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When you can see someone that has the same jersey that you have on, you know, you root for that team. From the early days of silent films to present day.

From Chaplin to X-Men, disability portrayals are ever-changing.

There's virtually no people with disabilities present, you know, in the kind of fabric of the entertainment world.

And that wallpaper is really our collective social wallpaper, right? It's how we

see ourselves. If society got its ideas about people with disabilities from TV, they would think

that basically we're either pathetic or super people. There's no denying that people aren't influenced

by what they see in media. Images are so impactful that we can overcome social barriers through media.

I've worked so hard to do all these mainstream projects so that I wouldn't be pigeonholed.

I said, here I am, getting in this accident, now I'm black all over again.

There we go, got to starve from scratch, because everybody's going to look down on us and

here I go grinding again.

To be able to have those instances where you have somebody on screen who is, quote, disabled,

but who is in charge of their life or discovering their life or in control or, you know, actually learns how to deal with life is an image that I hope we have more of now than we ever had before.

Did you hear what I say at Forest? You're the same as everybody else. You are no different.

I think God made me the way I am for a reason.

Different, not less.

I may speak differently, but it doesn't mean I'm different than you.

I want to show you I could do.

Roll camera, please.

I think we want to get to this point in the world where it's what you do that counts.

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