Tell Me That You Love Me 1x09 "Episode 9" ★★★★★★★★☆☆
I love how they presented the (1) reaction against deaf people; and (2) a parent's concern for their beloved child.
It was a very good opening for episode 9.
Another thing. They paid attention to the difference between "hard of hearing" and "deaf"; and they did not use the word "mute".
It's close to me because I have a heart for them since I was a little kid. I even studied the #FilipinoSignLanguage or #FSL in 1995/1996, and they told us this:
"We are not mute. We can speak because we have our own language, just like every human being use languages."
It's about a #deaf artist (art) and teacher guy and a woman who is struggling to become an actor. They met by accident and started to find an unlikely and unexpected friendship.
The woman started to communicate through Korean #SignLanguage unexpectedly.
Man monologue: I always thought I was the one who should make an effort to live in harmony with others. Because in this world, there are a lot more people who can hear than those who cannot.
But out of all those people, someone came to me and said "he" first. She said she was glad to see me again. And after saying what she prepared to say, she smiled. As if she was saying, "I'm just saying hi. Stop thinking too much."
And she was smiling.
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As an #Autistic person, that struck hard. We always make the effort "to live in harmony with others". Why? "Because in this world, there are a lot more people who" are neurotypical "than those who" are neuroatypical.
Like the deaf character in this show, we also rarely see non-Autistic who will say hi to us before we do.