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Originally Posted by Bebonang
It would be wonderful if we have a Deaf World instead of Hearing World unless the hearing people who are interest in ASL and not try to change us to please them and not to try to fix us. They are welcome to our Deaf World and can meet halfway or all the way to communicate with us Deafies/HOH. I know that is a dream and I am dreaming that I can be who I want to be and not look down at me and I feel free to use ASL for myself and the deaf babies and deaf children. The hearing world is telling us NO to ASL and to use voice, and lipread.  |
what bothers me is your use of pronouns
you say "they"
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they trying to hurt us as if they are trying to get what they want us to do to be like them
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They just want to make us suffer
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and it sounds like you're talking about all hearies. that's called stereotyping.
and you say "we"
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It would be wonderful if we have a Deaf World instead of Hearing World
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do you mean all deaf people or "we" as in everybody on Earth? hearing people don't want to be in a Deaf World. it's one thing to have deaf friends and whatever, it's another to become deaf and be completely immersed in Deaf life. hearies can respect the deaf without wanting to live exactly like them or wanting to make the deaf live like then.
hearing people, as the majority, want people to conform to them, not vice versa. most Southern Californians resent the fact that many services and many of our signs and pamphlets and whatnot are in both english and spanish. they think, "this is america! you have to learn our language!"
hearing people are the same. if 500 people in a town of 100,000 are deaf, the hearies would want the deafies to do everything they could to communicate verbally. just look at the numbers; 500 people learning to lipread and speak versus 99,500 learning ASL. it seems to me that the biggest obstacle to being deaf is just coping with this simple mathematical fact and the mentality associated with it.
it sounds like you should move to Martha's Vineyard.