You know what else I've been thinking?
Jun. 17th, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Birdsongs.
No, bear with me here. This makes sense. See, in all these articles about autism, people get sniffy and say that "I'll never hear him say he loves me!!!" This is actually very similar to many articles I've read about people with deaf kids, except then it's often that they will never hear their parents say those words. And then somebody always says that, for this poor, unfortunate person, there are no birdsongs. It's always birds. They'll never hear the birds sing.
*listens to the birds for a bit*
You know what?
Birdsong is overrated. Do you know what birds are singing? They're singing "Get the fuck out of here" and "Hey, baby, let's do it" and "I've got a great big tonker" and "OUT! OUT! OUT! OFF MY LAWN, PUNK!" and that's about it.
Now, if *I* were deaf, or if I had a kid who was born deaf, I'd be a lot more concerned about not hearing sirens or car horns or gunshots and therefore might be endangered by this fact. But that's just me. I'm sure that, in the long run, it's more important to hear "I love you" and birdsong.
I mean, it must be, right?
(Yes, this is entirely random. Sorry.)
On a similar note, I often have wondered why people want to go back to the 50s. I know about the 50s. It was a veritible nightmare of racism, conformity, McCarthyism, sexism, and the Korean war. Who the hell wants to return to that? Other than the obvious, that is.
No, bear with me here. This makes sense. See, in all these articles about autism, people get sniffy and say that "I'll never hear him say he loves me!!!" This is actually very similar to many articles I've read about people with deaf kids, except then it's often that they will never hear their parents say those words. And then somebody always says that, for this poor, unfortunate person, there are no birdsongs. It's always birds. They'll never hear the birds sing.
*listens to the birds for a bit*
You know what?
Birdsong is overrated. Do you know what birds are singing? They're singing "Get the fuck out of here" and "Hey, baby, let's do it" and "I've got a great big tonker" and "OUT! OUT! OUT! OFF MY LAWN, PUNK!" and that's about it.
Now, if *I* were deaf, or if I had a kid who was born deaf, I'd be a lot more concerned about not hearing sirens or car horns or gunshots and therefore might be endangered by this fact. But that's just me. I'm sure that, in the long run, it's more important to hear "I love you" and birdsong.
I mean, it must be, right?
(Yes, this is entirely random. Sorry.)
On a similar note, I often have wondered why people want to go back to the 50s. I know about the 50s. It was a veritible nightmare of racism, conformity, McCarthyism, sexism, and the Korean war. Who the hell wants to return to that? Other than the obvious, that is.
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Date: 2005-06-17 09:53 pm (UTC)Can I metaquote that?
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Date: 2005-06-18 08:31 am (UTC)Sure!