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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi,my name is Joseph Scamardo and I am an \Nassistant professor of philosophy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and associate Director of the Institute in Public Affairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at San Diego State University
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I specialized in philosophy of disability and\Nbioethics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also identify as disabled, I have a spinal cord injury as well as a rare kind of dwarfism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you get two for the price of one with me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, my first memory of discrimination was, well, it's hard to say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have lots of memories as far as the experience of stigma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or bigotry, mostly around my dwarfism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, you know I have lots of early memories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around that with children staring and laughing and that sort of thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a very young age.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then as far as sort of a more systematic discrimination that sort of excluded me from something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a pretty good experience as a child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly because my parents really did a lot to make sure that I was included
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember being in boy scouts and cub scouts when I was a kid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my father, really doing a lot with me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ensure that the inculsion of my disability