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[Jean Bender] I'm Jean Bender.

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I'm a parent volunteer

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for the Arc Minnesota

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and the Autism Society of Minnesota.

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How do you support your colleagues

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who don't share your sensitivities

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or your concern?

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And I'll give an example of...

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I was interviewed by a reporter,

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who it became clear as she was

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 interviewing me really wanted

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to portray my son,

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who does not have an

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invisible disability,

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as a kind of a poor unfortunate.

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And he actually has

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a pretty good life,

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and that's what I want to

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get across to the community.

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But instead, I was asked,

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"Can we take a picture

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of his wheelchair?"

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"Did he break anything in your

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house that we can film?"

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[Liz Collins] I think in our...

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in our newsroom especially,

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we really are a team,

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and if we see something

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that is incorrect, you know,

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we'll go in and talk to

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the reporter about like, you know,

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"Hey let’s do this instead."

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But I would say, you know,

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if you had concerns after a story,

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it's okay to e-mail that reporter

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and say, you know,

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"I didn’t like this, this and this,"

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because we want…we want to be better

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and we want to learn, so don’t...

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we don't know everything.

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So talk about those concerns

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and circle back.

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We do appreciate that.