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Originally Posted by Interpretrator
Able involves lots of different disabilities as was mentioned, but I didn't even make the connection that Braille following this ad would bolster that misconception about deaf people and Braille. That's a good thought. I remember when I was an ASL 1 student and a seasoned interpreter friend told me how many times people asked her "Do you know Braille?" I thought she was kidding. Then when I started interpreting...  |
I remember that when I used to play MUME (it's an online text based game basted on LOTHR. I'm not a fan of LOTHR BTW), some hearing person who wasn't too bright learned that I'm deaf rl and she keep asking if I could read brallie. She seemed to think I was deaf blind like Helen Keller and that I used brallie to play the game. Several people and I had to tell her several times over that I'm just deaf and that I'm not blind.
This is the same person who asked us on the narrates: What country is Great
Britian? My jaw dropped when I saw that.