I haven’t really had much to write about over the past six months or so. Life has been exceedingly eventful–everything from having to move back home to breaking my foot–it’s just that none of it made me immediately think ‘Hey, I need to post something about this!’ This evening, after a discussion with some friends, I had to search on-line for the name of a cab company that has been hiring primarily Deaf. I still have not found the name of the company because the second link that the search pulled up was a question from years ago on answers!Yahoo. Can deaf people be cab drivers? All but one of the answers stated in certain terms that no, deaf people cannot drive.
People believed everything from deaf people cannot drive at all to they cannot have commerical drivers licenses to the ADA says reasonable accomidations and writing down a destination isn’t reasonable. I can still feel the anger filling my chest and oozing out though my arms. I just cannot believe how ignorant people still are about hearing-loss. Deaf and hard of hearing people are limited more by what hearing people assume we cannot do than we are by what we are actually not capable of. I couldn’t even leave a comment because the only thing I wanted to write was ‘,Who the fuck do you think you are’ and ‘,Congragulations, what an ignorant group of bastards!’ It just drove home how little people still know dispite being so enlightened about ‘diablilites.’
For the record; we can drive, we can hold commercial licenses, we have been proven to be statisically safer drivers than people with ‘normal’ hearing.
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