A Good Tip To Supporting People With Disabilities: Maybe Listen To Them?

A good tip to supporting people with disabilities: maybe listen to them?

Whenever my throat hurts it lasts for a super long time and I just don't talk, and this one time I went to the library and was asking them some info, so I get there, sign "hi", sign that i am hearing, and then show him question written on my phone. He basically says "gotcha don't worry" in sign language and starts explaining me stuff on paper. I sign "no no i am hearing I can hear you just not speak." He signs "yeah don't worry I gotcha". I ask another question and write along with it that I can hear him. He still answers on writing. I give up, parting ways and signing goodbye to him. People will sometimes assume I am deaf because of my noise cancelling earphones for sensory overload issues, which is a fair mistake, or because I use sign language for other reasons -but this was the first time my attempts at clarification were just plain ignored. I was so confused, how are you trying to support people you don't even listen to?

In other news, Caitlyn Scott-Lee, an autistic 16 years old girl, killed herself this year, now scientists want to read her private diary to better understand autistic people's struggles. Over 50% of autistic adults can speak, and among those who don't, many have access to alternative forms of communication, and they talk -about how they'd rather be called, what their feedback on some therapies and associations is... The point is they talk. Don't read a dead girl's private diary. Don't interview parents, families and physicians only in order to understand what's going on in autistic people's minds. It's not some extraordinary, deeply complicated mystery. Just listen.

Tell me WHY, upon introducing a monster that melts in shadows, my players' immediate reaction was to leave the empty sunlit garden they were in to go inside, while splitting up? And why one of them had the idea to teleport right into the old, empty library with stained glass windows? I didn't mean to make that encounter scary, it was a single monster in the garden while they were together. Choices were made... Which altered the situation. I found it very funny though.

Yeah sorry Kevin is definitely in a horror movie and he knows it

Aftg is fun cause all the characters are living in different genres like neil is in a mafia thriller while andrew is in some a24 drama film. Kevin is the horse girl in a horse girl movie and dan is in an underdogs sports story. Poor aaron is trying to have a normal slice of life forbidden romance type beat but then he has to go and kill a guy.

Crowley (drunk on a bar): sometimes I can’t believe myself. I mean, I slithered here from Eden just to what? Hide outside his damned door?

Hozier (taking notes): tell me more…

something clearly went wrong after kid one, bruce