Deaf Community - "No such thing as hearing loss, just Deaf gain!"

Dragon Face said:
A&E got to give the Deaf community a special treatment today. A&E's Born This Way will have special Deaf Out Loud airing today.

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I saw this just a few minutes ago during their Parking Wars marathon. I laughed at the man scoffing at being disabled.
 
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Yeah, when talking about people with cancer, don't call them cancer victims!
Call them straight male with cancer
Lesbian bi-racial woman with cancer
LGBTQIAPAPOGGNORE non binary humanoid demi-dragon with cancer.

People with cancer have more than one identity!

If you're talking about cancer, the specifics of each individual with cancer are utterly irrelevant. If you're talking about deafness, the specifics of each deaf individual are utterly irrelevant.

But who the hell talks about deaf people, except when they do dumb shit like this?
 
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Dragon Face said:
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I had to google what the fuck DDBDDHH and BIPOC were. They stand for "Deaf, Deafblind, Deaf-Disabled, Hard-of-Hearing" and "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color" respectively.

Dee-dee-bee-dee-dee-ach-ach. Bee-ay-pee-oh-see. How do they not realize how dumb they sound? Oh right...
 
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Brit Crust said:
I had to google what the fuck DDBDDHH and BIPOC were. They stand for "Deaf, Deafblind, Deaf-Disabled, Hard-of-Hearing" and "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color" respectively.

Dee-dee-bee-dee-dee-ach-ach. Bee-ay-pee-oh-see. How do they not realize how dumb they sound? Oh right...
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I freaking love you for using your natural expertise in speech skill to make this kind of joke.
 
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Dragon Face said:
I freaking love you for using your natural expertise in speech skill to make this kind of joke.
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I'm not very good at speech or lipreading/speechreading.

I've worn hearing aids (but not cochlear implants, and I'll never opt for CI surgery for personal reasons) and had speech therapy classes in school from preschool to high school. In spite of that, I've never gotten proficient at it, and I can only pronounce a few simple words and lipread a few simple sentences (e.g. "Hello" and "How are you?") Not to mention I've fallen out of practice after not having had speech therapy for years.

Nevertheless, I can still understand most puns, and I still mouth words (sometimes even involuntarily pronouncing them) when signing. Maybe I should look into restarting my speech therapy, although it'd probably be a major PITA and it'd be a long, long while before I'd be able to pronounce and lipread complex words and sentences.
 
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Joe_Camel said:
I feel you on that, and I hope I didn't come off as a jackass. There are as many ways of coping with one's disability as there are disabled people, so it's not uncommon to see some people choose to go on the offensive about it rather than feel vulnerable.
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You're fine. They're most likely bitter that they don't know what you're laughing about or maybe you triggered them of their time where they got bullied by prissy kids at public school. Who knows. But, one thing it's clear here is that they have their own personal problem to deal with and you've done nothing wrong.

Dragon Face said:
A&E got to give the Deaf community a special treatment today. A&E's Born This Way will have special Deaf Out Loud airing today.

Here's the trailer.

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You can watch online now.

It has closed captioning for some of you Deaf kiwi, lurker, and the likes.
 
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This trend of shrugging obvious disabilities as just being different is honestly horrifying. I know beside the Deaf community that autistics and down syndrome think of it the same way. They say they don't need to be 'fixed' and that "there is nothing wrong with them" but they still want accomodations and want people to cater to all their needs.

What is more shocking is that they will claim that a cure (or selective abortion) is somehow eugenics in a Nazi level. I wonder why those disabilities are special and a exception and others aren't like polio, heart conditions or alzheimer. I can't think of any logical reason where eradicating a illness, disorder or disability isn't a good thing.

EDIT: My theory is that at least to some of them they are so bitter they have [x] disability and know how much it sucks that they have instead to tell everyone else that it's not their disability that limits them but rather other people's fault for not accomodating them or being ableist. They don't want to be pitied so they convince themselves they're proud of it, which is just another unhealty coping mechanism.
 
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A Psycho Cat said:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=YMTW_1536937775

Berkeley settles suit with legally deaf man who said police beat him after misunderstanding
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I watched the bodycam video. I wouldn't say the officer in question (who I believe was fired) handled things very well. For example, shouting "do you hear me" to a deaf person might not be an effective command strategy... although the guy screamed back "no I don't" which just confuses me.

But when the cops come to your place for a "domestic disturbance" (the most dangerous call police will regularly go on) and expressly tell you not to touch your 'fake' guns and you agree ("I'm not crazy!"), maybe don't then decide to go grab one. There's deaf and there's dumb stupid.
 
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RodgerDodger said:
Back when I worked EMS we had a large, world renowned, school for the Deaf in my district. It was by far the scariest most horrifying place I have ever encountered. (And I’ve seen some horrors!) We actually wanted to try and get at least our officers trained in sign language. Enough to facilitate EMS and Medical Emergencies. The school fought us in ways that you would not believe. They took steps to insure that the kids only communication with the outside hearing world was exclusively through them and their “teachers”. It didn’t take us long to work out that yes the place was in fact a cult. A really scary one. Conversations with Law Enforcement and CPS went knowhere. They were just as frustrated as us. The place was politically protected.
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Do you have any other stories?
 
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Do you have any other stories?
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Not many specific ones. We were in there fairly often. Many of the kids were not simply deaf, and there seemed to be a high correlation with seizure disorders in their program. I assume that was just part ofd their specialized services. They had weird rules regarding use of sirens. We had to cut them before we reached their entrance and could not activate them until we were back on the highway. I was never sure if it was because they could be disconcerting or painful for those with very limited hearing, or if they just didn't want the surrounding community knowing how much traffic they generated. Same thing with the lights. But with the number of sizure calls we understood why no flashing lights. We would go in there with noble purpose, just there to help and provide whatever services we could to a special needs school in our district. What we got was mostly creeped out by the astonishing level of control. It would be years later when I read about Scientology that I would recognize what I was seeing there.

The one big tipoff, asside from just how mean nasty and uncooperative the head people could be, was watching the Cops. Following some incidents in the area we had strict rules to not to enter a scene or building unless the cops were on site, and the cop is to go in first. It became clear the cops had a reverse of this order for this place. They would not enter unless EMS was on scene, and we went in first. The place creeped the Cops out that badly. In hindsight I think a lot of that was just how dead silent the facility was. There are no normal sounds. There is no background noise. It starts triggering your fight or flight hindbrain in ways you would not expect. The cops waited for us because we made familiar noises.
 
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ / https://archive.fo/3cOsB
 
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