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GrendelQ used the term Deaf for the girl. The girl never said she was Deaf, only that she grew up in a Deaf family. We simply dont know about the girl herself. How deaf she became is also not clear. Just saying because this story is used to make specific points, based on personal interpretations.

You okay? This reply is too far from the reality and based on too much imagination and projection to make any reply.

That was a suprising long reply to a post that didnt't made sense you, whatever.. An example of a straw man from you in the post before this: I, Flip, want to see stories only from hearing families with deaf children. From this reply: "Why do you object so strenuously to seeing real life...

That's the questionable part of that post. Why the need for stories like this if CI really are that no brainer and successfull, and when we know people in general thrust the medical community. Trying to ignore the elephant in the room?

Ignoring questions, exaggerating and resorting to straw men, nothing new.. You are comparing your child with a person who was born hearing and remained so for some years, and happened to maybe know ASL, though the we can't be sure about the fluency of ASL if she knew. Not all deaf parents use...

If a kid was bullied into having a CI, when the kid in reality wouldn't benefit from it, you would let the kid undergo a survey?

I have seen attempts to try that from hearing parents, but the parents were fortunately talked out if it. I've also seen parents getting divorced over this topic, and the kid moving with the parent who didn't requested CI. Deaf parents could do that if they were raises oralist and taught that...

Most sign languages can express any written words with fingerspelling. Many words in a spoken language can't be expressed in a sign language, ie missing a vocabulary. The same goes the opposite direction, many signs can't be expressed in a spoken language. You also find this between different...

Deaf people are deaf for different reasons, and few are totally deaf. If you have a kind of deafness where sounds can be stimulated with CI, and hear sound for first time at that age with CI I think the changes is it would irritate you more than pleasure you. Think it's one or two posters like...

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You might want to read "Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood" by Dr. Paddy Ladd. That book answers all your questions and more.

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Guess we both are non believers, but I have to disagree with you a bit here. It's different views on what the bible is. To me it looks like you argue against the view that the bible today is what God want it to look like. Not all Christians share that view. The bible is also a collection of...

I do. I seldom partipicate in religious thread on alldeaf because if academic claims about any religion show up, people use this to attack either people who believe or people who don't believe depending on the claim. And mods tend close those threads. Rebas claim that scholary statements are...

Yes, ASL is immortal! It's survived decades of oralism with no problems.

What a whole group of different people in different places with different people, in an unspecified diaster would do, no one knows. That answer would have as many answers as there are deafies involved. What's a "deafie" by the way?

In a diaster, I'll gang up with culturally deaf people or learn hearing people sign language, communicate with read and write. I know how to do this and still be comfortable because I have years of experience with that. This puts me in an advantage over people who are thrown out of their comfort...

I'm glad I'm not into that kind of addiction. Think I'll stick with pot and acid.

We have some new rules: http://www.alldeaf.com/general-chat/98671-new-sub-forum-hearing-aids-cochlear-implants.html#post2023208 "Also, if parents of Deaf children go elsewhere on the board and flame and troll this will be a ban. Likewise, for any one who is not a parent seeking CI for their...

Interesting, I'm not raised oral or hoh so can only listen to your experience. This is perhaps a reason some people choose to stop using their implants, or wish they weren't implanted? It's also a problem the expenses and complications of CI are justified by better integration in the mainstream...