Fried brains and yummy desserts

I'm sure you've heard of the expression when someone get their "brain fried" or how "he must've fried his brain." It's when one takes too much of something, like drugs or too much academia in this case, that have rendered a person's brain to a much lower functioning level without the person ever knowing it. Sometimes "analysis paralysis" has this effect, too, which can become a case of "terminological inexactitude." The expression "terminological inexactitude" was coined by Winston Churchill which is basically a play on words by calling to the misapplication of labels and the danger or damage that can be done by doing so.  Kind of like a deaf person calling another deaf person an "avdist" when it's entirely ridiculous to even say that thinking the guy must've fried his brain for saying that. The "avdist" term would be totally bogus and misapplied. Here's another example of a "fried brain" syndrome.  One other example would be for a person to go through the whole armchair analysis over a certain group of deaf/hh bloggers and vloggers and ultimately conclude the reason they do their blogs or vlogs the way they do was because they feel that the Deaf community and culture have "rejected" them.  This sort of conclusion would be plumbing the depth of extreme silliness. I suppose, figuratively speaking, somebody must've "fried his brain" for even to conclude that (insert laugh track).

Ready for some yummy desserts?

The ridiculousness goes beyond the pale whenever Deaf people try to determine whether the feeling of "rejection" by the Deaf community and culture have occurred for other people. Here's why it's silly to try and do that armchair analysis. There's an expression "different strokes for different folks" which means there are different people who like to do things differently or live in different ways within their own community. In this case deaf/hh people do things differently in different communities and how they participate and interract in the Deaf, deaf/hh and hearing communities. We all should recognize that.

This should be about how people value and respect other people opinions, even when they bring up tough questions or discuss certain "taboo" subjects. The "frying of one's own brain" would be to try and justify one's own conclusion thinking how people write is a sign of feeling of rejection by the Deaf community at large. Which would be patently funny in the attempt at academia here. Rather there are certain number of people or group of people within a certain segment of the Deaf community that rejects those Deaf, deaf and hh bloggers and vloggers because of what they write.  Despite that many Deaf people have on the other hand welcomed and embraced those bloggers and vloggers.

Hmmm... a conundrum pie here. Done with your fried brains? Here's my slice.

For all intent and purposes Barry (The Holism) and Errigo are seen as "Deaf people" (bear with me so I can make a point here). Two very different backgrounds and upbringings who are fluent in ASL. Yet they have many Deaf, deaf, hh and hearing friends and supporters within the Deaf, deaf/hh, and hearing communities. Do you think they feel "rejected" by the Deaf community? No. It'd be funny to even say that. Rather it is quite correct to say that there are certain segments within the Deaf community who do reject Barry and Errigo outright simply because of their opinions in their blogs and vlogs. Opinions, viewpoints, and perspectives that do go against the grain of many Deaf people. This goes the same for me.

I don't feel rejected by the Deaf community as a whole based on the comments and the conversations I've had with Deaf people over the years. Heck, I walk on the campus of Gallaudet University and I certainly do not feel "rejected" by the Deaf community whenever I talk and interact with Deaf professors, students and other people who know or recognize me. I certainly do not feel "rejected" by the Deaf community whenever my Deaf wife and I go and visit Deaf events like Deaf Nation or other similar events. Or when we meet up with our Deaf friends and so on. I certainly do not feel rejected when I read DVTV responses to my videos and how I interact with them. I certainly did not feel "rejected" by the Deaf community when I used my voice in my speech in front of a live internet (Deaf) audience and the people who sat before me at Gallaudet University's first ever vlog/blog panel discussion a few years back. Does it really matter on this whole Deaf community rejection thing? In a word, no. Not one bit. But the reality is that there are some Deaf people who have categorically rejected me and other Deaf people for various reasons. And that's fine. That's life. Easy as apple pie I'd say. The Deaf community as anybody should know is a mixed bag out there. It's an impossible task to please everybody because everybody has an opinion on things.

I think this whole "analysis" attempt to try and determine whether the feeling of "rejection" by the Deaf community as a whole probably boils down to perhaps some people are simply peeved about missing out on a Monopoly game I had earlier thinking it was a real thing? Or perhaps it's about their own insecurity and inadequacy regarding their own academia background do they try and do the whole arm chair psychology bit to appear more, um, "authentic"? I don't know. But certainly this "fried brain syndrome" is getting out of hand here.

So, how was your dessert? I hope you liked it.