i learned a good deal about myself as i went to town last night in the wee hours, met a couple of young deaf guys whose dont frequent at Deaf club but they do pop in clubroom now and then...it was interesting because they 'living in the hearing world' but not so much as a 'hearie' but more as a young person doing what young people do, going to nightclubs for "rage" and getting shitfaced, and 'being cool'. I noticed they were cool with me but gets aggro to other hearing people! for nothing just picking fightings, assuming everyone pulling up fingers to them , they wasnt! (i was sober) it was like a kind of paranoid....and that's exactly what i was like, i was the SAME as them!, its clearly not 'mental disorder', it's more imitating the hearies' version of 'cool' in a kind of confused way, hard to describe , but it surely made me think, and went 'wow' thats young deaf!, and im amazed nothing as changed, i mean the town's youth culture and the struggles of being d/Deaf trying to fit in the world....quite a few d/Deaf youths but sadly they dont come to Deaf club 'because they think its boring' hard to impress youth and harder to encourage to think about life more seriously...
thats all id say, it was a fascinating reflection i had last night...it really was