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Delbert Whetter
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Multigenerational Deaf filmmaker, producer, business owner, consultant, board member and advocate for disability inclusion in Hollywood and everywhere else. 🤟Producer of feature-length animation, documentaries, and live-action narrative films. #GoDucks !
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To the Editor: I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body. I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate. For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema. Jason Jacoby Lee New York
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Are these vehicles road legal? License plates visible? Tags current? Tinted windows in compliance with regulations? If not, our law enforcement needs to impound those vehicles. All federal officials’ vehicles must be in compliance so why should ICE be treated any differently.
July 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Can’t quite put my finger on it but somethings off with this poster.
June 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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SYNOPSIS: Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan Roth and Brian Blais finally brought their hearing twin babies home from India to New York. However, their journey through fatherhood meets new challenges when the increasingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. "LOUD Love" is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles. WHEN: July 12, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT Tickets: http://tiny.cc/loudlovebravemaker2025 Price: Tickets are FREE (get your tickets at the above link) Where: BraveMaker Film Fest 1044 Middlefield Rd (2nd Floor Community Room) Redwood City, CA 94062
June 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Venice Beach’s slogan is “Where Art Meets Crime” and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
June 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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So, I’m wondering how this AI detection would perceive a group of people communicating in ASL.
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This seems like an ideal spot for a Deaf dude like myself and my ASL-signing buddies!
April 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM