It’s also a tweet about the apparent increase in autism rates.
Autism was always around. Someone once said that everyone had that uncle that was really REALLY into collecting trains and displaying them.
Since I heard that back in the day… I just accepted that there’s nothing new under the sun and all these trigger points for folks today have just always been around. We just have a 24 hour news cycle now.
Also the church tried its best to alienate deaf children and destroyed any kind of sign language they came across. Because “they can’t hear gods words”.*
Your made up god sucks. And so do you.
*) I mixed things up. It’s about “confessing aloud”
Thw legacy remains. I’m hard of hearing and my parents were told not to teach me sign as a kid because I would only sign and lose my English. Like first of all, spoken English is so common it wasnt going to happen. Secondly, seriously that’s a terrible reason to deny a language.
Then as my country has been crumbling my entire adult life I’ve been more focused on foreign spoken languages than sign because I’m pretty sure Germany won’t take “sure i can’t speak or read German, but i can sign the fuck out of it”
Apparently there is an International Sign language. That may or may not be useful depending on where you are, also American Sign language is used in several countries other than the US. Though nowhere in Europe it seems looking at the map
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language#Varieties
I haven’t heard of this but also wouldn’t be surprised if a church did this. Is there any source on this one?
I read it in a book series about learning the German sign language. This one if it’s any help. But I can’t find any sources online accept Fuck that I found it:
The church barred deaf people from Holy Communion because they could not confess aloud. Deaf people were also prohibited from inheriting their family’s wealth […]
Oralism provided members of the privileged classes with deaf children a way to channel their children’s education and an opportunity to keep them away from the deaf community. Speaking has been associated with the higher classes and higher intellect, and the perception of signing has been the opposite.
US Bonus:
Bell also believed that sign language was an instrument of imprisonment and that its use prevented the “gesturer” from being a “true American”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oralism
The entire article is infuriating.
My boy is 4 and always wants to be a princess, or any female character from TV shows. Its adorable and I don’t give a fuck. If he wants to be a she when he grows up, my only concern is hardships from intolerance.
When he was little my boy loved dresses and dressing up with his sisters. He begged us to buy him a spider girl costume and we did. He loved it. He’s ten now and working out how to talk to girls cause he likes them. Turns out I, his father, wear the dress now.
I played with Polly Pockets and shit as a young boy, and I’m pretty solidly a cishet dude.
It’s almost like your environment doesn’t determine your sexual orientation or gender or something.
I’m a cishet dude too. I just feel comfortable in a kilt and have medical issues that make it practical.
The important thing is that they grow into an emotionally intelligent adult, because it will allow them to better understand and protect themselves, as well as others around them.
Society is changing to a better direction when you raise gentle children like you are, even if sometimes it doesn’t feel that way.
I went to a Catholic pre-school in the early 80s and was slapped with a ruler when I tried writing with my left hand. Now my penmanship looks like I have Parkinsons.
The word sinister, suggestive of darkness or evil, comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side.” The association of “left” with “evil” is likely because of the dominance of right-handed people within a population.
This usage actually dates back to the 14th century.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/sinister-left-dexter-right-history
