Hotel Kicks out BLIND Woman?! 

I had a friend in a wheelchair. I made sure every place we attended was w/c accessible. I have a gluten allergy. He made sure every place we might eat had GF options.

As someone who is Visualy impaired and under eighteen, it makes me so happy and greatful to know that i will be able to work in a world were these things are discussed, thank you so much Rebecca for this episode it literally made my day.

When I was teaching I had a student with 2 blind parents. I had them visit the classroom with their guide dogs and talk to the kids about the dogs etc. I realize now how important that was.

There is also discrimination within the disabled community! I had Service Rats for 12 years (Before the laws were changed in 2011) they alerted me to spasms that I could not feel when they were just starting and easier to treat. At Disneyland a nurse who had a Blind Husband who used a guide dog, screamed at me that I had no right to a service animal, only guide dogs are true service animals, that I was disgusting, she went on and on. It was horrible. Most people would take 20 or 30 minutes to notice them because they were quietly laying on my shoulder, not moving.

I have always taught the kids i nannied, and then my own kids that we never touch a dog, ANY dog, without permission. But especially a dog wearing a vest. And if they're told 'no,' they have to accept that 'no'. The entitlement of some people is wild to me!

The worst thing about having a disability is when people stop asking you to go places because you may need a ride, or some other type of accommodation. And then start talking about how much fun whatever said event was that you didn't get to go to.

I do uber/lyft and I know that people with service animals are allowed. I have not gotten the opportunity to give someone a ride who has a service animal or guide dog, but I would, of course, give them a ride.

I'm an autistic minor, and it's really clear which kids have been told "being autistic is different yes, but not bad" because the amount of hate me and kids like me get for going to a skatepark or similar is genuinely disappointing

That last part with Molly speaking about being good enough had me choked up. I struggle with that all the time being a person with invisible disabilities. ❤thank you for having molly on

24:10 I started teaching my niece about service animals from a very young age. Basically ‘see that dog? How he’s wearing a vest? He’s working, so we can’t pet him and we need to leave him alone.’ And she totally got it without issues.

"I'd rather you ask and know the truth than assume and be wrong," reminds me of something I live by, which is that I would rather understate how much I know about a subject and have it over explained to me, than for someone to assume I know things that I don’t, because that can lead to problems, and you don't know what you don't know.

I'm legally blind without my glasses! I'm not legally blind

It's so much easier for me to advocate for others than for myself. I could totally see my nuerodivergent friends advocating for each other. The advice on helping is so nice. I recently found out that I'm autistic and ADHD, and I love hearing disabled prospectives to reframe things and understand my own disabilities better

YES disability pride. Finally!!!!! I have been waiting for a topic like this!

As someone who is blind I really appreciate this collaboration and bringing more awareness to disabled people like us. We really need it.

"NO", is a very important word for children to learn. The word means something.

Thank you so much Rebecca for having Molly speak on your channel. I have been following her for years, but as a disabled person I am so grateful for what she does. She has taught me to believe in myself and fight for the world I deserve. She also gave me the strength to get a service dog, and fight the battles that come with it. Thank you both so much for this video ❤❤❤

My little cousin is blind and she loves your videos. This video means a lot to her and it made her happy to hear on of her favorite youtubers talk about blindness and spread some awareness. Thank you so much. You are amazing! 💜💜💜

Something else that a lot of people don’t consider is, if you have a friend who is visually impaired, or cannot drive for whatever reason, try to invite them to go with you. it’s so frustrating to see people you know posting things about going to this great new wine bar or restaurant or whatever that you would’ve loved to go with them, but they never asked you to come along.

MOLLY I’m SO excited!!!!

It's worth remembering that Molly went to school 10-15 years ago. I have seen massive changes in what kids are taught about disability and how kids with disability are treated in the last few years. I went to school less than 10 years ago, and we had classmates who were deaf and classmates with CP who weren't "popular" per se but had friends. But I also know that Mum (who's been teaching for 40 years) says that as little as 20 years ago was drastically different as far as how disabled kids were treated. And even what we see now could be *a lot* better. (Disclaimer, I'm in Australia)

My niece lost her leg to cancer. My son was meeting her for the 1st time. I talked with him about what he was going to see and don't treat her different. That was literally the only thing I needed to say they were best friends. And to date my kids don't treat people different. Bless you for this pod cast

As a person who has been bullied her whole life and I'm now almost 42 and it's still going, I understand how much impact it has on your mental and physical self. Children should be able to ask questions and be taught how to interact with disabilities. I have been very lucky to be around disability my whole life and it has shown me how much they still could achieve no matter what challenges they came against.

