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Get the Summary of Elsa Sjunneson's Being Seen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be.
As a media studies professor, she’s also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.
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According to the author, being Deafblind is being stripped bare of your adaptive aids, and learning to navigate the world without them.
#2
Many nondisabled people have extremely negative perceptions of disability, and will even question the safety of being around a disabled person.
#3
Society often classifies blind and deaf people as two separate categories, when in reality, they are the same.
#4
There are a lot of rules in society that try to erase disability, and it is a truth universally unacknowledged that you can become disabled at any point in your life.
#5
The author, who has a disability, wants to
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