Forging Ahead

All I can do is shake my head whenever I see these internal squabblings continue to occur within the Deaf community. Of course, this has been going on for years. Yet, at the same time, I'm certainly glad that I do not share their particular brand of narrow-mindedness. I like to think independently on these things. So, squabbles like over DVTV (of which I don't even follow or even really care), Deafread, the advantageous misuse and abuse of the word "audism," the continued personal labeling and slandering, character assassinations, and so on are just a part of every day annoyance worthy of a thousand eyerolls. I guess my flawless plan continues to work!

Yet I'm not certainly going stand by while some groups continue to call babies born with hearing loss (to mostly hearing parents 90% of the time) as "Deaf babies." Not only is this wrong but doing so implies that certain Deaf groups have a stake or "own" these babies over parents. They don't. They have no right to call them as "Deaf babies" unless they are the parents of that baby with a hearing loss to make that call. Despite all that I continue to forge ahead in my life to make the best of what it has to offer. And even laugh along the way, too.