With blindness, deafness and wheelchair users, there's a huge with people not realising that there's spectrum. Legally blind doesn't always mean no vision whatsoever. Some wheelchair users don't need to use them full time etc.

I love this. My husband is quadriplegic and it's so frustrating how there is so much lack of information and availability for hotels, airbnb, car's to travel for disabilities. People need to learn to be respectful and and I think this was a great learning tool for those who are disable or with a love one with a disability to see what we deal with on a day to day basis and to speak up to advocate.

I am so happy to have stumbled upon this video. I am not visually impaired, but I am hearing impaired. Going through school was so rough. Since I had a hidden disability, people don’t realize I have a disability and often get frustrated if I asked them to repeat what they said. My teachers didn’t help either because they hated having to accommodate me and told me that they shouldn’t have to accommodate me because “the world isn’t going to accommodate you for your disability, you have to learn to deal with it”. I even had a teacher refuse to let me stand where I could hear and told me to ask my peers what I missed, then when I did, the peers would respond with “well if you actually listened, then you would know what is going on”. Like… I DID listen, I just can’t HEAR. Being someone with anxiety as well, that was stressful and humiliating. I loved my teachers like Rebecca who took the time to find ways to accommodate me and help me be successful. Hearing the story about the best friend at the wedding melted my heart. It reminds me some of my favorite coworkers we went out of their way to stand on my good side to ensure I can hear them. I love people who go out of their way to make like easier for people with disabilities, and I am happy I learned stuff from this video so I can hopefully be one of those people too. Thank you both for sharing your thought and stories in this video!! Your last statement left me in tears. ❤️

This is such a powerful episode. Thank you. I just was telling my daughter (that I adopted as an adult/kinda) that if her kids ask about a disabled person, to please answer and don’t shush them. It’s so important. As a hard of hearing person and the parent to two deaf kids(one who is also visually impaired) I always went to their classroom and gave a mini presentation or asked the DHH teacher to do it, discussing hearing loss and what it means and doesn’t mean, also encouraging ASL as much as possible and now I am the districts DHH assistant.

Two of my favourite creators talking about disability and the struggles we faces to say with people, so cool to see you guys chatting about this. I've been watching Molly for years and started watching Rebecca within the past year or so, while I may not always agree with everything that you say, I think It's great you have disabled people coming onto your podcast to discuss this type of content. I am visually impaired and have cerebral palsy, which definitely makes things a lot more challenging than just having one disability, I always found it massively difficult to make friends or found it challenging when it came to education in school, we all have different experiences though, but I can definitely say school is difficult when you're disabled, making friends is difficult, and you often get bullied all the time for random or dumb things because people aren't properly educated. Molly was actually the reason that I started talking about my disability on my channel, as I loved the idea of actually making a difference when I couldn't see it anywhere else, especially when my disabilities are so unique being combined together, I to make fashion and beauty related content while also discussing disability and talking about the struggles we face trying to spread awareness to show that disabled people are people too. It's really important to Have a community to talk to and to find others who are going through the same thing as you or to just watch different creators and educate yourself on different disabilities that exist out there in the world and debunk some misconceptions that the media places in front of you when it comes towhat disability is and what it's like to be disabled, so that we can share this with our kids and help a younger generation to be more inclusive and more aware of different people especially especially those within the disability community.

I was kicked out of the hotel buffet because of my service dog. I was told by the worker that that there were no pets allowed in the buffet area

I heard a story of a mom and son at a store and they little boy (7or8 I think) asked his mom while pointing to this woman in a wheelchair and the mom responded saying “Don’t point. I don’t know why she’s in a wheelchair, if you want and she’s willing to talk abt it you can go up to her politely and ask” and the woman in the wheelchair explained to the boy about hey disability

Aww yay! Love Molly! My older sister was born with Spina Bifida. She's paralyzed and has a developmental delay and it's so mind boggling how even cousins in our own family never understand the things we can and cannot do. Even when we go away, I need to call hotels to find out the height of their beds because otherwise my sister cannot transfer onto the bed. Was in a hotel at Disney in a handicapped accessible room and there was barely any walking room and the beds were so high that even we had to crawl onto them. Thankfully my brother was there to lift my sister onto the bed. The lack of enough wheelchair van accessible parking is another rant for another time. So many times we park in the middle of nowhere and then come back to someone randomly RIGHT on the ramp side of our car when there are a bajillion other open spots.

