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Originally Posted by EPutnam1863
This is a very common fallacy: all deafies are the same. There are late-deafened, hard-of-hearing (severely, moderately, and mildly), and profoundly deaf. It is the last group that usually cannot benefit from any mechanical or listening aid and must depend on sign language interpreters who provide fully visual services.
We won't offer crutches to the quadriplegics, would we?
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"[D]eafies" - isn't this pejorative slang? Is it something like the N word - only acceptable to be said by some?