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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.deaf-l
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!pepper
- From: pepper@shell.portal.com (Angelique N Wahlstedt)
- Subject: Re: deaf wish
- Message-ID: <BxnA90.39E@unix.portal.com>
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- Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
- References: <DEAF-L%92110616114753@SIUCVMB.BITNET>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:00:36 GMT
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- In article <DEAF-L%92110616114753@SIUCVMB.BITNET> LEW@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Lew Golan) writes:
-
- > No matter how you rationalize it, you are saying that your feelings
- >and your language are more important than the best interests of your future
- >children -- who, if they are born deaf (as you desire), will face a
- >lifetime of struggle, frustration, deprivation, discrimination, isolation,
- >underachievement and other disadvantages which they would not encounter if
- >they were born hearing.
-
- Excuse me, but that sounds like a typical life of a deaf kid born to hearing
- parents who have been trying in vain to turn the deaf kid into a "hearie".
-
- Granted, a deaf person's life isn't easy, but she/he has to make the best
- of it. Besides, hearing people's lives aren't much easier, especially if
- they are poor or belong to a much-discriminated-against minority. Just ask
- a black kid living in a ghetto. Even with perfect hearing, she/he faces
- practically the same disadvantages that a deaf person would have.
-
- -- Ms. Pepper
-
- --
- Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt
-
- Portal: ms-pepper@cup.portal.com
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