Love listening to Molly talk about her life experiences and how the world looks at the disabled.

No one realized I wasn't seeing out of one of my eyes until my eye test before starting kindergarten. I still remember how frustrating it was trying to learn how to read and write for the first time with a patch over the only eye I could see out of (that's one of the ways to correct it). I can't believe people expected me to do that stuff when I obviously couldn't see.

As a parent of a disabled child, I fully understand the grief upon diagnosis. But also the guilt. Because I must have done something wrong, and even if I didn't I should have known sooner, or I should have fought harder for her when I saw things that were "weird" and the doc told me she'd grow out of it. I made this human and she's bound to suffer the rest of her life (bullies, and physical pain) because I made her. She's almost 22 now and is thriving but grief and guilt still catch me sometimes.

I see the argument so many times with Uber and Lyft drivers denying service dogs where they make the excuse of having allergies, or saying that it is their personal vehicle and they shouldn’t have to transport service animals if they don’t want to. It is literally part of the paperwork they sign when they contract to be an Uber or Lyft driver that they cannot deny a service animal. if they cannot or do not want to transport someone with a service animal, they should not sign up for these services. Allergies are not an excuse. If you have a particular food allergy, you would not apply to work where this food is prepared and served. There are plenty of other ways that you can contract with your vehicle if you do not want to potentially transport someone who needs a service animal. You can deliver groceries, food, office, supplies, etc.

It's so funny that I reached out to Mrs. Rodgers about doing an episode about disability just a few weeks ago... I'm so glad someone is shining light on it! :)

Hooo !! Molly !!! I see her all the time on my Shorts, so happy to see her here

I too have RP and was discovered around 4 years old as well. What got my parents to take me in was I was walking around with my head tilted to one side. I still have vision but the night blindness sucks. Its hard to tell someone how my vision works. I feel my online friends have a better idea about my vision than my own family since they play games like Valorant and when they are dead they see the same thing as me and have learned what I miss alot. lol. I had to have cataract surgery in my left eye two weeks ago and I am having my right eye done tomorrow. I am currently 20/70 corrected. When i was younger I drove and wanted to get a guide dog for night use since I cant see shit at night. But was told the only way I could get it was to give up my drivers license. When I went to the visually impaired school during the day I would guide the totals around and at night they would guide me around lol.

Molly!!! Rebecca you got one of my favorite people on.

No, people in wheelchairs can play basketball. Now, hiking on the other hand...

I grew up in the 70s & 80s (graduated in 1990). I was drawn to shows that had characters with disabilities that were played by actors with those disabilities. From 1989 to 1993, there was a tv show called "Life Goes On" and one of the main characters had Down Syndrome. He was played by Chris Burke. That was a big step for those with Down Syndrome. And when an actor in the original MacGuyver started losing his sight, it was written into the storyline. I think the current generation needs more of this! Thank you for sharing!!

I worked at a large retailer years ago, and it was drilled thru our head, we were only allowed to ask when someone walked thru the front doors, never anywhere else in the store, and the only question we were allowed to ask was "is that a service animal" verbatim, absolutely nothing else. It should never have to be a fight for anyone with an animal, and I'm so sorry so many put y'all through that.

My husband was born with one leg shorter than the other. He has to wear a lift in his boot...he LOVES when kids ask him about his boot. He LOVES educating people about it. It used to bother me cause I grew up being bullied and I didn't want my husband to be bullied...but he explained that it doesn't bother him, he actually ENCOURAGES people to ask.

I’m still watching but I just heard her say “I was an easy target”…. That hit so hard. I was jumped on a school bus in 10tg grade. When we went to court the girl told them “I had a bad day and she was an easy target”. I agree with Molly, school was a nightmare. My school district also denied Braille as my second language but accepted my friends ASL because his parents are deaf. And the bullying came from teachers just as much as the children.

My best friend who is like a sister to me has CP and uses a wheelchair. I am so blessed she is in my life and after my husband passed away she helped me raise my daughter. Our baby is now 21 and a very well rounded accepting young woman, because she was raised around not only different races but differently abled people. She has a kind loving accepting heart and I could not be more proud.

YESS MOLLY BURKE❤❤❤

I loved this video! Some of what she said is literally the greatest advice I’ve ever heard!💕 definitely sent this to my friends!

I have a guide dog and someone has called him a "sight dog" and a "seeing-eye guide dog."

