There is one thing I could not stand is having a hearing parent trying to find miracles to improve our disability like deaf, blind or Down Syndrome including who are paralyze (could not walk). She think that God or Jesus would help cure her by having her go through the surgery for CI. Even with that, the only problem we, deafies, are that we had to struggle to being forced to please parents and the mainstream schools without accommodations so that we can understand what every one is saying including the Spelling Bees. Yeah, that is what I thought that deaf kid would not be allow to have ASL interpreter or mouth the spelling passing on to her. Most hearing people hate that. Well, that is too bad. Most interpreters were honest enough not to cover up by correcting the words to the Deaf spellers. They would spell wrong if the Deaf speller had spell wrong. We need this accommodations in many public places. We should not be discriminate for this. That is why we were thinking that your daughter was doing this just to please you for what you want her to be. We were pretty turn off by this. **sigh** 
