Unapologetically Disabled

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A golden heart stopped beating…

On August 6th, my dad died. I haven’t been able to figure out what I wanted to say. I haven’t been able to say anything without bawling my eyes out. I can’ t believe my dad is gone, although only a fool wouldn’t have seen it coming. I still hear his voice, I still pick…

Why is “retard” a slur?

Like many other people, I got lost in Facebook reels the other day.  A woman had given birth to a child who was deaf, and her husband left her.  He said he wouldn’t have married her if she knew that she would give birth to a “retard”.   I’m going to skip the obvious fallacy that…

ASL Interpreters

Warning: I may come off as making some slight political rants on this one. I would have never thought this was political, but here we are. My goal with this post is to educate and hopefully take the politics out of this. I was playing on X the other day and came across the most…

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