reading UNDERSTANDING DEAF CULTURE

this book at first was dreadful- I thought to myself get on with the GOOD STUFF.

I'm reading- and this stuff is disturbing me

a excerpt on p 129 is "we should try ourselves to forget they are deaf. We should try to teach them to forget that they are deaf"

Why does one feel that ANYONE is inferior to them.

In schools sign language was prohibited. The deaf schools took the children's hands and binded them. hit the students with canes and rulers. and forced instruments into their mouths which made the tongue bleed, and in order to make the children open their mouths.

I couldn't believe that a HUMAN- would act in an inhumane manner because one cant hear.
as I read I now understand why the Deaf are so proud in the culture.

I was born into a family that shown me being Deaf is more than having a audiological hearing loss. It is a sense of identity.

BUT NOW- I'm being exposed to the history of being oppressed- and what essentially formulates the culture.

tomorrow I will be attending a Deaf theatre - THE PRICE

DEFINITELY AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT