>> I think the part that I love the most about my career is the persons, especially persons
with developmental disabilities are the happiest people on the face of the planet.
And you just cannot be down when you are around people who are so filled with joy.
And it doesn't matter really what we might perceive as the burdens that they are bearing
or whatever extra efforts needs to be made.
They themselves are just the most joyful people and it is just infectious.
You can't spend time with these folks without thinking that you know life is just good
and the rest is beans, because if you could just have a joyful heart then I think you're
on the right road and folks with developmental disabilities teach you that every day.
So I think that's the part that I enjoy most is being kind of pull out of my Eiffel Tower
into a real situation where what's really important is right in front of you and right
at that moment and that's what I love most about my job.
I think the greatest challenge is knowing that persons with disabilities are always going
to be marginalized and sometimes you get tired of fighting the fight
and explaining the same things over and over and over again to servant agencies
to school systems even to our own parishes to allow persons with developmental differences,
persons who are deaf, persons simply in a wheelchair that just need physical access
to a building, to re-explain and re-explain.
Or just right now celebrating an anniversary of the Americans
with Disabilities Act you know it's been around for a while this isn't news.
And sometimes the greatest challenge is hitting the same walls over and over and over
and finally creating ways to say now it's the law you really do have
to provide these provisions that would be the greatest challenge I think sometimes is just not
being able to break through some of those stereotypes.