Random Interesting Tidbit for the day
May. 25th, 2010 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
troubleI'm in the archives right now, reading one of the many many many letters written by the Superintendent of the School for the Blind.
This sentence is interesting to me re: attitudes towards disability.
"I hope you will consult an aurist at once as if this continues it is liable to cause deafness which in Tommy's case would be a great calamity."
Which I'm adding to the very tiny pile of stuff I have that implies that deafness was not considered a great calamity in Halifax at this time, but just a Thing That Could Happen, and here's how we work around it.
It's a tiny bit of stuff. I'm curious if I'll have enough to ever make that argument effectively.
This sentence is interesting to me re: attitudes towards disability.
"I hope you will consult an aurist at once as if this continues it is liable to cause deafness which in Tommy's case would be a great calamity."
Which I'm adding to the very tiny pile of stuff I have that implies that deafness was not considered a great calamity in Halifax at this time, but just a Thing That Could Happen, and here's how we work around it.
It's a tiny bit of stuff. I'm curious if I'll have enough to ever make that argument effectively.
