yeah quiet day….

Too quiet here…only Tuesday, I know.

But, like i said, it varies. You will have ASL/CI that values deaf culture over their own family and vice versa. Same thing with ASL person. Most of us value the relationship we have with our parents and relatives, or whomever it is we care about in our life, and we approach it and make decisions in our lives in many areas based on the value, whichever way we see fit. Likewise, CY should be open and understanding when hearing parents who value close relationship with their deaf child and sees C.I. as a way to keep the parent/child relationship flourishing. To each its own. I think Cy is just covering her butt. But, is it a justification for deafside? I don’t think so. it’s like saying ok, you cherish this, therefore, you belong “there” and because we cherish “this” we belong “here.” It is still dividing and to me, it is not diversity. It all still comes down to inclusion and/or discrimination. JMO.

Argh! Pffft!

Take a visit to Cy’s Deaf Tea Time, “CI/ASL & Culturally Deaf “Divided” By Values, Not By Labels” as of yesterday, 5 May 08.

I strongly disagree with her views 100 percent. Being a labeled person does not mean anything. Some of the CI-ASL users consider themselves a culturally deaf person. In a way, they were raised by deaf family and relatives.

I am sure that Cy forgot to discuss about the CI-ASL users who came from Deaf family and relatives.

Discussing about the values at Cy’s blog does not help anything, either.

Hey, Candy! Any thoughts?

*shrug*

Don’t forget there are also a few in the CI community who have a dim view of deafness, that it is “not normal”, that “I wouldn’t want my CI child to associate with these crazy, angry, signing, (stick-a-label here) Deaf”, and that signing interferes with AVT (like how many hours are in a day here?)and the child’s education (ok, monolingual it is then), and a plethora of other nutsy stuff.

Hard to strike a rational balance, hey?

The general view is parents are too thick to understand deafness is fun and great, and Dr’s want to tiurn everyone intohearing people who are the dregs of the planet apprently….. so leave it alone, and stop the child abuse (That’s some of the moderate stuff you can read), or stuff like “How cruel these parents are to attack our deaf children (OUR ?), and drill holes in their heads, how will they be able to swim with the holes in their head ?” I kid you not…..