announcer: funding for the kcet "fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov. ♪ woman: you don't see black women get a lot of grace. i think because of...the way the world sees black women, we have had to, you know, a lot of times have this exterior to us that reflects that. woman: i constantly have pushed back on this cultural lore that says, "god will not give you something that you cannot survive." god gives us stuff all the time, and that you may not fully survive it or you may be damaged by what happens. and so, people feel that, "oh, well, there must be something wrong with me, and i should just accept this." ♪ art allows you to bring those sort of feelings up and start to look at them in a more rational way, in a more cognitive way, if you will, especially when you cannot name something. and i mean--when i say name it, mean verbally talk about it. ♪ so, art becomes that avenue of conversation. ♪ woman: so, feel free to sit wherever. we've come here today to create community with each other and really just bear witness as we come

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the corporation for public broadcasting. additional funding for america reframed provided by open society foundations, acton family giving, park foundation, the national endowment for the artsat said, "ask me about being a poll worker." i asked. a petite woman with short gray hair wrote down a website and told me that they're always looking. i thought, as a new american, i could understand the democratic process on a deeper level, and be part of it. i never thought i would become an american citizen. it never really mattered to me until i had my daughter. when she was younger, we used to travel quite a bit, and there was one year where we were outside the country one week shy of six months. i knew, as a green card holder, that if i had left the country for longer than six months, i could have my green card taken away from me. my middle sister had her green card taken away from her. she went to holland to be with her love, and when she returned to the u.s., she was told that she was just transiting. it scared me that i could be kicked out of a country that my daughter knows as home. and so, when i received notification of my in-person citizenship test, i rented a compact car

the corporation for public broadcasting, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, the wyncote foundation, the national endowment for the arts, the park foundation his plan was to come here and further his medical education, and then go back to the philippines so that he could set himself up well. so, he knew he would be gone for a few years, so he sent for my mother, my older sister, and i. we always planned to go back to the philippines, so my mother started collecting gifts to bring back home. she collected bed sheets and towels, and even toilet paper, because she thought it was just so much softer here than it was back home. but as happens sometimes, you go someplace and that place changes you. so my father started to dream, and he started to wonder: what would it be like to stay here? what would our lives look like? what would the lives of his children be like? and so he took a risk, and he took the exam for foreign medical graduates, and he passed. and all of a sudden, this whole new world and future opened up for him and our family. he opened his own medical practice, hired a staff, bought a house in the suburbs, and bought his first new

announcer: funding for the kcet "fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov. woman: so i can go ahead and, um, dive into what we found in the report. so we did find that you have dyslexia and that that is pointing to a lot of the difficulties you have when it comes to reading, and we also found that you have difficulties with attention, so we did find adhd, so we would say that that is also contributing to a lot of the difficulties that you're likely having. is there anything that you wanted to add, dr. nulty, before i move on? nulty: one thing that's important to recognize is the fatiguing factor of add. it's like your brain is having to work harder than other people's to block out the dogs barking and the cars going by and just whatever noises there are, and you're capable of blocking them out but at a cost, and that's cognitive fatigue. woman two: right. mm-hmm. this is 16 pages of things about my brain. ok. so the reason i'm here is because "afton is currently struggling to meet her foreign language requirement in her undergraduate

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announcer: funding for the kcet "fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov.

announcer: funding for the kcet "fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov.

announcer: funding for the kcet "fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov. ♪ woman: you don't see black women get a lot of grace. i think because of...the way the world sees black women, we have had to, you know, a lot of times have this exterior to us that reflects that. woman: i constantly have pushed back on this cultural lore that says, "god will not give you something that you cannot survive." god gives us stuff all the time, and that you may not fully survive it or you may be damaged by what happens. and so, people feel that, "oh, well, there must be something wrong with me, and i should just accept this." ♪ art allows you to bring those sort of feelings up and start to look at them in a more rational way, in a more cognitive way, if you will, especially when you cannot name something. and i mean--when i say name it, mean verbally talk about it. ♪ so, art becomes that avenue of conversation. ♪ woman: so, feel free to sit wherever. we've come here today to create community with each other and really just bear witness as we come