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Yet another rant =p Sep. 4th, 2004 @ 08:20 pm
I've been doing some thinking. About everything in general, basically.

Sometimes it feels like deafness is a cage. Its a bit like being in prison. When you're in, you're limited in what you can do, but when you're out, the prisoner status hangs over you. There's no escaping.
Deaf world = prison.

Sometimes I'm pissed that I was born deaf and lost opporuntines that I would had if I was born hearing. Its like why am I deaf? Yeah, I could learn how to speak and read lips but my deaf status still will hang over me. I'll never feel like I quite fit in because I'm deaf. Its like blacks "passing" to be white. You look and act like one, but you know you're not one. Fuck you, deaf world prison. I'm fed up with this.

But one thing that I'm really happy about is that I'm not a 7829087653th gen deafie. I like being a first gen deafie. People like me for who I am, not who my family is. It scares me how some people worship deafies who come from a famous family. I've seen some people just devote their entire attention to just a few people in a group and ignore the rest because they're 567th gen deafies and the rest are like 1st or 2nd gen. I've also seen people label entire grades as lame because there isn't a bunch of kids from the elite deaf families. Get to know them before you label them, idiots. We are human beings. We exist also. We're not inferior to you. So stop treating us as if we were, fucktards. Would you treat a black person or a woman (if you were white or a guy) the same way the first gen deafies are treated? Hell no. Stop being such a closeminded racist idiot.
Elitism isn't a good thing. Get to know them first before you judge/label. Maybe you were worshipping the black sheep of an elite 456789039872th gen deafie family who elopes with a hearing person and didn't go to Gally. And you never knew because you were too busy being a little pathetic suck-up. Wasted your time, eh? Oh look! That first gen deafie you ignored is the president of NAD! Oh! HOW DID YOU OVERLOOK HIM? Its too late to change your brown-nosing antics, the first gen deafie already knows you're an idiot.

This is mainly directed to deaf adults in general (sucking up to 43255th gen deafies). Deaf kids treat each other equally. But adults play favorites with the elite deafies. Why?

I'd love to punch the next person I see sucking up to 456765th gen deafies and ignoring the first gen deafies. Ignore this punch, eh?

x-posted to my journals and the deaf community.
Current Mood: exhausted

liane speaks out on deafness.. May. 15th, 2004 @ 08:09 pm
Deaf Pride-

What the fuck about that makes deaf people shun hearing people!? I've seen some people brag about their deafness and family "5th gen deafie!" "entire family deaf!!". Does that make them think they're better than first gen deafies? I'm a first generation deafie, and my ENTIRE family is hearing, so does that make me less deaf than you? Am I beneath your l33t deaf status? I SO HATE THAT! Don't even get me started on CODA.. Elitism :-/ "I'm CODA!! I ROCK!! HEARING PEOPLE SUXXX!" Hey- I'm as deaf as you, possibly even deafer.. And hearing people are cool, don't hate em. Hearing people made you, even if you're like 8353854783486425th gen deafie, there has to be some hearing people in your family tree. I don't care if you cry and whine that hearing people suck cuz they "hate deafies". They don't. So stop the reserve discrimation, fucktard.
My mom is hearing, and her signing is really good that some even thought she was deaf. But when she tried going to deaf events when I was younger, she was shunned by the deaf parents because she was HEARING. What the fuck? She just wanted to socialize with the deafies and use her ASL skills, but they shunned her so she had to hang around with the hearing parents who barely could or couldn't sign. She doesn't deserve that. In fact, my doctor suggested that I get a cochlear ear implant when I was born but she said no. SHE DOES NOT HATE DEAF PEOPLE, IN FACT SHE LIKES THE CULTURE AND WANTS TO LEARN MORE.
I bet they'll freak out if their child is hearing. Heck, I WOULD LOVE HAVING A HEARING CHILD!! I'd make him/her order for me, make phone calls, and lots other stuff *g*. "OMG BUT YOUR KID IS HEARING!" So what? A child is a child, how is having a hearing child considered "inferior" to a deaf child? I'd love any of my kids, hearing, deaf, or hard of hearing equally since they're MINE and they all came out of my womb. I went through labor for my kids, why should I hate one of them since they're not like I am?

No wonder why I'm all apatheic about deaf pride. I'm just deaf, why should I celebrate it or care about how deaf others are? Screw those closeminded fuckers. This isn't 1950's with the racism.

Gally-
What's up with the "only deaf school!" thing? What's wrong with a hearing college? They're SO MUCH BETTER ACADEMICALLY than Gally! Don't give me shit about how deafies can't get into hearing schools because they're not smart like hearing people are. I got a fucking 99 and high 90's in English sections on the STAR test. I got that because I actually work to be smart, not just slack off because "I'm deaf and we all suck at English". Heck, on Job Shadow Day I was stuck with Farrah and some bitchy girl who totally ignored Farrah intrepeting and guess what she said when Farrah asked her to tell her something that she learned from the job shadow day? "I'm deaf" That got Farrah in a tizzy and she yelled at her since she intrepted the FUCKING whole thing and that girl decided to ignore her and act like a dumbass. Deaf people are smart too, so why do we slack off and use deafness as an excuse? Deafness doesn't affect our brains, only ears. There's nothing wrong with our brains thank you very much. I'm just sick of all those people who I know can succeed academically but claim that they're deaf so they're dumb and slack off. FUCKTARDS. That kind of reasoning is exactly why Gally is very very weak academically and deaf people don't really excel on tests.

Guess I'll stop now and x-post this to somewhere.. I could go on forever about this..
and yes, I won't be going to Gally ;)
Current Mood: cynical

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