Emily Ladau: ...that my disability does not make me any less worthy as a human being

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Many of us are fearful, confused and unsure of what to say and how to act around someone with a disability. On this episode, we’ll “demystify disabilities” with our guest, well-known disability rights activist, blogger and speaker Emily Ladau. She is passionate about getting nondisabled people to stop treating disabled people as a weird cross between precious gems and alien creatures. She’s the author of the book, "DEMYSTIFYING DISABILITY: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally". Her website is https://emilyladau.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.0	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	You may not realize it, but more than one billion people around the world are disabled.
0:22.1	Yet there are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be disabled. Many of us are fearful, confused, and unsure about
0:27.7	what to say and how to act around someone with a disability. On this episode, we'll demystify
0:33.2	disabilities with our guest, well-known disability rights activist, blogger, and speaker, Emily LaDow.
0:40.0	Emily's work has been featured by the New York Times, CNN, and U.S. News and World Report, to name
0:45.8	just a few. She is, in her words, getting non-disabled people to stop treating disabled people
0:52.0	as a weird cross between precious gems and alien creatures.
0:56.9	She is the author of a new book called Demystifying Disability, What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an
1:03.6	Ally.
1:04.5	Emily, we thank you so much for joining us.
1:06.9	Thanks for having me.
1:08.0	I am so excited to talk with both of you.
1:10.4	Well, we feel the same, and we what if you can tell us about your story and why it is that you're so dedicated to demystifying disability?
1:19.5	Absolutely. So I have a physical disability called Larson Syndrome. It's a genetic joint and muscle disorder and I was born with it.
1:29.8	My mother and my uncle, her younger brother, also have the same disability.
1:34.8	And you might think, oh, that's such a tragedy.
1:38.0	But for me, it's just a part of my life and part of what makes me who I am.
1:43.0	And because I have this part of my identity,
1:46.4	I am, as you mentioned, incredibly passionate about educating people, about the disability experience
1:53.2	and letting everybody know that it's part of what makes humanity so beautiful and diverse.
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