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My mom told me about stuff the oralists did when teaching me some Deaf history like the oralists making deaf students sit at their desks with their hands under their bottoms so they had to speak. I was glad that this dark age passed away before I was born, but apparently, they are making a comeback.
If an oralist slapped me for signing, I'd write to them to show how good my English is despite me speaking words only a handful of times in my entire life. I'd also tell them that it'd be a waste of time for me to learn to speak because I live and work just fine with signing, writing and typing. It's also long past the developmental stage where learning how to speak would be easy. If they keep slapping me, I'd get them arrested for assault.
It looks like they see deaf people as broken and in need of being fixed by communicating in the same way as hearing people. They ban sign languages because they see it as a threat to speaking ability, but there are people who can do both. I wonder if the hearing oralists ever tried to lipread themselves because they apparently don't realize that not all speech is lipread easily, causing oralism to get in the way of learning quickly.
I wonder what oralists think of the plains native American sign language used for intertribal communication.
I also wonder if the oralists realize that it's risky to depend on just lipreading, speaking and the CI because lipreading doesn't give you 100% of the information and someone could use an EMP weapon to fry the CI, as well as lots of other electronics within range. Or they could just put it into water or smash it up.
There's also no being put into or using a MRI scanner with the CI magnets.
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