I am confused I have moderate to severe hearing loss, I am mod -severe to profound in my left ear an mod-severe in my right, and I still talk on the phone...
..and you still have a chance to learn to be Deaf, its an identity thing, like race and enthicity. its a political paradigm in which d/Deaf people should stop doing the pathetic in-fighting and start lobbying with a real political goal, to gain Deaf rights. Like for example, to stop hearing peolpe fucking us over, abusing us, controlling us, stop workplace bullying, this doesnt have to be violence, just stupid bosess, like contract cutting, not providing communication support should be made into more powerful, like ADA, but better and stronger. I want to see Deaf become lawyers to protect Deaf Rights, that sort of thing.
Apart from political wishes breifly outlined here, I am also saying you have a chance to be Deaf you do have a change to wind-down relax and 'talk' with hoh people about things, and simmilar experiences and feel not out of place, thats the sort of thing I'd like to see, TOLERANCE, and Freindship, which is what Deaf was supposed to be all about in the first place. OK some might struggle with ASL, BSL, but tolerance that some are going to not be able to learn it as quickly because of prolonged exposure to the hearing world and the 'self-pushing' to hear as much as they can, lip read as much, tiring but often rewarding yes, but there is also a place to chill out and not do so much try-hard but interact with like-experienced hoh.deaf/hearin impaired without fear of 'hearier than thou or deafer than thou'
so , dont cut yourself off from possibilities but sadly internal horizontal violence (deaf picking on deaf/ Deaf picking on deaf/deaf picking on Deaf, etc) has slowed it right down to almost as a halt to grind. its real sad, and i'd wish Paddy ladd would do more work, but pissing about in Deaf clubs too much
