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Monday Mini: Disability Pride 2025 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and smitha I'm a few stuff
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  Speaker 1: I'll Never told you production of iHeartRadio And for today's
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  Speaker 1: Monday Mini, we are going to time stamp it. It
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  Speaker 1: is July sixteenth, twenty twenty five as we record this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's coming out like a week later, so so.
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  Speaker 2: Many things can happen in a week, as we all know.
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  Speaker 1: And we are getting to the end of Disability Pride Months,
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  Speaker 1: so I thought we would just run through some issues
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  Speaker 1: that are happening right now, but all of them deserve
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  Speaker 1: more attention and full episode, So this is just a
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  Speaker 1: bare basics rundown. But yeah, so the theme of this
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  Speaker 1: Disability Pride Month was we belong here and we're here
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  Speaker 1: to stay. And yeah, there's just a lot of, unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: concerning things that we need to talk about right now,
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  Speaker 1: including things like cuts to Medicaid and Social Security, which
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  Speaker 1: we've mentioned in recent episodes, especially when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: marriage equality within the disability community and social security.
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole thorny issue.
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  Speaker 1: But essentially, as of April twenty twenty five, about eleven
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  Speaker 1: million people with disabilities were on Social Security, but with rollbacks,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are losing it. There it's always had.
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  Speaker 1: There have been issues of long wait times and delays,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just getting worse. I mean, doesn't help that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, all of the staff is getting cut,
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  Speaker 1: so that's making things, that's exacerbating things. And then this
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  Speaker 1: is not unique to the disability community at all, but
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  Speaker 1: there has been a a really marked increase in scams,
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  Speaker 1: social Security scams, Medicaid scams, and when that happens, it
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  Speaker 1: can be devastating. You can really lose so much money.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something that we've got to look out for.
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  Speaker 1: Also when it comes to disability and education. The dismantling,
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  Speaker 1: the proposed dismantling of the Department of Education could undo
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the strides we've made when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to disability and education. Here's a quote from an off
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  Speaker 1: ed by Katie Niece in nineteen seventy one. Before federal
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  Speaker 1: protections for people with disabilities existed, states are free to
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  Speaker 1: exclude children with disabilities from their public schools, and many did.
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  Speaker 1: Millions of children were denied in education, not because they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't learn, but because our society didn't believe they were
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  Speaker 1: worth educating. That changed because of federal parents, led by
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  Speaker 1: my organization the ARC fall and court and won. Their
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  Speaker 1: victory laid the foundation for the Individuals with Disabilities Education
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  Speaker 1: Act IDEA, securing the right to a free, appropriate public
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  Speaker 1: education for students with disabilities, regardless of the nature or
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  Speaker 1: severity of their disability.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we.
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  Speaker 1: Could come back and talk about that too, because that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't always been smooth sailing, but it was like a
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  Speaker 1: huge step and now they're talking about rolling it back. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: speaking about rolling things back, the return of the R word,
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  Speaker 1: which several people after Trump was elected again, several high
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  Speaker 1: profile people made statements about I can say this again,
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  Speaker 1: so thanks trash administration. And also why why was that
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  Speaker 1: your statement that you're read?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you excited about this phrase? Like, there's no reason,
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  Speaker 3: There's no reason, and it's so there's been a whole
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  Speaker 3: conversation about like words. People did not realize it was offensive.
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  Speaker 3: And we've talked about these before, but including this one.
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  Speaker 3: And then the slur for a Chinese person or an
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  Speaker 3: Asian descent was a big topic because of a contestant
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  Speaker 3: on Love Island.
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  Speaker 2: I've never watched this show, not gonna lie, I.
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  Speaker 3: Have no interest. But TikTok keeps thinking this is my thing,
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  Speaker 3: so they keep showing me clips. But obviously, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to like slurs and the Asian descent, that is
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  Speaker 3: something that I am interested in in wondering, and so
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  Speaker 3: many people talking about how it's not that big of
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  Speaker 3: a deal. A lot of people say they never knew
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  Speaker 3: that this was a slur, and I'm like, how how
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  Speaker 3: because people from my area La j Georgia, which knew
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  Speaker 3: for Asian people the entirety and that included the like
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  Speaker 3: Chinese restaurant, knew that that was a slur. Knew and
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  Speaker 3: then because they would say to me as a slur,
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  Speaker 3: like they would call me that as a slur to
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  Speaker 3: make fun of me or be mean to me, So
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  Speaker 3: they obviously knew this was a slur. So I'm very
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  Speaker 3: very confused by the people who are telling me that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't understand that. But the level of like need
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  Speaker 3: to say these words is an odd, odd thing to me,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna lie. As a kid, I also
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  Speaker 3: said the R word, not realizing how offensive was. I
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  Speaker 3: did things that were I did not realize what they
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  Speaker 3: were equated to as a child, But the minute someone
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  Speaker 3: corrected me, I was like, oh whoa, okay, got you yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and like it hurts my heart to hear this and again,
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  Speaker 3: so in my mind, the R word is even worse,
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  Speaker 3: Like if there's a level and I know there's not,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a scale of like more offensive. This is
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  Speaker 3: the more offensive in this as an Asian person for
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  Speaker 3: me to say that, so to think of like I've
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  Speaker 3: been waiting for so long to say this word.
