Walker unpacks use of negative terms related to disability

“It’s such a bad stigma that comes along with those terms. It’s such a bad outlook because it makes you feel it makes you feel – I know me personally it makes me feel less than what I am.”

Alabama Care anchor Zarius Walker talks viewers through limiting beliefs – both from oneself and one’s community – and the words that can transpire from those beliefs.

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    Alabama Care is partially supported by the Alabama Council on Developmental Disabilities (http://www.acdd.org/). The views expressed are not necessarily the views of these organizations.

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