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PARIS — Before 2012, Matt Stutzman couldn't get a job. Then, he became a Paralympian. It changed his life for the better, as it has for other veterans of the Games. But he and other athletes who have experienced the growth of the Paralympics still think it will take years more of promotion and hard work by athletes with disabilities to get something like equal footing with able-bodied athletes. Some, like Stutzman, see themselves as not just athletes but advocates to some degree. Says Stutzman, "If you don't use your platforms it's going to stop with you."
