Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!681!853.1!StEpHeN.wHiTe
From: StEpHeN.wHiTe@p1.f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org (StEpHeN wHiTe)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Hearie signers
Message-ID: <18396@bunker.isc-br.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 05:30:21 GMT
Sender: news@bunker.isc-br.com
Reply-To: StEpHeN.wHiTe@p1.f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 3:681/853.1
Lines: 36
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 14528

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 TS> Deaf people humorless?   Oh yeah, right.

Considering their physical age, yes.

Try utilising rich humour on a child, and see how much goes over
their heads. They were like children at that school. Not because
they were deaf, but because of the teachers lack of capability.

Adult deaf are an entirely different thing altogether.

 TS> So, from your own personal experience at that school you are
 TS> making  generalizations? (Just asking)

And this is all you got out of my entire post? A point of
contention over my statement that the deaf children at that school
were rather humourless? Becaus you perceive it as putting all deaf
people down?

No, you've made the wrong assumption.

How about communicating, instead of confronting?

PS. I see Jay Croft's message to you:

 JC> I guess the reason my congregation laughed at the jokes in my
 JC> sermon  yesterday is because they are humorless.

How nice. All ganging up on the newcomer, eh?

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!3!681!853.1!StEpHeN.wHiTe
Internet: StEpHeN.wHiTe@p1.f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org