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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: 12 Feb 90 03:00:28 GMT
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 > Hey, you know what? I don't know about youse guys, but,
 > I am getting really tired of that expression "The hearing
 > world!" Damn it, this is everyones world, tough as it may
 > be on some of us!
 
Sorry (grin).  It is just that it is how I look through my perspective 
of the "other" world.  Even though I have spend most of my life among 
the hearing society, I still feel to this day that they are "aliens". 
This is not meant as offensive, but as my personal statement of fact. 
 
 > this world, how a deaf person might cme to resent hearing
 > persons. In short, the isolation factor can be understood
 > as a phenomena, but there comes a time when walls have to
 > come down and bridges have to be crossed if there is ever
 > going to be any understanding and progress.
 >
Yes, it is also my heartfelt goal.  I think the time is coming soon 
as I have noticed more poeple are taking sign language course as a 
foriegn language.  And at Chico State, we have a meeting for the sign 
language students and deaf students at least twice a year.
 
"Isolation" is not always by the deaf's choice.  It is the language 

of the majority that isolates the deaf. How can we expect the deaf 
to keep up with the hearing if they can't hear the spoken language??
 

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