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- From: Hugues.Blanchet@p0.f136.n167.z1.fidonet.org (Hugues Blanchet)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Hello?
- Message-ID: <25720@handicap.news>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:24:40 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
-
- -=> Quoting Margaret Overath to Hugues Blanchet <=-
-
- MO> Hello Hugues,
-
- Hello Margaret!
-
- MO> I didn't realize my words have caused such reaction from you. I wonder
- MO> why that is?
-
- I'll explain my point and maybe you'll understand better, ok?
-
- Why I don't agree on being labeled as a "Deafie"?
-
- For the same reason I don't agree on people who are fat that label
- themselves as "Fat", those who are short who label themselves as
- "Short", those who are bald who label themselves as "Bald", those who
- have dark skin who label themselves as "Negroes", etc, etc...
-
- That is the reason I just don't agree with a label because when you
- adopt such a label, I believe it's because there IS a reason and
- you don't feel as a *normal* HUMAN BEING like every other person.
- When we label ourselves, it's because we feel apart of the *normal*
- society and in my case, I DO NOT and will NEVER feel apart from
- ANYBODY ELSE, may they be short, fat, bald, dark skin or hearing
- people!!!
-
- We are ALL HUMAN BEINGS in the very first place and THAT is how I
- think of myself, as a HUMAN BEING!
-
- MO> I am human, like all human beings we like to idenitify
- MO> ourselves,
-
- Not so Margaret!!! SOME people identify theirselves, sure, but not ALL
- human beings! I'd even go farther and say that a LOT of them do not
- identify theirselves with any kind of label even if they are Chineese,
- Greek or Italian!!! There is labeling and Identity, both are
- completely different. Yes, I may be a french
- Canadian, but that doesn't label me PHYSICALLY! It only tells about
- my origins not my PHYSICAL SELF!!! When we label ourselves
- PHYSICALLY, we them FEEL ourselves being apart of the *normal* human
- beings. However, we don't feel apart if we say that we are French,
- Dutch, Greek, Jewish, Chineese or American! It only identifies our
- ORIGINS, not our physical self!
-
- MO> are. So what is wrong with idenfitying ourselves as DEAF??? My ears
- MO> don't work perfectly, I can tell people excuse me I didn't catch that
- MO> ....with a good reason! I can't hear!
-
- If you were fat, would you identify yourself as being "Fat"? Because it
- IS the same kind of reasoning Margie!!! My reaction was quite normal
- I'd say because I just don't think people should stick such a label to
- themselves. If they do, they just don't feel like all other *normal*
- human beings....
-
- I understand your feelings and I respect your opinion Margie, but I
- just don't agree.
-
- Greetings from the chilling north! (Brrrrrr... Cold here!!!) <GGG>
-
- Hugues
-
- ... Sorry, the Dog ate my Blue Wave packet.
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