Enough with the Holly Deaf High Horse already, people.
This not some God chosen culture, I don't recall God parting waters for you.
Despite some unimaginative experts stiffly clinging to what they laboriusly learned,
there is a possibility that some young children have a gut sense of something more that just merely being "deaf" - but of being "Deaf" indeed.
Nobody claims a 5 y.o is capable of understanding the whole implications
of what belonging to the CULTURE means, just that they are having the vague sense of it, is all.
sheesh.
Fuzzy