polyglottishthings: pencil-on-the-moon: logan-exe:This is from, 君の手がささやいている (Your Hands are Whisperi
polyglottishthings: pencil-on-the-moon: logan-exe:This is from, 君の手がささやいている (Your Hands are Whispering) Okay but like,,I took a cultural perspectives of the deaf course this year and this hits different. If yall don’t know what Deaf culture is, PLEASE look it up because like….Deafness isn’t a disability and if you think so you’re wrong. As a hoh person I can confirm that deafness is indeed a disability. I can’t hear my phone ring and rarely talk on the phone for fear that I won’t be able to hear. I can’t hear emergency sirens and often don’t notice emergency engines until they’re right behind me. I can’t hear my teachers talk and struggled to keep up in multiple classes because the lecture was inaudible. It can sometimes be frustrating, scary, and isolating to be deaf.Deaf culture itself is a beautiful thing, and I love being deaf—it’s part of who I am and how I perceive the world. Deaf communities worldwide are cross-culturally relatable, and deafness is an intergenerational disability that links us in ways hearing people don’t tend to relate to. While it’s incredible that deaf people have found each other and adapted to survive together in a world designed for hearing people, that doesn’t mean we aren’t disabled anymore. Most of us very often require assistance in our daily lives, through technology, service animals, and/or the people around us. Please don’t shy away from the label “disabled.” It erases the distinct struggles that deaf/hoh people experience because of our hearing loss. -- source link