果你愿意的话,你将把过去两年合并为一年。
858So that's what I did because I所以这就是我所做的,因为我
859didn't like school and I wanted to get out.不喜欢上学 我想出去
860And yeah, so and I was tired of living with my family是的,所以我厌倦了和家人住在一起
861and I just wanted I wanted freedom.我只想要自由,我却想要自由
862I wanted to leave my state and I so I combine the我想离开我的州 所以我结合
863I combine the last two years.我结合过去两年。
864I graduated that that year when I was 16 and I was able to get16岁那年我毕业,我得到了
865enough financial aid to allow me to go to college in Florida.足够我上佛罗里达大学的财政援助
866So I went to school, went to college所以我去学校,上大学
867in Florida.在佛罗里达州。
868So then I was kind of free.所以我就有点自由了
869I was you know, I was I left my home state.我离开了我的家乡
870I was far away我远道而来
871from from Maine from all my family and I was going to school and I was living there and I从缅因州 从我所有的家庭 我上学 我住在那里,我
872yeah.对
873So that was the last time that I saw him.那是我最后一次见到他
874OK, but I need to go back.好吧,但我必须回去。
875I need to rewind我要倒车
876because it's an important part of the story I forgot to tell you.因为这是我忘了告诉你的故事的重要部分。
877So during this last year所以去年这段日子
878of high school, after I found out that William is not my father and while I was living with my aunt,高中的时候,我发现威廉不是我父亲 当我和我姨妈住在一起时,
879I was curious about this Vincent guy.我对这个文森特很好奇
880I said, OK, well, if William's not my father, then我说,好吧,好吧, 如果威廉不是我父亲,那么
881Vincent must be my father.文森特一定是我父亲
882So I remembered Vincent's full name and I started to search所以我想起文森特的全名 我开始搜索
883on the Internet and I found a guy with this name on Facebook and he looked like maybe he could be在互联网上,我发现一个家伙 与这个名字在Facebook上, 他看起来像他可能
884my father.我的父亲。
885I don't know.师曰.
886We didn't look super alike, but maybe.我们看起来不是超级相似,但也许。
887And it's hard because I was这很难,因为我
888a teenage girl.一个少女。
889It's hard to compare to like a father aged man, you know, in physical appearance很难比得上一个像父亲的老人, 你知道,在外表上
890were very different.不一样
891But yeah, I don't know.不过是的,我不知道。
892My aunt said we looked alike.我姨妈说我们长得像
893I didn't really see it.我没有看到它。
894But anyway, so I contacted this guy and I asked him if he remembered my mom and he said he did.但无论如何, 所以我联系了这家伙, 我问他是否记得我妈妈, 他说他做到了。
895So I said, OK, so this is the guy then.所以我说,好吧,这就是那个人。
896And I told him I told him what everything my mom told me.我告诉他,我告诉他什么 我妈妈告诉我。
897And he obviously was surprised, but I think he reacted pretty good.显然他很惊讶 但我觉得他的反应很好
898He seemed like a very他看起来像一个非常
899genuine guy.真实的人。
900He seemed to be genuinely interested, happy.他看起来很感兴趣,很快乐
901He was happy to talk to me,他很高兴能和我说话
902to get to know me.来了解我
903He thought there is a chance I am your father.他以为我是你父亲
904He was living in a different他住的地方不一样
905part of the country.国家的一部分。
906He had his own family.他有自己的家庭。
907He had two kids that were younger than me, obviously.显然他有两个比我小的孩子
908And yeah, so we started to we started to talk, like to get to know each other.是的,所以我们开始 我们开始交谈, 喜欢了解对方。
909We started to talk on the phone, like multiple times a week.我们开始通过电话交谈, 就像每周多次。
910Like he would call me after school好像放学后会打电话给我一样
911and we would just talk.我们只是谈谈。
912I don't know why we talked so long before getting a attorney test.我不知道为什么我们在接受律师测试前 已经聊了这么久
913I think we were trying to figure out how to do it because we were in different places.我想我们试图找出 如何做到这一点,因为我们是在不同的地方。
914But I was waiting for him to figure it out.但我在等他想出来
915I think he was busy with a lot of things going on.我觉得他忙着很多事情
916But he made time to talk to me and get to know me.但他有时间跟我说话 了解我
917And he seemed like a cool guy.他看起来是个很酷的家伙
918And I was like,我当时想,
919oh, this would be cool if he was my dad.哦,这将是很酷,如果他是我爸爸。
920I wasn't looking for a father figure.我不是在找一个父亲
921I never was looking我从不看
922for a father figure.对于一个父亲人物。
923I just wanted to know who my biological father was because I was interested我只是想知道我生父是谁 因为我有兴趣
924in knowing what he looks like, what his genetics are, what his personality is like.知道他的长相 遗传学 个性
925Because I would因为我会
926like to know who my biological father is so that I can see how we compare what we have in common,想知道我的亲生父亲是谁 这样我就能看到我们如何比较 我们的共同点
927what things I might get from him.我可能从他那里得到什么
928I think that's interesting.我认为这很有趣。
929Who wouldn't want to know who their誰不想知道他們是誰
930biological parents are?亲生父母是?
