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Originally Posted by doh
Curious what you feel towards people who are not deaf/hoh at all that post here, like ASL students.
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I have no problem with "hearies" posting on here so long as they have a genuine interest in or connection to deafness. This may be as parents, siblings offspring, friends etc of a deaf person. Also as you said above, ASL students.
What I object to is someone who may have problems (mental or otherwise) that are not associated with deafness posting on here, possibly pretending to be deaf just to get us deafies to open up and share experiences. This could then be used to prop up or flesh out the non deaf persons "acting" as a deaf person. Of course we cannot stop anyone from reading what is posted but to have whole threads devoted to syndromes that have nothing to do with deafness does not seem right to me.