It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Disability

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Disability is far more common and far more diverse than we might realize. But often, people are reluctant to reveal their disabilities, and managers don’t know how to address them. In this episode, Adam investigates some extraordinary steps workplaces are taking to support people with disabilities– and those without. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/WL47

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Chris Duffy, host of How to Be a Better Human, another TED podcast.
0:04.0	Most of us want to be better, but we're not quite sure where to begin, and our show is here to help.
0:08.1	On our podcast, you'll hear from guests and TED speakers who might just make you a better human,
0:12.7	from standing up for what you believe in to challenging conventional wisdom, embracing rejection,
0:17.0	or finding gratitude every day, our show is your guide to becoming a little less terrible.
0:21.8	Not that you're terrible right now, I think you're great, but on something me become a little less
0:25.4	terrible and maybe you'll pick up something along the way. You can find How to Be a Better Human
0:29.6	wherever you're listening to this. I was hiking and I fell in the north east corner of Australia.
0:37.5	We were crossing like a small river or creek, so I basically went from my feet to my head,
0:43.6	almost cartoon like whoop, and then I rolled down. Jill Griffin was 31 when she got injured on
0:49.5	vacation. This gentleman just said, can someone get her medical attention? And I was like,
0:54.2	who needs medical attention? I'm not realizing that I looked that bad. You know, I was pretty
1:00.0	banged out, little bloody. She returned to her ad agency job, assuming she was fine. She just
1:04.9	felt a little hazy, but she quickly discovered she was not the same Jill as before.
1:10.7	I can hear my eyeballs move. I can hear my cheek muscles move. I slept sitting up because I couldn't
1:16.1	lay down. I nestled myself in the corner of my couch and just kind of built a cocoon so that I
1:21.7	wouldn't move my head. How did it affect your work? There were times where I would have to grab the
1:26.5	desk in order to stand up so that I wouldn't fall over. Loud noises, bright lights. There's a
1:32.0	flickering light that's going to put me into a seat. Sure. What is the face that would do me in?
1:38.6	Would be that dang Windows 97 screensaber bouncing around at the quarter of your eye. You're like,
1:44.5	I just have to be able to stand up and get out of here without falling over.
1:47.8	It took 11 years before Jill was diagnosed with a vestibular balanced disorder.
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