Thank you for having Molly on your channel!! ❤ Because I follow her on Instagram, and have learned so much, I feel more confident speaking up when I see ignorant people be stupid to those you have service dogs!!

As soon as I saw the notification, I was ecstatic to watch! Two of my favorite youtubers in one video!

I appreciate you having this conversation and using your platform to help more people understand service dogs and disability rights. When she says how can I uplift this person and talk about going with friends, advocate for your friend if you can, teach your friends how to explain the law and the 2 questions you can ask just in case you need them. Taking an sd somewhere you never know who may cause issues and it can cause serious anxiety for the disabled person and it is huge when someone has your back.

As a fellow blind person, I absolutely loved hearing this episode!! we definitely need more representation that is genuinely from blind people in the media. I’ve made some TikTok’s here and there about about being blind and how I do the same same things as everybody else else just a little differently. While I myself did not have a guide dog, one of my best friends who is also blind has one. While traveling together, we have been denied so many rides on Uber and Lyft. It feels so crushing sometimes because we’re treated like that so often that it’s hard to show any sort of empathy for the people who deny you a simple right. I agree that we need to educate people, but it can be exhausting and I’m not always 100% the most kind. It’s something that I think people people by nature struggle with. And don’t get me wrong I absolutely love educating people, but in the moment it’s so hard to approach explicit discrimination nicely.

I absolutely LOVE this video, I have watched you and Molly both for a few years now and this conversation is coming at the most perfect time for me as a mom trying to navigate my children's questions when they ask about other children on the playground who may have needs. I hope more people see videos like this and feel more confident in answering or allowing their child to ask questions instead of silencing them. ❤ let's raise a generation of allies!

Yay! Yalls outfits are so stylish and fun, i love this podcast

I've loved this video so much. I have dwarfism, which is a disability that makes the person who has it much shorter than most other people. For me personally, I have 4ft short (4'1 on a good day :P), and whenever I'm out and about doing my errands or just doing anything in public, I notice a lot of kids staring at me. And I know it's because they're probably thinking "This person looks much older than me, but they're the same height as me. Why?" And I want those kids to come up to me and actually ask me "Why are you so short?" but their parents always pull them away and tell them not to stare. I did have 1 kid while I was at I think a Walmart to shop for clothing. And I hear this kid behind me ask their mom "Mommy, why is that woman so short?" And hearing that question, my response was to turn around and greet them. When I did, I saw the mother kneel down in front of her kid and explain to them "Some people are just born shorter than others. It doesn't make them any different to you, it just means they're special" and both my mother, who was with me, and I wanted to cry. Neither of us never heard someone actually explain to their child what my (or any other) disability is and tell them that it's normal. The kid ended up asking me how old I was. I think I was around 14 or 15 at the time, but I told them how old I was and they looked so shocked and came up to me. I vaguely remember their forehead coming up to my nose and they looked almost excited at the similarity of our height, it was adorable. During our shopping, we kept bumping into the kid and their mom, and the kid waved and said hi to me each time. I really wish more parents would do that, or at least allow their kids to talk to me so I can try to educate them about why I'm the same height as them despite being in my 20s. But unfortunately, when the kid looks at me and looks like they're about to ask a question about me, their parent/guardian shushes them and tries to bring their attention to something else that isn't me.

The collab we didn't know we needed!! Love this. ❤

I love that you and Molly got together for this video! As a special education teacher it warms my heart to see the collaboration yall had together. Thank you so much for sharing this video.

This one hit me hard. My mother has mild cerebral palsy and has all her life. My grandfather is completely blind. As my mother's child growing up it was hard to always have my young friends asking me what was "wrong" with her. She always had patience and explained what was different about her body and why. She never thought it was rude. As an older child, teenager, and adult ive always been able to breeze through explanations and not be embarrassed by questions and be very understanding. Because of having her as my mom I have the privilege of being able to help people and children in the world see her, and others like her, as the beautiful people they are. I also have many times been able to explain to children and my own daughter about how everyone is different and some people's bodies dont work like you'd expect them to, but they still are just as human as everyone else and worthy of respect and kindness. I am grateful for my mother and I wouldnt trade her for the world. I am grateful that it seems my generation is teaching their children better about disabilities.

I have wanted you guys to meet for so long!! This is amazing!! I love both of you and thought you would love talking to each other. This is awesome!!!

my fiancé is blind in one eye and it's wild how many people don't realize that blindness isn't seeing complete darkness in most cases.

