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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-19  |  7.2 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  1 minute, 27 seconds
Transcription: Well, I don't know. I have more in common with other disabled people, people who are deaf and blind or things like that than I have with deaf people. There's really not a fit. I haven't found anybody that I'm really comfortable comfortable with. I prefer the term disabled rather than handicapped. That word takes on the idea of someone with cap in hand begging on the street. And I also prefer for interpreters to use the letters D-A when signing that concept. It's not really a barrier. We're very capable. And I don't want interpreters to reflect that. you