In fact the very first paragraph on the very first page accurately portrayed my perception of what has doggedly stunted our efforts for BSL getting legal status as well as perfectly describing the person whose response i have written above. I was happy to find a chapter covering this phenomenon (its not a new thing) & delighted to read of explanations as to the origins of this mindset, as well as how to counter it. This is to my mind a sinkhole that threatens the future existence of BSL & the deaf community. Horror at the legal precedent they set & the blurring of linguistic/cultural identity with that of disability. The fervor with which many people, D & d alike, have supported recent legal challenges which explicitly label all Deaf people as disabled filled me with abject horror. "If you don't like being called disabled, you must hate & look down on disabled people", this was a response to my own argument that i was certainly not expecting. I wanted to read this book as, being a deaf BSL user myself, i am concerned by the apparent increasing popularity of the younger, social media savvy generation of deaf people referring to themselves as disabled, as well as criticising other deaf who decline to label themselves in this way.
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