this is a confession to the star wars fandom because I have to get this off my chest. last summer just for fun I taught myself to read aurebesh and. you fanartists have Got to Continue putting the most Hilarious stuff into the background of your art because it is literally my favorite thing
here’s a couple of excellent things I’ve read since I started keeping a list just last month:
- “I hate drawing lightsabers”
- “Idk what to put here”
- “stupid fucking sign”
- “eat paste, it’s good”
- an entire news article on a phone screen which I actually found really impressive
- a few funny misspellings but the best one so far was ahsoka somehow becoming “asock”
- wanted poster of obi wan that read “wanted for fashion crimes”. the caption translated it as “wanted for high treason”. like blatantly lying to my face. love it.
so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this
ok
Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.
the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.
Like. Yes he can physically walk into the building. But at least around here in order to make an appointment at the doctor’s office, you have to call ahead, the front desk literally won’t let you in if you’re not booked in their computer system. Unless you have a caption phone (which for those whose insurance and govt grants won’t cover will cost roughly 75-300USD, also they operate on a significant delay and are not the most accurate transcribing in real time so hearies often get frustrated with the experience quickly and try to end the call) how are you supposed to make an appointment?
Okay so you got your friend to call. But you need to give personal information over the phone, better trust your friend. What if you don’t have hearing friends or family? That’s the reality for many deaf people, deafness has a huge genetic component so while my dad is deaf due to injury it’s just as likely that someone deaf from birth literally has no hearing support system. Especially if they are too poor to afford an interpretor.
Speaking of. You finally get your appointment. The front desk asks you for your information. But you can’t hear them. There’s no interpretor. Luckily you brought a piece of paper with you to give to the nice front desk person. Better hold onto it and shred it at the first chance, someone can steal your identity with that. You’re in the exam room. You don’t hear the knock. The doctor comes in. There’s still no interpretor. How can you give consent to any procedures if you can’t hear what they’re saying? The doctor writes it down. But they’re frustrated so they just write down “blood test” and “open your mouth” rather than actually walking you through the appointment. You go home. They call and leave a voicemail with the results. You can’t hear it. Was it normal? Do you have cancer? Do you have to make another appointment? You need someone else to listen to it and tell you.
This is the reality for a lot of deaf people. For many, it’s worse- the older generations and even younger deaf folks who were denied language acquisition don’t have the “write it down” option. ASL is not a one-to-one with either spoken or written English, you are asking deaf folks to be bilingual when you say that writing it down is a good replacement for an interpretor. And those who have no language acquisition can’t even use the interpretor, because they were never taught ASL to begin with.
There are adaptive and assistive devices. My dad has a bunch of them because his insurance is really good due to his tenure from work before he retired so he’s lucky that A: he was born hearing and so already had language acquisition before becoming deaf B: can afford to buy things to make his life liveable, and even then he still struggles. My phone automatically converts voicemails to text, his doesn’t but I figured out how to turn the option on for him. It’s an extra charge on his phone bill. Mine does it for free.
My dad’s lucky. He says it all the time. A lot of deaf people have it worse.
Their legs work. They can get in the building just fine. They just can’t do anything else sometimes.
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