jillio
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When I went to deaf coffee chat for the first or second time, someone asked me if I had a CI. I said yes, and the information spread throughout the group like wildfire. I was chatting with the questioner (moved on to another topic) when some random person got my attention and said "You have the CI? Do you like it?" I said Yes. Then he signed "I am NEVER getting a CI." Then he signed "naked" all throughout his head/body, then signed "beautiful, normal, me". I was just like "Um.. okay. Cool..." and went back to chatting with the original person. I knew the sign for "beautiful" but not "normal" till later.
I know I barely talked about my CI that night unless someone asked me a specific question, because I know I was scared of saying anything about my CI in the deaf community when I first started going to deaf coffee chats.
Anyway, it could be a case of reverse-audism/deafism or whatever you wanna call it, but honestly, I just thought it was just kind of immature and somewhat awkward (due to the way the conversation went). Do we have a need to label everything?![]()
To be honest, CI users are still in the minority, and in many places, they are a novelty. I think that has much to do things like questions.