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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 inclusion of my disability--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know going on camping trips with me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sort of acting as a personal attendant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kinda thing to make sure that I was able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go and participate,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that sort of thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the first real experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of exclusion that I can remember
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happened when it was time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to high school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had gone to the public schools in my town
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my town up until the 8th grade
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when it came to high school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was supposed to go to the same
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,private religiously oriented school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my older siblings went to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I took the entrance exam and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even got a small scholarship to go and everything,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it didn't have an elevator,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I used a motorized scooter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get around, and it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to be impossible for me to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attend that school, because there was no
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elevator. Now this was actually
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the passage of the ADA,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a religiously oriented school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was exempt from the requirements
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the ADA.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I didn't have any leverage with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able to get them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make accommodations for me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I ended up going to the public school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my town, which actually, personally,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was pretty happy about anyway,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's where all my friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were going.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it still sort of clued me into the fact that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not everything is accessible,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not everything is designed for me and that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was going to be something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was gonna have to figure out throughout
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remembering the ADA and its ()
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that sort of thing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was pretty young when it was passed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sometimes referred to as part of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ADA generation, which means that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up with the ADA mostly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in 1982,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I was 8 or 9 years old when the ADA
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I didn't really have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any kind of recollection of, "Aha!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's--Of the moment that it passed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the recall of where I was at the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anything like this,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I do remember my father explaining
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it to me, around the time of my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,start of high school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I experienced this with that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,private catholic school, and having that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of systematic discrimination experience.