Brady Bartley says he made about $3 an hour taking speedometers apart in Ohio and was discouraged from finding a better job.
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At the fitness club where Michele Jardine used to work as a cleaner, her boss called her “retarded” in front of her co-workers. Jardine has an intellectual disability, which can make it harder to learn and understand instructions, and borderline personality disorder, which can lead to outbursts. She says repeated bullying at work led her to move to the Brookwood Community in Brookshire, Texas, a nonprofit whose goal is to “change the way the world thinks about adults with disabilities.”