931Just out of curiosity.出于好奇
932But I wasn't looking to live with him or move但我不想和他住在一起,也不想搬家
933to where he is.到他现在的位置
934I don't know.师曰.
935And so finally he ordered a paternity test.最后他下令进行亲子鉴定
936And so how it works所以它是如何运作的
937is through the mail.是通过邮件。
938So they sent me a little test.所以他们送我一个小测试。
939So I take a swab of my saliva or whatever所以我用我的唾液或别的什么
940and I mail it out.我把它寄出来。
941And so we did that kind of a thing because we were living in different places.所以我们做了这种事情,因为我们生活在不同的地方。
942And then finally we got the result.最后我们得到了结果。
943And it was negative, which means he is not my father.这是负面的, 这意味着他不是我父亲。
944And we were both very surprised because, like I said, my mom never gave me another我们都很惊讶,因为,就像我说的, 我妈妈从来没有给我另一个
945name.名称。
946So I didn't know, well, if it's not him, who would it be?所以我不知道,如果不是他,那会是谁呢?
947Everybody was shocked.每个人都很震惊。
948My aunt,我姑妈
949my grandma, like everybody was like, I don't believe that.我奶奶,就像大家一样 我不相信
950To this day, I think my aunt and直到今天,我觉得我姨妈
951grandma think that he somehow faked it or they think that he faked the test or he did something奶奶觉得他弄错了 或者他们觉得他伪造了测试 或者他做了一些事情
952to mess it up.弄得一团糟
953But they never really talked to him.但他们从来没有真正跟他说话。
954I talked to him for months.我跟他谈了几个月
955Yes, I was 16是的,我16岁
956years old.岁.
957And you never know.你永远不知道。
958Somebody might seem like an honest person and then they're really可能有人看起来像一个诚实的人 然后他们真的
959not.没有
960I don't think he faked it.我不认为他伪造的。
961They think he faked it.他们认为是他伪造的
962I don't know.师曰.
963But he seemed very surprised但他看起来很惊讶
964by the result.由结果。
965And so he decided to order another one.于是他决定再订购一个.
966And it wasn't cheap.且不贵.
967It was kind of expensive.有点贵
968He ordered another one because he just he didn't believe the result.他又订了一个 因为他不相信结果
969That's what he said.他就是这么说的
970And so这样
971we took another one, came back negative.我们又拿了一张, 回来负数。
972So at this point, it's kind of like you just have to accept所以,现在,这有点像 你只需要接受
973this guy is not your father.这家伙不是你的父亲。
974Unless you're my aunt or my grandma, they still think he is.除非你是我姨妈或祖母 他们仍然认为他是
975They think he faked it.他们认为是他伪造的
976I think they're in denial and they just, no, I don't really know if they我觉得他们是在否认 他们只是,不,我真的不知道他们是否
977still think that.还是这样想
978But yeah, I think they just didn't want to accept it.但我想他们只是不想接受
979My mom had many partners at the我妈妈有很多合伙人
980time and she was not doing well.时间,她表现不好。
981And she, yeah, there's more than just two options of who my她,是的,有 不止两个选择 谁是我的
982father is.父亲是。
983But I can accept, I believe it.但我可以接受,我相信这一点。
984And so, yeah, so it was a little sad because I think所以,是的,所以有点伤心 因为我觉得
985even this guy, Vincent, he was like a little, seemed a little disappointed that he's not my father文森特,他好像有点 有点失望,因为他不是我父亲
986because he had been talking to me for months and he thought we had a lot in common.因为我们有很多共同点
987And I think he我觉得他
988was a little disappointed, but he was like, OK, well, life goes on.有点失望, 但他喜欢,OK,好了,生活继续。
989But he was a nice guy and I但他是个好人和我
990never got any sign.从来没有任何迹象。
991I never felt any sign of like shadiness, like not being a genuine person,我从来没有觉得任何迹象 像影子, 像不是一个真正的人,
992like lying or not having good intentions.喜欢说谎或没有好意。
993I never felt that.我从来没有这种感觉。
994I felt like he was very genuine.我觉得他很真诚
995So that happened with Vincent.文森特就是这样
996So here I am.所以我在这里。
997OK, William's not my father.威廉不是我父亲
998Vincent's not my father.文森特不是我父亲
999Who is it?是谁?
1000Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1001Nobody has any names.没人知道名字
1002Only my mom would know.只有我妈知道
1003This is这是
1004what I thought.和我想的一样
1005Nobody knows.没有人知道。
1006Nobody's saying anything.没有人在说什么。
1007So the years go by.故岁月往.
1008Like I told you我告诉过你
1009in my last video, I went to Florida for a few years.在我最后的录像里,我去了佛罗里达州几年。
1010I moved to Ecuador.我搬到了厄瓜多尔。
1011I lived in the Amazon我住在亚马逊
1012in Ecuador for years.在厄瓜多尔多年。
1013I didn't go back to my home state.未回故国.
