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A term typically used to describe physical, cultural and linguistic discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing people.

Audism applies to both the hearing and Deaf communities.
Examples of audism would be enying the Deaf individual a position based on his/her hearing and/or linguistic capacity.

Another example of audism would be refusing to provide an interpreter citing financial hardship when the ADA cites accessibility to interpreting services is a civil right.
audism by DBadvocate May 12, 2010
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Discrimination, prejudice, bias and other negative manifestations toward the deaf.
If you were suddenly to become D/deaf overnight, you would experience audism and would be treated differently in so many ways... especially in career fields (e.g. On March 2, 2006, a federal jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its employment discrimination lawsuit against Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. EEOC had charged FedEx with failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to Ronald Lockhart, a deaf employee who worked as a package handler at the company's Baltimore Ramp. The suit charged Federal Express with violating the ADA when it failed to provide reasonable accommodations to Lockhart in the form of American Sign Language interpreters, despite his repeated requests. The jury found FedEx liable for punitive damages in the amount of $100,000 for its knowing failure to accommodate Lockhart as well as compensatory damages of $8,000 for the loss of the accommodation itself. In January 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the jury’s award.)
Audism by EF November 3, 2012
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the descrimination of the hard-of-hearing
Instead of color descrimination prevalent in schools, audism has become an increasing problem.
audism by Dackmilliken February 20, 2004
Making an odd sound or noise with ones mouth while telling a story. Purpose is the addition of a sound effect to enhance a point of movement, impact, or context.
Aaron
"How did you get that knot on your head?"

Paul
"A damn squirrel in the tree grabbed a pine cone and *fwooped* it at me. It *fonked* me on the head."

*Audisms*
Audism by Ace1339 March 4, 2010

No Different Than You Autism Awareness 

A cause under the thuggizzle cares umbrella founded by hip hop artist and community philanthropist thuggizzle that spreads autism awareness. Thuggizzle is responsible for uniting over 30,000 families who have kids with autism.
Thuggizzle has a team that faithfully attends the any baby can walk for autism every year called No Different Than You Autism Awareness.

Autism Speaks 

But they don't listen to real autistic people. For some reason people and big companies support them despite AS' fuckups. Probably blackmail or some shit.
One time I went to a TJ Maxx and on the intercom an employee said that 50% of purchases were going to be donated to Autism Speaks. I left immediately to Target. The store sucked anyways.
Autism Speaks by Corn-Sizzurp May 18, 2021

tbh creature/autism creature 

dumb little silly guy. he’s got a big round head and big round eyes and little stubby legs. i think he’s neat.
“i love the tbh creature/autism creature”
“same, i like his round face”
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