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This paper will focus on my life since being labeled as a toddler with a physical condition in the stigma that follows. This paper will associate on how I was labelled, and how disability discrimination followed because of that label. Will describe the roles that these two have in common and why they are linked together. I will give examples from my past that give insight to how these two words and their meaning have impacted my life. I will interview a few of my friends who had to live under these stereotypes and tried to connect their lives today with the outcome that these labels have caused them. I am interested to see if that like me they no longer fit into their labels and how that affects their life. I will ask them a very of questions

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