1014I didn't go back to Maine until 10 years我10年才回缅因州
1015later, until I was 26.后来,直到我26岁。
1016I left when I was 16.我16岁时就离开了
1017I went back when I was 26.我26岁时回去了
1018That is when I started从那时开始
1019to try to rekindle my relationships with my family members.试着重燃我和家人的关系
1020I started to try to like start over,我开始尝试喜欢重新开始,
1021like clean slate.像干净的板块。
1022Let's let's start over.让我们重新开始吧。
1023What happened in the past?过去发生了什么?
1024I'm older now.我现在老了
1025Ten years have gone by.十年过去了
1026I've I've gone through healing and growing up and, you know,我经历了治愈和成长,你知道,
1027I think I've dealt with some of my trauma and whatever.我想我已经处理了一些我的创伤和什么的。
1028I understand that we are very different我知道我们很不一样
1029and my family members did a lot of things that I would never do.我家人做了很多我永远不会做的事
1030But, you know, everybody is但是,你知道,每个人都是
1031living for the first time.第一次活着。
1032Everybody is living for the first time in this life, in this in their每个人都是第一次 生活在这个生命中,在他们
1033current body.现在的身体。
1034Even if you believe in reincarnation, everybody is, you know, was born very recently,即使你相信转世, 每个人都是,你知道, 出生最近,
1035at least in this lifetime.至少在这一辈子里
1036And so we all are just trying to figure out life as we go and we all have所以,我们都在试图 找出生活,因为我们走了,我们都有
1037different experiences and we all make different decisions and think differently and whatever.不同的经历,我们都做出不同的决定, 不同的思考,什么的。
1038So I'll never forget things, but I forgive my family for everything that they ever did that I所以我永远不会忘记一切 但我原谅了我的家人
1039didn't like or hurt me or whatever.不喜欢或伤害我什么的。
1040There's so much more to the story, obviously, of my childhood很明显,我的童年故事还有很多
1041that I didn't share, because that's not what this video is about.我没有分享, 因为这不是这个视频的内容。
1042But I had a pretty good childhood但我有一个相当好的童年
1043in some ways, but in other ways, I had a pretty rough time.在某些方面,但在其他方面, 我有一个相当艰难的时间。
1044Childhood was very hard for me.童年对我来说非常艰难。
1045I don't for a second wish I could be a kid again.我不希望我再次成为孩子
1046You know how some adults wish that你知道一些成年人希望这样
1047they could be a kid again?他们可能还是个孩子?
1048I don't wish that for a second.我并不想那样
1049The freedom that I have as an adult,我作为成年人所拥有的自由
1050the peace that I have as an adult that I couldn't get as a child.我作为一个成年人拥有的平静 我无法从小获得
1051There are no words.无有言语.
1052I felt like a prisoner as a child.我小时候感觉像个囚犯
1053I felt like I was forced to live with people and live in a我觉得我被迫和人生活在一起
1054certain way that I didn't want, that I didn't want.某种方式,我不想, 我不想。
1055So, yeah.对
1056So I struggled a lot in my childhood所以我在童年时期挣扎了很久
1057and I went through a lot and I needed those 10 years.我经历了很多,我需要那10年。
1058I needed those four years in the Amazon我需要那四年在亚马逊
1059to just like scream into the jungle and sleep in the jungle.就像在丛林里尖叫 睡在丛林里
1060Yeah.对
1061So the years went by and at 26过了26岁
1062years old, I went back, I did a big family visit and I gave everybody a fresh chance.年老,我回去,我做了一个大 探亲,我给每个人一个新的机会。
1063And now I'm现在我
106428.28岁
1065I'm turning 28 this month and I think I have a good relationship with everybody except William.这个月我28岁了 我和除了威廉以外的人的关系很好
1066And I'm not going to get into this too much, but all I can say is I tried.但我只能说我尽力了
1067I tried.我试过了
1068I tried to give我想给
1069William another chance, a clean slate like I gave everybody else.威廉又一次机会,一个干净的板子 就像我给其他人一样。
1070My stepdad, my stepmom, my aunt,我的继父、继母、姨妈
1071my grandma.我的外婆,我爱她
1072I tried to, hey, nice to meet you.我试着,嘿,很高兴见到你。
1073Let's start over.让我们重新开始。
1074I did.没错
1075I really tried, but我真的试过了,但是
1076I tried to talk to him on the phone.我想和他通过电话
1077I even tried to hang out with him in person and I just我甚至想亲自和他出去玩
1078couldn't do it.不能做到这一点。
1079I tried and I couldn't.我试过了,但我不能。
1080I can't.我没办法
1081It made me very upset for a lot of reasons.这让我非常不高兴 有很多原因。
1082And I just realized that, you know, as a kid I was, I felt forced, I felt pressured to hang out我只是意识到,你知道,作为一个孩子 我感到被迫,我感到压力 挂出
1083with this person, to talk to this person, whatever, to have this person in my life.和这个人, 和这个人说话,不管什么, 有这个人在我的生活中。
1084And I don't want我也不想这样
1085to, as an adult, continue that pressure, continue to pressure myself or to let other people pressure作为成年人,继续承受这种压力,继续自我施压或让其他人施压
1086me to maintain a relationship with this person that I don't want in my life.我和这个我这辈子不想有的人保持关系
1087So I made the所以我做了一个
1088decision to cut ties with William, not because he's not my father, but because of our relationship决定和威廉断绝关系 不是因为他不是我父亲 而是因为我们的关系
1089or lack thereof.或没有。
1090He's just someone that I don't, I don't want to talk to.我只是不想和他说话
1091I don't want to hang out我不想闲逛
1092with.带。
1093He's not all bad.他不尽坏.
