Grummer

That's exaclty what the audists want you to say, as long as they have someone on their side, they will continue to justify their 'endeavenour'. It's not a 'great mystery' you're not THAT bloody special, you jsut happen to have 'the right ingredients' that helped to facilitate oralism, audiologicaly 'high' and 'even' to acquire 'intelligiable speech' perceptions with your aids, from the right type of residual hearing, personality-wise you may be docile in classrooms, a hard worker, have the 'right sort' of family background, even the the right sort of 'cultural capital' (read Pierre Bourdieu), so if you consider all the above, you'd hardy think its a 'great mystery', we all have seen from time to time, some (not just deaf) disabled people (and Deaf), says they are freaks of nature, and so and so, its almost liken to be annouced you're some sort of Supercrip, and that according to the scholars within Disabled People's Studies feild, are the very ones who ends up oppressing their own kinds (while getting praises for being a 'fighter' as a disabled person. This is unneeded and it is a subtle form of societal legalised treason.

Oppressors, audist alike thrive on having such persons to speaks miracles of their deeds, which in truth aren't moreso I can not understand why some people continued to believe so that it is while 'we all have to be grateful' for what limits we have, my ASS !!

Hearing people dont want us to know what we're missing out on, like whats it like to have a [way] better job, better pay, better social life, more interesting [more expensive] holidays, more clue and knowledge about what is on the news, what does it concern them? (they only ask or tell us what we should be concerned with] and all this IS part of being oppressed, its not just about HAVING a job, but HAVE A LIFE that you REALLY wanted. The whole nitty gritty bits, the whole raw deal. "we' Had to be looked after, interpreters are all the same too, they learn signs from us, and yet later on comes back and CHARGE us exhorbiant fees (or institutions , such as courts, hospitals, or welfare offices) to rip us off, while most of us Deaf havent seen or felt a slight change.

So they say, (sic) someone else is worse off' I mean come on, this is almost pushing for more ignorance of the reality of which ways the society deals with us, different people, to be operating on a cleansing process, which the focus is on the individual, in concern to transform the individual rather than the environment, it is true that all this is based on commonsense than something consciously constructed by anyone.

This is why it is so damn hard or seemingly near impossible to yeild these sort of change in society to wich would accomodate us Deaf people in a much better, fairer way, it is not the blocks, but it is the structure of society that is hard to dismantle.

Like, HOW do we proceed to change the way society behaves towards us d/Deaf people? Granted, we have sign language politics, CI vesus SL debates, and so forth, but thats got nothing to do with how the social structure organises itself, which informs the way ordinary people THINK.

Now, That is the great mystery.