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Strange it seems only the Americans actually use the term audism, perhaps your mainstream gets thrown by different terms, or the deaf in America just enjoy making up new names for things. Old fashioned we are in the UK I suppose, if someone puts us down we call it a discrimation, if someone...

Variety is the spice of life, conformity is death.... :)

Making effort brings its own rewards of course. Taking a stance whereby you refuse to communicate unless it comes via YOUR perferences is quite pointless, and of course wrong. People would never have learnt French/German or other languages if either party had refused to make attempts, find...

This is an ongoing discussion in the UK too, regarding cash and other support deaf get. However the debates come from the wider deaf and HI community not from mainstream. Over the last 10 yars many many millions of £'s sterling have been invested in BSL support and interpreting, there appear...

I am aware of that need, but, you don't use extreme measure to divide your own sectors, it is the activist who cuts to the cultural chase and says ME, not, US. The stirring of antipathy towards the cultural deaf needs to be watched, it is coming, from other deaf people, those in the real...

All the MORE reason why deaf with this 'power base', and energy used it responsibly and to better effect. POwer comes with responsibility, it's not a "WE got all the signers here, outta my way"...I don't think there are people reading this who don't know the difference, between being...

Speaking from my own (UK) view and as a deaf person, Gallaudet has a lot to work out about their directions and campaigning, their militant fringe needs reigning in, we have to an extent a small version of these people here, and we keep them in check, we support as deaf people any campaign (Even...

We probably imagined all the 'Not deaf enough' campaigns then..... ? If rank and file deaf at Gallaudet are as open-minded as we would all hope, why didn't they close down their loony fringe ? Scared ?

The SEE HEAR (UK deaf program), just did an item on Galludet and Audism, they asked UK deaf, and no-one had ever heard of audism, and said it sounded like autism. It's a dead word here thank goodness, we are dissapointed in Gallaudet and the whole audism thing, those of us who have followed...

You know what they say about "the best laid plans of........", I still think it is still idealistic, and question, the need for such a town. As everyone in the entire deaf and other loss communities are campaigning day and night for access to the mainstream/hearing world, this just seems a...

Not all deaf people obviously, but all groups have their loony fringes. The issue is this particular fringe group does all the deaf talking.

Obviously we are referring with Irony, against the boring rants of those deaf who let's face it, don't want to know hearing people. The anti-orals, the sign-only, the members of that exclusive 'D' sector... If they looked they would see what we do, a group of pretty isolated people who appear...

Wikipedia is NOT anything much at all, but a collection of unsourced declarations and 'definitions' with no back up. As for banning reference to Wikipedia, the UK Uni system already does. A student can use validated references of standing, but cannot quote the Wikipedia as THE source, so that...

We've read in the UK, of students doing deaf history courses using Wikipedia as a viable source of information about deaf issues, and, tutors and invigilators taking it at face value too. Why aren't universities and colleges declaring this is NOT a valid reference for their course material ?

I'd like to flag the lot ! The endless hype of Big D and Little d, is fantasy and hugely inaccurate, not witholding it is gross generalisations fuelled by flooding of Wikepedia with 'facts' by poilitcally motivated deaf culturists, worse, mainstream assumes it IS correct, and the rest of us are...

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2036558,00.html It occured to me for some time ! especially the long-winded, inaccurate and downright political definitions of who is or isn't a real deaf person was messed about with on the Wikepedia site. Real deaf people have the Big D...

What's to be understood about deafness ? Is it some mystical thing ? a rarity ? a holy grail to be aspired to or desired ? I just wish they would see we are basically just people like anyone else, who happen to be unable to hear. Let's talk people not cultures and modes.

Of course the real biggie of sterotyping comes from the deaf community i.e. all deaf want sign language, and use it,and of course the old chestnut all deaf people cannot HEAR .....

Well, if you are allowing anyone to set up home there, and the hearing dominate, what will make it any different to any other town ? Martha's vienyard was an isolated community, and folded when they found a road out, what's to stop the same thing happening again ? People move, and travel...

I'm a selfish parent too, I consider giving as many options as my child can manage to learn, I guess that dumps my 'Deaf' credentials in some quarters ! I'd worry about it, but these anti-people are going nowhere are they ? perhaps THAT is the real issue, envy ? In a world where an extra...