1094Of course, there are good things about him.当然,他有好东西。
1095He's not a bad person,他不是一个坏人,
1096necessarily.当然
1097But I just, I evaluated all the evidence.但我刚刚评估了所有的证据
1098I thought about everything,我考虑过一切
1099everything that I've ever learned about him, seen from him, witnessed and felt.我从他身上得知的一切,从他身上看到,见证和感受.
1100And I,还有我
1101I decided that it's unfortunate.我决定这是不幸的。
1102It's unfortunate, but I need to do what's right for me.虽然很不幸 但我得做对的事
1103And还有
1104it is a privilege to be in my life.成为我生命中的荣耀
1105And unfortunately for him, I don't want to give him很遗憾,我不想给他
1106that privilege.那个特权。
1107So, yes, I don't, I don't believe this thing that, oh, just because they are your所以,是的,我不,我不相信 这件事情,哦,只是因为他们是你的
1108parent or your blood family or whatever, just because they were part of your childhood, you父母或你的血亲或什么的, 只是因为他们是 你童年的一部分,你
1109can't, you can't cut them off.不能,你不能切断他们。
1110You can't do, you know, I don't believe that.你不能这样做,你知道, 我不相信这一点。
1111I don't believe inиぃ獺
1112that.那个
1113Yeah, that's not what I would teach my children.是啊,这不是我会 教我的孩子。
1114And if I have kids, I, I don't want如果我有孩子,我就不会
1115him in their life anyways.他的一生,无论如何。
1116So, so I made that decision to, to cut ties with him, to, to not所以,所以我做了那个决定, 切断与他的联系, 去,不
1117talk anymore.继续说
1118And he, he, he probably thinks that a big reason is because he's not my biological而他,他,他可能认为 一个大的原因 因为他不是我的生物
1119father.父亲
1120And that's unfortunate that he probably thinks that because that's, but because that's这很不幸,他可能认为 因为那是,但因为
1121not true.这不是真的。
1122But if that makes him feel better, so he doesn't feel like it's because I don't like him但是如果他感觉好点了 所以他不觉得是因为我不喜欢他
1123as a person, because that's really what it's about.作为一个人, 因为这就是它的真正目的。
1124I don't like him as a person and I don't我不喜欢他,我不喜欢他
1125want him in my life.想要他进入我的生活
1126It's not about, you know, so yeah, it's not about being my biological,这不是关于,你知道,所以是的, 这不是关于我的生物,
1127it's not about relation.这不是关系。
1128My stepdad is not biologically related to me.我的继父跟我没有生理上的联系
1129And I, even though而我,虽然
1130my stepdad and I haven't always had the best relationship, I want that man to be a part of我的继父和我一直没有 最好的关系,我希望男人的一部分
1131my life.我的生活,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命,我的生命
1132And I will, yeah, I would never, I would never cut ties with him because I actually enjoy我会,是的,我永远不会, 我永远不会切断与他的联系 因为我实际上喜欢
1133talking to him and hanging out with him.和他说话 和他在一起
1134I think he actually adds to my life instead of takes away.我认为他实际上增加了我的生活 而不是带走。
1135So it's not about, yeah, same thing with my stepmom.所以,它不是,是的, 与我的继母一样。
1136So it's not, it's not about blood,所以不是,不是关于血,
1137blood relation.血缘关系
1138But anyways, so however he's processing this is his business.但不管怎样,不管他正在处理什么 这是他的生意。
1139I don't know,我不知道,你觉得呢?
1140but I obviously he's probably very upset about this.但我很显然 他可能对此很不高兴
1141I sent him a message and that I am ending我给他发了个信息,我要结束了
1142the relationship.关系。
1143And yeah, he, he's probably very upset about it, emotional, angry, whatever.是的,他,他可能非常 生气,情绪,愤怒,不管。
1144And so probably out of desperation and all this emotion and whatever, he ended up reaching out to所以也许出于绝望 和所有的情感,什么的, 他最后联系
1145my aunt, my, my mom's sister.我姨妈,我妈妈的妹妹
1146And, you know, they don't talk, but he probably had her number and而且,你知道,他们不说话, 但他可能有她的电话号码,
1147was like, let me text her.让我给她发短信
1148So he texts her and he, he sends her the message that I sent him.所以他给她发了短信,然后,他给她发了我给他的信息。
1149And he says, like, kind of playing dumb, like, I don't, I don't know what this means.他说,像, 那种装傻, 像,我不知道这意味着什么。
1150Like,喜欢,
1151can you help me figure this out?你能帮我弄明白吗?
