About LRB:
This site is purely a hobby blog created by a deaf disabled autistic person. Its just for fun. None of the content is serious even – because its written by a deaf disabled autistic person. If it had been a hearing abled person for example, well the content would no doubt be totally valid and seen as factual and true. But because it is me, the deaf disabled autistic person, versus the great ablesist society out there, it simply cant be that I am telling the truth in any way or form as opposed to those who can indeed speak and communicate well.
It might surprise you that there aren’t more of us doing this sort of thing – in other words, a transport blog or vlog – and especially outside the generally accepted areas (which would be, for example disability, autism, deafness etc – and the rights or struggles linked to those.) I think that is the problem. Its in fact hard trying to do a blog of this sort because of the reactions from others, but its also made all the more worse by the discrimination that’s extended towards those of us who try to diversify. Its only the enthusiasm, the fact its a sort of therapy in fact, that keeps me going.
When some deem I have a mental age of – whether its five and half or nine years old – well they’re probably not far off in their reasoning – but only because they are quite blinkered in terms of what should constitute a human, a worthy citizen and the rest of it. In their subjective prowess its no doubt a backwards opinion and its why I get abject discrimination all the time – even on the railways!
As per the dictates of who and why people should discriminate (or marginalise) those like me, its easy to see how it works. The art of communication no doubt stipulates a superiority and an intelligence – and those without well they’re deemed no better than the animals! A life-long struggle that still continues – and that’s one which such masters as Alexander Graham Bell sought to furnish in order to oversee the elimination of our lot.
Bell propelled both eugenics and racism into the fore as well. Both being quite horrific doctrines with deleterious effects that still reverberate to this day. Indeed the United Nations recently issued a commiseration of sorts for the awful shit Alexander Graham Bell and his dutiful followers had perpetuated – acknowledging how those very ideals had affected so many – and the UN indeed acknowledging the dire effects of that work continues to affect people considerably even today.
Besides, when one thinks those without communication deserve no rights or credibility, one ought to take stock of the fact the animal kingdom is considerably more intelligent than most of that miserable species which calls itself humanity! And which of those are the greatest abusers? Its definitely not the animals! Its those who CAN communicate and who in fact look down on those who CAN’T communicate… The very act of billions of animals being abused and killed weekly is a mere testimony to a hugely gigantic and horrifically abject system that assumes itself supreme to everything else.