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- From: Laurel.Gealt@f201.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Laurel Gealt)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: DEAF CULTURE - PART 2
- Message-ID: <23892@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:28:24 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- I have three main things to say about your messsage. (1)I do not
- feel threatened by the deaf. I myself am physically deaf (though
- not culturally deaf) -- and I know from my own experiences that it
- is a HORRIBLE handicap -- and the born deaf do not feel the
- terrible loss that I feel simply because they do not know any
- better -- they have no idea what they are missing. (2) When I said
- the "human animal", I was not referring to deaf people as animals.
- It is a common expression that you must not have enccountered --
- and it is used simply to accept the fact the human beings have
- instincts just like dogs and cats. (3) About deaf people not
- rushing to get cochlear implants -- I have heard the story of a
- teenage girl who really wanted to get a cochlear implant, but all
- of her deaf friends threatened to stop speaking to her if she did
- -- So much for the great tolerance of deaf people.
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