jezunya reblogged
beecups-deactivated20171013
Why isn’t using sign language more common in society? like??? Not even just communicating within deaf communities but for everybody to use with anybody?
I feel like this should be standard learning material for those working in loud workplaces or with machinery, or maybe idk for talking underwater or when someone else can’t hear you at a concert. Or what about when somebody is having a panic attack and can’t talk, or just isn’t all that comfortable with voicing their feelings?
Why isn’t nonverbal communication more integrated into our society? Cause it should be.
wingedcatgirl
Several influential people of the time, including Bell, viewed deafness as something that should be eradicated, and also believed that with resources and effort they could teach the deaf to speak and avoid the use of sign language, thus enabling their integration within the wider society from which many were often being excluded.[64]
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thecaffeinatedautistic
I’m actually really glad someone read my quick tags on that post. Because lots of people don’t have a clue about this stuff.
#yes this#sign language#nonverbal communication#normalize sign language#fuck you alexander graham bell#not that he was the only person responsible#society as a whole has generally always been horribly ableist#even now in supposedly progressive circles ableism & disability are still constantly left out of conversations about privilege & oppression#ableism#history#historical ableism#deaf culture#and weirdly enough relevant to:#truth universally acknowledged#bc the dwarves *just* had this exact conversation with bilbo about how there's this dearth of sign language in the shire#and it's really weird to them esp since we've shaped dwarven culture generally to be very very very very egalitarian & socialist#anyway