What are applauding Star Traveler for? According to deaf culture, you robbed your son of his heritage.
The last thing deaf bigots want is a hearing child. I've heard of them actually avoiding childbirth unless they were reasonably sure their offspring would be born deaf.
That's not surreal, that's perverse!
Ping........
You said -- "What are applauding Star Traveler for? According to deaf culture, you robbed your son of his heritage."
That's not true. Deaf parents definitely want their kids to be "normal" -- with full hearing and no handicaps like they have.
In this lady's case, she was able to successfully help her son, and any parent would want to do that.
The questions comes *after* someone tries and it's not successful and they are deaf. *Then* the question is whether they should be functioning fully in the "deaf culture" or if they should limp along in the "hearing world" with their handicap of not hearing.
If they are not able to correct their handicap, then they will forever *limp along* on the hearing world, always feeling out of place, never being part of it and never being fully integrated -- always not understanding what everyone else understands in the hearing world.
But, if they are in the deaf culture -- it's like "coming home" -- then. They will be with others who think like them, who understand like them, who perceive things in the same way as they do. It's *their culture*.
Regards,
Star Traveler
well, i daresay I know more deaf people than you, and they have kids, both hearing and deaf. sorry to disappoint you.