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I've contributed more than $30,000 to the deaf community this year. :)

I have been doing some stuff that are greatly successful, and hence the reason I have been VERY busy the last few months.

The All The Way performance was a great success over the past weekend - I was the stage manager for the performance... It has been coined the "Most Deaf performance ever".. We're working on a tour. I suggest you to view it when it comes near you..

I'm currently working with the state politicians to implement a few things that will save costs and give the deaf much better education settings, and such. Been at this project since spring and it's taking heed.

I'm now talking with different organizations across the state to get ideas on how to improve many stuff in the community. Did you know the unemployment agency regularly calls the Voc Rehab offices telling them that their deaf client can't drive forklifts because they're deaf? That is just the essence of the issues..

While you're claiming you understand the struggles I would suggest you to lay that off a little because ... you truly don't know the full picture.

What you are doing with different organizations is great and that is the kind of thing that will make a difference if you are successful. Those are also the kinds of things in my opinion that you may need many voices behind in order to increase your ability to invoke change. And good luck with the school system. Many have said it's a hard nut to crack but I believe with persistence and enough voices changes can be made.

I don't claim to understand every struggle that every deaf person faces but I do know of many from what I observe, from what I read in posts from other deaf people and from when I advocate for my deaf son. It boggles my mind when I hear what some people say and think when the subject of deafness comes up. I also know that discrimination is a big part of the stuggle especially in the work force.

Peace!
 
*looking around for a hearie I do not like*


Nawww, there's too much fraternizing, can't be done. :lol:
 
If it is a legitimate cause that I believe in, I would support it.

In other words, only what YOU believe in.. Not what you trust in the deaf to know better for the community?

You know the organization that I am working with... argh.. i cant say anything in the open... I really want to list some stuff here , but cant.
 
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GrendelQ said:
Bottesini said:
Kristina, this site is all yours. I hope you get all the sympathy and understanding you seek.



Please add me to what I'm sure is a large group of people surprised by this, Bottesini. To think that you, of all people might drive someone away? Very strange.



There really must be a serious misunderstanding Kristina, in addition to what others have said, B. is certainly not a polarizing personality and I've not ever seen her make someone else feel small.

I know what KristinaB is referring to, however it's hard for me to sympathize with her; mostly because my family have a different coping method than hers. However I try my best not to negative toward her since I don't know what's like to be a late-deaf individual.

I don't think Bottesini means to be rude or ill-mannered though since we all have traits that rub people the wrong way. The world is far from utopia, so why expect two members to click on AllDeaf? The best we can do is co-exist and offer support when warranted.
 
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In other words, only what YOU believe in.. Not what you trust in the deaf to know better for the community?........................................
do we really have to go down that road AGAIN? Talk to me about specific issues and causes then I will give you an answer. I'ts not possible to generalize because there is no consensus.
 
............You know the organization that I am working with... argh.. i cant say anything in the open... I really want to list some stuff here , but cant.
Why can't you say anything or list stuff. That is how you can get support. Is it top secret military stuff? Why can't you share the info and get backing from others in the community?
 
Why can't you say anything or list stuff. That is how you can get support. Is it top secret military stuff? Why can't you share the info and get backing from others in the community?

:) That i cannot disclose either.

But it IS something that you have been seeking for too...
 
Are you sleeping with the enemy, PFH?!! Working with AGBell?
I'm not sure what deaf cause would be so top secret that it can't be shared with others. Seems to me this is the kind of place that you could enlist some backing to support the cause. :dunno:
 
I'm not sure what deaf cause would be so top secret that it can't be shared with others. Seems to me this is the kind of place that you could enlist some backing to support the cause. :dunno:

Right place and right time it will be shared. :) There is already backing, and will be much more backing in regards of this.

I just am not in the right position to announce it.
 
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I know what KristinaB is referring to, however it's hard for me to sympathize with her; mostly because my family have a different coping method than hers. However I try my best not to negative toward her since I don't know what's like to be a late-deaf individual.

I don't think Bottesini means to be rude or ill-mannered though since we all have traits that rub people the wrong way. The world is far from utopia, so why expect two members to click on AllDeaf? The best we can do is co-exist and offer support when warranted.

I am trying and after a lot of thinking and praying, I will be staying and have come to realize that I did take something Botti said wrong. It was me and not her and for that I apologize to Botti.
 
Put the situation in reverse. What if someone that doesn't use the wheelchair and has no family members that uses one and has no real direct, hands-on invested interests whatsoever to do with wheelchairs and goes go to a forum populated by those that use the wheelchair...

And then publicly announce in it "Ok, this is how I think those that uses a wheelchair should live and how all little children that uses the wheelchair should be raised..."

We are talking about language, not physical issues. I cant go on with this comparision because I have never experienced what it is like to be in a wheelchair so i cant keep making further analysis.

However, as a deaf person, ASL would have saved me from a lot of misery growing up. I wish I had that choice of both.
 
I will 2nd Shel's comment about wishing we had ASL growing up.
 
Hi PFH, I think you are referring to FJ, right? If so, I think her point was that even having achieved that pretty amazing (IMO) level of familiarity and comfort with ASL, passing interpreter exams -- she still comes up against limitations in conversing with and teaching her child. She didn't say she wasn't fluent enough to use it -- from what I've read, I believe she does in all aspects of her life -- but just that she wishes to have a greater ease in and comprehensiveness in wielding ASL.

Now, she's committed two intensive years of study to ASL, has rebuilt her family's life within the Deaf community, immerses her daughter in Deaf culture, had enrolled her daughter in a signing school. Yet she is concerned that she's not providing enough of the language to her daughter and is trying to do more. And you, and others, continually slam her for not supporting ASL, for being anti-ASL? Who is discouraging new parents of deaf children from attempting to pursue ASL here? This mother, or the community who chastises her and clamors that it's not enough?

Nobody is against FJ personally and we all know that she is exposing her daughter to both worlds. What we are confused is that she supports parents who do NOT expose their children to ASL or the Deaf community.
 
Nobody is against FJ personally and we all know that she is exposing her daughter to both worlds. What we are confused is that she supports parents who do NOT expose their children to ASL or the Deaf community.

Because who am I to say that my way is the only right way? I will recommend ASL, and even go so far as to explain what terrible consequences there can be if their child falls too far behind, but I will not say they are wrong. There are so many factors and so many kids doing well orally, why should I say they are wrong?
 
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