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When I’m out with Deaf friends, I put my hearing aid in my purse. It removes any ability to hear, but far more importantly, it removes the ambiguity that often haunts me.

In a restaurant, we point to the menu and gesture with the wait staff. The servers taking the order respond with gestures too. They pantomime “drinks?” and tell us they learned a bit of signs in kindergarten. Looking a little embarrassed, they sign “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day” in the middle of asking our salad dressing choice. We smile and gently redirect them to the menu. My friends are pros at this routine and ordering is easy ― delightful even. The contrast with how it feels to be out with my hearing husband is stunning.

Once my friends and I have ordered, we sign up a storm, talking about everything and shy about nothing. What would be the point? People are staring anyway. Our language is lavish, our faces alive. My friends discuss the food, but for me, the food is unimportant. I’m feasting on the smorgasbord of communication ― the luxury of chatting in a language that I not only understand 100% but that is a pleasure in and of itself. Taking nothing for granted, I bask in it all, and everything goes swimmingly.

Until I accidentally say the word “soup” out loud.

Pointing at the menu, I let the word slip out to the server. And our delightful meal goes straight downhill. Suddenly, the wait staff’s mouths start flapping; the beautiful, reaching, visual parts of their brains go dead, as if switched off.

“Whadda payu dictorom danu?” the server’s mouth seems to say. “Buddica taluca mariney?”

“No, I’m Deaf,” I say. A friend taps the server and, pointing to her coffee, pantomimes milking a cow. But the damage is done. The server has moved to stand next to me and, with laser-focus, looks only at me. Her pen at the ready, her mouth moves like a fish. With stunning speed, the beauty of the previous interactions ― the pantomiming, the pointing, the cooperative taking of our order ― has disappeared. “Duwanaa disser wida coffee anmik? Or widabeeaw fayuh-mow?”

Austin “Awti” Andrews (who’s a child of Deaf adults, often written as CODA) describes a similar situation.

“Everything was going so well,” he says. “The waiter was gesturing, it was terrific. And then I just said one word, and pow!! It’s like a bullet of stupidity shot straight into the waiter’s head,” he explains by signing a bullet in slow motion, zipping through the air and hitting the waiter’s forehead. Powwwww.

Hearing people might be shocked by this, but Deaf people laugh uproariously, cathartically.

“Damn! All I did was say one word!” I say to my friends. “But why do you do that?” they ask, looking at me with consternation and pity. “Why don’t you just turn your voice off, for once and for all?” they say.

Hearing people would probably think I’m the lucky one ― the success story ― because I can talk. But I agree with my friends.

  —  I'm Deaf And I Have 'Perfect' Speech. Here's Why It's Actually A Nightmare.

[hiraethminds]

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Lorna Shore — Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames.

[freddie-77-ao3]

cecil: i will never forget the first time will got high because he just turned to me and asked very quietly if he was wearing underwear because he couldn't feel any lou ellen: *laughing* will: being held back from killing cecil by austin (kayla is cheering him on) cecil: anyway, in conclusion, good fucking luck nico. glad you married him, because no one else would. other than me. heart ya will will: *blows cecil a kiss* nico: *clapping politely*

[uncasualfangirl]

The boys really did kill the carpet last night 😍

[astrosky33]

Indications you love intensely in astrology ღ

Obviously everyone who falls in love is infatuated with the person but there are certain people who noticeably just love way more intensely and deeply than others

These are based on both astrological evidence and my own observations

♡ | Taurus Venus -> ex: ariana grande

♡ | Scorpio Venus

♡ | Libra Moon -> ex: emma stone

♡ | Taurus Moon

♡ | Venus in the 8th house

♡ | Pluto in the 7th house -> ex: madison beer

♡ | Sun in the 7th house -> ex: andrew garfield (sidereal)

♡ | Venus - Pluto aspects

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[loveakii]

“Nice and neat, tragedy. Restful, too. In a drama, with its traitors, its desperate villains, its innocent victims, avengers, devoted followers and glimmers of hope, death becomes something terrible, a kind of accident. You might have arrived in time with the police. But tragedy's so peaceful! For one thing, everybody's on a par. All innocent! It doesn't matter if one person kills and the other is killed - it's just a matter of casting. And above all, tragedy's restful, because you know there's no lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat in a trap, with all heaven against you. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you didn't even know till now… And to no purpose - just so as to tell it to yourself... to learn it, yourself. In drama you struggle, because you hope you're going to survive. It's utilitarian - sordid. But tragedy is gratuitous. Pointless, irremediable. Fit for a king!” —Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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[freddie-77-ao3]

Lee: I’m going to miss you will: I’m going to miss you too lee: will you be good for Michael when I’m gone? will: no lee: it was silly of me to ask will: I’ll be terrible Lee: I know will: I won’t listen to him will: kayla and austin and I will torture him Lee: I’m sure you will

[holyfvckaustin]

Austin Butler and Andrew Garfield truly won the internet with this photo