this is already on top of the weeks-long online debate started by a (different) white deaf interpreter about the signs for Black

exactly. some people get angry whenever people forgot to send/open a gift but mind you, we’re all volunteering and we’re all in different time zones. i left the telegram group real quick

i’m sorry, Kiedra. i hope you drank water. please do if you haven’t recently. are you good and safe now?

image description: a gif of a humanoid/lisa rinna-morphed m & m (yes, a candy) holding a microphone with her signature on the bottom right

🤭

That's exactly why they like person first language; it keep us and our disabilities at arms length. I might be a person with a rain jacket or a person with a dog or a person with a picnic lunch. I am not a person with disabilities. I am disabled.

hmm that’s interesting. 🤔 thank you for sharing your perspective, Rom!