Ditto on that too. Spekaing of your question, I was reminded of myself with the "hearing" view...
Before taking my studies in Deaf education, Linguistics, and language acquisition, I really saw things from a hearing perspective about deaf education. I used to think that ASL would interfere with speech development, that deaf schools were doing bad jobs in educating deaf children as opposed to public schools, that ASL prevents deaf children from being able to read and write, and most of all..thought being oral and being totally assimilated in the hearing world was better than being non-oral and the Deaf community. Going to Gallaudet, my classes, socializing with people from the Deaf community, and working with deaf children at the deaf school and the public schools really changed all those old views completely. It seemed like I was under a spell all those years about deafness and ASL and that spell was completely shattered after my years at Gallaudet.
So, sometimes even dhh people have hearing perspectives...before the spell was broken, I didn't even know nor recognize my needs as a deaf person so if u had asked me that question 10 years ago, u bet u probably would get a completely different answer. During those times, I was always working my hardest to be a "hearing" person and denied my deafness.Just wanted to add this food for thought because like u, I had to go thru all these life changing steps to take before I could really understand my own needs and limitations despite being deaf all my life.