1152Like, and my aunt is like, my, my aunt is very, she, yeah, she's just喜欢,我姨妈就像, 我姨妈是非常, 她,是的,她只是
1153like, it is what it is.就像,这是它是什么。
1154Like she's very logical by the book kind of person.就像她很合乎逻辑的书 那种人。
1155Like, yeah, she, she was喜欢,是的,她,她是
1156like, well, it looks, well, William, it looks pretty, pretty obvious what this is about.威廉,看起来很明显
1157
1158clearly does not want a relationship with you.显然不想和你发生关系
1159So yeah, it's not rocket science.所以,这不是火箭科学。
1160And he's like,他喜欢,
1161okay, yeah, yeah, I, that's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.好吧,是的,是的,我是这样想的,但我不确定。
1162And yeah, I mean, I think my aunt,是的,我的意思是,我认为我的姨妈,
1163my aunt, because she is a mother and she knows, you know, I think she has empathy for him too,我姨妈,因为她是母亲 她知道,你知道,我想她也同情他,
1164you know, because obviously I empathize with any parent whose child does not want a relationship你知道,因为很明显我同情 任何父母 谁的孩子不希望有关系
1165with them because I know that that hurts.和他们在一起是因为我知道那很痛
1166That probably hurts like crazy, but I think that the可能痛得像疯了, 但我认为
1167child is justified.儿童是正当的。
1168I think if a child, no matter what their age is, if they, well, when they're an我认为,如果一个孩子,不管他们的年龄, 如果他们,当他们是一个
1169adult, if they don't want a relationship with you, even a teenager, if they don't want a成年了,如果他们不想和你交往, 即使是青少年,如果他们不想
1170relationship with you, I mean, even any age, even a child.和你的关系,我的意思是, 即使任何年龄,甚至一个孩子。
1171Yeah.对
1172If, no matter the age, if any child如果,无论年龄,如果有任何孩子
1173does not want a relationship with their parent, it's the parent's fault.不想和父母有关系,这是父母的错。
1174It's never the child's这不是孩子的
1175fault.错
1176It's the parent's fault because why, why would they not want a relationship with you?这是父母的错,因为为什么, 他们为什么不想要和你的关系?
1177You know, children want relationships with their parents.你知道,孩子想要 与父母的关系。
1178So to get to that point of deciding,所以为了达到决定的地步
1179nah, it's not worth it.不,这不值得。
1180It takes a lot to get to that point.说到这一点需要很多时间。
1181So that's on the parent to spend some所以,这是父母 花一些
1182time reflecting on how they let it get to that point.时间思考一下他们是如何让事情发展到那个地步的
1183It's usually not one thing.这通常不是一回事。
1184It's usually这通常
1185many things accumulating.许多东西积累。
1186So yeah.对啊
1187So my aunt probably empathizes with him, but at the same time所以我姨妈可能对他很同情 但与此同时
1188is like saying, you know, Lau is totally justified in her decision to do that.这就像说,你知道, 刘是完全正当的 她的决定这样做。
1189Sucks for you,为你感到恶心
1190William, but you know, she can make that decision.威廉,但你知道, 她可以做出这个决定。
1191And it's not like I made that decision.也不是我决定的
1192I gave我给了
1193him so much time.他有这么多的时间。
1194You know, I didn't make that decision when I was 18 and like just angry and,我18岁的时候没有做那个决定 就像生气一样
1195you know, no, I waited until I was 27 years old.你知道,不,我等待 直到我27岁。
1196I thought about this for a long time.我考虑过很久了
1197I gave him我给了他
1198many chances and I, yeah, I spent a lot of time thinking about this decision.很多机会,我,是的,我花了很多时间 想着这个决定。
1199And so it wasn't a所以它不是一个
1200hasty decision.仓促的决定。
1201It wasn't a decision made out of, you know, it wasn't a quick decision.这不是一个决定,你知道, 这不是一个快速的决定。
1202But so out但是这样
1203of all of this from all of this emotion, intense emotion and anger and frustration and whatever,所有这一切 从所有的情感, 强烈的情感和愤怒, 沮丧等等,
1204or I don't know.或者说我不知道
1205I don't know if that's the reason or I don't know.我不知道这是原因还是原因
1206But for whatever reason,但是无论出于什么原因
1207for whatever reason, William told my aunt that he has two names of two potential fathers, two men不管什么原因,威廉都告诉我姑妈 他有两个名字 两个潜在的父亲,两个男人
1208that he knows that my mom was hanging out with, spending time with during the time that I was他知道我妈和我在一起 和我在一起的时候
1209conceived that could be my father.想到他可能是我父亲
1210He told my aunt that he has been sitting on these names他告诉我姑妈 他一直坐着这些名字
1211for years.几年来
1212Basically, since we found out he's not my father, he has known of these two names,基本上,我们发现他不是我父亲 他知道这两个名字
1213these two people, and he never told me.这些人,他从来没有告诉我。
1214Over 10 years later, like 11, 12 years later,10年后, 大约11,12年后,
121511, 12 years have gone by and he never told me.11,12年过去了,他从来没有告诉我。
1216He knew, he knew that I wanted to know who my他知道,他知道我想知道 谁是我的
1217father was and he never revealed the names until, and maybe he would have never revealed them,父亲是,他从来没有透露 名字直到, 也许他永远不会透露他们,
1218until I ended the relationship and then he told my aunt.直到我结束了关系 然后他告诉我姑妈
1219That's a good example of how problematic这是个好例子,说明问题多严重
1220he is.他确实在
1221Selfish, egotistical, you know.自私自利,自负,你知道的。
1222I understand that he wanted to be my father.我知道他想当我父亲
1223You didn't want你没有想要
1224somebody else to be.别人是。
1225But to guard that information, the ego, the selfishness, and that's the kind of但为了保护信息,自我,自私, 这就是那种
1226person he is.他是谁
1227There's many examples of this, you know.这个例子很多
1228Him not listening to me, forcing me to,他不听我的,强迫我
1229no, you need to live with me.不,你必须和我住在一起。
1230It's all ego.都是自负
1231It's all selfishness.皆为自私.
