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I don't think it is rare.  I have seen very many that way.  I have talked to many who use ASL fluently and the opposite who use SEE and Oralism or both.  I see a clear difference in their writing skills.  It's so obvious that I haven't seen bi-bi work at all.  I don't think that ASL should be a requirement for every deaf children.  It's not written in stone that they it takes away who they are if they don't know the Deaf Community or sign language.  I don't identify myself as an ASL user or robbed of that language or the Deaf Community, I just happen to learn about it from reading, but I never was mad that I wasn't exposed to them from the beginning.  I have been mature and handle things that I realize things happen for a reason.  Being mad at my mother isn't going to help fix anything.  Boo-hooing that I didn't learn sign language isn't going to help either.  I am not going to boo-hoo that parents aren't really teaching children ASL because I don't believe it's helping to use bi-bi education.  It hasn't been proven that it works.  I don't even feel surprised because that's what I have seen the clear difference between SEE/oral or ASList.  There hasn't been any gray area about this from my experience.