How To Behave The Statement of Ableism and Audism Ways Thinking?

Indonesia’s social affairs minister Bu Risma criticised for telling an event on the International Day of People with Disability that Deaf people should force themselves to speak in public (rather than use sign language). Source: https://twitter.com/Jayandaru2020/status/1466312635050201093

That's heartbreaking and just speechless what she spoke on Deaf people and over 7 million Deaf people in Indonesia. Turning the International Disability Day on December 1-4th, 2021, that isn't what we expected to be respected for our language and culture. We were asked to speak without sign language and felt hurt, mad, disappointed, and standing up to what we the most know of our language and culture, sign language. No one can instead, except someone has their right to freedom in the ways of communication they had and must be respected any they decided. 

There are 90% of Deaf children who raised by hearing families who don't know Deaf culture. The data I got is from Surya Sahetapy who is a Deaf activist. I'm one of it, which is raised by a hearing family. I grew up with hearing culturally, which I had to train hard to speak oral-method and banned to signing. And, I was studied at SLB/ special needs school, but that wasn't a real Deaf school, because we taught in oral-method. It was torture and always hurting. My hands were always tied ropes and beaten if I signed. Tools were inside my mouth and forced to take out my voice. Had to speak vowels, consonants, sentences, and stories clearly and rightly. Wasn't it humanity?

Everyone always says that is a  miracle that can be speaking clearly and rightly, it means that Deaf people must achieve the hearing people standard, not the Deaf people that wanted. Everyone thinks that a Deaf person wears hearing aids that can be helped to hear and speak, but those aren't. The hearing aids are just a tool to help people that can hear, not those who can be hearing everything they heard. As a cochlear implant, that isn't fully helpful at all, but can be helpful little. Just a tool for help. Okay? Not everything.

We as the Deaf people that would be proud of who we are and what we have. Having a Deaf person that isn't an issue as people think, we just want to equally and respectful as their language and culture. Respect by the ways of communication that isn't just oral-method. Asking us which one the ways communication we wanted. That is the first thing must you get to know and remind when you first time meets up with Deaf people. 

Ableism and Audism Ways Thinking.

Ableism describes prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors toward persons with a disability. Definitions of ableism hinge on one’s understanding of normal ability and the rights and benefits afforded to persons deemed normal. Some persons believe it is ableism that prevents disabled people from participating in the social fabric of their communities, rather than impairments in physical, mental, or emotional ability. Ableism includes attitudes and behaviors emanating from individuals, communities, and institutions as well as from physical and social environments. Then, like ableism, audism is a form of discrimination based on lack of accommodation of physical differences. As identified by The Canadian Hearing Society’s “Position Paper on Discrimination and Audism” [2007]:

"Culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing Canadians continue to experience discrimination in the workplace and when accessing vital services that most Canadians take for granted such as education, employment, health care, and housing. Discrimination is a sad reality for all people with disabilities, and in the 13 cases of people who are culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing, such discrimination may also be rooted in audism, a key term that we describe in more detail below."

Source: The Canadian Hearing Society, Beyond Ableism and Audism: Achieving Human Rights for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Citizenship.

Similar ways and actions, ableism and audism are the ways and how do hearing people treat Deaf people as they created to be and thought in their right opinion. Like hearing supremacy, is defined as the same as white supremacy, whose that white people are considered to be better than other colors of skin. It's really related.

Hearing people are the majority, you know? Deaf history is one of the examples of how do hearing people treat Deaf people, in conclusion, that we wanted to in-depth discussion is the 1880 ICED (International Congress Education of the Deaf) in Milano, Italy. The 1880 ICED banned teaching sign language at all Deaf schools. The trailblazer was Abraham Graham Bell who was known as the inventor of the telephone. He was anti-sign language because he thought that if Deaf people are taught sign language that couldn't write in English as well as they signed. Even although, he was an American and America had a Deaf college opened by Abraham Lincoln of the 16th President of the United States in 1846. ASL (American Sign Language) is be found by Laurent Clerc was from France and his student, Thomas Gallaudet was an American in 1817. They also built the first and older Deaf college in Washington, DC, and named Gallaudet University was opened by Abraham Lincoln. 

That was a Deaf time night darks and holocaust. For more than a century they struggled for their rights, and finally ICED 2010 in Vancouver, Canada that apologized for the 1880 ICED Milano Conference and recognized sign language that must be taught at all Deaf schools across the world. That was our victory!

And, finally, I wrote in reaction to Bu Risma's statement about Deaf people and also the International Disability Day. I believe that freedom is part of people's will and be given by the Lord that comes justice and equality. Like what Abraham Lincoln said on the democracy. Persons with disability are the government because they are the most know than what non-disability know.

I hope everyone respects and recognizes our ways of communication and culture. Thanks, everyone!

Happy International Disability Day! Cheer up!

DEAF POWER! <0/

Another one the news in Indonesian:

https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20211201200746-20-728681/dikritik-difabel-risma-akui-paksa-tunarungu-bicara