D/deaf

rockin'robin said:
Let me get my 2 cents in here....deaf at 14....only went to the deaf school 2 years (graduated)....I'm not fluent in ASL, but can communicate with deafies "OK". ....I still have my speech and use it 3 times more than ASL...

I'm totally deaf...deafies think I'm hearing...

So what am I ?..oral/deaf?
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DeafLissa90 said:
How about myself? Have no hearing without CI and HA,

I am mostly oral, I sign with friends.

Im guessing maybe deaf since I am not in the deaf world constantly?
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souggy said:
Don't let other Deaf people define if you are Deaf or not. Seriously. If you think you are Deaf, you are Deaf. One doesn't have to be involved in the Deaf world all the time to be Deaf.

I am both oral and Deaf.
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hence - oral deafie
 
Jiro said:
hence - oral deafie
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It get confusing though, because everyone have different criteria for being culturally Deaf and when everyone set their own criteria-- no wonder why people ask themselves if they are Deaf or deaf.

I have been culturally Deaf until I was 11, then I lost touch with the Deaf community until I was 17 or 18. Then I lost touch AGAIN with them after I moved from age of 19 until 21, then started re-established myself back into the Deaf community as of last October.

I get lost without closed captioning or sign language, yet I can do public speaking. Only time I ever interacted with someone socially without a computer or notepad is through signing. Does that make me a deaf person or Deaf person?

Business-wise? I am oral. Socially, I am signing or writing. So would it be "oral deaf" or just plain ol' "Deaf?" Last time I check, CODAs and interpreters are considered as "Deaf."
 
DGirl101 said:
Went to a Mainstream School.

I know ASL.

I speak orally out of necessity.

I am 100% Deaf, I hear nothing.

What does that make me?
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I am the same as you, but in AUSLAN (Australian here)
 
DGirl101 said:
Went to a Mainstream School.

I know ASL.

I speak orally out of necessity.

I am 100% Deaf, I hear nothing.

What does that make me?
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That's entirely your choice. You are the one that decides how you identify. Other people cannot tell you how you feel, only you can.
 
You know, while there's a fine line between the d/Deaf issues; I believe in overall it does not exactly define you for who you are. It defines by being based on how immersed you are with the language, culture and being involved in the process of being part of the community. Not that I'm saying one has to be involved in the community to be Deaf but you still can be deaf/Deaf by being immersed in the culture one way or other.

Sometime I just don't understand why it is necessary to separate the d/D group when we all have the same thing inside us - We all are deaf one way or another; meaning, we just can't hear and that's one thing we all have in common. It's asinine to have to divide both groups just because one is culturally involved and one isn't.
 
I personally and really don't care if they call me either Deaf or deaf.

A word is a word, anyway. :)
 
Jolie77 said:
You know, while there's a fine line between the d/Deaf issues; I believe in overall it does not exactly define you for who you are. It defines by being based on how immersed you are with the language, culture and being involved in the process of being part of the community. Not that I'm saying one has to be involved in the community to be Deaf but you still can be deaf/Deaf by being immersed in the culture one way or other.

Sometime I just don't understand why it is necessary to separate the d/D group when we all have the same thing inside us - We all are deaf one way or another; meaning, we just can't hear and that's one thing we all have in common. It's asinine to have to divide both groups just because one is culturally involved and one isn't.
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Thanks for your words.

I am not immersed in the Deaf Culture as well as I would like to be. That is the one thing I really missed out on.

I have met those that are HoH and Deaf that have said I am not a part of the Deaf Culture because I can speak and interact well in the hearing world.

I still consider myself Deaf.
 
DGirl101 said:
Thanks for your words.

I am not immersed in the Deaf Culture as well as I would like to be. That is the one thing I really missed out on.

I have met those that are HoH and Deaf that have said I am not a part of the Deaf Culture because I can speak and interact well in the hearing world.

I still consider myself Deaf.
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You're welcome. :)

Just because you are able to speak and interact well in the hearing world should not make you any less than of that. It should be about how you have the ability to know the diversity of what the deaf culture has to offer.
 
:lol: we are just not the only ones -- there's plenty out there, I'm sure.
 
DGirl101 said:
Went to a Mainstream School.

I know ASL.

I speak orally out of necessity.

I am 100% Deaf, I hear nothing.

What does that make me?
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I also want to know that...and if you choose to speak, does that mean that you're isolated from Deaf or deaf???

At work, I am deaf...that's how it goes....
 
I am Deaf..very very immersed in the Deaf community and use ASL 99% of the time now.
 
shel90 said:
I am Deaf..very very immersed in the Deaf community and use ASL 99% of the time now.
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speaking of how much time do you use the signs.

Just wanted to share that past w/end we went to lunch with my wife and another deaf couple, and we've been there sitting like for almost 4 hrs.
Having a great time, eating, drinking and chatting. She's ultra-oral, and he's profound deaf, very Deaf. He's the most difficult Deaf I've met (difficult, i mean, to follow his signing) and now, after almost 3 years for interaction with him, and almost 4 with the comunity, I can happily say I just had such a great fun time, as I'd be with a hearing.
I never thought I could accomplish that (because of my fault)

Yay...:aw:
 
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