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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050730/ap_on_re_us/a_town_for_the_deaf

I can't believe is. I really, really can't. As some of you know, I've got hearing aids and I'm 70% deaf in one ear and 80% deaf in the other. Can someone tell me what that town is going to prove? No, seriously..all it seems to do is create a self created aparthied!

My friends and family don't consider me deaf and yeah I've had to deal with bs from people over the years. It wasn't fun but hey I managed it. Aren't they just basically turning their backs on society instead of dealing with it mano a mano? It takes a lot to stand up for oneself when dealing with that crap.

I've done it many, many times and even had to defend myself against other deaf people in message boards. They were kind of annoyed tthat I was accepted I guess. I don't know about you guys but I'm not hiding who I am. The town makes it seem like they're hiding. Instead of hiding, shouldn't we try to do stuff like I dunno..fit in. Yes it's tough but life is tough. You got to overcome obstacles and the like.

I hope they don't ask me to move there.

LX
 
I read through the article. I do wonder about their financing, though; they were very vague about this. One sentence leapt out at me: "The experience of a deaf person in America is almost like being a foreigner."

With the exception of the Native Americans who were here first, everyone else is a foreigner, deaf or not.

And nobody has to move there, Ledian. It's optional. For people who speak Italian, they can either live in their hometown in Italy or, if they choose to move to America, live in a community where Italian is spoken like Little Italy in New York. The same principle applies to other languages, including ASL.
 
If I start an ice cream truck business there, I gotta invest in some police lights ;_;
 
*shrugs* Really, though, he'd be doing what all sorts of other groups have done for years. Demographic groups tend to cling together. Except, well, for one little problem--the longer a group exists, typically, the more fractured the group gets. He's trying to reverse that...
 
Erm, if anyone gets pregnant - how are they going to teach their kids how to talk?

I suppose they'll at least attract some people who like quiet . . .
 
Or people who want to be as loud as possible.

I dunno...I can see some flaws in the idea, but they have deaf schools already (there's a very large one in Oklahoma...and I seem to remember seeing another large one when I was in Santa Fe), so, if nothing else, it would be an interesting experiment.

It's certainly not like we don't already have towns that are made up of one type of person or another. Detroit, Chicago, Mobile...(alright...horrible joke, I admit it).
 
I don't see the big deal. It's not like you're being forced to live there if you're deaf.
 
Very true. Segregation is natural. People tend to want to be with their own. However it does create another way for people divide themselves.
 
I just don't think it's a good idea. I was just joking about the forcing me to live there thing. I don't think it's exactly like an Italian neighborhood or something. To me it just looks like this guy is trying to hide people away from everyone else like being deaf is something to be ashamed of.

Yeah people don't accept people in some cases. Yes, some groups have had it rough but segregating it isn't a good idea I think. I mean, I've had it rough. Really rough in public schools and I learned to deal with it. Instead of confronting the problem, it just makes it seem like they're giving up. Yes, it's hard. Some of you guys have no idea but I managed and so have other people.

I once saw this program called Sound and Fury and it was about this deaf family whose doctor suggested the daughter get cochlear implants. Long story short, the father turned out to be really bitter toward anyone trying to help him or the daughter out. He seemed closed minded and wanted people to be seperated.

It's not a good idea to seperate people because of a disability. It just seems rather asinine because it's like they're giving up. They don't want to be teased? Fine. They need to work on trying to be accepted. Education is the best way and in most cases it works. It's just not a good idea.

LX
 
Being deaf myself, I don't go with this idea. For many years deaf people have been trying to fit in with the world. We're lucky now that more and more people are accepting us. People are creating advanced technology so we can get equal treatment. Like captions and flashing devices. Even communication, with the sidekick from T-Mobile and students able to take up Sign language classes in school. I am balanced in life, in deaf culture and hearing. I do fine with it. This idea might destroy what we worked for. To be involved together as one. Both deaf and hearing.

This will just divide us up again.


This is Jasmine by the way.
 
Unregistered said:
and students able to take up Sign language classes in school.
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I did that. <3 ASL ^_^

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This is Jasmine by the way.
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Hey Jas! ^_^


I do think the town thing is odd but if some people like it then let them enjoy it.

As for captions, CC sucks a lot. They don't work for many shows and when they do they're often slow, show random letters and numbers, and/or they get things wrong. Although they work decently on movies.
 
Belldandy said:
As for captions, CC sucks a lot. They don't work for many shows and when they do they're often slow, show random letters and numbers, and/or they get things wrong. Although they work decently on movies.
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*remembers the closed captioning for A Way Off Day Off* Indeed.
 
MistyIRC said:
*remembers the closed captioning for A Way Off Day Off* Indeed.
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CC never worked on Pokemon for me. What'd they say for that episode?
 
I don't see anything wrong with this plan. Especially for the older people, who don't have the time to "try to fit in" anymore. This will simply create an additional option for people who'd want to take it. You can argue with those people instead, if you want to.
 
I don't think there's a need for this. I know someone who is deaf, and my friends and I don't see her any differently. She acts like any regular person would, except we have to write stuff on a piece of paper to talk to her, that's the only difference.
 
The idea behind the community is to provide political clout for the deaf, not keep them separate from the rest of the world. It's simply a group of people sharing a common bond (like the Cubans in Miami, for example) living within a few blocks of each other.
 
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