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0:00 - 0:05Hi ,my name is Joseph Scamardo and I am
an assistant professor of philosophy -
0:05 - 0:09and associate Director of the
Institute in Public Affairs -
0:09 - 0:11at San Diego State University
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0:11 - 0:16I specialized in philosophy of disability
and bioethics. -
0:17 - 0:19I also identify as disabled.
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0:19 - 0:22I have a spinal cord injury,
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0:22 - 0:25as well as a rare kind of dwarfism, and so
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0:25 - 0:29you get two for the price of one with me.
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0:29 - 0:36So, my first memory of discrimination was,
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0:37 - 0:41well, it's hard to say...
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0:43 - 0:47I have lots of memories as far as
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0:47 - 0:52the experience of stigma or bigotry,
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0:52 - 0:55mostly around my dwarfism,
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0:55 - 0:56and so, you know,
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0:56 - 1:00I have lots of early memories around that
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1:00 - 1:04with children staring and laughing
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1:04 - 1:08and that sort of thing from a
very young age. -
1:10 - 1:13Then as far as, sort of
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1:13 - 1:15a more systematic discrimination
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1:15 - 1:17that sort of excluded me from something
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1:17 - 1:22that I wanted to do.
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1:22 - 1:26I had a pretty good experience as a child,
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1:26 - 1:31mostly because my parents really did a lot
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1:31 - 1:34to make sure that I was included.
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1:34 - 1:37I can remember being in boy scouts
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1:37 - 1:39and cub scouts when I was a kid
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1:39 - 1:43and my father, really doing a lot with me
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1:43 - 1:48to ensure that the inclusion
of my disability-- -
1:49 - 1:51You know going on camping trips with me
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1:51 - 1:53and sort of acting as a personal attendant
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1:53 - 1:57kind of thing to make sure that I was able
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1:57 - 1:58to go and participate,
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1:58 - 2:00and that sort of thing.
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2:01 - 2:04And so the first real experience
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2:04 - 2:06of exclusion that I can remember
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2:06 - 2:08happened when it was time
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2:08 - 2:09to go to high school.
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2:09 - 2:11I had gone to the public schools
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2:11 - 2:14in my town up until through the 8th grade
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2:14 - 2:17and then when it came to high school,
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2:17 - 2:21I was supposed to go to the same
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2:21 - 2:25private religiously sort of oriented
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2:25 - 2:28school that my older siblings went to
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2:28 - 2:30and I took the entrance exam and even got
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2:30 - 2:33a small scholarship to go and everything,
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2:33 - 2:36but it didn't have an elevator,
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2:36 - 2:40and so I used a motorized scooter
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2:40 - 2:43to get around, and it was
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2:43 - 2:44going to be impossible for me to
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2:44 - 2:48attend that school, because there was no
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2:48 - 2:50elevator. Now this was actually
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2:50 - 2:52after the passage of the ADA,
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2:53 - 2:55but because it was
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2:55 - 2:58a religiously oriented school,
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2:58 - 3:00it was exempt from the requirements
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3:00 - 3:01of the ADA.
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3:01 - 3:05And so, I didn't have any leverage with
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3:05 - 3:07that law.
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3:07 - 3:10To be able to get them
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3:10 - 3:12to make accommodations for me
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3:12 - 3:14so I ended up going to the public school
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3:14 - 3:14in my town, which actually, personally,
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3:14 - 3:19I was pretty happy about anyway,
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3:19 - 3:23because that's where all my
friends were going. -
Not SyncedBut it still sort of clued me in
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Not Syncedto the fact that...
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Not Syncednot everything is accessible,
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Not Syncednot everything is designed for me and that
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Not Syncedthis was going to be something
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Not SyncedI was gonna have to figure out
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Not Syncedthroughout my life.
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Not SyncedAs far as remembering the ADA
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Not Syncedand sort of its passage
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Not Syncedand that sort of thing,
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Not SyncedI was pretty young when it was passed,
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Not SyncedI'm sometimes referred to as part of the
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Not SyncedADA generation, which means that
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Not SyncedI sort of grew up with the ADA mostly,
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Not SyncedI was born in 1982,
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Not Syncedand so I was 8 or 9 years old when the ADA
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Not Syncedpassed, and so I don't really have
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Not Syncedany kind of recollection of, "Aha!"
