Carlos Roberto de Oliveira LIMA
Plurais - Revista Multidisciplinar, Salvador, v. 8, n. 00, e023022, 2023. e-ISSN: 2177-5060
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29378/plurais.v8i00.18680 11
audist practice. Considering the Letras-Libras course as "easier" finds traces of guiding deaf
bodies, implying that every deaf person, by virtue of being deaf, would be destined for the
Letras-Libras course.
It is important, at this moment, to note that, according to the Code of Ethical and
Professional Conduct presented by the Brazilian Federation of Associations of Professional
Translators and Interpreters and Guide Interpreters of Sign Language (Febrapils), it is forbidden
for TILS: "to give advice or personal opinions, except when required and with the consent of
the Requester or Beneficiary" (Febrapils, 2014, p. 5, our translation).
Another form of violence recorded in her speech appears in relation to her family:
And also, now, last month, I asked my father to stop doing something that was
bothering me, and he asked me 'why?,' I said I was going to study some
concepts to take a certain exam. And he replied, 'Well, but you're deaf, you're
not capable of that. It would be much better if you got a Cochlear Implant to
start hearing. It would be much better, and it would become much easier if
you could hear.' I was shocked. This quadrupled my exhaustion. I almost cried,
almost gave up the course. I didn't want to go to work anymore and didn't want
to live anymore.
In this family excerpt, the audist practice appears as "[...] a lack of knowledge about the
well-being of deaf people that leads people to believe that happiness is not possible except in
auditory modalities" (Humphries, 1977, p. 16, our translation). The words of her father, who
also presents a tactic of guiding to place Clarice within the norm of hearing, "it would be much
better if you got a Cochlear Implant to start hearing," reveal how her subjectivity has been
shaped, leading to her desires to give up the course, work, and life itself.
The way Clarice deals with such discourses puts her in constant conflict. Her responses
to questions always mark this relational problem, sometimes with interpreters, sometimes with
family members, and despite all the desires that pass through her mind, the academic resists
and continues to pursue her dream: to graduate from her course.
A new form of oppression appeared in Clarice's signed speech:
The same thing happened with my brother. [...] Before the end of last year,
when I passed the entrance exam and was all happy, my brother said, "Wow,
are you going to do this course? Impossible, you're deaf!" I was very surprised.
"Aren't you happy?" I asked. "Yes, I'm happy, but this course is too difficult
for you. You'd be better suited for the Esthetics course [...]."
Considering that Clarice should align herself with the Esthetics course is a form of
association with historically constructed themes, assigning defined and rigid professions to