I have a fairly rare birth effect. Goldenhar Syndrome. I have always told people that I would rather them ask and get any questions out of the way as opposed to stare and wonder why I look different. I love the talk that normal is a state of mind. everyone’s normal is different. Now that I’m in the medical world, though, I will say that there is an objective normal, and there are things that deviate from it, but the individual still experience since their day today as their nirmal

Amen Molly preach, I love your content as a disabled person, Rebecca thank you for doing this video me as a disabled person appreciates it

I'm SO EXCITED that Molly is on today!!!

Such a good/fun teacher!

I would lobe to come tell you about living daily life with ptsd. How I have to navigate being a mother, wife, and a manager of restaurant.😊

Molly burke love this lady she and Elton john are amazing

As someone who has adhd the part about school made me realize that it is possible and plausible for me to get acomadations, for example I can not take notes because the way my brain works is that I either can actually pay attention to what is being taught OR write it down and my parents know this my teachers know this and yet they do nothing note taking is done for grades and on stuff we need to know. And the end really hit home thank you for recognizing disability in this series💜💜💜💜

Totally love this collaboration! I follow both of you. I'm visually impaired about to get my first guide dog! You both asked and answered questions so eloquently. Molly and Rebecca are spot on! Love you both! What a great chat and heartfelt. 😊

Most people around here are great about my service dog. I've had a couple of bad encounters, and someone I need to meet with is allergic to her. One place grabbed the manager, gave me the third degree, and wanted registration papers (legit ones don't exist). One place insisted I tell her what the dog alerts on, thinking "medical alert" wasn't a sufficient answer. Those things are illegal to ask of me. Businesses can ask 2 questions. I'm usually happy to tell everything about her, my health, etc... to people who are curious, not to people who are threatening to kick me out.

My son is autistic and I'm so grateful that he had the most amazing kindergarten teacher with prior experience in special ed. She introduced him to the class with some of his amazing abilities and then explained that he would need help in some other areas such as coloring, or staying with the class when they went places. The kids would argue over who got to be his buddy for the day; so every day when they walked to lunch or music a buddy would hold his hand. It was amazing seeing how the school kids bonded with him compared to dealing with the outside world.

Thanks!

This was great! Thank you both

6 is old enough to know not to approach any strange dog-pet or SD.

I'm disabled I became disabled in 2015 i have what they call achalasia and need a feeding tube cuz it's hard for me to swallow and Im also what they call an ambulatory wheelchair user and I also have epilepsy and what they call p n e s which is psychogenic non-epileptic seizures ending school I was bullied and I was pushed down the stairs and I broke my ankle cuz of that girl pushing me down the stairs and then somebody else punch me in the nose right after that and broke my nose

I love this episode so much it really heals my heart as a deaf individual. I appreciate you guys creating content that educates others about disabilities!

2 of my favorite creators together, IM SOO EXCITED, I LOVE YALL!!!

You should do an episode with Sam Matthews from Dan and Sam on being a surrogate. 🧡

Molly I think you are amazing! I love your comment about non-disabled allies. Parents need those allies too. I hope I step in when I see this type of injustice.

Thanks for having Molly on! Her videos have given me a lot of hope while dealing with chronic illnesses.

Molly!!! So glad you came to this channel, i follow you both but this collab made me so happy the audience that it is reaching. Much love.

Thanks for having Molly Burke on your podcast 😊

my HS economics teacher has a son that has CP. his son was cool, smart, on the sports teams, school president etc. his senior year of HS he was diagnosed with CP and after graduation lost all his friends because no one knew how to talk to him all of a sudden. his mind was still the same, he was still the same person. my teacher taught seniors and after graduation would pay a few over the summer to play x-box games with his son (who was only 3 years older than us at the time and the graduates were all 18) and i remember thinking how truly sad it was and how sad my teacher was for his son who was once the star of the school. it is a grief very few understand i think, the loss of the future you want your kids to have

Thank you for having Molly on your channel. Thank you Molly, I needed to hear what you said. I'm 60 years old and make a difference in my life. I am not blind but have multiple other disabilities.

Hey Ms. Roger's, I saw you on Teachers of Dutty. I enjoyed hearing your experience teaching World Religions without any curriculum. It sounds like you made the class really interesting.

Omg I can't believe I'm watching it 6 seconds in🙀. I love you Rebecca 💗

I love seeing you two together!

I love the content you both put out ❤ as a parent of a child with a disability your content is valuable ❤️

Molly! I'm so glad you interviewed her!

