What matters deafness of the ears, when the mind hears?

March 21, 2007

Don’t you dare call me that!

Filed under: Education, General

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.

Read on…

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  1. 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

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