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Originally Posted by jillio
It is my uderstanding that a lot of deaf/Deaf object to the term mute. We had a discussion about that a while back on AD. Mute implies an inability to speak, rather than a choice.
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That's my understanding, too. I am perhaps a bit supportive of the term "mute", if thinking like Ella did in her famous deaf mute vlog last year. Like you mentioned, that topic and vlog has been diccussed here earlier, and it sure was many good points in that thread, supporting both sides. Wish it was a word that could tell hearing people what excactly deaf means!