Boldly Challenging Ableism – S2 E12: Addressing Ableism & Disparities in Healthcare with Sarah Ailey

And I know you're having the Special Olympics World Games in Minneapolis right

now.

Okay, we were just talking about this.

We think they started yesterday.

I was going to volunteer, but by the time I got to the website or whatever that you're supposed to volunteer at, they only had early mornings left.

And I am not your early morning person.

I will bring you, I will close your day.

Even if you stay up till like four in the morning, I will close your day.

I am a night owl.

So it doesn't look like I'm going to make it as a volunteer, but I might get to go see some of the games.

We'll see.

What sport did your son play or what sports?

Probably more than one.

He didn't like tennis and he didn't like gymnastics except for jumping across the horse.

Yeah.

He liked any of them.

He really liked, I think, the floor hockey and basketball were probably his favorites.

I have to say probably when my... grandmother died and everybody was there for the funeral.

And that generation of kids, he was the oldest one of them, but he was close in age to several of the others.

We

all went over to the park and they were playing softball.

And so he just played softball because he had been playing softball with special Olympics.

He knew how to do it.

Nobody really cared if you hit the ball or made any points because it was just family get together.

And I said, it makes a difference that he, he knew how to do it.