For some in the deaf and blind community, it’s not what they want to hear (no pun intended).
“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
By Nina Livingstone
How does a person who is deaf or blind (or both) avoid touch or tactile communication in the face of a “hands-off” pandemic?
Am I being cautious or paranoid when I want to say “don’t touch me!”? In the deafblind world, tactile communication is indispensable. Isolation is the opposite of what this community seeks.
But here’s where we run into a little trouble when a pandemic enters the scene. Because I am blind with deafness (Usher syndrome), I order more and more things to be delivered. I did it just this past Friday…
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