In the video "What Happens When Deaf People Go to the Movies" by Chella Man, you can really recognize the little difficulties deaf people face everyday. These two guys simply want to go see a movie at the theatre instead of watching it at home with subtitles like usual, but the theatre was overwhelmingly unprepared. They asked for a "closed-captioning device" which is what deaf people use to read captions at the movies. It was big, unstable, and honestly super inefficient, it went in their cup holder and they had to keep looking back and forth from the screen to the tiny little caption box.
You should have seen the look of pure confusion on the employee's face when they came in and asked for the caption device, they spent 10 minutes looking for it and once they found it they needed to put new batteries in it because no one had used it in so long. The two men almost missed their movie. Needless to say, the theatre was unprepared.
I feel like this represents a broader lack of accommodations for people with disabilities. About every single person feels sympathy when they see someone with a disability, but where is the action? I feel like people often just look at someone and think, "Well thank God that's not me" then move on. But when will that person go over to them and do something kind, or ask them how their day has been? Historically people with disabilities have been discriminated against, turned away from, and made fun of but things have changed and it is time for businesses to get on board.
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