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Visual Description: A woman addresses the camera. She has brown hair and wears blue-rimmed eyeglasses that help her to see. She is dressed in a bright green dress, and wears a long-sleeved black t-shirt underneath. Her voice, hand movements, and facial expressions vary, trying to help express her thoughts and ideas as she expresses something that is painful to talk about yet important to her. There are bookshelves filled with a variety of books in the background.

Description: Medical privacy is something that I will stand up for til the day I die. As someone who is on the autism spectrum, I am well aware of the fact that if I had lived 100 years ago I could've been forcibly institutionalized or sterilized in the United States, my home country. I understand the importance of medical privacy, and why we need it. It is necessary to protect the disabled from discrimination and harassment, and it is something that I feel passionately about and will speak up for even if it denies me opportunities in life. Disabled people deserve equal treatment in society, and NO ONE should ever be forced to disclose medical information about themselves. I am well aware of the fact that Jacobson v. Massachusetts was used in the case Buck v. Bell, and so I will not quietly go along with and comply with small measures that are supposed to be for "the greater good" when they have historically been used to justify the systemic disenfranchisement and genocide of people with my disability.