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From: Laurie.Wilson@p0.f5.n119.z1.fidonet.org (Laurie Wilson)
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Subject: Re: YOUR MESSAGE
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Date: 1 Feb 90 20:29:51 GMT
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 > doesn't affect the primary communication mode between the
 > blind and
 > the non-handicapped:  Speech.
 >
 > The only reason more deaf people are bigoted about who
 > is and who
 > isn't a Member Of The Culture is because deafness FORCED
 > that shift
 > in primary communications from speech to sign language.
 >  No
 > surprises there.
 >
 
Yes, good observation!  Thanks for pointing this out because it is 
sometimes hard for me to explain what it is like in the deaf world 
since I am deaf myself and I have a speech.  I tend to think my world 
as normal, not much difference from the hearing world. But with your 
observation, I am now reminded again and again that it is the language 
that separates the deaf from the majority.  However, there is one 
more point that I would like to add.  It is also a sense of being 
"isolated" in a hearing society that causes the deaf people to seek 
others in common --deafness and language.
 
Laurie

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