1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and smitha I'm a few stuff 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: I'll Never told you production of iHeartRadio And for today's 3 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: Monday Mini, we are going to time stamp it. It 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: is July sixteenth, twenty twenty five as we record this, 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: and it's coming out like a week later, so so. 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: Many things can happen in a week, as we all know. 7 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: And we are getting to the end of Disability Pride Months, 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: so I thought we would just run through some issues 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: that are happening right now, but all of them deserve 10 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: more attention and full episode, So this is just a 11 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: bare basics rundown. But yeah, so the theme of this 12 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: Disability Pride Month was we belong here and we're here 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: to stay. And yeah, there's just a lot of, unfortunately 14 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: concerning things that we need to talk about right now, 15 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: including things like cuts to Medicaid and Social Security, which 16 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: we've mentioned in recent episodes, especially when we're talking about 17 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: marriage equality within the disability community and social security. 18 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: It's a whole thorny issue. 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: But essentially, as of April twenty twenty five, about eleven 20 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: million people with disabilities were on Social Security, but with rollbacks, 21 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: a lot of people are losing it. There it's always had. 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: There have been issues of long wait times and delays, 23 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: and it's just getting worse. I mean, doesn't help that 24 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people, all of the staff is getting cut, 25 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: so that's making things, that's exacerbating things. And then this 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: is not unique to the disability community at all, but 27 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,919 Speaker 1: there has been a a really marked increase in scams, 28 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: social Security scams, Medicaid scams, and when that happens, it 29 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: can be devastating. You can really lose so much money. 30 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: So that's something that we've got to look out for. 31 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: Also when it comes to disability and education. The dismantling, 32 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: the proposed dismantling of the Department of Education could undo 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: a lot of the strides we've made when it comes 34 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: to disability and education. Here's a quote from an off 35 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: ed by Katie Niece in nineteen seventy one. Before federal 36 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: protections for people with disabilities existed, states are free to 37 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: exclude children with disabilities from their public schools, and many did. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: Millions of children were denied in education, not because they 39 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: couldn't learn, but because our society didn't believe they were 40 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: worth educating. That changed because of federal parents, led by 41 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: my organization the ARC fall and court and won. Their 42 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: victory laid the foundation for the Individuals with Disabilities Education 43 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: Act IDEA, securing the right to a free, appropriate public 44 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: education for students with disabilities, regardless of the nature or 45 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: severity of their disability. 46 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: And yeah, we. 47 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: Could come back and talk about that too, because that 48 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: hasn't always been smooth sailing, but it was like a 49 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: huge step and now they're talking about rolling it back. Oh, 50 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: speaking about rolling things back, the return of the R word, 51 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: which several people after Trump was elected again, several high 52 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: profile people made statements about I can say this again, 53 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: so thanks trash administration. And also why why was that 54 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: your statement that you're read? 55 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 3: Why are you excited about this phrase? Like, there's no reason, 56 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 3: There's no reason, and it's so there's been a whole 57 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 3: conversation about like words. People did not realize it was offensive. 58 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 3: And we've talked about these before, but including this one. 59 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: And then the slur for a Chinese person or an 60 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: Asian descent was a big topic because of a contestant 61 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: on Love Island. 62 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: I've never watched this show, not gonna lie, I. 63 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: Have no interest. But TikTok keeps thinking this is my thing, 64 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 3: so they keep showing me clips. But obviously, when it 65 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: comes to like slurs and the Asian descent, that is 66 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 3: something that I am interested in in wondering, and so 67 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: many people talking about how it's not that big of 68 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 3: a deal. A lot of people say they never knew 69 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 3: that this was a slur, and I'm like, how how 70 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 3: because people from my area La j Georgia, which knew 71 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 3: for Asian people the entirety and that included the like 72 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: Chinese restaurant, knew that that was a slur. Knew and 73 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 3: then because they would say to me as a slur, 74 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 3: like they would call me that as a slur to 75 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: make fun of me or be mean to me, So 76 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: they obviously knew this was a slur. So I'm very 77 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: very confused by the people who are telling me that 78 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 3: they didn't understand that. But the level of like need 79 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: to say these words is an odd, odd thing to me, 80 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna lie. As a kid, I also 81 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 3: said the R word, not realizing how offensive was. I 82 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 3: did things that were I did not realize what they 83 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 3: were equated to as a child, But the minute someone 84 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,239 Speaker 3: corrected me, I was like, oh whoa, okay, got you yeah, 85 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,119 Speaker 3: and like it hurts my heart to hear this and again, 86 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: so in my mind, the R word is even worse, 87 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: Like if there's a level and I know there's not, 88 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 3: but there's a scale of like more offensive. This is 89 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 3: the more offensive in this as an Asian person for 90 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: me to say that, so to think of like I've 91 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 3: been waiting for so long to say this word. 92 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: What, Yeah, you're putting down. 93 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: People with this ability to have nothing to do with you. 94 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 2: Yep, you know what I mean that it. 95 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 3: Just does not compute as the need to say it. 96 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. 