well another thing to consider... young kids may pick on deaf kids because they did not understand it was wrong. as young i m talking abt 1 to 3 rd grades.. in those levels kids pretty much pick on everyone else .. doesnt matter if deaf or not. i cant remember about 4th or 5th grade but those probably was easiest time for me personally. (i am deaf but grew up with hearing people and went to hearing school) i think middle school is when u start to tell who were truly bullies and who are having insecurity issues and good people.. etc. i went to deaf school in high school and if anybody asks which school was more harsh (among kids picking and bullying etc) i would say deaf school. because in hearing school i dont know they were picking on me unless they WANTED me to know. in deaf school i would ALWAYS know. also in deaf school they behave in a certain way and i dont behave that way most of time because i was growing up with hearing family and always socialize with hearing people.
now... adults... absolutely no excuse except for one....that excuse may be fear. they do not want to sit down and learn. they do not want to waste time with us. or they had bad experience with other deaf people. someone else posted about the voice how we speaks with our voice... that may be part of the reason... but not entirely. i know many people who had plms wiht speech and they are hearing! how about those who stutters? has that weird accent? or what about autism? theres many kind of people who have speech problems and im sure they got picked on too. my point is... speech is not a big role in this. like everyone says... ignorants who do not want to bothered with us. or too scared to.
i also learned something else. even if i was completely willing to try all type of methods to try communicate with a person... if this person doesnt want to or too damn stubborn.... DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. it drains u, drains other person, and lot of frustrations. see other person need to WANT to learn about us and allows us to learn about this person for any type of communication to work.
sorry i know u do not want to hear from a deaf person....but i felt i want to add a few things.... i may repeat after someone 's post or making NO sense at all whateverso... but i do feel some experiences i had from growing up with hearing people and hearing family... maybe some of it will help a bit. thank you.
