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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) - Alycia and Marty Anderson are advocates for people with disabilities. They are on a mission to promote understanding and create opportunities, recently traveling from their home in California to Shreveport. Alycia was the keynote speaker for The ARC Caddo-Bossier Leadership Luncheon.

"In society we're taught that needs to be fixed, look away, they don't belong they cannot contribute," said Alycia. "I've lived my life with people looking past me, through me, staring from afar and the problem with that is the assumptions and the unknowns we are placing on other people that we have no idea what their lived experience is."

The two are very open about their experience. Alycia is an

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