Just curious why so few people use their real names.

[marym625]

225. I have seen some of that

In TV shows. I am surprised to learn it is a bigger movement than I thought or imagined.

I also never thought about what it must be like to read certain things if you have never heard them.

I can't understand why anyone would want to take any kind of communication away from anyone. What a horrible thing to do. I had a friend once upon a time who had deaf parents. I remember thinking, watching him argue with his parents in sign language, "they're yelling at each other with their hands." I remember thinking about how hard it must have been to have to deal with so many different things, for all of them. But the parents spoke. Obviously, they taught their child, at least to some extent, to speak. What kind of life would any of them have if there wasn't sign language?

I am sorry you have yet another thing to have to deal with. Frankly, to think the deaf community would disappear because of speaking or lip reading or using any sign language seems to be just another extremist point of view. Fear mongering.

Thank you for the information, the links and for sharing this. I appreciate knowing it.