I was at RIT, which has a deaf school: [link]
I was very aware of what was happening. There was a very large population of deaf students on college at the time, because of a rubella epidemic in the 1960s.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Sep 15, 2011 10:09:05 am PDT #26427 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 10:10:24 am PDT #26428 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
bah! you kids! get offa my lawn! I graduated from COLLEGE in 1974.
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2011 10:10:37 am PDT #26429 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
92. For the record.
Mah sistah!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2011 10:13:14 am PDT #26430 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am one year older than Liese and Plei- I graduated in 1991.
Sue - Sep 15, 2011 10:13:42 am PDT #26431 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Plei, does it need to be black?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2011 10:14:56 am PDT #26432 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I graduated high school that year. Jebus.
I graduated college that year...
I graduated from COLLEGE in 1974.
...and yet suddenly feeling not-so-old, however briefly.
Hil R. - Sep 15, 2011 10:15:10 am PDT #26433 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was 7 in 1988. I think that was when I started learning ASL, coincidentally, since there was a deaf girl in my Brownie troop.
le nubian - Sep 15, 2011 10:15:37 am PDT #26434 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
I do not believe most people remember that protest and it certainly does not inform how most hearing people view the Deaf community. In answer to your question. I know it because it is in my area of work, broadly speaking. But I probably am aware of many student protests all over the country for other reasons.
I have to say that the things that have made a greater impact on me as a hearing person, mostly have to do with popular media: I read a fair amount of books on the topic when I was an adolescent, CSI's eps dealing with the Deaf community, PBS programming, there was a decent British miniseries on the topic, etc.
Consuela - Sep 15, 2011 10:16:21 am PDT #26435 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And... Toddson sweeps in to make me feel better about myself. Mwah!
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 10:17:46 am PDT #26436 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Gallaudet's in town and I love watching the kids "talking" - watching their hands moving so quickly and I find it fascinating.