1232Even his political views,甚至他的政治观点
1233even his everything, you know, he posts on Facebook all the propaganda he believes, all the media he甚至他的一切,你知道, 他张贴在Facebook 所有他相信的宣传, 所有媒体他
1234believes.相信这一点。
1235Everything he thinks and does, I swear, is from having an inflated ego.我发誓,他所想和所做的一切 都来自自我膨胀
1236That's all those就这样
1237people that think that we should be deporting immigrants and ego, giant ego.认为我们应该驱逐移民和自我 巨大的自我
1238Their life sucks.他们的生活很糟
1239They don't know why it sucks.他们不知道为什么它很烂。
1240They want, they feel powerless in their life.他们想要,他们觉得生活中无能为力。
1241They want to blame other他们想怪别人
1242people for their problems.人们为自己的问题。
1243They want to control other people and other people's lives.他们想控制别人和其他人的生活.
1244It's all没事
1245ego.自我主义。
1246Look at who they elected.看看他们选谁
1247It's all ego.都是自负
1248He is the king of ego.他是自负的国王。
1249The President of the United安全理事会主席
1250States is the ego king.国家是自大之王。
1251It's all ego.都是自负
1252So it's an inflated ego, not being able to check yourself,因此,这是一个膨胀的自我, 无法检查自己,
1253not being able to see your place, not being able to see how you create your problems.无法看到你的位置, 无法看到你如何制造你的问题。
1254You are琌
1255responsible for your problems, generally.对你的问题负总责
1256And yeah, I mean, he probably blames me for not wanting to是啊,我的意思是,他可能 怪我不愿意
1257have a relationship with him, but it's his fault, you know.和他有关系, 但这是他的错,你知道的。
1258Yeah.对
1259People not being able to take无法接受的人
1260accountability.问责制。
1261This man, William, he has two, he is a felon because he has two domestic violence这个男人,威廉,他有两个, 他是一个重罪犯,因为他有两个家庭暴力
1262charges from his interactions with his ex-wife or ex-girlfriend, someone.指控他与前妻或前女友的交往
1263Two.两个
1264Now, I don't know.现在,我不知道。
1265I don't know if this man ever laid a finger on someone.我不知道这个人有没有碰过别人
1266Maybe he did.也许他做到了。
1267Maybe he didn't.也许他没有
1268I never我从来没有
1269thought that William was physically abusive.以为威廉是身体虐待。
1270I never thought that he would be charged with我从没想过他会被指控
1271domestic violence.家庭暴力行为。
1272He never was toward me.他从来没有对我。
1273I never witnessed that.我从来没亲眼见过
1274I never heard that from我从来没有听说过
1275my mom, from my stepmom who were in a relationship with him for many years.我妈妈,从我的继母 谁与他多年的关系。
1276So I never thought that所以我从没想过
1277he was that kind of person.他就是这样的人。
1278I still don't think he's that kind of person.我还是觉得他不是那种人
1279But in order to get two但为了两个
1280domestic violence charges, you would have to not learn your lesson the first time, go back and家庭暴力指控,你不必 第一次吸取教训,回去
1281disrespect someone again.又不尊重别人
1282Even if you didn't touch them, you get the second one by having即使你没有碰他们, 你得到第二个通过有
1283an inflated ego thinking that you have the right to go bother someone.一个膨胀的自负 认为你有权去打扰某人。
1284Even if you're just verbally,即使你只是口头上,
1285fighting with them, whatever, it's the ego.和他们战斗,不管怎样,都是自负
1286It's not being humble, it's not being humble.非谦非谦.
