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From: GE0013@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Roy Miller)
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Subject: Deafies vs Hearies
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Date: 30 Nov 90 17:34:56 GMT
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Some time ago James Womack presented an excellent discussion of the
use of the words "deafie" and "hearie" by many deaf people (in
particular, members of the Deaf Culture).  I am a late-deafened
adult having lost all hearing at the age of 47.  As such, I culturally
still a hearing person, but physiologically (and more and more in
terms of communications mode) I am deaf.  I know that many
late-deafened view themselves as "neither fish nor fowl,"  lost
in limbo somewhere between two worlds.  I would be interested in
hearing more about how persons who are culturally Deaf think of
persons who are late-deaf.  Are we deafies or hearies or something
else?