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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-01-25 05:56 pm

[ SECRET POST #1849 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1849 ⌋


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(Anonymous) 2012-01-27 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't know shit about the Fernandes protest. I used to think the same thing as you, but it has actually changed Gallaudet for better. If the students didn't speak up about Fernandes being the wrong choice. "Not deaf enough" is the media's take. The protesters focused on her terrible track record but that wasn't enough for the media to run with so they angled on one of their complaints about her (and there were many).

I'm sorry you had a horrible experience with your deafness. It is not the same for everybody. I hated being deaf at first too but now I'm learning to love it and it has been wonderful.

(Anonymous) 2012-01-27 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Not dethtoll, but anyway I don't think the media would have reacted this way if the whole DPN thing never happened in the late 1980s. And tbh, I was a senior in high school (a deaf school) when the Fernandes thing happened and every single teacher made fun of Fernandes' ability to sign. It DID matter that she wasn't deaf enough.