1287by your first charge and thinking that you have the right to go bother a woman again.想到你有权再去骚扰一个女人
1288And yeah, he went to jail for a month for that.他为此入狱一个月
1289Probably should have been longer.也许应该更久些
1290And yeah, then he had this grand awakening and stopped drinking alcohol and对 然后他醒了 戒了酒
1291stopped being in relationships and seemed like his life was getting better and I'm happy for him.不再有关系了 似乎他的生活越来越好 我为他感到高兴
1292But I don't know, it's not enough.但我不知道,这还不够。
1293It's not enough to make him the type of person that I want to hang这不足以让他成为我想要绞死的人
1294out with.出来。
1295And yeah, that one day I hung out with him, it was bad.是啊,有一天我和他在一起,这是不好的。
1296Okay.摆
1297Anyways, so that's that.总之,就是这样。
1298That's the story of, I don't know who my biological father is.故事是这样的 我不知道我的亲生父亲是谁
1299The names that he gave to my aunt,他给我姑妈的名字
1300I have the names, but now it's so late.我有名字,但现在太晚了。
1301It's so late that I don't care anymore.今已迟至不思议.
1302I could try to我可以试着
1303contact, to find these people.联系人 找到这些人
1304Now that I have the names, I know the states that they lived in.现在我有了名字 我知道他们住的州
1305I just don't, I can't even be bothered.我只是没有,我甚至不能被打扰。
1306I don't even care anymore.我已经不在乎了
1307Like I'm not concerned.就像我不担心。
1308Maybe也许
1309I'll do it someday.总有一天我会的
1310I don't know.师曰.
1311I mean, I should probably do it sooner than later.我的意思是,我也许应该 做到这一点比晚。
1312They might die.他们可能会死
1313You know, if I wait too long, I don't know.你知道,如果我等待太长, 我不知道。
1314But I don't know.却不知.
1315Like at this point, like why,就像现在,为什么,
1316I'm just like, why?我只是喜欢,为什么?
1317So I can see a picture, so I can see what they look like.所以我可以看到一张照片, 我可以看到它们是什么样子。
1318I mean, yeah,我是说,是的,
1319I'm curious.我有点好奇
1320I still want to know, but like, I don't know if I want to put in the effort我还是想知道,但是,像, 我不知道,如果我想 努力
1321to try to find who these guys are.试着找出这些人是谁
1322And then not only would I have to find them,我不仅得找到他们
1323we'd have to do a paternity test.我们得做个亲子鉴定
1324And I don't even live in the United States and I don't want我甚至不 住在美国 我不想
1325to do all that.做这一切。
1326I don't want to do a paternity test again.我不想再做亲子鉴定了
1327I don't want to, it's like, I just我不想,这就像,我只是
1328don't care.别管了
1329I don't care.我无所谓
1330So I've just accepted that I don't know who my biological father is.所以我刚刚接受了 我不知道我的生父是谁
1331And I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1332I'm never going to know.我永远不会知道。
1333And I'm okay with that.我不介意这样
1334Cause that's,因为...
1335that's what I thought it was.这就是我的想法。
1336I already accepted that before he told me the names,我已经接受了 在他告诉我名字之前
1337told my aunt the names.告诉了我阿姨名字
1338So, so I kind of feel like a, like an orphan because my mom died and I,所以我觉得自己像个孤儿 因为我妈妈死了 我
1339and I don't know who my biological father is and I don't want to have a relationship with我不知道我的生父是谁 我不想和他发生关系
1340威廉 威廉 William.
1341But I have, but that's my choice.但我有,但这是我的选择。
1342And I have my stepmom, my stepdad, my aunt,我有继母、继父、姨妈
1343my brother, my grandma, and I'm happy with those family relationships that I have.我哥哥,我奶奶,我很高兴 与我的家庭关系。
1344I'm happy with that.我很高兴。
1345I feel good with that.我觉得很好。
1346And yeah, so I just wanted to share this story是的,所以我只是想分享这个故事
1347cause I, I don't know, I think it's an interesting story and you could probably learn a lot,因为我,我不知道, 我认为这是一个有趣的故事 你也许可以学到很多,
1348a lot of English from it.很多英语从它。
1349And I've never really told the whole story from beginning to end like我从来没有真正说 整个故事从开始到结束
1350that with the latest updated details as well, because I just got the names.还有最新细节 因为我刚拿到名字
1351Like my aunt just就像我姨妈一样
1352texted me like a month ago or something, the names.一个月前给我发了短信 名字
1353So this is new.所以这是新的。
1354This is some news.这是新闻
1355So yeah,所以,没错,
1356I've never, I've never told the whole story like this from beginning to end all in one go.我从来没有,我从来没有讲过 整个故事从开始到结束 在一个去。
1357So I所以说
1358kind of wanted to, to do it and yeah, it feels good.那种想,做它 是的,感觉很好。
1359And yeah, hopefully it wasn't too boring是的,希望它不会太无聊
1360or slow, but it was real.或慢,但这是真实的。
1361And that's the point of these, these kinds of videos.这就是这些视频的要点。
1362And if you don't如果你不这样做
