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Is it common to see hearing people with no immediate ties to the deaf community at events? I know I sound like a broken record, I'm just really intimidated by the whole situation.

It's horrible deaf people back then (and from what I understand, now also) had to go through those struggles. What makes it worse is that as a hearing person I had no idea these struggles even existed. Are there many hearing people in your deaf community? If so, how do most deafies respond to...

Well, I can't pretend to know the struggle of deafs in a hearing world, but I do understand that society pressures us to do many things...and I disagree with a lot of them. Thank you for being honest; these are things I need to know if I'm going to fit in. Implying that I ever will...

I don't understand, teaching signs to deaf babies is forbidden?

Tbh, I think I read that on a thread somewhere on this site. I assumed that feeling was mutual between all deaf people, but I guess that's me being ignorant to your culture. :/

So my wife and I (hearing) have a six month old baby boy (also hearing) and we are doing all we can do to help him develop as fast and correctly as possible. We read about baby signing and how "good" it is for child development and thought we'd give it a try. I would look up a sign, learn it...