From my personal experience. I grew up orally.
Then I started to attend to a deaf school. I was totally rejected!! With my peers signing the index finger on their forhead.
Time went by. I was finally accepted.
What made me so determined???
Is that I was accused of being a "fence straddler"
It was not by the Deaf community alone.
I do appricate all that I have learned in my life.
Just seem no matter who you are. One way or another, everyone wants to be accepted.
One can deny the fact, that it does not matter. It is only human nature.