1363like these kinds of videos, well, well, I think if you've made it to the end, you probably like像这些视频,嗯,嗯,嗯,我想 如果你已经做到这一点到最后,你可能喜欢
1364this kind of video.这种视频。
1365But if you, I probably should have said this at the beginning, but if you don't但是,如果你,我也许应该 说这个开头,但如果你不
1366like it, I will make other videos, like more English teaching style also, but, but I wanted喜欢它,我会做其他的视频, 像更多的英语教学风格 也,但我想
1367to make the, some, some kind of podcast style videos.制作一些播客风格的视频
1368So, and a lot of people seem to seem to所以,很多人似乎看起来
1369like it.喜欢它。
1370So, so once again, all of you who were telling me that you really appreciate and enjoy所以,所以再次,你们所有人 谁告诉我,你真的很欣赏和享受
1371this, this format, this kind of video and you like, yeah, you like the stories, the story time in这个,这个格式,这种视频 你喜欢,是的, 你喜欢故事,故事的时间在
1372English, I am happy to provide.英语,我很高兴提供。
1373And once again, I'm sorry about the noise.再说一遍,我对噪音感到抱歉
1374If, if you hear noises,如果你听到声音
1375I'm sure you do because yeah, main, main road in Lima and people are a lot, people are honking like我敢肯定,你这样做,因为是的,主干道 在利马和人们是很多, 人们在鸣叫像
1376crazy.疯了。
1377So much honking backing up big trucks.这么多的喇叭备份 大卡车。
1378I don't know why it's so, so loud right here,我不知道为什么这么吵
1379but it is.但它确实是。
1380And the windows it's the noise is coming from behind is because over there is like a窗户是来自后面的噪音 因为那边就像一个
1381kitchen and there's, there's windows that are like really thin and they don't really fully shut like厨房和有,有窗户 像真的薄,他们不 真的关闭像
1382well.不错
1383There's like, and they're just, they're too thin.好像,他们只是,他们太瘦了。
1384And yeah, there's just, there's a, there's a对,有,有,有
1385main road over there.那边的大路
1386Can you hear the, it's like so much honking.你能听到吗, 这就像这么多的喇叭。
1387I'm like, now it's probably我好像,现在可能
1388starting to get into rush hour, but yeah, so much honking.开始进入高峰时间, 但是是的,这么多的喇叭。
1389Okay.摆
1390Anyways, thank you for watching.无论如何,谢谢你的观看。
1391Thank you for listening.谢谢你的聆听
1392I appreciate you so much.非常感谢你
1393And yeah, overall I'm happy with my life.是的,总的来说,我很高兴我的生活。
1394And还有
1395despite, you know, everything that happened and everything that, that I told you, I'm doing,尽管,你知道, 发生的一切和所有的一切, 我告诉过你,我在做,
1396I'm doing well, you know, it's been like 14 years almost since my mom died.我妈妈去世14年了
1397I don't regret我不会后悔的
1398cutting ties with William.切断与威廉的联系。
1399Like I said, I have a great relationship with the, with other family就像我说的,我和别人的关系很好
1400members.成员。
1401Overall, I'm doing good.总的来说,我做得很好。
1402I'm happy, happy with my life and myself.我很高兴,对我的生活和我自己快乐。
1403And yeah, and I hope you对,我希望你
1404are too, wherever you are.无论你在哪里 都一样
1405And if you're not, that's okay too.如果你不是,那也没关系。
1406You don't have to be happy with it.不须欢喜.
1407We learn a lot from the struggles that we go through.我们从我们经历的斗争中吸取了很多教训.
1408And I hope that I inspired someone to,我希望我激励别人
1409I hope to inspire people to, to set boundaries.我希望激励人们去,去设定界限。
1410You know, I notice a lot of people struggle to我注意到很多人都在挣扎
1411set boundaries.设置边界。
1412I think I'm very good at that.我觉得我很擅长这个
1413I think a lot of people have a hard time setting我觉得很多人都很难受
1414boundaries with family members.与家庭成员的界限。
1415I am the type of person who always sets boundaries.我是那种总能划定界限的人
1416You know,你知道吗,
1417my family knows they have to treat me with a certain level of respect now that I'm an adult.我的家人知道 他们必须尊重我 因为我是成年人了
1418And yeah, I won't, and even before I was an adult, I wouldn't tolerate it.是的,我不会的,甚至在我成年之前, 我也不会容忍它。
1419You know,你知道吗,
1420I used to say, okay, well then I don't like you and I'm not going to talk to you.我曾经说,好吧,那么我不喜欢你,我不会跟你说话。
1421I've always been that way.我一直都是这样
1422Cause yeah, I just, we are people.因为是啊,我只是,我们是人。
1423It doesn't matter that we are younger我们年轻不重要
1424than you.比你还强
1425We are people.我们是人。
1426We deserve to be respected.我们应该得到尊重。
1427And yeah, don't settle, don't settle for bad对,不要和解,不要和解
1428treatment.治疗。
1429It is a privilege to be in your life.我很荣幸能进入你的生活
1430It is a privilege.这是一种特权。
1431It's not a right.谓非权.
1432Remember that.记住这一点。
1433All right.好吧,我们走。
1434Take care.小心点
1435I'll see you in the next one.后一见.
1436Have a nice day.祝你们愉快
1437Bye bye.再见
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