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Originally Posted by Cheri
Flip- You gonna be kidding me when you say that those who prefer speech don't have any deaf friends what do you know? I have friends who are both deaf amd hearing. I'm not one of those deaf people who sticks in their little world who referred themselves "a big D Deaf" who thinks signs should be the primary language for the deaf ONLY. And disrinct themselves from the hearing community if this is how it is here, then I'm in the wrong forum. I've met some deaf people like that in every walk of life and I sure do not want to be around those people who are not very accepting and so self center.
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That was not what I was trying to say. My view is that deaf people will rate the importance of speech depedent on their background and preset situation. As an example, deaf people who don't know other deaf people propbably would rate speech as more important than a deaf person that live in a deaf community like Marthas Vineyard or Gallaudet. We also have deaf people that would rate speech and ASL/SEE/PSE whatever equally. I hope you don't mean that all deaf people should rate speech as important as you do?