deaf-hearing person?!?!

I. King Jordan did said that??

I feel sorry for him... but not just him but many deaf people who raised by oral or those who refuse to use sign language or know very little. Something tells me that Jordan couldn't accept his deafness. A deaf people (some, not all) who raise oral and raise in hearing family may not realize themselves that they don't accept their own deafness. They must be like "hearing".

I'm having second thought. I'm getting out of my chest, now. I just realize that my mom in non-spoken language that she doesn't accept my deafness. She is expecting me to be "hearing" I looked back and sum up all to the presents. She doesn't accept my deafness at all. Even though she said that she does but her body language spoke louder. For a split moment, I was tempting to take off my hearing aid and never use my voice for rest of my life. *sigh* I just depend on hearing aids for so long and I do enjoy listen music. I always listen to music before I go to sleep. It's my favorite things to do. One thing I do know is that my mom doesn't realize what she's doing most of the time. One day, I'm going to have a "long talk" to her.

*sigh* I do feel sorry for those who are deaf and doesn't accept their deafness. Even they are born deaf or deaf in later age. They can't accept it because they were raise in hearing family and most likely they don't accept their deafness. What's worst? Audiologist (specialize in nose, mouth, and ear, why? They're connected.) don't accept deaf people being deaf. They try to "cure" their deafness by giving them hearing aids and chocolor(sp) implant. I was working at the store I notice young toddler have chocoe(sp) implant. Even audiolist try to convice me to wear of every visit I go. One day, I fed up. I told him "no, I'm not interesting." He said, "because of 'deaf power'?" HECK! There are several reasons why I refuse, one is I'm not interesting to look like the "borg" (for those who don't know, watch Star Trek: The next Generation or Voyager simple way to explain is half human and half robot). Two: I don't want to cut my hair on one side and have surgery. I'm not intersting on that. Three: I can't scuba diving. The man just stood there with jaw wide open. Geez, what's next? Most audiologists are really closed-minded. I rarely meet any open-minded. I find them so annoying. Some audiologists expect me to be "hearing" too. They refuse to try to communicate to make sure that you understand. In fact, they never explain deapth about choclor (sp?) implant. I didn't know any of those until I went to Gallaudet and learn more about it. I'm so glad that I did learn.

Oh, I have nothing against for those who have wonderful experience with cholor implant which I have already met a few. However, that implant is NOT my thing! Too BAD to audiologist, they just interesting in more money, that's all! They never interesting to learn the differences. That's why I wish audioligist wasn't existance for area. Again, I'm grateful for hearing aids. Just don't like those closed-minded people and audiolists are the worst closed-minded I ever met.