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Transcript: Mai Thor – Knocking Down Insecurities

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[Photo: Mai Thor]

Mai Thor: People have the idea that people with disabilities don’t know how to be a parent. Can they be parents? Are they able to find a partner that would even want to start a family with them? Right?

[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.

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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. I have polio. I think anybody with a disability is going to tell you that they’re going to be self-conscious about something. I was always sort of thinking, “Am I good enough? Do I do this as good as my able-bodied counterparts?”

But when I had my kids, I couldn’t be self-conscious anymore. You know, I couldn’t hold back. If my kids wanted to go to a water park, I took them. And I think it’s been a real learning experience, you know, being a parent, trying to really just tackle some of those issues that I have as a woman with a disability.

You know, I told myself, “My insecurities about my disability are not going to hold me back from being a good mom to my kids.”

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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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