Wow! Your brother sounds really cool - entering into a field so kids don't have to be scared like he was? Ah, so awesome.
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Um, I did read your comments, thanks.
Wait, but one of your correct sentences was what I said? I'm confused. I'm totally fine with being corrected, I'm just not sure I understand this response.
No, no, I posted (the one about the mattress) and it posted twice. I edited this one so that it wouldn't be there twice :)
Blah, this sounds horrible!
Oh my god!!! I am so sorry this happened to you, that is scary!
Yikes. And I am guessing that you don't understand what it's like to not experience this 'isolation', based on the tone of your comments.
Ha! What? Is everyone else getting the girliest Smirnoff ad in existence right after this article, all about a woman having a face?
Oh dear, I hope you find the meds that help!! I'm not going to do that thing everyone does - oh did you try this-and-this? The right yogurt will totally cure your major illness! Gluten is the devil! Go cycling! - but I hope it becomes easier to balance the hard parts somehow. That sounds awful.
I think it's really great that you're attempting to understand, instead of superimposing the medical interpretation onto this automatically. I agree with you that people who want to change or get surgery should be able to, but our cultural approach to deafness as something to be fixed undoubtedly pressures and…
Sorry for such a long response to your brief message - just got to thinking! Woops!
No problem! I think it's really interesting how we define what's 'broken' and what isn't. I'm still looking for an explanation of why people who lose their hearing still approach it this way - it goes against the grain of how we approach human bodies, that's for sure.
Actually, one of these is incorrect - being colour blind is not being broken. The cones in his eyes are different than the cones in the eyes of people who can see colour 'properly'. The same goes to animals - some have more cones than us, or different ones, and see colours that we don't. Your friend is only 'broken'…
Another comment on here explains this a bit, and so do the websites linked in the article. From my hour of internet-researching, I think that the strongest "they aren't broken" arguments come from people who are born deaf and do not have anything physically wrong with them - notice that the article referred to missing…
Thank you for writing this so well, Kate. I had no clue that some people in the Deaf community are against procedures (like CI implants) that supposedly "cure" or "fix" deafness, and I've never stopped to think that procedures to improve hearing could be seen as fixing something that isn't broken. I think I spent an…
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Double post! Boooo.
They've been around for a while! I know a friend of mine who's into natural things (as in, non-disposable things) got a Diva Cup a few years back. I bet there's been some sort of non-disposable way to catch a period for a while, but I first heard about it in 2010 or so.
I don't know, I'm betting the kids they go to school with will have equally crazy names. Celebrities' kids (at least in L.A., New York, etc.) seem to frequently go to school together, so they might just live in this weird bubble where "Mary" is like, retro, man.
Dodai, I really like most of this article. The cultural appropriation topic is a hard one to explain, and you did it really well, and I felt like I actually got it! Yay!