(Due to a technical error, this program begins 5:31 into the half hour and ends abruptly. Our apologies.)

Dorian speaks with humor and finesse about competitive kayaking and life on the spectrum — both gender and autism.

Injured in a brutal police tasing, raised in the foster care system, unable to access social services and even diagnostic health providers, Dorian lives with lupus, PTSD and partial paralysis, a thoracic syrinx that goes from the T3 to the T11 of the spinal cord — and many hours on beautiful Lake Washington in Seattle.

A unique life. A unique goal. An athlete to cheer for as Dorian Taylor heads for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

You can reach Dorian on Facebook here.

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