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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have physical health problems; I have mental health problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.68,0:00:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have complex PTSD from medical trauma.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.64,0:00:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is super traumatic to go through the medical system undiagnosed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.24,0:00:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also traumatic to go through it as a queer person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.68,0:00:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a trans, non-binary person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.76,0:00:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am also queer in my sexuality as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.84,0:00:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And going through the medical system that way was difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.92,0:00:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of those experiences, or however it happens on the brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.24,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also have anxiety and depression.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.96,0:00:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this quarantine is really really affecting my mental health.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.84,0:01:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like I reverted in my mental health, like, I took three years back in steps
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.72,0:01:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my mental health progress within the month.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.96,0:01:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the quarantine happened, our services for disabled people in their homes were cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.24,0:01:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I don't have any way to do laundry. I am walking pretty well right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.52,0:01:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is nice, but in a few hours, I will need my walker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.08,0:01:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a few more hours, I will only be able to use my wheelchair.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.04,0:01:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that, that increases the stress, the anxiety and decreases the self-worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.28,0:01:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look over and you see a giant pile of laundry that you can't do yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.72,0:01:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Canada has decided to give people who are laid off 2000 Dollars a month
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.20,0:01:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And is not changing anything about the disability system
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.76,0:01:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except giving us a one time emergency fund of 100 Dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.76,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's going to go real real far.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.04,0:02:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes me feel so devalued in my society.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.56,0:02:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our triage protocols are that if you have a chronic illness or an intellectual disability,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.84,0:02:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are considered lower on the list for a ventilator.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.92,0:02:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Literally causing eugenics.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.88,0:02:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that has really impacted my mental health.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.88,0:02:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing that if I do get this, I won't get the ventilator.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.40,0:02:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medical health complex is ableist, racist, and anti-indigenous itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.64,0:02:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is literally telling me that it is more advantageous for them that I should die,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.56,0:02:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because I have a disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.84,0:02:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that we are systematically devalued.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.96,0:03:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That our life is considered less than yours
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.20,0:03:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way the system is built, in the way the system is practiced,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.16,0:03:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the way, many people treat us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.12,0:03:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even in the way that you may subconsciously be treating the people in your life around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.04,0:03:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And right now, we are particularly sensitive to those things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.36,0:03:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you are talking to a disabled person right now and you say something that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.08,0:03:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually doesn't get you a little quip back but you are getting a quip back from us on that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.56,0:03:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you said something that wasn't okay, we are going to be quicker to correct you right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.04,0:03:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are under attack.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.92,0:03:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is not an attack on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.72,0:03:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an attack on the way that we as a society talk, interact and include disabled people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.92,0:04:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if by doing that we have to attack language, it may seem like we are attacking a person,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.16,0:04:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but impact and intent are different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.88,0:04:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you have caused an impact that was not your intent,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.60,0:04:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hear what the person is actually saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.96,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear that your intent was genuine and wonderful but that your impact was different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Change the behavior and go on. And if we can all continue to choose to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.16,0:04:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and choose to do that in a loving way, and in a way where we forgive each other for
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.52,0:04:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we get too fiery, or when we do something that is truly wrong,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.88,0:04:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like put in a freaking triage plan that says that we don't get a ventilator,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.28,0:04:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can just say that we are sorry and fix it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.84,0:04:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I'd like abled-bodied people to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.56,0:04:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can just say sorry and fix it.