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Originally Posted by Ozzie
Yes, I understand what you are saying, no doubt about that. And that’s true, what you are inside is what counts.
I love it when you wrote a perfect picture of a child but that illusion is shattered by the sign-language so that’s where the hearing either have to accept the imperfections or not, by realizing we're the same as everybody with emotions, except for our 'broken' ears.
The Deaf have been misunderstood for donkey’s years and I feel that will never change. It’s like hitting your head on a brick wall!
It would be a long and hard road in bridging the gap with the Deaf and hearing in terms of ignorance. If you want to do that, by all means, do so! 
Your brief story would be an excellent one to be printed out to various sources for the hearing to read. |
IF this little story could reach even hearing person and touch their heart to their indifference, then I would give it away freely. I do not know how to publish anything. I gave away a few poems years ago, because they written as gifts more or less. I gave them permission to publish and 2 were. FUnny, I was promised a copy of the magz that they came out in, but never got one. One was a church international magazine, I wrote a long poem called "The Gift of a Daughter" for the mother's day pageant, and they asked if they could publish it. I just gave them a copy and smiled. I Then moved to a new town and never checked to see what happened with it. The other was about a nurse. I signed release before I left the hospital and it was suppose to go into some magazine for the medical field. I wrote them as gifts and didn't want anything in return. The same is true with this story. I just want to get the point across.
Do you remember the "Triumph of the Spirit" book about Gallaudet and Deaf President Now movement? For a moment in time, the hearing and the Deaf actaully partnered to change the policy at Gallaudet. It took both communities to fight the powers that be. Go back and read it again. The key to the success of the story, (I believe) was when the news media got ahold of the story. After that the hearing world was outraged just like the Daef community was, and they donated money, wrote their legislators etc. It couldn't have happend without the involvement of the hearing community. I think the key was communicating the need so that the hearing world could understand that there was a problem. I am hoping that I am right, and that a little education will go a long way towards bridging the gap. Hearing people know almost nothing about the Deaf, because nobody tells them. Well, this little ole granny is pissed about the onslought on our Deaf schools and a variety of other things that are still opressing the Deaf,,, and she is about to start planting some seeds to try to change that. I may never live long enough to see them all grow.,, but I am hoping that the goods seeds will one day grow so thick that the weeds will be outnumbered and simply blow away.