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Not SyncedThat's the moment that it passed.
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Not SyncedAnd the recall of where I was at the time
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Not Syncedor anything like this,
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Not Syncedbut I do remember my father explaining
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Not Syncedit to me, around the time of my
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Not Syncedstart of high school.
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Not SyncedWhen I experienced this with that
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Not Syncedprivate catholic school, and you know
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Not Syncedhaving that sort of systematic
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Not Synceddiscrimination experience it explained
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Not Syncedthat public schools, and other kinds of
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Not Syncedpublic places were accessible to me
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Not Syncedbecause of the ADA and that there was
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Not Syncedthis law that said that things had to be
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Not Syncedaccessible to people
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Not Syncedwho use wheelchairs, and
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Not Syncedmotorized scooters like I did at the time.
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Not SyncedAnd so, that was my first sort of
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Not Syncedawareness of the ADA, as well as my first
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Not Syncedawareness of discrimination, which is
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Not Syncedkind of cool. I think?
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Not SyncedBecause it was neat to have
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Not Syncedthat experience of, "Okay, well,
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Not Syncedthis is something that's
going to be a challenge for you, -
Not Syncedand here's how you're protected,
and here's how you can do something -
Not Syncedabout it."
And so in a way, it was this sort of, -
Not Syncedmy awakening into advocacy as well.
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Not SyncedNow, as far as the difference that the
ADA has made in my life, -
Not Syncedor the life of others,
I think that it's been, of course -
Not Syncedan incredibly important law that has
opened up all sorts of opportunities -
Not Syncedto people, everything from public
transportation, to be able to move around -
Not Syncedyour community, the homestead decision
is based on ADA, which says that people -
Not Syncedneed to be--when they need any kind of
long time care, -
Not Syncedthey need to be served in the least
restrictive environment, meaning that -
Not Syncedyou can't just institutionalize or
warehouse somebody because it's more -
Not Syncedconvenient for you, you need to make sure
that they're able to live in the community -
Not Syncedor somewhere that is going to be best
for them. -
Not SyncedWhat else do the ADA do?
Just the ability to you know an education, -
Not Syncedthe ability to get a job, all of these
things, for me and for others, -
Not Syncedwere sort of caused by the ADA and I can't
really imagine what it was like -
Not Syncedprior to the ADA, honestly.
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Not SyncedI mean, I can imagine it I guess, but
I'm sure glad that I didn't have to -
Not Syncedexperience it.
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Not SyncedThe ADA makes a difference in a wide range
of personal experiences -
Not Syncedand also a wide range of sort of
disability politics issues. Right? -
Not SyncedSo, my personal experience that I think
most recently has been impacted by the ADA -
Not Syncedhas been just my ability to live an
independent life with my two kids. -
Not SyncedI think prior to the ADA, it would've
been much harder to do that. -
Not SyncedYou know raising kids means that I have to
into lots of different public spaces and -
Not Synceddo different things that I might not have
been 'required' to do, if you will, -
Not Syncedprofessionally, or just sort of
in everyday life, if I didn't have them. -
Not SyncedSo going to the zoo, or going to the
grocery store, for that last minute item -
Not Syncedor you know, just whatever it might be,
I think that, you know-- -
Not Syncedopening up the daycare centers, and so on
and so forth. -
Not SyncedThe ADA sort of opened all of that up to
me, as a wheelchair user -
Not Syncedand so, that's where it's made a big
personal impact in my life recently. -
Not SyncedNow, I think that the one thing that
I can sort of speak to, professionally, -
Not Syncedabout the ADA and its impact or
lack of impact is probably, two-fold: -
Not SyncedOne, is the ways in which my privilege
as a physically disabled-- -
Not Syncedthere's a disability hierarchy of course,
and so physical disability -
Not Syncedis usually at the top of that hierarchy,
with psychiatric disabilities -
Not Syncedand intellectual developmental
disabilities, -
Not Syncedare sort of lower down on the hierarchy.
