Abuses, brainwashing and corruption are audist tools used since 1880. This is as result of greedy hearing people who want to "rape" deaf people in all walks of life. It has happened everywhere from sea to shining sea.
For the last 40 years since I got interested in Deaf advocacy, I have seen many and many stories about how hearing people tend to abuse deaf people. I have visited many rural towns, small towns and cities. I have come across many stories because I was looking for truth.
Many oral programs have higher rate of abuses due to frustrations, demands of parents and ignorance.
The stories come from many Deaf people who grew up with anger, hatred and mistrust
Stories like Jack are very common.
Hearing people have been sweeping the stuff under the rug. They felt good knowing deaf people were stupid and too ignorant in speaking out.
What goes around will come around!
In the picture above, it is pure example of how audists abuse children everywhere in the ivy halls in most public oral programs as well as private oral programs.
Hearing people including parents tend to ignore our complaints or concerns about the abuses.
4 comments:
The two drawings (vid. supra) should have been a part of the
backdrop of the AGB Conference!
I hope that DBC will remember the
drawings for the next AGB Conference where the media would see how dehumanising and degrading
the AGBell has been to deaf
people for more than a century!
Condemn audism!
Never Again!
Addendum:
Why not make a documentary video
under the title "Oralism: Never
Again".
That would be one of the ways
for hearing parents to see
and understand why the Deaf
Community have a deep sense
of aversion to anything
AGBellish or anything
audistic.
Jean Boutcher
hello mr keil.. this is mat fowler here.. i ve stumbled onto your blog for the first time.. yes.. that blog hit me really hard i had to wipe my eyes.. you see.. i m an oral survivor.. im the former bad lord of robots.. i begged my parents not to get me implanted.. they didnt listen simply because they thought they did what was right.. they asked me firmly to try..nothing wrong with trying..yeah..but ethical?..i m asking because i was 14..where s my freedom of choice?
For some reasons, these hearing people just don't realize how they treat deaf children.... I often wonder about their hearing children -- what if they are placed into classroom that they could not understand their peers and teacher...would they raise a big fuss over that? why? Because their hearing children CAN express their frustration. Deaf children are delayed in communication, thus, hearing people take advantage of that and try to force them to be like "hearing." I grew up in a good home, yet, I suffered the emotional and psychological effects of being oral. It was a long period of being confused, scared, having stresses of trying to please adults who get impatient with me because I could not understand the simple communication with them (by voice). It was a very long time in being healed from the unsettling and scared emotional period (starting when I began preschool to high school) when I went to Gallaudet University and began to understand much better and realize that when I understand more clearly, the fears fade away slowly. So, that fueled the rage inside me that I do not understand how it is allowed to happen to the young innocent deaf children being deprived of accessing to sign language. It would make things so much easier to be able to communicate more fluently in sign language. Sigh. It goes on and on, and it still happens to young deaf children today.... I want to explain to parents, but they will not listen to me... they hid their deaf children from me. They see me as a monster. Why? because I picked up sign language, so I am forbidden from ever visiting the oral program so that I don't "spread" sign language to deaf children. This is real heartbreaking....to be rejected from my deaf program where I spent hours in, and I can not come back to visit it. Now, I am much happier...I taught my hearing children sign language. I use sign language every day. I have a hard of hearing child. I sent her to the deaf school. She's grown up now, and she thanked me for giving her a strong sense of identity. She can speak well, and she socializes with deaf people. She goes to both hearing and deaf places. She's very happy. This article speaks very strongly, and I totally understand it. You got my strong support. Now, if only we can help people to understand what we are trying to speak out against oralism.
Dianne K
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