Atsuko Okatsuka
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Podcast Appearances
She can't work.
She also has seizures.
So, you know, there's a lot of stuff she can't do.
She's very isolated.
So she got...
pretty suicidal.
And so my grandma was like, oh, I have a son in LA.
Maybe we switch locations.
Maybe we change things up.
Go to a place with more family support.
There's an uncle and aunt.
He said we could stay with them.
So, you know, I found out that's why we ended up in LA.
But yeah, so after I did that, oh gosh, it was like then when I was 19, I was with my second boyfriend who told me that I was funny.
And he's like, you should try stand up.
And I was like, stand up?
Isn't that only for like...
Aren't all the, I thought at the time there's only like 10 standups in the world, you know?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Right?