Don’t you dare call me that!
I hate it too.
Banish the word from the vocabulary used to describe the deaf, please.
The very term makes me bristle. I show fangs, bare claws, and utter a purposely terrifying hiss of outrage. Nobody calls me a deaf mute. Let alone hearing people, and much less medical people who actually defend their use of the expression by shoving at me a copy of Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. See, they say, it is a medical condition. It is described very well here. Professionally, they look at me and coolly put away the book.
This is a great blog! I hope you’ll consider adding it to the aggregator at Deaf Village (www.deafvillage.com)!
Comment by Elizabeth — August 7, 2008 @ 11:53 am