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I'm hearing and when I first saw this video, I believe a year ago I was angry at the very idea. I always loved ASL but I was just getting into actually studying about the Deaf culture, history etc. Recently I re-watched the video and I'm happy to say my views on the video have changed. I went from angry to actually seeing the man's point. Why is it in our society should we be up in arms if two Deaf people decided to make their hearing child deaf? But when two hearing parents make their deaf child "hearing" we nod our heads in approval? I asked my Fiance and his two kids (13 & 12) what they would do if their child was born deaf. All three of them said they would make sure their child learned to lip read and ASL was their first language. I'm so proud..I guess I rubbed off on them after all

<blockquote data-quote="Megan8987" data-source="post: 1727557" data-attributes="member: 33595"><p>I&#039;m hearing and when I first saw this video, I believe a year ago I was angry at the very idea. I always loved ASL but I was just getting into actually studying about the Deaf culture, history etc. Recently I re-watched the video and I&#039;m happy to say my views on the video have changed. I went from angry to actually seeing the man&#039;s point. Why is it in our society should we be up in arms if two Deaf people decided to make their hearing child deaf? But when two hearing parents make their deaf child &quot;hearing&quot; we nod our heads in approval? I asked my Fiance and his two kids (13 &amp; 12) what they would do if their child was born deaf. All three of them said they would make sure their child learned to lip read and ASL was their first language. I&#039;m so proud..I guess I rubbed off on them after all <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Megan8987, post: 1727557, member: 33595"] I'm hearing and when I first saw this video, I believe a year ago I was angry at the very idea. I always loved ASL but I was just getting into actually studying about the Deaf culture, history etc. Recently I re-watched the video and I'm happy to say my views on the video have changed. I went from angry to actually seeing the man's point. Why is it in our society should we be up in arms if two Deaf people decided to make their hearing child deaf? But when two hearing parents make their deaf child "hearing" we nod our heads in approval? I asked my Fiance and his two kids (13 & 12) what they would do if their child was born deaf. All three of them said they would make sure their child learned to lip read and ASL was their first language. I'm so proud..I guess I rubbed off on them after all :D [/QUOTE]

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