I think one of the biggest hurdles for service dog users is the new influx of RU-vid videos on 'how to spot a fake service dog'. The popularity of the RU-vid videos showing people, especially other service dog users, yelling at someone for having a 'fake service dog' is appalling. I had someone follow me around the grocery store, with her own service dog, yelling at me that my dogs couldn't be real service dogs because I had them in a stroller and one of them barked at her dog. This was just after quarantine. I had gotten my new dog two months before lockdown, so she hadn't ever seen a big dog. I was correcting my dog, as I am supposed to, but having her and her dog following us and yelling was only making it harder for me to calm my dog down. She was in protection mode at that point and honestly had every right to tell that person to go away because she was giving me a panic attack. As for the stroller, my dogs task by sitting on my chest. I had no desire to have them walking on the ground gathering germs and then bringing those germs right to my face. When we are out they are in the stroller or tasking on my chest. I just wish people would realize service dogs are still dogs. They have bad days. They may have some behaviors they have to be trained out of while they are still working, because the behavior only happens in specific situations. Basically, there is no real way to 'spot a fake service dog', and we are just as frustrated about it as you are. But making our life even more difficult won't fix the fake service dog problem.

I’m under the age of 18 and I was born blind in my left eye, in the way that can never be fixed. As of today’s medical procedures anyway. And this makes me so happy to know that this is being discussed, I also have nystagmus

Hey! How exciting. Molly glad to see you here. You guys are awesome together 😎❤️🐝

I would love for you to sit down with Tinassee- Tina Tsakonas! I think it’s very important that we hear from people who have been through and overcome addiction! She also has great advice and stories from her time in jail/prison!! The system is VERY broken!! She can help keep people out of jail and inform us so we can help those who end up there… whether deserved or not!!! Too many of these places are truly awful for no valid reason!!! I think bringing awareness would help those in jail, make people on the outside better people (empathetically and so on,) and help keep people out of jail/prison!!!

Aaahhhhh!!!!! The collab i didnt know i needed!!!!!! ❤

My mom, born in the late 50’s had a neighbor friend with a disability. I think maybe Down syndrome or something. I think her growing up with him definitely made her a better person and helped her be the advocate when I was diagnosed with ADHD as a young girl.

As a mom I encouraged my kid to ask. They would ask me and I would give a general that person needs that support if we want to know more maybe we should ask if they would be comfortable talking to us about it. Then again my family had direct contact with multiple people experiencing disabilities.

Was so excited when I saw Molly in this. As a long-time follower of her, I gained so much from this interview. I love you Molly! You're a beautiful person in all ways ❤ PS. I want to be on speed dial for anytime someone gives you a hard time with your guide dog in public so I can come to your defense. The way I would have stood up in that restaurant!!

I am blind. But I am also much older than these two ladies. The difference I see and how people with disabilities are treated is that nowadays many of the disabled people feel they are entitled, privileged, and really do not put their best foot forward at all. Also, there’s a lot of people with so-called hidden disabilities that demand special treatment. 20 years ago this was not a thing. and the whole service animal fiasco is getting worse by the minute. we are training people how to make fake service animals and basically encourage it by not stopping it. So just like many other marginalized groups the disabled community is not helping themselves out very much. And a few really bad apples are making it hard for everybody else.

Thank you for this. I loved watching this video, as Molly is inspiration to me who is about the same age as me. I have autism, I was also Bullied in school.

The school experience was very real. I was born hearing and woke up deaf in both ears as a child. My friends in school suddenly turned on me and started bullying me. I developed selective mutism from about 7th-9th grade from both the trauma of overnight deafness (neurosarcoidosis was the cause) and bullying in school. I even got bullied at WORK as an adult. I do sign language videos on my RU-vid and social media and try to give tips on what to and what not to do to deaf people (#1 screaming at us is not helpful), #2 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) are the only acceptable terms. "Hearing impaired" implies that we are broken and need to be fixed and is not a respectful term to use. I had been yelled at in TSA at the airport (No I do not have to remove a hearing device going through TSA) and ON the plane by a flight attendant who snatched my hearing device batteries from me bc I didn't "hear her" say put it away for take off (No people we do not have to put away or turn off a hearing device or any accommodation). I was shocked and everyone just watched. Didn't say a word. She later apologize and gave me an extra snack. I guess she realized my name and seat is documented as DEAF on my ticket 🙄😒. Even being yelled at at work, not a soul spoke up to do the right thing. As a disabled person AND minority, some people are just uneducated and others witnesses are cowards.

Under 20 minutes!!! Love your videos❤