hi dogmom, aw cute name. heehee. it makes me smile. i had a very sweet, funny, and intelligent mouse friend Linus who has since passed on but during his life i reffered to myself as mouse mama. ha animals, big and small are so amazing... i had always heard how smart and affection rats were... i knew they were smart and found from people who had them as pets that they were very cuddley... heehee my one friend's rats would curl up in a ball and sleep with her. and i learned just how people like mice are too when it comes to affection, in terms of giving and recieving.
anyway, yeah, i find that society in general is very torn apart by our differance... so odd to me because i am of the mind that we should be brought together by our similarities...
i got so frustrated with all this petty... well for lack of a better words, um B.S. ha. sorry for the vulgarity. i just really could think of a better way to phrase it... ha.
it is all just petty nonsensical crap.
people being overly concerned with grammar or social status or income... all of this stuff. feeling somehow superior to others becuase they are "better" then them. people who bring each other down and make others feel foolish only end up looking foolish themsleves.
i am not saying that, that is what the women who wrote the origanal post was trying to do. i am just making an observation about society in general. just to clarify.
but i don't buy into these stupid games. it is this sort of condesending attitude and behavior that drives us apart... people trying to out do each other left and right. life is not a competion. there is no need to feel superior to our brothers and sisters.
it is only a person ruled by fear and their own insecurity who finds this sort of behavior useful and in the end they will find out how very wrong they are... very sad indeed.
i feel that we are here to be the best people that we can be, in the sense of being the most kind person we can be, the most loving person we can be, the most giving person we can be and the most accepting and understanding person we can be... to help each other find joy and happiness in this earthly expierance... and to love and support each other the way we would our own family. i feel we are all children of god and feel that as being such we should act in a manner that shows our divine lineage... basicaly i mean that we should try our very best to make god proud to call us his children by truly loving ourselves and truly loving each other.
and when i see people not acting from a true and genuinely loving heart and picking people apart for little things that really are very unimportant i get upset. it is all such a waste of time and only brings us further away from each other and the true nature of ourselves.
and that being said... i understand that a person deaf from birth would have less exposure to the english language for the simple fact that they had never heard it spoken and they communicate on a daily basis in a different language.
i think that people who read alot will have a better grasp of the english language whether they be hearing or deaf. do you think that this would be accurate?
is there perhaps not as big of an emphasis for deaf children of deaf parents to be as well versed in the english language? i thought this could sometimes be because they don't grow up talking to their families in english but in ASL... and a child's first exposure to language is from their families and this might make engligh harder for them.
now i am wondering, because i too have noticed that some deaf people struggle with the written language... i am wondering if it is more an issue with them expressing themselves through writting and not so much as their comprehending the writting when they read it.
i read something on the orignal post by a deaf person who said that he struggled with reading and that it took him a long time to do so. but his english skills seemed pretty good and his post was rather lengthly so in this case he seemed to express himself well in english but admitted to having problems reading english. i was wondering if a lack of writting skills does not necessarily go hand in hand with a lack of reading skills and vice versa.
i would really like to know what people think about this.
also i really enjoy reading and writting. i find myself with a great thirst for knowledge and an enjoyment of literature in general whether it be fiction or nonfiction. i know that exposure to books at a young age will build a strong foundation in language. i find this to be true from my first hand expierance also. my mom read to me a lot when i was young and i that foundation really helped me in school and reading and writting always came easily to me.
i have noticed too that in closed caption that the dialog is not always translated exactly as it is being said. this could be part of the problem too. i am not a big fan of paraphrasing because sometimes it doesn't convey the whole message completely.
wondering eveybodies thoughts on these things.
oh what did you mean by “Tolle”?
! Thought I maybe should start new thread to write this to you, because I read your recent response to the "ahem" thread in other section and was like, wow, I have been in several groups where we discuss this kind of thing <not creating distance; no boundaries; Tolle and the like> so what you wrote was so familiar to me. 
for reply. I have two dogs and do really enjoy animals. Am also involved in Rottie and Pit Bull rescue. One of my friends as a kid had rats and hamsters and we spent lots of time holding them. How did you come to know your mouse friend Linus ? <like name>