tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16595270.post9008437983775544350..comments2023-10-20T03:43:57.075-05:00Comments on Especially Messily: Mixed FeelingsCecilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684746697027411470noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16595270.post-15080529187100790502017-11-11T21:22:44.118-05:002017-11-11T21:22:44.118-05:00You're welcome!
I've been thinking a lot...You're welcome! <br /><br />I've been thinking a lot about how many people have been telling me I'm being brave, and thanking me. I feel pretty weird about it. On the one hand, I don't feel like I'm being particularly brave: I'm not the one suing anyone, and I am not the one being treated as though I'm not worthy of basic human rights*. On the other hand, nobody else is talking about it, so I guess I'm doing at least one thing differently. Maybe it will make a difference! Maybe everyone else is too intimidated by the threat of the Silent Treatment to write complainy blog posts.<br /><br />This post is getting substantially more attention than my scrappy little blog usually does, though. Which is at least a baby step in the right direction. Maybe.<br /><br />*I'm being told I don't get interpreters because the organization with a $4-million budget can't afford them, and wants to spend its money on athletes, not volunteers. The athletes don't get interpreters because people with intellectual disabilities should shut up and take what they're offered, and could they really understand, or benefit from, an interpreter anyway? And wouldn't that money be better used to reach more additonal [hearing] athletes? Wouldn't the money spent on interpreters for athletes really just be a waste, because really how much "interpreting" do these people really need?<br /><br />I'm irritated on my own behalf. I'm outraged on behalf of the athletes- and not even just the deaf/hh ones. The attitudes behind the policy are incredibly insulting to all of the rest of the athletes, too. The whole thing is very dispiriting. Cecilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684746697027411470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16595270.post-79801659407866648582017-11-11T11:03:15.064-05:002017-11-11T11:03:15.064-05:00Well said! Thanks for being brave! Well said! Thanks for being brave! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09897958290502206981noreply@blogger.com