Awww that sucks that your parents were brainwashed. Those "professional" people sometimes are really assholes. I mean, if the doctor knows for a fact that it will not benefit the person, then yeah, tell them! Let them save 100's and 1000's of dollars before investing in something that'll fail. I wear hearing aids and my doctors told my parents that it wouldn't work, and then i went to another doc and i got them and they work wonders! They are so beneficial. I can get along in school now and not be like, 
all the time! lol. However, i still am clueless half the time just coz it's hard to deciefer some words from others.
I think it's wrong that the doctor told your parents that ASL and Deaf Culture is condered "special needs" that's retarded. That's like saying anyone who moves from another country and speaks Polish or Japanese has special needs coz they don't speak English. Some people are so closed mined and it's a piss off coz they don't take the time to consider others. ugh! It's like :fu2: what do you know?
