We have over 25 deaf individuals in my family.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.
I am the fourth generation of being deaf.
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.