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Not SyncedAnd so, as a physically disabled,
cisgender, heterosexual white guy, -
Not SyncedI've benefited a lot more from the ADA
than lots of other people -
Not Syncedthat don't have those kinds of privileges.
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Not SyncedI think for instance about how the ADA
is designed, really -
Not Syncedto promote what you'd think of
as equality of opportunity, -
Not Syncedmeaning that everybody has an equal
opportunity to compete within sort of the -
Not Syncedeconomic life of the United States, and
so, it allows you to enter into the -
Not Syncedworkforce and enter into the educational
system and so on and so forth -
Not Syncedthen compete.
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Not SyncedBut what it doesn't do is it doesn't
address any of the other advantages -
Not Syncedor disadvantages that intersect with
ableism. So that's sort of something -
Not Syncedthat is I think, a real problem, with
the ADA. -
Not SyncedI'm a well-educated person, I have a
master's degree and a Ph.D. -
Not Syncedand that, I don't think would've been
available to me as easily as it was -
Not Syncedif I didn't have these other privileges
that I do have, -
Not Syncedthat the ADA doesn't do anything
to address, it just sort of treats -
Not Syncedall disabled people as if they were
the same, and as if the only thing -
Not Syncedthey have to deal with is structural
ableism, and that's just not true, right? -
Not SyncedI think another thing about disability
that the ADA doesn't address -
Not Syncedis economics, in that, I think that
despite the ability to compete, -
Not Synceda lot of disabled people still live in
extreme poverty, because of other -
Not Syncedthings that make it impossible for them
to compete, -
Not Syncedother than just their disability.
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Not SyncedAnd so, the real sad part to me about that
is you look at other systems -
Not Syncedthat are designed to help disabled people
get out of poverty, -
Not Syncedand even they don't recognize the way that
privilege operates in these contexts. -
Not SyncedSo, for instance,
the vocational rehab system. -
Not SyncedI've benefited greatly from the vocational
rehab system so I don't want to just -
Not Syncedsit here and talk smack on it, right?
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Not SyncedThe vocational rehab system has helped me
get a van that I could drive, -
Not Syncedso I could get back and forth from
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Not Syncedmy place of employment, from school,
which was huge, right? -
Not SyncedBut the only reason why I had access
to that van was: -
Not SyncedA. Because I could afford the van itself,
which not a lot of disabled people can do, -
Not Syncedespecially if they aren't
working yet and -
Not SyncedB. Because the VOC rehab counselor
thought -
Not Syncedthat I was worth the investment right?
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Not SyncedSomeone who didn't have the advantages
that I had, as far as the kind of -
Not Synceddisability that I have, my family's
resources and my skin color and gender and -
Not Syncedall those things, it's very likely that
rehab counselor would've said, -
Not Synced"You cant take the bus," right?
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Not Synced"We're not going to invest all of
this money into helping -
Not Syncedyou learn how to drive."
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Not SyncedBecause they wouldn't have believed that
they would get this return on their -
Not Syncedinvestment that the person would be able
to get a well paying job, -
Not Syncedand so on and so forth,
and so, I think that that's also -
Not Synceda big issue that the ADA doesn't address,
is this kind of intersectionality -
Not Syncedthat gives some disabled people
advantages within even the system -
Not Syncedthat is designed to help them, and other
people, of course, disadvantages, which is -
Not Synceda real issue.
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Not SyncedNow, as far as my area of expertise,
Bioethics, there's definitely been some -
Not Syncedways in which the ADA has helped greatly,
and other ways -
Not Syncedin which it hasn't really done much.
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Not SyncedSo I'll start with the positivity, right?
We'll start with the good news. -
Not SyncedOne way in which I think, I can
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Not Syncedpoint to in a very concrete way in which
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Not Syncedthe ADA has helped is
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Not Syncedwhen it comes to healthcare rationing so,
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Not SyncedThe issue of healthcare in the United
States of course is a very hot button -
Not Syncedtopic and it's hot because there is sort
of perceived lack of resources-- -
Not SyncedThere's more need
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Not Syncedthan there is supply for healthcare.
