Originally Posted by faire_jour
But on the other hand, there are some kids in my daughter's school who don't like hearing people. They mock them and say they are stupid and refuse to interact with hearing kids, even if they sign.
not only to hearing kids, Deaf adults are just the same so flamng rude, they interrupt, don't sign to non-fluent deaf/hoh signers (all excused as "Deaf culture" which is bullshit. they also mock, now mocking doesn't and won't help at all to the future of sign language/Deaf culture (itseif they keep distorting what it is) Deaf/deaf should recognise the responsibilty , even obligation to help one another to ensure all of us grow, thus sign language capacity continue to grow as hoh/deaf can 'bring back from hearing world that 'what-is' , dammit please don't accuse me of bigotry i never intend to imply hearing world is better or has 'more' (but it does have more, look around, they have made technology possible ok social trajectory and all that is different and so on.
Whole point is it's not just the Deaf kids mocking 'back' nor deaf/hoh(implantees or not it doesnt matter as in this instance audism/hearism/deafism bears more relevance here) kids mock their lack of oral skills too. I am saying i suspect it has been trickled down from attitudes that Deaf adults have, which influenced the kid's naive consciensation.
