Good vent shel! And I'm glad you feel better. I know I get caught up in the bashing back, but sometimes I just get so frustrated when they act like they are the only ones who have the answers and deaf people who choose not to use CI or parents who allow their deaf children to make their own choices are idiots.
We've got oneparent whose child is still so young that he has no idea what is going to happen with her education, or how she chooses to id herself after the hearing world has treated her like shyte, and nother who tells us what a wonderful successs he has had parenting a deaf child, then in another thread says he gives all the credit to his wife
That tells me that he probably doesn't have a clue what is going on and is only here because he never even developed the kind of relationship with his daughter that is close enough for him to truly understand what she goes through. Then in another thread, he says that she is now (as a young adult) learning sign and making several signing deaf friends. Sound familiar? It's the same story heard from yound deaf adults who were raised orally for years and years.
There seems to be no consideration for the fact that these parents have contact with one deaf person--their own child-- yet they think they are experts. They never bother to take into account that most of us-both deaf and hearing-that post here have contact with the deaf community on a daily basis, and some of us work with these deaf kids and deaf young adults that they think they know so much about. My experience tells me that htey don't know anything because these kids tell a different story.
Guess it was my turn to vent!
