About this Deaf Culture thing...

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Grendel, FWIW, I thought that was cute and was a fun insight into how your daughter thinks.
 
GrendelQ said:
OK, it's useless info about washers -- I'm sorry if I led anyone to think otherwise. My 5YO daughter was dead wrong to make what you judge to be a "useless" connection between the sound of the continuous error beeps from the washer and the error sounds her CIs make if something is wrong and recommend a battery change and a call to the audiologist as a washer fix.

Are you really making an issue out of a comment in which I mention this? It's something I'd have thought wouldn't ordinarily occur in an all-hearing household where most 5YOs don't think to call an audi to fix a kitchen appliance, a situation that perhaps some here would find unique to our culture, where many have HAs and CIs and audis. I didn't think there was a controversial bone in the body of that comment.
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No, I am simply saying that making such a suggestion was not a facet of culture, as a hearing child could easily have made the same connection. What you are referring to is developmentally influenced ways of thinking, not culture.
 
Here's a relevant thought: The loudness threshold hearing test is torture.

During my evaluation, the audi really pushed me to accept louder sounds than I felt comfortable with. That sucks.
 
I think it is more of a generation difference than a culture. Like today's kids have no idea what a cassette tape is and vice versa.

Like children who have the new technology would associate their daily lives with whatever is out there.
 
jillio said:
And written by a hearing woman with virtually no background or education in cultural studies.:laugh2: Please, cite an expert in cultural matters.
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I believe Dr. Phil already did so. I was answering AlleyCat's request for more recent coverage of deaf culture (which included discussion of Dr. Lane's work), not vetting either article. :)
 
jillio said:
But has virtually nothing to do with culture.
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Fine. We disagree about whether or not this association is unique to deaf kids or if all children today would associate beeping error codes with an audiologist's skill set. Why don't we just leave it alone instead of making a big deal about such a minor point in the conversation.
 
shel90 said:
I think it is more of a generation difference than a culture. Like today's kids have no idea what a cassette tape is and vice versa.

Like children who have the new technology would associate their daily lives with whatever is out there.
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I agree. so advanced technology lately.
 
However, the children's relation to current technology could be considered "pop" culture.
 
GrendelQ said:
I believe Dr. Phil already did so. I was answering AlleyCat's request for more recent coverage of deaf culture (which included discussion of Dr. Lane's work), not vetting either article. :)
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I do believe AlleyCat meant relevent and more recent. And drphil's is outdated by all standards.
 
GrendelQ said:
Fine. We disagree about whether or not this association is unique to deaf kids or if all children today would associate beeping error codes with an audiologist's skill set. Why don't we just leave it alone instead of making a big deal about such a minor point in the conversation.
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Where did "change the battery" turn into "audiologist's skill set"?
 
jillio said:
Where did "change the battery" turn into "audiologist's skill set"?
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Right here. In the first post I made on the subject of my daughter suggesting we call the Audi to fix the washer. Didn't change -- always was about that.
 
It is almost amusing- GrendelQ 's LilLi making an innocent comment would generate so many "obtuse" responses. From another thread is schizophrenic thinking?

Implanted AB Harmony activated Aug/07
 
I get it now. Someone kindly pointed out an association I hadn't previously made. Apparently I've broken ranks by responding to DrPhil's post positively with my comment. Therefore, innocuous as it is, it must be destroyed.

Similarly, my link to an article referencing Deaf Culture in this past month's Atlantic. Because I commented that DrPhil's previously posted article was interesting, rather than ridiculing him as part of the delightful campaign being waged to harass him until he leaves.

No, sorry, once again, I've been asked to join in the hilarity -- I've explicitly been told, "you say are one of us, prove it by denouncing Rick," 'throw Miss Kat's mom under the bus or you will show your true colors and fall hard.' I think this is so wrong. Again, I won't take part in your fun and games at some individual's expense. I don't believe that nonconformity is a sin and I don't think we all need to have the same exact beliefs to be a part of Deaf culture. we don't even all have to be a part of deaf culture to be and to interact as part of the deaf community.
 
An Interesting footnote. A column re: Deaf Militants- Heather Marsdan in the publication Deaf Canada Today December 1998. An extended discussion as duly above noted by GrendelQ. She used the term"angry" as descriptive of "some members". Why?

Personally unaware if Deaf Canada is a "certified group" approved by " Ontario Deaf community".
I got this at Canadian Hearing Society/Toronto - from one of many classes there.
I wasn't deaf then- just"hearing impaired" studying speechreading.

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No kidding.

Why the reference to schizophrenia? Just because you don't understand our posts?

What is the "certified group" of "Deaf Canada" about?

What is the "I wasn't deaf then-just"hearing impaired" ? (I wasn't aware that deaf and hearing-impaired were TWO different things !!!! Other than the fact we don't like the "impaired" part.) :roll:

I'm actually getting angry here. We're starting to get blasted for even trying to understand/reply to Dr. Phil's posts when none of it makes any sense.
 
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