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In this video, ‘Being Heumann’ star Ruth Madeley discusses the importance of portraying joy and humor within the disabled community. She explains that storylines about disabilities often focus on suffering and trauma, making the joyful representation in this film even more powerful.

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00:00people often forget that there's so much joy within the disabled community I love that people
00:05don't expect it to be funny and I think that says so much about the kind of stories that have
00:10been
00:10told in the past about disabilities I think when you tell any kind of we're not just a film about
00:16disability of that I'm talking about if there is a storyline about disability within anything
00:22there is often this sense that that you have to show suffering and pain and trauma and people
00:28often forget that there's so much joy within the disabled community I mean it's life everybody
00:34no one's serious all of the time the idea that that disability means that there can't be joy and
00:40humor is just maddening to me so this film is so is so joyful and funny in so many spots
00:48and I think
00:49that's what makes it even more powerful
00:51that's what makes it even more powerful
00:51that's what makes it even more powerful

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