Busy Hands: Confessions of a Deaf Girl Who Had an Audistic Attitude
For all the deaf people who look down - whether subconsciously or otherwise - on other deaf folks with poor English skills, and for all signing deaf who look down - whether subconsciously or otherwise - on deaf people with poor or no signing skills.
Discimmination DOESN’T become us!
I was a part of the hearing world, and I expected them to meet the expectations I had for my fellow hearing friends, who had to write to me in order to eventually learn how to sign in SEE. I carried this attitude for years. I actually began to realize my errors recently, when I pondered on how there are Deaf people who would choose to not accept me as a part of their world because my ASL is obviously very flawed. If it was wrong for them to not accept me because I was unable to sign in their language, then how could it be right for me to not accept them because they cannot write the way I do?
