DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 3, 2015 morning
-- a big irony with a movie
There are always movies when we see hearing actors
play fake-deaf roles. But there is a twist with
a movie produced in India. In the movie
"Guddu Rangeela", the plot involves a
hearing actress that plays a role of a
hearing woman that plays as a hearing
character that tries to play a fake-deaf role!
It is about a kidnapping, that the hearing
character, faking her deafness, finally admits
that she is not deaf!
-- deaf man thought dead for 67 years
A sad story. Donovan Calkins was born deaf in
Australia. His parents thought he was mentally
retarded and gave him up in 1948. Institutionalized
for all of his life, he never learned to read or
write or to communicate with other deaf people.
Only just recently the Australian social services
people tracked down his real family and had
Donovan reunited with them. The family was happy,
but shocked because for all of these years they
thought he was dead! He was never mentally
retarded, just that he never had a chance to
grow and learn normally, like with other deaf
people.
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