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Originally Posted by DeafCaroline
I had no deaf friends at all growing up. My mother was told to keep me away from the deaf community so I would learn only speech because if I also learned ASL and had deaf friends, I wouldn't try as hard to speak well to fit in at the "normal" school.
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Moderation probably would have been the key there. Meeting other oral / mainstreamed children like yourself could have also helped.