I am fascinated too, but for slightly different reasons like 'why is it that hearing people 'approve' a hearing person to learn or have 'ability' (real or not) sign language as a mere quaint curiosity while hearing people disapprove deafs, deafies learn sign language because they believe sign language is a sign of failure to learn to speak orally'. That sort of 'double standard' to me is dangerously close to resemble a violation of human rights, even at same time, it shows the arrogancy of the hearing bastards. I'm not apologising for those 'interested heariing people' learning to sign, especially when they fail to acknowledge the very real struggle that we, deaf people have been and still are fighting for our rights to be included in society at the same time to be ourselves to have nothing 'missing' to fulfil the 'normal' life. And when they end up being a well-paid professional which feds on the existence of deaf people !!, that is RUDE if you ask me.
Back to the track, all I'm saying is, I'm sick of this hearing people have this strange "considering this, this is good for deaf...." line of thinking for it merely reflects the veiled pity while the public perception of success and failure of deaf people had and still is constrasted vastly against the hearing people's own 'success' (in this case, success to 'know' sign language is 'marketed' as a career prospect for Hearing professionals, where are the career prospects for the deaf being marketed or encouraged? ok there's teachers (or aides) or some other assistent shit positions).
That's not enough, looking at society and deaf people's positions from a wholistic perspective, I question like, where are we? and the more hearing-like deafs ar emore like hearing, they more "qualified" they are to be fitting in the greater areas of employment in roles traditionally "deemed" perceived as a hearing person's role only because they are MORE hearing !!
So oh, not one person told her to stop, because maybe they KNOW she's hearing or in some subtle body-language psychic ways others 'felt' she's 'normal' because she didnt have that awkward quirks which a REAL deaf women might 'normally' have. Like dare i say some deaf people exhibits some sort of 'acting out' or slight paranoia or some sort of 'bent' in their behaviour that's when it tunes out of ordinary , it 'alerts' the public hence they "knows" this is a 'confused deaf person' , like straight away without thinking (subconsciously perhaps) this deaf/Deaf person should stop waving arms all over the place. (Then again this hearing woman is a 'tuned in' hearing, meaning to say she'd know already whats appropriate 'space' to blend in signs signals and use of personal space in public areas without violating the passer-bys , thus not offending them. This sort of thing may have brought up on her, that 'acceptance'. On this point maybe this might be an area worth investigating to look at 'normative hearing' person's personal space vs Deaf culture's using of space.
shrugs
my 2 cents