you guys have good points. I have a question.. What if you're like me, and you use lipreading/talking with hearing people and sign langauge around other deaf people?
that's what I've been doing most of my life. Sometimes felt frustrated because people didn't understand that because I am deaf doesn't mean I don't understand. I've had that same old "i'm sorry" and walk away that was described, more times than I can count.
I can understand the attitudes the some deaf have about hearing, and some hearing have about deaf. We have to respect each other's choices. If hearing people don't want to learn sign language, we can't tell them to. I don't force anyone who interacts with me to learn.. it's all up to them. I never asked my boyfriend to learn sign language.. and here he is learning it.
I have grown up with a family that used oral with me all my life... And I love that because it gives me the necessary skills to communicate in the hearing world.
