also those parents could be close relatives, so they could fuck up their offspring genome by transferring recessive genes to them from both sides, and thus a recessive phenotype to be expressed, which most of the time is a disability. shouldnt expect much from such parents
Comment on Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[…] in blog posts and videos and published memoirs, autistic teens and young adults described living for a decade or more without any way to communicate, while people around them assumed they were intellectually deficient.
On a related note… only 5% of hearing parents with a deaf child will learn sign language.
zoe@lemm.ee 10 months ago
1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 10 months ago
That’s awful. I don’t know why sign language isn’t made into an official state language that everyone has to learn some basic amount of proficiency
littlewonder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amen! And it would benefit literally everybody. You can communicate across a room or in loud environments. It’s so useful!
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
But then other people could listen to what we’re saying!
superminerJG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This gets me wondering: In sign languages, are there different words for “hearing” (i.e. looking someone sign to you) vs “seeing” (i.e. looking at something that isn’t signing?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because we only recently stopped telling parents not to teach it to hard of hearing children.