Audism with a Canadian Definition

This vlog invalidates naysayers' claim that audism is an invalid and overused term by presenting the definition of audism as given by the Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) in their position paper on discrimination and audism, and their rationale for their anti-audism policy. This vlog is embedded into my own website, www.deafcanadian.com. The English version of this vlog contents can be found there.

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Audism
• ableism
• and
• racism
• human
• rights
• ASL
• Deaf

[truevoiceofsanity]

I can see audism is very real. I simply tried to suggest to some hearing on a discussion forum that another view exists on cochlear implants. I even presented evidence. The reactions surprised me. I'm sure others such as gays faced the same obstacles. :(. I may even be an audist myself but I'm willing to try to listen to the concerns of deafies.

[shelpotma1]

@truevoiceofsanity Oh dear. That doesn't surprise me. You're correct that gays faced similar obstacles but they're ahead of us in that the medical label of mental deviancy was removed from the APA's DS-M (I'll have to doublecheck if I got the DS-M correct) so they were able to move ahead. We are still stuck with the medical label. You might want to see my Gay and Deaf parallel series at my blog.

[shelpotma1]

@truevoiceofsanity For some reason, I was unable to type my blog website url. Go to Shel:A Deaf Canadian's Thoughts.

[truevoiceofsanity]

nice video. I'm Canadian but I'm hearin. Are you in Toronto? Did you hear about kalalau52 is giving an ASL discussion on "deaf hate"? Personally i don't agree its all hate but its obvious deaf issues are invisible from the public eye. As proof audism isn't over used, i've only heard about it on youtube, 100% of the ppl i've seen discussing it are deaf. ;) Hope you go to his talk, if you can?

[shelpotma1]

@truevoiceofsanity Oh yes, I heard about kalalau52. I'm going to his presentation in fact. You're right that Deaf issues are invisible from the public eye, and it's time that situation changed.

[truevoiceofsanity]

@shelpotma1 I will look it up. ;). ;).

[truevoiceofsanity]

@Hartmut1940 Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your answer makes perfect sense.

I'm glad you are patient with an ASL impaired person like me. :S. I'm sure some of my views are audistic but I'm trying to get a bit of an education. :D.

[Hartmut1940]

@truevoiceofsanity,

you restated the question differently from what is described below.

It is uttered angrily, why a person did not respond to calling or honking the horn. Behind the rhetorical question "Hey, you deaf?!" lies the expectation that everyone can hear or unconsciously thinking that deaf people do not exist. Unaudistic would be to assume immediately the person is deaf if he does not respond to sound and act accordingly. The question "are you deaf" in another context is not audistic.

[Hartmut1940]

@truevoiceofsanity,

the issue about cochlear implant is not about the device itself, but it is about how it is used as a tool to strengthen audism in the society. If the value of hearing has been relativized (can hear = OK, can't hear also OK), then the controversy around the device will lessen or vanish, like hearing aid, which is not a problem for us. I am aware, convincing many hearing people of this notion is very difficult. The construct of audism should help in this endeavor.

[Hartmut1940]

@truevoiceofsanity,

that is why deaf people need to exist to help hearing people erase misconceptions or prejudice about deafness, language, communication, culture, and humanity.Thinking deafness as defect to be exterminated like malaria is understandable, yet it is audistic cuz this thinking is one root, encouraging those misconceptions, negative attitudes, and a host of discriminatory behavior toward deaf persons (utterances or actions).

Most notions about lipreading and integration are myths.

[truevoiceofsanity]

@shelpotma1 Oh. True, you can't do much against the "willful" ignorant ones. I think, they are the minority. I think most people will act in ways they think is write. The cochlear implant debate is one that deafies are "losing" in the battle for public opinion tho. A lot of ppl seem to think implants are a good solution to the problem of deaf integration into a world of mostly hearing. They think they are spaeking for interests of the deaf.

[truevoiceofsanity]

@Hartmut1940 ??? I'm confused lol. Some deaf can lip read; I'd have thought anybody who can see, can, if motivated to do so, learn lip reading (or lol learn ASL too just to be fair.) If the world is majority hearing, why would deafies consider this work around offensive? At the end of the day, people have to be able to communicate. Its pretty hard to get the majority, to learn the language of the majority, so that means the deafie is stuck choosing his/her tools to communicate? SMS is gr8.