"I’m done saying sorry for being deaf – I want to change how society treats people like me"
When I first wore hearing aids I was ashamed of my deafness. Learning not to blame but to advocate for myself changed that
Liam O’Dell, a freelance British journalist who is Deaf, published a first-person account of challenging ableist encounters he's had and his reaction to them. What he learned as a result of these enc…
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