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

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and associate Director of the Institute in Public Affairs

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at San Diego State University

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I specialized in philosophy of disability and
bioethics.

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

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So you get two for the price of one with me

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

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

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or bigotry, mostly around my dwarfism

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and so, you know I have lots of early memories

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

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from a very young age.

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

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that I wanted to do,

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I had a pretty good experience as a child,

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

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

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and my father, really doing a lot with me

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to ensure that the inculsion of my disability