>> [Background Music] As successful as I've been,
you know, fortunate to be, it comes with a struggle
because there are those extra things that a person
who doesn't have a disability simply doesn't have
to factor in or to worry about.
>> When I'm doing a lot of housework and doing laundry,
you know, like cleaning the whole countertop,
whatever I can reach, takes me forever.
And I could hire somebody to do it but I want to do it myself.
Because then I know it's done right.
>> Don't throw up additional barriers.
There are enough things that make it difficult to get
to something for leisure that I would hope
when I got there I could access it.
>> When we were looking for a place to live we had
to be really mindful of, well, we need to have a place
that would be or could be made physically accessible.
But at the same time, for me, who uses a para transit system
that requires that someone live within a certain radius
of a transit route of some type so, you know,
we had to be really mindful of that sort of issue.
>> I think people with disabilities, because we've had
so many years of stigma in society, we feel like we have
to be the super employee at work and we have to do above
and beyond and when we're parents we have
to be the super mom or the super dad and we have to, like,
get involved in every little activity at school
and every little thing.
We don't have to be super; we just have to do it.