100% agree about "try better" cos as you say "A cat" is a useless ALT whereas "My tortie cat sitting and looking cute/smug/naughty" is hardly any more effort and much nicer to read.
No worries about the BSLish, I left it in with a comment cos it amused me, I don't generally worry about it despite the doomongering about SL damaging people's other language. It's more translanguaging really. I thought you would be amused/interested at that cross over.
The 9/11 and Covid situations are both interesting. And very much signify how deaf, blind and deafblind people are left out, especially the deafie ones. My first BSL tutor stressed that as hearies/oralies with access to information that we had a DUTY to inform our deaf acquaintances... But that didn't work so well when 3/4s of the class were "vaccines cause autism" "slapcheek is mild measles therefore MMR doesn't work" and when Kim and I explained IN BSL that Measles is an RNA virus and 'slapcheek' is a DNA virus therefore NOT the same thing the class just whined that it wasn't fair that we signed better than them so the tutor had to ban debate about MMR/measles/autism... Duty to share info relies on people having the info having clue in the first place... But, I think that stuck with us about deaf people and seeing how deaf orgs reacted to Covid to make sure deaf people were included... But does that work for deafblind who perhaps can't access video anymore... Did all of them do transcripts? How did we do f2f contact during pandemic?.... Do we even have a solid deafblind community here in the UK? All the deafblind folk I know have some hearing/sight enough to use BSL or hearing of speech with varying levels of success.
Aphantasia is an interesting one cos you have quite a lot of vision for a blind person while clearly not having typical vision. So hard to know if aphantasia is incidental or correlated to your vision impairment. Or if you and I are neuro-atypical in that we grew up with our sensory impairment which we assume has not greatly changed at a biologic level in our lifetime and that that has some effect on inner braininess - a type of neurodivergence as it were (and there is a model of neurodivergence that takes a very wide view on what is ND including stuff like impairment, migraine etc etc - but can't bloody find the article!). For all you or I know, while you can see some stuff, you can't see easily enough for your brain to hold it properly... Maybe my weird image stabilisation balance shit is the same cause of aphantasia. Not enough research error!
I shared Clark's articles in a few places online for some interesting discussions.
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No worries about the BSLish, I left it in with a comment cos it amused me, I don't generally worry about it despite the doomongering about SL damaging people's other language. It's more translanguaging really. I thought you would be amused/interested at that cross over.
The 9/11 and Covid situations are both interesting. And very much signify how deaf, blind and deafblind people are left out, especially the deafie ones. My first BSL tutor stressed that as hearies/oralies with access to information that we had a DUTY to inform our deaf acquaintances... But that didn't work so well when 3/4s of the class were "vaccines cause autism" "slapcheek is mild measles therefore MMR doesn't work" and when Kim and I explained IN BSL that Measles is an RNA virus and 'slapcheek' is a DNA virus therefore NOT the same thing the class just whined that it wasn't fair that we signed better than them so the tutor had to ban debate about MMR/measles/autism... Duty to share info relies on people having the info having clue in the first place... But, I think that stuck with us about deaf people and seeing how deaf orgs reacted to Covid to make sure deaf people were included... But does that work for deafblind who perhaps can't access video anymore... Did all of them do transcripts? How did we do f2f contact during pandemic?.... Do we even have a solid deafblind community here in the UK? All the deafblind folk I know have some hearing/sight enough to use BSL or hearing of speech with varying levels of success.
Aphantasia is an interesting one cos you have quite a lot of vision for a blind person while clearly not having typical vision. So hard to know if aphantasia is incidental or correlated to your vision impairment. Or if you and I are neuro-atypical in that we grew up with our sensory impairment which we assume has not greatly changed at a biologic level in our lifetime and that that has some effect on inner braininess - a type of neurodivergence as it were (and there is a model of neurodivergence that takes a very wide view on what is ND including stuff like impairment, migraine etc etc - but can't bloody find the article!). For all you or I know, while you can see some stuff, you can't see easily enough for your brain to hold it properly... Maybe my weird image stabilisation balance shit is the same cause of aphantasia. Not enough research error!
I shared Clark's articles in a few places online for some interesting discussions.