[stylist] being overwhelmed?

[slery]

Helene,

I think this is awesome by making a perceived disability so common that it
is no longer an actual disability.

Cindy

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> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:56 PM
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> 
> My aim is to show deaf and deafblind people as being 
> individuals with a varity of differant personalities. Zohara 
> and Zahira live in an environment with a high number of deaf 
> people. So their deafness is simply not a barier. It's just a 
> characteristic since everyone where they live uses sign 
> language. Zohara is also blind so she needs tactile signing, 
> but fortunately she gets supported by a neigbour who is 
> deafblind who uses signing. (born blind. Deaf through old 
> age). She teaches Zohara tactile sign language and blind 
> skills. She accepts her deafblindness.
> 
> Another Character Melissa (PC M Murrat) is fighting a battle 
> in a none disabled world to stay in a job which doesn't 
> normally accept people like her. She's high partial and also 
> manages to hide her loss by memoriesing the chart.  She's a 
> deafblind uncle tom if you like. Although she does have the 
> advantage of being trilingual (understanding two spoken 
> languages and one sign language). All works until she gets 
> shot at, then she losses her residual vision and finds it 
> very hard to adapt.
> 
> Nadia is a CI user and high partial but she has other burdens 
> so her deafblindness is the least of her problem. She fails 
> her mother by 1. Being born female, 2. Being a squib (in case 
> you don't know harry potter lingo a sqib is a non magical 
> person born to magical parents) 3. being deafblind. (in that 
> order). Her problem is compounded. Not by being deafblind but 
> because her mother does not accept the way she is. She is 
> sent to an oral school and her mother tries to denied her 
> sign language.
> 
> If you just write about one deafblind person it's easy for the reader
> to assume that all deafblind are like that too.   I want to show
> variety.
> 
> I also want to show how a world puts up barriers to suit what 
> is considered normal. One way of illustrating it is in 
> Darthrilia their are no stairs. It's not unsual for an 
> entrance to be situated on the roof of a building which is 
> well suited to a dragon but normal human beings would have to 
> struggle to climb a ladder to get to the entrance. So normal 
> huam beings would suddenly develop a disability: an inabilty to fly.
> 
> The fact that the world is designed in an audio visual way is 
> the main hurdle for deafblind people.
> 
> I think the major problem of being deafblind is simply it's 
> rarity, and the rarity of a deafblind person landing in the 
> right place to recieve the right sort of training. If their 
> was an environment where these problems could be addressed as 
> it is with Zohara their world doesn't have to be a sad isolated one.
> 
> Hope this email makes sense and isn't too long. I'm just 
> trying to explain what I want to achieve in this novel.
> 
> Helene.
> 
> On 21/04/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
> > Helene;   I'm wondering whether an editor might not feel a 
> bit overwhelmed
> > with so many deaf blind characters!   What are you focusing 
> on in this
> > story?
> > Lori
> > In a message dated 4/20/09 6:25:47 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com 
> > writes:
> >
> >
> >> Thanks for the encouragement Tami. There is actually an 
> entire family 
> >> of female deafblind characters in 'a deafblind girl'.  You 
> even have 
> >> a deafblind cop. She has a distant cousin in the 
> Darthrilian police 
> >> force who gives her a leg up.
> >>
> >> Helene
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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