That's exactly what I was talking about, how audism can be misused, misunderstood and misapplied. Pinky; Just because your cousin refused to learn sign language it doesn't necessarily means your cousin is an audist.
Let me provide you examples of audism:
Person A approached you, and asked is that your car?! and You say yea, so?? Person A gets upset and says But, you're deaf, you're not supposed to drive!, only hearing people drive!
A hard of hearing person approached you and say, I'm more successful and smarter than you because I can speak well and you don't.
My first language was English, and you can't write well because English wasn't your first language.
