What does "audism" mean to the deaf community?

Pinky said:
Her son's doctor was my ex doctor in past. He is very audism.
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How so? Did he say something negative about sign language? If so give me an example of what he said.
 
Cheri said:
How so? Did he say something negative about sign language? If so give me an example of what he said.
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My mom explained to me. When she found it out that I am deaf at 16 months old. I started to misread in communicate with my parents because I can't hear. I got temper tartum without communicate through sign language. My mom talked with my ex doctor about communicate. He told her not use sign language until I get older to learn. He think it's too early for baby to learn sign language. :roll: That's silly! He provided me go to pre-school for hearing impaired instead of deaf school. I was emotional and fit because I wouldn't learn sign language until I become 3. I attended to Pre-school for hearing impaired. My mom met my first teacher about communicate issues. She told her to use sign language. My mom told her that doctor is not allowed her to learn sign language. My teacher said he is wrong! So she started teach me how to sign. Finally I learned it fast. My mom excited that i learned sign language. She is able to communicate with me. I wouldn't feel lonely and isolate without communicate anymore.

My cousin's son has bilateral CI. My ex doctor said they don't need to learn sign language to communicate with her son. He forced their son to be oral. He is very frustrate and feeling isolate at school without sign language. He went to swimming in pool and not able to hear kids' chattering without sign language. He is being bad at school often. That is sad! I encourage my cousin to put her son go to mainstream school to learn sign language and social with deaf and hoh in classroom.

We haven't discuss about this yet. I do not have chance to talk with her because we live far away. I will see them on Thanksgiving and Xmas Eve anyways.
 
Pinky said:
He told her not use sign language until I get older to learn. He think it's too early for baby to learn sign language.
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So basically the doctor said it was too early for babies to learn to sign? That is the result of ignorance, perhaps fears that the child will never learn to speak. Without a doubt the hearing world is full of ignorance, Just because the doctor went to medical school doesn't mean he knows everything or know what is best for deaf children.
 
Cheri said:
So basically the doctor said it was too early for babies to learn to sign? That is the result of ignorance, perhaps fears that the child will never learn to speak. Without a doubt the hearing world is full of ignorance, Just because the doctor went to medical school doesn't mean he knows everything or know what is best for deaf children.
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I think I remember Pinky writing about that doctor not implanting people who wanted to get CI if they were going to continue to sign.

That is definitely audist.
 
Bottesini said:
I think I remember Pinky writing about that doctor not implanting people who wanted to get CI if they were going to continue to sign.

That is definitely audist.
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Yes definitely it is a form of audism.
 
Bottesini said:
I think I remember Pinky writing about that doctor not implanting people who wanted to get CI if they were going to continue to sign.

That is definitely audist.
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That doctor should be stripped of his/her medical license. Who does he/she think he/she is? Making that decision on what language the child should use. That doctor's job is to implant, nothing more. I personally hate doctors like them.
 
jazzy said:
I am sick of this word Audism, Audism Audism from D people who called d people audism. It is alike they are obessed with this word and put label on anyone who somewhat different from D culturalists. D cultralists need to grow up .
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If u dont like the Deaf community, then dont hang out with them. I choose not to hang out with those who hold my oral upbringing against me and hang out with those who dont. I know that not everyone in the Deaf community are like those people. However, those Deaf who are audist against other deaf people really dont have a lot of power like those doctors who are audist against ASL and the Deaf community because they easily influence parents of newly diagnosed deaf babies. That is what I am the most concerned about.
 
I understand how is Jazzy's feeling. I am curious who is the idea with word Audism in history???
 
Deaf Bilingual Coalition, I thought - but correct me if I am mistaken
 
souggy said:
Woooooooooooooha.

Maybe try looking at their actions first?

I remember meeting a CI implantee at a bookstore. He found out I was Deaf, so he said to me verbally (supported with really rusty ASL):

"Hey, you're deaf? I used to be deaf. I got a cochlear implant *points to black unit behind his head that I didn't notice* Now everything is so much better and I can learn Russian, Japanese, French, German, Chinese and English! I learned a bit of ASL before the surgery like *gestures the word "THANK,"* but it wasn't good enough-- English is so much better."

That was my first deaf contact in Victoria when i first moved here, and I was PISSED at that and busted his bubbles by saying: "Can you follow group conversations?" (or something similar.) Right there and then he started to get a bit teary-eyed.

I am not making this up. I am still mad about this incident and that was eight or seven months ago. Thank god I met a CODA on St. Paddy Day before meeting him, or otherwise I would be quick to mislabel my current city of residence based on the cashier's response to my deafness.

So yeah, he's deaf, but some of the stuff "deaf" people say are offensive and reeks of audism.
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I agree...that was very audist of this person. U know what I hate? People who get CIs and they act like they are better than deaf people without CIs or their lives revolve around the CIs. My CI did this, my CI did that and so on. I dont mind them talking about their CIs but not ALL the time to the point where their lives are totally consumed by it. I have seen that happen with some AD posters here too.
 
Bumping this up for those interested in the content of the link at post #94.
 
shel90 said:
I agree...that was very audist of this person. U know what I hate? People who get CIs and they act like they are better than deaf people without CIs or their lives revolve around the CIs. My CI did this, my CI did that and so on. I dont mind them talking about their CIs but not ALL the time to the point where their lives are totally consumed by it. I have seen that happen with some AD posters here too.
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It offends me because I was raised with three or four different languages for the first 12 years of my life as a severe-to-profoundly deaf person WITHOUT a CI. If I can learn three spoken languages, ontop of a signed language, other people can too. If they can't, well they are being educated improperly.
 
shel90 said:
I read it. I need more background info on what the issues are with DeafVideo.TV and all that. Was somoene banned for expressing audist views or vice versa?
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Well, a group of Deaf extremists (can't think of a better word right now) want the owner to put the word, "Audism" in the rules and he will not because there seems to be no clear cut definition for the word so "oppression", etc will have the same effect. I think those folks are just trying to hijack the site......long story, been evolving for almost a year and a half now.
 
I wouldn't call those bloggers extremists.

They want a Deaf-centric site, meaning no CI blogs. No oralist deaf blogs and so on. However the owner of DeafRead maintained that as long they're not outright attacking anyone in a vulgar manner, DeafRead will remain an uncensored, generalist aggregator. I am inclined to side with the owner. Yeah, we're an oppressed group, but that doesn't give us the rights to oppress other people.

The thing is that a few people want to add "audism" to the R-list which would essentially restrict the type of entries that oralists and CI bloggers can submit. However no one can agree on what "audism" means since none of the entries are "audists" according to the original definition in 197-something.

I am not too sure what's happening with DTV though.... I don't post on it, so I wouldn't know.
 
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