The Stand : CBS Continues The Trend By Casting A Hearing Actor In A Deaf Role.

[hewontgo]

Over 95 percent of disabled characters are portrayed by able bodied actors. @CBS continues the trend by casting a hearing actor in a deaf role. https://t.co/WmaNqALwhH
- josh feldman (@ItsJoshFeldman) August 2, 2019
CBS All Access has set four of the leads for its upcoming series “The Stand

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[analievelyn]

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Re: Disability Activists you should be following

[larzipan_af]

Perfect first comment

Re: Disability Activists you should be following

[analievelyn]

ooh, yes!

I follow Imani (queen), Vilisa, Lydia, and Kim, but lots of these I only see in retweets.

Thank you so much <3

Re: Disability Activists you should be following

[ty]

Deaf people are not disabled. I do appreciate this post though

[analievelyn]

Steven King should be asked about this if he hasn't already

[felicityhaircut]

I took ASL in college and it was so hard! I’m left handed and kept getting confused bc the instructor and most everyone else in the class were right handed. I remember him saying that the thing deaf ppl hated the most was when Hollywood made it look like deaf ppl can read lips easily, especially from like across the room, bc it’s not like that irl at all.

[iznanassi]

i just realized i've been signing with my left hand all this time oh shit lmao is it a big issue? i've been learning at home

[felicityhaircut]

Maybe it isn’t? Someone more knowledgeable than me can clarify but I remember I was having a hard time mimicking the instructor bc he was using his right hand a lot and I was using my left. I have horrible hand-eye coordination so that did not help lmao

[iwillshutup]

It’s not, people usually sign with their dominant hand (unless they learned it differently). since there are less left handed people than right handed, we don’t usually see it, but it’s ok to sign with your left :)

[bellwetherr]

well this is unfortunately not surprising

[talklikelions]

Damn I wanna be glad about Amber bc I want her to get all the roles and piss off the abuse apologizers, but then they pull this so it’s like *gestures angrily* fuck y’all

It isn’t that hard of a concept to cast disabled folks in disabled roles.

I never finished Switched at Birth but I appreciated that they cast actual deaf actors for that