And that is exactly the claim I have made all along, pek. That I can never know what it is to be a deaf person. But only by listening to what deaf tell me about their experience and giving that credibility can I seek to understand what it is to be deaf. If I listen to the hearing tell me what it is to be deaf, rather than the dea themselves, I haven't learned anything, now have I?
And the question was "Do I try to understand the deaf viewpoint?" That is quite different than, "Do I know what it is to be deaf?" The answer to the second is, "Of course I don't." That is exactly why I listen to the people who do know--the deaf.
