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- From: Daniel.Laflin@f98.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Laflin)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: New Born Deafie
- Message-ID: <25715@handicap.news>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:24:00 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- SC>Deafness as a culture and not a Physical Handicap! I Have Learning
-
- It IS a physical Handicap, in the sense that a part of your body is non
- functioning... no different then if the nerves for your Legs will not
- work, its the SAME thing, in that sense, a physical defect in the
- nerves.
-
- No Matter how you feel, it is a handicap, it is a disability, and the
- refusal to accept that it is, can only hold you back, once understand it
- is, then the point is to learn how to get past the disability, ASL is
- only a stopgap, to really FUNCTION in the world one needs to Lipread and
- TALK orally.
-
- If you came up to me, trying to tell me someone is dying, I would have
- no idea of what you are saying, nor would any normal hearing person, and
- so the fact YOU refuse to get past your handicap, to learn lipreading,
- ti use oral skills, a person would die.
-
- I do not think anyone whos deaf, who is HIDINg in the fact their deaf,
- and trying to hide from the world, will ever be anythiung but a fully
- disabled person, a ASL only person is More disabled then a lipreading
- deaf.
-
- And even more then a lipreading/ oral speaking Deaf.
-
- All of you talking of culture are only trying to hide from the hearing
- world, and not face the facts of life.
-
- Im very thankful that my parents wanted me to go back into public
- school, at 7, enough to threaten legal action vs the schools, and also
- glad that the NJ school of the DEAF, recommended ,me to be mainstreamed,
- saying that being put in a DEAF school, when I was ORAL, and already
- knew speech, would have only been to Handicap me, and limit me, While I
- can say it was not fun, nor did i get as much help, the challenge to do
- as good as those who could hear and to overcome my limits was important,
- in a deaf school, in a PROTECTED area, your not being challenged as
- much, and are being protected from the HARD, COLD, REAL World.
-
- The most satisfying point i remember too is geting a score on my 12th
- grade areawide test that put me in reading in the top 5 pct of all
- taking the test, county wide, a score meaning i did better then 95 pct
- of all tested... thats better then 95 pct of HEARING people in High
- school at that time.
-
- Im Stone Deaf... and I lipread, I can talk to almost ANYONE, i dont
- usually need help like someone who only signs, You people talking
- Culture, talking of ASL as a language are deluding yourselfs.
-
- SC>Disabiities and I would not change a thing! I believe deafness to be a
- SC>characteristic just like a person as an ethnic group which Deaf Community
-
- Deafness is a STIGMA not a Charastic, And like a ethic person who talks
- in a language unlike english, your considered odd, strange, unwelcome.
-
- As to Deaf Community, I consider myself part of such, insofar, that the
- community is of those who are Deaf, however i simply dont consider it a
- CULTURE.
-
- SC> True empowered Deaf people dont obsess about wanting to
- SC>hear and think that Deafness is their Idenity!
-
- those BORN deaf, or deafened before learned much of sound, simply have
- no knowledge of what they lost, since they never had it, they never knew
- it, and so, you may think your of a group/culture, however all you are
- is a small part of the vast number of hearing impaired, and nothing but
- a person who has a part of their body crippled, that you are disabled,
- that your not NORMAl, you would make a better case if the Deaf were a
- NATION, and it was a NATURAL thing, Deafness is NOT natural, so it is a
- abberation.
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