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Dang. I feel like I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.
We're a bit bloodied but we still have our teeth! I wonder how much longer we'll get to keep them!
Dang. I feel like I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.
Let new people talk to those with experience, let those with experience understand new people on their own terms. Let diverse opinions stand, they don't undermine what it means to be Deaf, they make it stronger.
We're a bit bloodied but we still have our teeth! I wonder how much longer we'll get to keep them!
*snicker*
Pot, meet kettle.
sallylou said:Wirelessly posted (droid)
You know what I'd like to see? Some hearing parents who join the Deaf community separate and apart from their children. You know, make adult Deaf friends and attend grown up Deaf events. This happens with terps and CODAs more than with parents.
Weird. All the hearing people are jumping on jillio. Not a bit of any of that animosity is directed at any deafy. Howcum? If she wasn't here I would be kicking butt.
Yes, I can see that's what you are doing, but please take off the shades and look around you. This is not about your role, it's about making this forum a place where all d/Deaf can have a voice. Without you as interpreter. Let new people talk to those with experience, let those with experience understand new people on their own terms. Let diverse opinions stand, they don't undermine what it means to be Deaf, they make it stronger.
Two weeks ago, I would have been more than glad to add another page to my rap sheet, and now I'm just happy everyone sees what I see.
It was, at one time, a place where the D/deaf had a voice. And then the hearing parents started coming in and playing their audist games and tried to take that away from the D/deaf.
No, I will not let audism stand. Nor will I let misinformation stand. You can give it validity by calling it diversity if you so choose, but it is as far from the purpose of diversity and one can get.
And still, the Deaf are speaking and your are refusing to listen. No one has asked you to come in and clean up AD so that it suits your perpsective of what the forum should be.
Weird. All the hearing people are jumping on jillio. Not a bit of any of that animosity is directed at any deafy. Howcum? If she wasn't here I would be kicking butt.
Weird. All the hearing people are jumping on jillio. Not a bit of any of that animosity is directed at any deafy. Howcum? If she wasn't here I would be kicking butt.
Could not agree with you more. Grendel has given of her time to share her expereinces raising a deaf child with a cochlear implant so that others may benefit. The pathetic few who constantly attack her do so because they cannot accept the wonderful diversity that exists in the deaf community outside of this particular forum.
Ever wonder that the ones who spend the most time in this forum are those thateither do not have a cochlear implant or denied one to their child. They are so threatened by the thousands of successfully implanted children and their parents because of their own insecuriites.
Rick
Because it pisses them off that I refuse to support their audist perspectives and that the Deaf have supported me in doing so. If they directed their animosity at the D/deaf, they would appear to be even more audist and prejudicial. So I am the convenient target.
is rick hearing or deaf?
Weird. All the hearing people are jumping on jillio. Not a bit of any of that animosity is directed at any deafy. Howcum? If she wasn't here I would be kicking butt.
Wirelessly posted (droid)
Grendel, do you have a Deaf friend that you hang out with sometimes? Because that's what I mean.
I understand that it's hard to get baby sitters but it's also really important for moms to have a break. My 10 YO calls me & my husband while we're at socials telling us to come home. I assure him that we'll be home later and that I'll call him on the way home. Bringing him a little treat makes up for his inconvenience.