• so there's this girl in my drama class. i've been in class with her all year and only the other day found out she's partially deaf. the people who were in drama 1 with her knew this, but us who weren't had no idea. see, all year we've tried to avoid grouping with her like the goddamn plague. when put in a scene with her, she never knows her cues, and she says ever fucking line like she's reading it. never able to change her inflection. and if she mispronounces a word, she says it the same way every damn time. we've been pissed off to no end about her. bur now that i know this about her, it makes sense. HOWEVER a hearing disability should not affect her visual ability and how she can read. we're reciting shakespearean sonnets now, and "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of snall worth held" becomes, out of her mouth "when forty winters have beSEIged thy brow And deep in a field Thy proud livery will become a weed of thy lusty days" I don't think she has any excuse for that. she can speak normally, even if it comes out sounding a little slurred. so why can't she read the right fucking words in order off a page? a few weeks ago, i was put with this girl in a group and she missed her cues again. another girl started yelling at her to "be on your fucking cues goddamnit" ..as the teacher walked in. teach gave her a telling-off about never to use those words in her class again, and for a couple of weeks onward, whenever the yeller's name came up in conversation with her, techer would say "ooh, she's mean." (or to the effect, of course.) however, she was only saying what the rest of us were thinking. i for one agreed. but yesterday when i told her that the girl was deaf her tone immediately changed. "omigod and I was so mean to her!" However, after hearing the practice run of her sonnet, i don't see why i should pity her. the girl, deaf or not, is incapable. i don't understand why people treat disableds like they deserve a higher rank than the rest of us. for the most part, people like that i've come in contact with want to be treated like everyone else, not like they're freaks. and if i think someone needs to step it up, i'm going to treat them like it, wheter they're partially deaf, in a wheelchair, or missing an arm. if they can do what needs to be done, they damn well should. the world doesn't stop for those of us who were put together with all the right bits, and if you want to be "normal," start fucking showing it.

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