Hi,my name is Joseph Scamardo and I am an 
assistant professor of philosophy

and associate Director of the Institute in Public Affairs

at San Diego State University

I specialized in philosophy of disability and
bioethics.

I also identify as disabled, I have a spinal cord injury as well as a rare kind of dwarfism

So you get two for the price of one with me

So, my first memory of discrimination was, well, it's hard to say.

I have lots of memories as far as the experience of stigma

or bigotry, mostly around my dwarfism

and so, you know I have lots of early memories

around that with children staring and laughing and that sort of thing

from a very young age.

Then as far as sort of a more systematic discrimination that sort of excluded me from something

that I wanted to do,

I had a pretty good experience as a child,

mostly because my parents really did a lot to make sure that I was included

I can remember being in boy scouts and cub scouts when I was a kid

and my father, really doing a lot with me

to ensure that the inculsion of my disability