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Transcript: Mai Thor – It’s All Part Of The Human Condition

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[Logo: Ampers, with tagline: Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities.]

[Photo: Mai Thor]

Mai Thor: Any condition that our body can physically experience is a part of the human condition. For many people, that’s just hard to understand.

[Logo: Ampers, with taglines: Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities, and Keep Moving Forward.]

Host: This is Keep Moving Forward.

[Photo: President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Photo courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library.]

George H.W. Bush: Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

[Logos: ADA 25: Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990-2015, and Disability Rights Are Civil Rights. Logos courtesy of the ADA National Network, www.adata.org.]

Host: Exploring the legacy and promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

[Photos: Mai Thor and her family]

Mai Thor: My name is Mai Thor, and I acquired polio when I was five. When I see a person with a disability, I don’t automatically think: oh, I wonder what happened that person? It just doesn’t occur to me to think that way. And I’m not saying that it’s wrong for people to be curious, I’m just saying I don’t equate every person that I meet with their physical-ness.

If you define my value on the way that I look and the way I get around, you’re not seeing anything past your own nose.

And I wish people would recognize that more; that it’s not just about how we look on the outside, it’s really about who we truly are as people. Because once we get beyond that, then everything’s easy.

[Logos: the Minnesota Council on Disability, the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, and the Ampers radio station.]

Host: Keep Moving Forward is supported by the Minnesota Council on Disability, the Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, online at Ampers.org.

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