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This is how I love my children. Regardless. unconditional. My counslers have said what you have. This was a form of abuse. I don't know if they mean to do it, but they refuse to change it. They just keep saying "Deaf proud" and make it seem like I am not proud that they are Deaf, I am not proud...

yes I have spoken to many CODAs about it and sadly some have the same problem I do and cannot speak up because they know it will start a war in their family so they just suffer with it. I know CODAS that have deaf children and their experiances are just overwhelming. One CODA with a deaf child...

No not angry at all. Just stating views from a different side. I have seen the sides and I understand where some of the hearing behaviors come from. It is not all due to being uneducated. Some of it is due to how some deaf behave when they encounter a hearing person.I just emplore all Deaf...

They were not jesting, They told me several times over my childhood how disappointed they were. I was proud of my parents, for the longest time I didn't see anything different. I never got made fun of because my parents were deaf. They never really did anything with my school. I interpreted for...

So her answer is a cultural one...right?? That makes sense.

So if I understand this right it is so you can feel more adequate as a parent? As well as heal all your past wrongs against you? I can understand that to a point. Wouldn't it be easier for your child in life to be hearing though? Why wouldn't you want that for your child? I am not trying to...

Yes it has turned me completely away from the deaf culture, only because my parents have made such a big deal about it in the deaf community and it seems I am the bad guy. I have no desire to hang out with the deaf like I did becuse now it's just a lynch mob. Everyone throws their 2 cents in and...

Thats what I am trying to understand, why did you want her to be deaf? What was different that your daughter understood that I don't?

I tried but they say I don't understand what it is like and that it is just as selfish for me to want my daughter to be able to hear, and they said I shouldn't feel hurt, I should be thankful I have two worlds. They really don't understand, and I refuse to allow them to make my children feel...

Isn't that also saying if you are in a wheel chair you want children in a wheel chair, or blind, you want blind children?

I was very hurt because it made me feel like I didn't belong and they loved my siblings more because they were deaf. They showed it too, they would travel hours away for the deaf school programs for my siblings, but couldn't travel 5 miles to my school for mine because they were boring, because...

I have noticed (maybe I am wrong) that many deaf couples prefer having a deaf child? Is this a cultural desire or a parental desire? Being a hearing child of an entirely deaf family, I heard this all my life. My parents often said they wished I were deaf. I have seen other deaf parents say...

I think it is much like it is the way a deaf person sees things. When you are in the country there is not much visual stimulation, it's relaxing. There is not much noise in the country either, it is very relaxing, In the city can only imagine how much a deaf person has to use their eyes...

I have read this thread and find it very interesting. Have you ever wondered why some hearing people do the things they do? Like only want to learn the bad words? There are deaf that feel that is the only thing they can really communicate with when meeting a new hearing person. Sometimes Hearing...