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Not SyncedAnd so, when we talk about expanding
healthcare to a larger number of people, -
Not Syncedwithout also expanding the resources that
are being devoted to healthcare, -
Not Syncedthen that's gonna be a real problem,
because some people aren't going to get -
Not Syncedas much as they need, right?
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Not SyncedYou're going to have to sort of budget it,
if you will. -
Not SyncedOr in the terms of bioethics,
ration healthcare. -
Not SyncedNow this proved to be an issue because
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Not Syncedwhen it was done on smaller scale,
for instance the state of Oregon, -
Not Syncedafter the passage of the ADA--
I'm not sure exactly on the timeline, -
Not SyncedI'm not a historian--but the state of
Oregon expanded their publicly provided -
Not Syncedhealthcare to a larger number of people,
and as they did that, they needed to -
Not Syncedmake sure that they had a way of
prioritizing what was covered -
Not Syncedand what was not covered.
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Not SyncedAnd so, as they did this,
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Not Syncedit became apparent that a lot of
disabled people -
Not Syncedwere being rationed out of
the healthcare system. -
Not SyncedThat a lot of things were not being
covered for disabled folks -
Not Syncedthat should be.
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Not SyncedAnd so, there was a series of lawsuits
that were brought against -
Not Syncedthe state of Oregon, that basically
said that, "You couldn't discriminate -
Not Syncedagainst disabled people and not
provide them with healthcare, -
Not Syncedbased on their disability."
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Not SyncedThat you couldn't sort of say,
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Not Synced"Well, this person isn't going to get
very much bang for their buck, -
Not Syncedthey're not gonna end up being healthy
anyway, 'cause they're still going -
Not Syncedto be disabled, so we're not going to give
them this treatment option." -
Not SyncedRight? And so that was a big win
within bioethics -
Not Syncedthat was a direct result of the ADA.
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Not SyncedMore recently,
we've had a similar thing pop up -
Not Syncedbecause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Not SyncedSpecifically, there are what are called
"Emergency Healthcare Protocols" -
Not Syncedthat are being developed for hospital
systems and states that anticipate -
Not Syncedneeding more intensive care unit beds,
ventilators and so on and so forth, -
Not Syncedthat aren't actually available.
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Not SyncedAnd so we need some way of figuring out
who gets the ventilator, -
Not Syncedwho gets the Intensive Care Unit bed,
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Not Syncedand so on and so forth,
as the pandemic increases and goes on. -
Not SyncedAnd so there was some
protocols that were developed -
Not Syncedthat were very discriminatory
against disabled people. -
Not SyncedThere was one in Alabama specifically,
that said that anybody -
Not Syncedwith an intellectual disability
or with dementia was going to be -
Not Synceddeprioritized from getting these life-
saving resources if they got COVID-19. -
Not SyncedAnd there was one in Washington state,
that was pretty discriminatory against -
Not Synceddisabled folks that said that
if you had a disability -
Not Syncedthat meant that even after treatment
you are still going to be disabled, -
Not Syncedthat you would be deprioritized from
getting the life-saving, life support -
Not Syncedtreatment for COVID-19.
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Not SyncedSo there was a variety of these all over
the United States -
Not Syncedthat were really problematic and
that explicitly were discriminating -
Not Syncedagainst disabled people when it came to
getting treatment for COVID -
Not Syncedand so in response, there were some folks
from protection and advocacy agencies, -
Not Syncedwhich are sort of these--
Disability Rights California is one, -
Not Syncedand each state has protection and advocacy
agencies that are federally funded, -
Not Syncednon-profit law firms that protect the
rights of disabled people and so they -
Not Syncedsued these states and these hospital
systems and got the federal government to -
Not Syncedprovide guidelines for treatment ration
protocols that basically say -
Not Syncedthat you can't discriminate against
disabled people in this way. -
Not SyncedThat the only time that you can withhold
treatment for COVID-19 is if there is -
Not Syncedsort of a very clear way in which the
disability means that person would not -
Not Syncedbenefit from the treatment, that, you know
they have the kind of disability -
Not Syncedthat would make it very, very unlikely
that they would survive the virus -
Not Syncedeven with some kind of ventilator or
intensive care situation. -
Not SyncedAnd so, that's of course very different
because something like needing -
Not Syncedan assistive device like a wheelchair or
needing help dressing and bathing -
Not Syncedor having these things that would've
meant that people would be rationed out -
Not Syncedof these protocols...
