Here is what I got from my friend, Victoria Wilkins. She is fully deaf, an oralist using bone conduction hearing aids and she also use PSE. She is successful in her life, her career life and got everything going on with her life. She grew up in her own world, the hearing world.
When I introduced her to DDPHH (Delaware Deaf Professional Happy Hour), she opened her eyes to the true Deaf World; those who use ASL really expanded her horizon. It was overwhelming for a while, but in time she finally has this inside desire as depicted in her own poem:
I long to express myself
Be free to express myself
When I have no words to say
I want to be free to express
Express what I want to say
In the ASL way.
Sometimes words escape me
There are no words to express
What I feel inside.
I want to scream!
I want to shout!
I want to be heard!
I look at the deaf and ASL
And see them express freely.
I long to do that
Express myself in the way that
I can be free
Free to be me!
-Victoria Wilkins
SEE THAT? *wave* THAT ASL, THAT THAT! ASL definitely is the GATEWAY to communicative world, a world without limits. Right now she is attending the DDPHH and other deaf events, learning ASL as she goes by. It is EVIDENT that ASL is Deaf's WAY, the artistry of communicative language! How can we dispute that since it came from inside her desire? It is the nature in making!
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