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When I talk with hearing people who know sign language, most of them use signs differently from deaf people. The use their eyes different, the breaks are different. Starting and ending chats also seems to be different. I sometimes enjoy to act like a hearie using sign language, and also love...

Relax, no strawmen in that post. I'll help you spot them if they show up later.

Interesting that you think DD don't know much about AVT on paper, or how it's practiced by different families, just because she said something you appear to feel uncomfortable with. Didn't expect you already make another new strawman, like you did in this reply by telling everyone how you...

Haha. Well, at least it makes it possible for deaf people to quickly spot a loser.

Good question Shel. I've wondered about that one, too. For me, beeing honest is perhaps the way to go. They would also find it interesting that deaf people have faced different kind of oppression through the history. I belive it was more self made deaf people in the 19th century, in the golden...

Ah.. cute strawman :) Like kokonut do, you try to disort the position of a poster with a "clarifying" question: "Are you equating the way hearing families in general use spoken language with kids all the time with speech therapy?" Then you comment the disorted position, created by you. To me...

Interesting. While people like to think of individualism as something that fits liberalism and an open mind, I see some facism in it, too. It's like the monty python movie, "life of brian", where brian shouts: "You are all different!", and the crowd replies with: "Yes! We are all different!"...

That's the downside of individualism. Great points. But not sure what you mean with free licence to paternalism? Do you mean traditional western machismo values? Or that mixing paternalism with individualism have some unwanted effects? Just curious, because I have the idea that machismo values...

Sorry for cutting down quote, great long post, and want to make a short comment to the last paragraphs. Again, thanks for great inputs and thoughts. It hit me that if the deaf culture have developed some internal structures, one have to examine the knowledge that rest in those structures...

LOL. Nice to know that viagra have no side effects of any significance for deaf people.

Depends on how far back in the history you go. Most of the earliest history about deafness as we know it, came into existence with the first deaf schools. The D thing is a western, postmodern concept, where one have to construct ones identity, AFAIK. In the middle east, you'll find several...

The Singapore Association for the Deaf maybe can help you. They have some programs to help deaf people in Vietnam, or know of some. The Singapore Association for the Deaf

So that flare won't ruin electronics, like I'll have to buy a new GPS to get home again? Don't know much about this, and curious.

Make another strawman?

Also, I have a paper here written by a christian that argue with secular people about abortion. He complains about having to translate his religious thinking to a way of thinking that secular people can accept, while secular people don't have to translate their thinking to a religious way of...

I'm busy nowdays, but managed to come up with this. In case it have some relevance in this thread: How much integrity do deaf people have? At places like Gallaudet, deaf people have a lot of integrity(at least, it looks like so), while other places, it's next to none. Becoming stupid as...

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Agree. This is perhaps excactly what I was thinking, too. I see other minorities also strugle a bit with this, like getting a clear message through without that blah blah that gets one nowhere. In south africa, it's a term, coconut, that means a black who acts like a white or adjusts totally...

I've learned a bit about the tibetan book of the dead(vajrayana buddhism) myself. Death is indeed a very different thing in different cultures.

Not to mention that you stay fit as you have to work your ass off to keep the vagina of your spouse wet.