97 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: And to go back to your point, they know it's 98 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: wrong because it was largely replaced in twenty ten and 99 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: federal documentation, which is still pretty late, but it was 100 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: replaced because we all recognized, yeah, we shouldn't do this. 101 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 3: Right, Like it has grown into oh, there's more better 102 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 3: ways to put this. There's an actuality of conversation. 103 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 2: Oh. 104 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: The community that this word degrees is saying, I don't 105 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 3: like this, please stuff this. We should listen. 106 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: We should. 107 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: Not that any of the people were talking about would ever, 108 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: but you should. If you haven't heard our recent book 109 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: club demystifying disability, the author doesn't a great job of 110 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: breaking down terminology and like, don't say this one. 111 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean her book is really I've thought about 112 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 3: it obviously. Like I said, we've talked about this before, 113 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 3: I've used I've stopped using that in my vocabulary for years, 114 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 3: like twenty years, because everybody was like. 115 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: This is bad. 116 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: I was like, okay, noted, and but like just thinking 117 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 3: about my past where it was I thought acceptable, where 118 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: it did not equate to this in my mind, I 119 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 3: was like, oh, I can see, but I see why 120 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 3: in the same way. And we're talking about when we 121 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 3: say the words dumb or stupid or low functioning, like 122 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 3: low functioning and high functioning is newer to me because 123 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 3: I was in that field for so long, the mental 124 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 3: health field when it comes to juveniles, that those words 125 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 3: were technically correct at the time that I was working there. 126 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 3: Seeing where it is now, I have to reevaluate, and 127 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,239 Speaker 3: even though I'm not in that industry anymore, I'm like, Okay, 128 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 3: I have now heard this is not the preferred term. 129 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 2: Got you. 130 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 3: I guess moving on learning new things, that's just that's 131 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 3: that's all. We should all be learning every day anyway. 132 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: Yes we should, But instead we're a lot of people 133 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: in this administration especially are rolling as back to trying 134 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: to roll us back. 135 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 3: I don't understand. There's plenty of options. Of other words, 136 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: there's so many great creative options, Yes. 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 2: There are, there are. And also just again why why? 138 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 3: All right, that's the same thing when I think about 139 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 3: racist quips and I'm like, there's so many other things 140 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: I could be said. That's even better or sexist, you. 141 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 2: Know, ye, be creative, just be better, Just be better, 142 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: you know. 143 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 3: Sad still one of my favorites. 144 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. But 145 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 2: going back to. 146 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: The theme, we are seeing these unfortunate things, but as 147 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: we said, we say in so many episodes, there are 148 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: amazing organizations fighting, and the slogan of the month thing 149 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: we belong here and we're. 150 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: Here to stay, is absolutely true. 151 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: As we discussed in that book club, So the disability 152 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: community is the largest marginalized community in the world, and 153 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: sort of what you were speaking to Samantha there. I 154 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: did find some tips. We discussed a lot of them 155 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: in our book club about staying informed, essentially keeping yourself educated, 156 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: and actually talking to disabled people in a respectful way. 157 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: If you don't have someone in your life. As mentioned, 158 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people, they might have a disability that 159 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: you can't see or you might just not know about, 160 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: and that's they don't have to disclose that to you. 161 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: But being having those open, respectful conversations and being genuine 162 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: about your effort to learn more about disability all year round, 163 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: just like everything we talked about, and getting that from 164 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: good sources, supporting people who are actually working and making 165 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: these differences and listening to them. 166 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 2: So yeah, happy disability. 167 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: Pride, Happy disability pride. 168 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,079 Speaker 1: Yes, And please write in let us know if you 169 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: have any requests for anything in here that we should 170 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: really really come back and talk about, or if you 171 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: have any advice or tips you'd like to share. 172 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 2: And during this time you. 173 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: Can email us at Hello at stuff Onnever Told You 174 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: dot com. 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