brin_bellway: forget-me-not flowers (Default)
Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote2019-07-30 09:44 am

A tangent on the previous post

[cw: ableism]



When I was a child, I didn't like that "death" and "deaf" were homophones. It seemed a cruel trick to play on deaf people, to sneak such negative associations into their label through a medium they couldn't access. The words would *look* different, and they would have no way of knowing (unless told) that by *sound* they were the same.

Imagine how I felt when I learned the words were *not* homophones, and that in fact the only reason I thought they were was because of my own hearing problems.

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