I never said hearing people should not be posting. As shel pointed out, I am hearing myself. What I want is for the hearing posters to stop disrespecting the life experiences and the opinions of the deaf, and to realize that there is a long and proud history behind the deaf community. What I would like to see is for some of these hearing posters to perhaps read a few books on deaf history, to learn exactly what the issues are between ASL and signed English systems, to gain an understanding of what deaf culture is before they decided and state that the Deaf communicty does not have very valid and understandable reasons for their beliefs and their opinions. And to understand as well, that no deaf poster here is obligated to share their life experience with hearing parents--they do so in an attempt to help those deaf children they don't even know. That needs to be appreciated and treated with respect for the gift that it is.
The them vs us mentality, if you will read deaf history, exists because the hearing world has made it so, not because the Deaf world has made it so.
