Shaylee Mansfield Instagram – Is Deaf a bad word? Googling up the definition of Deaf was shocking… most of their definitions are negative, misleading, and far from the truth. Are all deaf people unreasonable? Unyielding? Unwilling to listen? Refusing to be persuaded? Words have power and by defining them incorrectly takes Deaf people’s power away. I refuse to listen to this. What should the new definition be?