Todays guest post is brought to you by
Steph Anne
from
Friday Glamour.
This is all part of the 20 Something Bloggers “Blog Swap 3“.
Don’t forget to go check out my post over on her site.
I’ll introduce myself…. my name is Stephanie and I blog over here. I didn’t know what to blog about for the Blog Swap but then I thought I should blog about the issues I have about Deaf Power.
I was born deaf and I can hear now with both my hearing aid and cochlear implant. I am grateful that I can speak very well and when communicating with others, I can lip-read and hear them so communication isn’t that much of a barrier for me.
Deaf Power…. there are deaf people out there that have so much pride in their deafness and sometime it conflicts with issues or their opinions. They’re stuck in their little “Deaf world” and I find it extremely annoying.
I am proud to be deaf but I don’t have Deaf Power at all. I want to be a normal person and strive for the best by myself without using deaf excuses. I’m up for the challenges. Every time I dream of my future I don’t always see interpreters there for me.
“Deaf people can do anything but hear.” – I King Jordan. That quote is very true. I am grateful that I can hear very well unlike some other deaf people. I don’t wear my cochlear implant all the time…. and I should. I need to so I can improve on understanding people better.
My biggest pet peeve is when deaf people are so disrespectful to hearing people and then hearing people misjudge deaf people and assume we are so cruel and immature. I don’t blame hearing people but it sucks that I have to deal with that and try hard to make them realize that I’m not one of “those deaf people”. I’m proud to be deaf in my own ways..but I certainly don’t live in the “Deaf world”. I live in the world that we’re all living in.
P.S. D-PAN (Deaf Performing Artists Network) is an awesome website with music videos signed by deaf artists.
-Stephanie
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I never stopped to think how someone that is deaf might be so proud that they have no intentions of wanting to hear.
I guess, in general, pride can be kind of annoying when people let it affect their opinions. Why can’t we all just be proud to be human and move on from there.
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Im lucky. My deaf teacher always told us about how deaf people can be mean, and so far all the deaf Ive met are pretty cool. Thanks for the website btw.
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Meh, every group has its bad apples. I think most people know that.
I’ll check out that link later tonight. Thanks for sharing!
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I took several Deaf Education classes in college, including one on Deaf culture. Most of the material we read and the deaf people we met were lovely people who wanted to be respected. We did watch one video on deaf culture, however, that could only be described as militant. Several deaf people in the video went on an on about how horrible hearing people are and how awful it would be to be a hearing person. It was a little intense.
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I know that Deaf Culture has a definite vibe that doesn’t always feel good to hearing people. I think being cruel or mean is wrong, no matter what place it comes from.
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