With WHAT being the X axis and HOW being the Y axis it is time to add a a Z axis of WHO. The A Axis will be WHERE, B axis will be WHEN, and C axis will be WHY as in who benefits from audism.
Genie Gertz (2008) introduced the concept of “dysconscious
audism” that involved Deaf discriminating against other Deaf. Up to that point a limited number of
publications focused on WHAT and HOW.
The assumption was hearing people were doing the discriminating and Deaf
people were the sole object of the discrimination. This page expands WHO to include hearing
victims of audism. Scratching your head
trying to figure out how that is possible?
Are not hearing parents also victims of audism every time they encounter
a person who makes them feel bad that they have a Deaf child?
The continuum between hearing and Deaf is social, not
medical. Unfortunately, some stratified
essentialism is needed using some archaic ideas such as “hard of hearing,”
because the terms, no matter how inaccurate, have a social reality. Hearing - what exactly does that cover? Hard of Hearing - some of may want to cringe with that label.
Oralized Deaf – Deaf deprived of sign language acquisition. Signing Deaf – Deaf
who prefer to use sign language. Some
may wish to stratify one over another. I
don’t so I am going to purposely scramble ---- oops not so simple as the social
reality is usually Hearing, Hard of Hearing, Oralized Deaf, and Signing
Deaf. Let’s reverse that with Deaf, Oralized
Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing. This
seems fair. The other hierarchy with
Hearing at the top tier is about privilege.
With Deaf at top tier, the issue is about severity of
discrimination.
Focusing on dyads the
4 classifications lead to 16 possible combinations or dyads unless one includes
discriminating against oneself. Here is
the list with first term being subject or discriminator and the second term
being the object or the one discriminated against:
Signing Deaf - Hearing
Signing Deaf - Hard of Hearing
Signing Deaf - Oralized Deaf
Signing Deaf - Signing Deaf
Oralized Deaf - Hearing
Oralized Deaf - Hard of Hearing
Oralized Deaf - Oralized Deaf
Oralized Deaf - Signing Deaf
Hard of Hearing - Hearing
Hard of Hearing - Hard of Hearing
Hard of Hearing - Oralized Deaf
Hard of Hearing - Signing Deaf
Hearing - Hearing
Hearing - Hard of Hearing
Hearing - Oralized Deaf
Hearing - Signing Deaf
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