Mat Fraser Analysis

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This podcast is a autobiographical narrative of Mat Fraser. He first tells us that his father was never really in the picture and it was mostly him and his mom. His mother was known to take drugs, which back then, was a normal for most women. However, it was also the time where there was little to no studies of how certain drugs can affect a pregnant woman and their babies. Fraser said that once he was born, his mother wasn’t able to see him immediately, it took hours for the doctors and nurses to come back to her with Mat. His mother at that point confidently believed that he was dead. However, they were finally able to meet, and the nurses told his mother that he, has small arms. This didn’t bother his mother but, of course soon reality would hit both him and his mother. …show more content…
However, he did notice that he is quite different from the rest of the kids. He later became interested in drumming through his mother’s boyfriend. Fraser eventually started to drum, make music, and was known to have become the “punk” kid school rather than the kids with small hands and a disability. He was so passionate that he was even in a band that was quite well known in his town. He later when to a show that made him realize more about his disability and that his when he found someone like him. It was then that he decided that he wanted to become an actor, and pay homage to this man. He later became an actor in American Horror Story: Freak Show, he portrayed the Seal boy, who is heavily tattooed. Initially he as reluctant to take the role despite his dreams of acting, because he wanted people to recognize him. The show wanted all of his bodied to be covered with ink, including his face. However, after negotiating with the show, they let him tattoo free from his