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Years ago discrimination against people with disabilities often started right at birth.

多年前，对残疾人的歧视往往始于出生。

When I was born, a doctor came in to my mom and explained to her my diagnosis in this way, your son is a midget like you see in the circus.

当我出生时，一位医生走进来对我妈妈这样解释我的诊断结果：你的儿子就像你在马戏团里看到的那种侏儒。

So in that one sentence, that he said to my mother he's basically laid out my entire future.

在他对我母亲说的那句话里，他基本上已经规划好了我的整个未来。

Okay, just in one second, Lydia. Boss is busy firing me because I make him uncomfortable,

好吧，就在一会儿，莉迪亚。老板正忙着解雇我，因为我让他不舒服，

But luckily times have changed. Woodburn who was diagnosed with dwarfism went on to have a successful acting career, appearing in more than 30 films and making more than 150 television appearances, including the popular TV series Seinfeld.

但幸运的是，时代发生了变化。被诊断患有侏儒症的沃德本恩后来在演艺事业上取得了成功，参演了30多部电影并出演了150多部电视剧，其中包括热门剧集《宋飞正传》。

It's little people. You got that. His success reflects the impact of the ADA.

这是小人物，你明白的。他的成功反映了《美国残疾人法案》的影响。

The ADA stands for the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the important thing that we would really want everyone to know, is that it's a civil rights law.

ADA全称是Americans with Disabilities Act，最重要的是我们希望每个人都知道这是一部民权法案。

Individuals with disabilities were not part of that protection, and it became evident that they were not being included in ways that other prev