Nyle DiMarco Instagram – Wow… I am humbled and honored to accept the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell award for my disability activism and as an actor. Thank you @mediaaccessawards and @eastersealssocal. In my speech I talked about how society likes to question my hardship as a deaf/disabled person when I had a perfect life. My parents are deaf. My whole family is deaf. I’m the fourth generation. I went to deaf schools growing up. Able-bodied and hearing people like to think it is literally impossible for disabled people to be happy. Why? Why do they think that? The answer is… it is how TV/films portray us. Hollywood dictates a perception of minority groups. We can solve this and create authentic stories by encouraging our industry to INCLUDE disabled actors, directors, writers, etc. into the story-making process. This is where true inclusion happens. P.S. Yep, I pulled a Madonna with two tuxedos for one single event 😛