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>> [Background Music] As
successful as I've been,

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you know, fortunate to be,
it comes with a struggle

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because there are those
extra things that a person

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who doesn't have a
disability simply doesn't have

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to factor in or to worry about.

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>> When I'm doing a lot of
housework and doing laundry,

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you know, like cleaning
the whole countertop,

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whatever I can reach,
takes me forever.

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And I could hire somebody to do
it but I want to do it myself.

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Because then I know
it's done right.

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>> Don't throw up
additional barriers.

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There are enough things that
make it difficult to get

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to something for
leisure that I would hope

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when I got there
I could access it.

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>> When we were looking
for a place to live we had

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to be really mindful of,
well, we need to have a place

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that would be or could be
made physically accessible.

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But at the same time, for me,
who uses a para transit system

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that requires that someone
live within a certain radius

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of a transit route of
some type so, you know,

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we had to be really mindful
of that sort of issue.

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>> I think people with
disabilities, because we've had

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so many years of stigma in
society, we feel like we have

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to be the super employee at
work and we have to do above

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and beyond and when
we're parents we have

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to be the super mom or the
super dad and we have to, like,

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get involved in every
little activity at school

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and every little thing.

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We don't have to be super;
we just have to do it.