Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/To clarify our misunderstanding earlier/reply (13)

What I was going with is that the thing with being blind and being deaf is that if prevents you communicating in one way (say, verbally) but not the other (visually in that case). In the case of Braille, the idea seems to have been to simply replace the visual writing with something that was effectively identical but could be understood by blind people.

I had assumed that the same would have been true for sign language, but I'm now learning that my assumptions seem to be rather horribly flawed here. Considering that I'm slightly deaf and have already narrowly avoided becoming blind once, I wouldn't mind having my 'disablist' views corrected before it's too late... :D