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[hidden_passages]

all of you know my involvement in the deaf community and how passionate i am about the people within it and all of that other stuff. many of you may not really understand the culture and why it is the way it is. you may see it as deaf people closing themselves off from the rest of the world, when in actuality they've been discriminated against

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[pepper_rub]

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[amoergosum]

i have always wondered what your connection was with the deaf community. i always respected your commit to it, but i never knew how you got into it. also, why is there such a large culture of the deaf community as opposed to, lets say, the blind community. i never hear about blind culture, ya know? i've always wondered why? is it because they are just a lot more deaf people or little no blind people?

either way, i've never considered being hard of hearing a crippling disability. all the people i know who are deaf or hard of hearing function perfectly normally, and i found no way that they would be discriminated against, at least not by me anyway.

it's also a little sad to note that i'm also losing my hearing due to my life style habits,
cameron

[pepper_rub]

may I point out that although you claim deaf are not discriminated against, you seem to label them as a group different from your own

[hidden_passages]

that's what his thoughts are and what he's seen. i mean, i've seen differently. but he himself has dever discriminated against them. i think you misinterpreted that.

[pepper_rub]

NOD... I just wanted to point that out in a gentle way, though. t.y. ARIA

[kudzzuu]

I've never really found that I thought deaf people cut themselves off from the outside world. There's an obvious communication barrier for a lot of them who can't read lips or speak very well, but it's not a complete divide. At least, I don't see it as a wall between the hearing and deaf communities... On one of my last days at P. Lawrence, I worked with a deaf bride who I really liked. It is pretty terrible, though, that they weren't able to work for the government. I'm not sure whether I'll be able to watch that program or not, but I'll try.

[scottydid]

Your a great person Aria, i wish i had some of that. I will try to watch that program. I could only imagine how it would be to be deaf.

[hidden_passages]

i appreciate that scott. i hope you do at least get to see some of it. then you could at least see a wee bit of the perspective i have on everything.

[num1munchkin]

WOW you got accepted! Congratulations, thats incredible!!!