• lefixxx@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Seems a little strawman-ish. “Feel deprived and crave the ability to see” is a hyberbole way to say that “blind people would rather have the ability to see”. An assumption that would be safe to make for anyone with a disability, despite if they have learned to have a good life with it.

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      2 years ago

      Perhaps, but fwiw I am a disability chat rep for a company and I often help people with hearing impairments. All of my training stressed that you treat everyone the same until they ask for different treatment. I suppose the term “differently abled” arisea from this as well.

      Being a chat rep, of course, I do not deal with the vision impaired nearly as often.