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Not SyncedSo of course this is a really good thing
that these protocols were changed because -
Not Syncedthere were a lot of them that would have
rationed people out -
Not Syncedfor reasons that had nothing to do with
whether or not they would survive the -
Not Syncedthe virus with treatment, Right?
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Not SyncedSo whether you use a wheelchair,
or need a personal attendant for things -
Not Syncedlike dressing and bathing, whether or not
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Not Syncedyou have an intellectual disability
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Not SyncedThese are reasons that were being used to
deny people treatment for COVID-19 that -
Not Syncedhave nothing to do with whether or not
they would survive the disease. So, -
Not SyncedThis advocacy efforts that were based on
the American with Disabilities Act -
Not Syncedsort of made that illegal to do, which
is of course a really important thing it's -
Not Syncedliterally saved peoples lives presumably.
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Not SyncedSo that the good news as far as my field
of work and the ways of which ADA has -
Not Syncedmade an impact, but of course that isn't
the only story. -
Not SyncedThere are lots of ways in which
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Not Syncedbioethics can and has been discriminatory
towards disabled people in ways that isn't -
Not Syncedaddressed by the ADA and that can't really
be addressed by the ADA because of the way -
Not Syncedit's written and the kinds of problems
it was designed to solve. -
Not SyncedFor instance, there is a lot of
controversy over the development of -
Not Synceddifferent reproductive technologies
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Not Syncedthat are designed to
prevent the birth of disabled children. -
Not SyncedWith intellectual disabilities,
with down syndrome, -
Not Syncedwith disabilities like mine, dwarfism.
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Not Syncedwith disabilities like certain kinds of
genetically linked deafness, and so on. -
Not SyncedAnd so we have an entire industry aimed
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Not Syncedat genetic testing for these kind of
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Not Synceddisabilities and the prevention of the
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Not Syncedbirth of children
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Not Syncedwith these disabilities with
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Not Syncedselective abortion or, now,
selective implantation, -
Not Syncedwhich is when you test embryos
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Not Syncedand then pick the one that you want
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Not Syncedto give birth to.
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Not SyncedAnd then coming down the pipeline
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Not Syncedis CRISPR, which will be a technology
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Not Syncedthat doesn't select a particular embryo
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Not Syncedbut rather modifies the embryo itself.
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Not SyncedIt sort of-- what's sometimes referred to
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Not Syncedas gene editing or genetic engineering.
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Not SyncedAnd that isn't a reality yet, but
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Not Syncedscientists are certainly working toward
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Not Syncedthe use of that technology to prevent
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Not Synceddisability.
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Not SyncedNow it's something that of course makes
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Not Synceda lot of people with these disabilities
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Not Syncedvery uncomfortable because of
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Not Syncedthe message that it might send, right?
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Not SyncedIt might send the message that,
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Not Synced"People like you aren't wanted
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Not Syncedin the world." Right? Meaning "we don't
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Not Syncedneed more like you."
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Not SyncedAnd so, it is sorta of based on, largely,
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Not Syncedstigma around disability, around ideas
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Not Syncedabout quality of life with disabled people
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Not Syncedthat, "if you have a disability, you must
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Not Syncedbe miserable, and so we must do everything
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Not Syncedwe can to prevent more like you from
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Not Syncedcoming into existence," and so on and so
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Not Syncedforth.
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Not SyncedNow, this is a real problem because,
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Not Syncedof course, it comes into conflict with
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Not Syncedvalues a lot of people hold around
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Not Syncedreproductive liberty, around women being
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Not Syncedable to make choices for themselves
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Not Syncedabout their own bodies, and about their
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Not Syncedown lives, and so on and so forth.
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Not SyncedAnd so, this has created a tension between
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Not Synceddisability bioethics and other kinds of
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Not Syncedprogressive groups that are wanting to
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Not Syncedpromote freedom and justice for everybody.
