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Why isn’t using sign language more common in society? like??? Not even just communicating within deaf communities but for everybody to use with anybody?

I feel like this should be standard learning material for those working in loud workplaces or with machinery, or maybe idk for talking underwater or when someone else can’t hear you at a concert. Or what about when somebody is having a panic attack and can’t talk, or just isn’t all that comfortable with voicing their feelings?

Why isn’t nonverbal communication more integrated into our society? Cause it should be.

#I mean the answer is ‘because Alexander Graham Bell’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell#Work_with_the_deaf

Several influential people of the time, including Bell, viewed deafness as something that should be eradicated, and also believed that with resources and effort they could teach the deaf to speak and avoid the use of sign language, thus enabling their integration within the wider society from which many were often being excluded.^[64]

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I’m actually really glad someone read my quick tags on that post. Because lots of people don’t have a clue about this stuff.

In fact, before Bell, there were a few towns that used mostly sign (Martha’s Vineyard, most notably) to communicate, regardless of hearing ability. The U.S. used to be a lot more sign friendly before the rise in the eugenics movement.

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Adding to the list of situations it’s Super useful: backstage, it’s a Life Saver.