Whether I should classify swimming/sleeping as "deaf/ Deaf"activity-not exactly a major concern of mine. My identity doesn't change in the slightness.
To make it clear- I have never claim to be CULTURAL deaf. DEAF is fine.
As for deaf swimming/bowling or any other activity interesting that the "deaf community" promotes such presumably as part of "deaf values"! Unexplained how such is different than"hearing" swimming etc?
To be DEAF is condition of silence-doesn't hearing anything. Using ASL et al is a consequence of how one's deal with this physical fact. As well as using a Cochlear Implant. To me being DEAF is beyond the use of any Hearing Aid. This is my very direct experience.
I understand one's primary/original language is what one's parents taught. It can be altered later.
Another interlude in Sociology which should make rei's "study" realistic.