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Not SyncedAnd so the ADA, you know, isn't designed
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Not Syncedto handle something like this because
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Not Syncedit's not about overt discrimination
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Not Syncedagainst people, but rather it's about
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Not Syncedattitudes about beliefs, about disability,
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Not Syncedthat drive personal decisions.
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Not SyncedAnd so it's really really hard to address
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Not Syncedthis as a policy problem because you know
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Not Syncedpeople aren't going to be very keen on
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Not Syncedrestricting the kind of decisions women
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Not Syncedand families can make about reproduction.
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Not SyncedBut at the same time, we want to promote
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Not Syncedgood beliefs, and true beliefs, and good
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Not Syncedattitudes about disability, and the ways
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Not Syncedin which it contributes to the world,
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Not Syncedin the ways in which disabilities form
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Not Synceda diversity that's important that we
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Not Synceddon't want to eliminate.
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Not SyncedAnd so that's, I think, a task for folks
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Not Syncedlike myself and bioethics that are writing
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Not Syncedabout these issues, that are trying to
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Not Syncedmake arguments that are able to walk this
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Not Syncedvery thin line between saying,
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Not Synced"Okay, you know disability is the kind of
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Not Syncedthing that is not a horrible life sentence
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Not Syncedof misery, and so we don't want to make
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Not Syncedthat assumption and we don't want to base
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Not Syncedthe technologies that we develop or the
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Not Synceddecisions that we make on that assumption.
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Not SyncedBut at the same time, we don't want to
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Not Syncedtell people what they can or can't do
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Not Syncedwith their bodies."
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Not SyncedI think that, if I were to pick one thing
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Not Syncedto change, to try to give people with
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Not Synceddisabilities more access, and to remove
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Not Syncedremove barriers to a life of flourishing
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Not Syncedand opportunity for disabled people.
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Not SyncedI think I would go back to my birth story,
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Not Syncedmy origin story if you will.
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Not SyncedWhen I was born, the doctor that delivered
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Not Syncedme looked at my body and he had never
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Not Syncedseen somebody with my kind of Dwarfism
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Not Syncedbefore, and didn't know much about it,
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Not Syncedand he told my parents,
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Not Synced"he's not gonna do much, he's not gonna be
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Not Syncedable to walk, he's not gonna be able
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Not Syncedto talk, he's not gonna be able to go to
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Not Syncedschool," and so on and so forth.
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Not Synced"You should place him in a
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Not Syncedstate institution and
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Not Syncedgo about your lives, forget about him."
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Not SyncedAnd they didn't do that, obviously.
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Not SyncedThey chose not to do that.
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Not SyncedThey took me home, they raised me
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Not Syncedlike their kid because I was their kid.
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Not SyncedAnd so I think a lot about how different
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Not Syncedmy life would be if I had been
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Not Syncedinstitutionalized from birth, as that
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Not Synceddoctor recommended.
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Not SyncedAnd then I think about how these
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Not Syncedinstitutions still exist.
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Not SyncedThat when I was-- before I entered
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Not Syncedacademia full-time, I worked as an
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Not Syncedadvocate for a protection and advocacy
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Not Syncedagency in the state of Texas, where they
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Not Syncedhave what are called,
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Not Synced"state supported living centers,"
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Not Syncedwhich are-- sort of a euphemism for
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Not Syncedstate institutions where they warehouse
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Not Syncedpeople with intellectual disabilities and
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Not Syncedpsychiatric disabilities of various kinds.
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Not SyncedBasically the kind of place that the
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Not Synceddoctor was recommending my parents
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Not Syncedto put me. They still exist, almost forty
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Not Syncedyear later. This is not okay.
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Not SyncedAnd it's not just these kind of places
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Not Syncedthat are really problematic.
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Not SyncedNursing homes, there's lots of disabled
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Not Syncedpeople in nursing homes.
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Not SyncedEven some group home systems
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Not Syncedthat are corporate, that are designed to
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Not Syncedmake money, and not to make sure that
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Not Syncedpeople living there are actually living
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Not Syncedgood lives, right?
