Thank you, Sweetmind. I would enjoy meeting you, too. Maybe will happen someday!
loml--obviously you don't know me very well! I do not try to dictate to anyone. I only share my experience and hope they can learn something from it that is valuable to them. I know what my experience has been, and what my son's experience has been. I know how much harm the audist attitude did to him. I have communicated with more Deaf people than I can count whose experience has been the same as mine. And you have no idea how many battles I've fought so that my son would be allowed to use the language that is his birthright. You have no idea how many tears I cried because of the unfair and predjudiced treatment he has recieved too many times from the hearing world. When my son was diagnosed deaf, and I was confused and lost and didn't know what to do to help my son, the Deaf community came to my aid. They didn't treat my son like he was something inferior that had a disease that needed to be cured. They helped my son develop a healthy identity, and they helped me to be a better parent. Unless you have walked in my shoes, and been where I have been, you have no business criticising me or my beliefs or my attitudes or my choices.
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