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Originally Posted by shel90
Exactly!!! I would die too without my deaf friends. I cant imagine going back to my old life as a "hearing" person..no thank u.
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Originally Posted by deafskeptic
I'm in the same boast as you, Flip. If I speak, people will assume that I have normal hearing or close to it. In some situations, I'll act like I can't speak at all.
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Originally Posted by jillio
Your perspective is a bit wider than the general hearing population because of your experiences with your son. And I agree with you...one of my first relpies to my son's audi who was reccommending an oral only environment was that it did not matter to me how he communicated, but that he communicated. But before one can come to that conclusion, one has to understand that the frustration they see int heir child is not due to being unable to speak, but being unable to communicate. Unfortunately, I have met far too many hearing people who are unable to see the situation from a perspective other than their own.
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I agree that perspective changes a bit with exposure. I find myself having to explain to my friends when they ask if my son can read lips. I tell them to turn down the volume on their TV and try and follow along. Then I ask them how well they would do at that before they learned a language. Makes them think a bit. What really cracks me up is that many were asking the same question when he was 18 months old. Can he read lips? It's ignorance more than anything else. I agree about the frustration factor. I definitely see it.