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Not SyncedThis is a serious problem when you
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Not Syncedtake people and you put them in
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Not Synceda situation where they don't have control
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Not Syncedthe basic decisions of their life:
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Not Syncedwhat they eat for their meals, when they
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Not Syncedwake up, when they go to bed,
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Not Syncedhow they spend their time, what they wear.
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Not SyncedWhen I was working as an advocate going
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Not Syncedin to the state institutions in Texas,
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Not Syncedwas discussed about my clients eating
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Not Syncedhabits. How apart of his behavioral
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Not Syncedtry to get him to take a sip of water
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Not Syncedbetween every bite of food that he took
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Not Syncedduring meal time. I thought to myself,
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Not Synced"how absurd!" This is a grown adult
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Not Syncedperson that they are trying to micromanage
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Not Synceddown to the very last detail of his life
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Not Syncedand trying to control everything about
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Not Syncedwhat he does. That's horrific I can't
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Not Syncedimagine living under that kind of
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Not Syncedcondition. Where not even being able to
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Not Syncedeat my meals in peace without someone
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Not Syncedtelling me what to do and how to do it.
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Not SyncedRight? And so you know I think that this
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Not Syncedlack of control over basic decisions of
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Not Syncedyour life is a real problem for a large
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Not Syncednumber of disabled people still even you
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Not Syncedknow 30 years after the passage of the
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Not SyncedADA. So if there is one thing that I
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Not Syncedcould sort of wave a magic wand and change
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Not Syncedit would be that. It would be developing
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Not Syncedsystems where people are truly supported
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Not Syncedto be able to flourish as they are, but
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Not Syncednot controlled. Right? Not told what to
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Not Synceddo and when to do it every moment of their
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Not Syncedlives. Where they can make their own
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Not Synceddecisions and have agency over their own
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Not Syncedlife. I think that's what is missing for a
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Not Syncedlarge number of disabled people still even
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Not Syncedafter the ADA. And that we need to do
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Not Syncedsomething about that. I think that there
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Not Syncedis a few things that we can do.
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Not SyncedFirst, educate your self on the issues.
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Not SyncedRight? Educate your self on the issues
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Not Syncedbeyond just how they effect you. Right?
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Not SyncedI think that within the disability
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Not Syncedmovements there is sort of pockets of
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Not Synceddifferent people doing different things.
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Not SyncedAnd that's fine. But, I think we need to
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Not Syncedtalk to each other more. We need to
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Not Syncedrealize that disability issues go beyond
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Not Syncedour limited experience. Right? So we need
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Not Syncedto be aware of the ways in which
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Not Synceddisability disadvantages people
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Not Synceddifferently. That the experience of
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Not Synceddisability is not an experience it's many
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Not Syncedexperiences. And so, we need to listen to
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Not Syncedeach other and hear from each other about
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Not Syncedthe ways in which we are suffering and
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Not Syncedhurting. Because, of disability
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Not Synceddiscrimination because it looks very
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Not Synceddifferent between different people. And so
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Not Syncedhaving a richer fuller understanding
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Not Syncedof the problem I think is the first step.
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Not SyncedThen beyond that sort of talking to people
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Not Syncedabout strategies they have and learn from
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Not Syncedeach other about you know maybe some
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Not Syncedstrategy that works for you know the deaf
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Not Syncedcommunity would work really well for the
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Not Synceddwarf community and maybe haven't talked
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Not Syncedto each other very well about different
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Not Syncedpolitical strategies to try to get where
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Not Syncedwe need in order to live well. And maybe
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Not Syncedwe should. Right? So, educate ourselves
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Not Syncedabout the struggle of others you know
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Not Syncedbecause it's important to know and then
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Not Syncedshare information and share strategies on
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Not Syncedhow to effectively advocate and come
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Not Syncedtogether and fight together. Right? If you
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Not Syncedshow up for someone on issue A that they
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Not Syncedare having then their more likely to show
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Not Syncedup for you on issue B that your having.
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Not SyncedAnd, so building solidary across the
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Not Syncedmovement more effectively recognizing
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Not Syncedthe ways in which other oppressions
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Not Syncedintersect with disability and change the
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Not Syncednature of disability oppression. These
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Not SyncedJust basically raising your awareness
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