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Hear Her Hands

On Audism and Ableism in Neuroscience

Note: this is a blog version of this Twitter thread.

5 min readJun 18, 2022

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The back of a white female’s head with her brunette hair in a ponytail. We can see a skin tone behind the ear hearing aid on her right ear. She sits at a desk with a computer and paper in front of her, she is writing on the paper with a pen.

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When Pain Isn’t Normal — And Doctors Don’t Listen.

I was young when I got my period for the first time — eleven years old, before we separated into boys and girls groups at school (what…

6 min readApr 29, 2019

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When Pain Isn’t Normal — And Doctors Don’t Listen.

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How Adult Camp Transformed My Relationship to Friendship.

Last summer, I went back to camp. It had been almost twenty years since I rounded that last hairpin turn with my parents to sleep-away…

7 min readMar 18, 2019

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How Adult Camp Transformed My Relationship to Friendship.

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Access is a Civil Right

Imagine yourself as a student. It’s the first day of school, you have your bag all packed, pencils and paper inside. You pick out clothes…

10 min readNov 30, 2018

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Access is a Civil Right

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6 Ways I Practice Self-Care as a Deaf Person

Photo by Nikita Kachanovsky on Unsplash

7 min readOct 18, 2018

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6 Ways I Practice Self-Care as a Deaf Person

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I Became Obsessed with Health to Hide My Disability

As a Deaf woman growing up in the hearing world, I never really fit in anywhere. I spent a lot of my childhood feeling like I was stuck…

11 min readOct 4, 2018

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I Became Obsessed with Health to Hide My Disability

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Hear Her Hands

Hear Her Hands

My name is Jennifer and I am the writer behind Hear Her Hands. I am a Deaf, chronically ill, disabled thirty something, also handler for @servicedog_schnauzer.

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