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  Speaker 2: What, Yeah, you're putting down.
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  Speaker 3: People with this ability to have nothing to do with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, you know what I mean that it.
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  Speaker 3: Just does not compute as the need to say it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: And to go back to your point, they know it's
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  Speaker 1: wrong because it was largely replaced in twenty ten and
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  Speaker 1: federal documentation, which is still pretty late, but it was
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  Speaker 1: replaced because we all recognized, yeah, we shouldn't do this.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Like it has grown into oh, there's more better
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  Speaker 3: ways to put this. There's an actuality of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: The community that this word degrees is saying, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like this, please stuff this. We should listen.
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  Speaker 2: We should.
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  Speaker 1: Not that any of the people were talking about would ever,
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  Speaker 1: but you should. If you haven't heard our recent book
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  Speaker 1: club demystifying disability, the author doesn't a great job of
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  Speaker 1: breaking down terminology and like, don't say this one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean her book is really I've thought about
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  Speaker 3: it obviously. Like I said, we've talked about this before,
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  Speaker 3: I've used I've stopped using that in my vocabulary for years,
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  Speaker 3: like twenty years, because everybody was like.
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  Speaker 2: This is bad.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, noted, and but like just thinking
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  Speaker 3: about my past where it was I thought acceptable, where
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  Speaker 3: it did not equate to this in my mind, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, I can see, but I see why
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  Speaker 3: in the same way. And we're talking about when we
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  Speaker 3: say the words dumb or stupid or low functioning, like
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  Speaker 3: low functioning and high functioning is newer to me because
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  Speaker 3: I was in that field for so long, the mental
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  Speaker 3: health field when it comes to juveniles, that those words
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  Speaker 3: were technically correct at the time that I was working there.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing where it is now, I have to reevaluate, and
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  Speaker 3: even though I'm not in that industry anymore, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I have now heard this is not the preferred term.
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  Speaker 2: Got you.
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  Speaker 3: I guess moving on learning new things, that's just that's
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  Speaker 3: that's all. We should all be learning every day anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yes we should, But instead we're a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in this administration especially are rolling as back to trying
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  Speaker 1: to roll us back.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand. There's plenty of options. Of other words,
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  Speaker 3: there's so many great creative options, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There are, there are. And also just again why why?
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's the same thing when I think about
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  Speaker 3: racist quips and I'm like, there's so many other things
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  Speaker 3: I could be said. That's even better or sexist, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, ye, be creative, just be better, Just be better,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Sad still one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. But
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  Speaker 2: going back to.
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  Speaker 1: The theme, we are seeing these unfortunate things, but as
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  Speaker 1: we said, we say in so many episodes, there are
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  Speaker 1: amazing organizations fighting, and the slogan of the month thing
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  Speaker 1: we belong here and we're.
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  Speaker 2: Here to stay, is absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: As we discussed in that book club, So the disability
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  Speaker 1: community is the largest marginalized community in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: sort of what you were speaking to Samantha there. I
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  Speaker 1: did find some tips. We discussed a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: in our book club about staying informed, essentially keeping yourself educated,
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  Speaker 1: and actually talking to disabled people in a respectful way.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have someone in your life. As mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, they might have a disability that
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  Speaker 1: you can't see or you might just not know about,
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  Speaker 1: and that's they don't have to disclose that to you.
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  Speaker 1: But being having those open, respectful conversations and being genuine
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  Speaker 1: about your effort to learn more about disability all year round,
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  Speaker 1: just like everything we talked about, and getting that from
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  Speaker 1: good sources, supporting people who are actually working and making
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  Speaker 1: these differences and listening to them.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, happy disability.
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  Speaker 3: Pride, Happy disability pride.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And please write in let us know if you
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  Speaker 1: really really come back and talk about, or if you
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