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When I was a little girl, I used to wonder why people are afraid of deaf people.
It made me very angry.
When I was older, I was sitting on a bus once. And a blind man got on the bus. He came with a cane down the aisle, tapping on the floor. And he got very close to me, and I was thinking, “Don’t sit down next to me. Don’t sit down next to me.”
And he came right up next to me, and turned around, and he sat down on the seat beside me.
I started to cry. And I sat their crying, and I thought, “I’m afraid. That’s why people are afraid of me.”
And so I knew, and I made up my mind not to be angry at people anymore.
If they were afraid of us, I would try to make them feel not afraid.
— And Your Name Is Jonah, movie, 1979
