I understand what do you mean. That's interesting. I don't feel shame being deaf. But in my side family think I was shame because I don't use my voice to communicate. They think I was shame for attend to Deaf School and learn about deaf community. I don't mean to against to hearing world. I think it's silly to say shame of me. My old teacher called me hearing impaired. She abused on me for not use speech. I had a time to learn speech because my teeth were crooked. It was bad mid-face. It was not my faulted! I got a brace to make a straight teeth. I lacked of use speech for long times due enrolled to Deaf school. They don't need to use the voice. That's why!
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Originally Posted by shel90
I think for people who are ashamed of their deafness feel that being called "deaf" is offensive. I grew up so ashamed of my deafness because I was mainstreamed in a strictly oral-only environment and was also taught that being deaf was a terrible thing so if anyone called me "deaf", I would get upset. The reason for that was cuz I was in BIG time denial about my deafness. When I finally learned ASL and discovered the Deaf community, I realized that being deaf was ok and also realized how degrading the term "hearing-impaired" had been for me all of my life. So, since that "wake-up" moment, I have desested that term "hearing-impaired" ever since.
All of my friends in the Deaf community deset that term too.
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