[birdsman]

Nakatu X got it right. people in the Deaf Culture consider themselves to be a community. They consider "deaf" to be as inappropiate as "american" or "christian".

[ccmay]

people in the Deaf Culture consider themselves to be a community

I have read that a salient feature of the Deaf community, male and female alike, is their inordinate fondness for drink, drugs and promiscuous sexual pleasure. Supposedly a lot of deaf people routinely participate in drunken Deaf-only orgies.

Feel free to correct me if this is a scurrilous rumor.

-ccm