Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college. But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond public school and into adulthood is difficult to navigate.
Samuel lives with a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a mutation in a gene known as GNAO1. He drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment.
In the short documentary above, Samuel seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. He wants to learn how they built full adult lives as a road map for himself and others. “No one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability,” he says. “But there are badass people with disabilities who figured it out. Maybe they could be my mentors.”
(You can watch with audio description here.)
Dan Habib is a filmmaker, founder of LikeRightNow Films, and the inclusive communities project director at the Westchester Institute for Human Development. Samuel Habib is a filmmaker, community college student, multimedia production assistant and presenter at the institute.
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