04.14.01 Hein’s Castle
44th Clip - Title: Breakout from the Castle - (05:27 mins - 4:11:41 hours)
Posting this second to last clip of chapter 4 with a brief message. We must never forget the crimes on deaf people from the past. Most information about those crimes is lost to time. With creative mythology, some lost information is “transcended” to the present through “epic” storytelling based on what deaf history we have unearthed . . . . we must never forget . . .
Enjoy finding out how the Deaf Child got out of the Castle . . .
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Commentary on the Deaf Child in Hein’s Castle: We do not have thousands of stories of individual lives of deaf students/people in oral schools all over Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. The character of the Deaf Child in Hein’s Castle is assembled to give both positive and negative aspects of the deaf experience, all rolled into one deaf person undergoing the older (pre-electronic) oral deaf educational method. Some deaf students did enjoy and could acquire (at varied levels) spoken languages, no question about it, but what about the (seemingly, larger) segment who did not like it. What was it like to “suffer” in an oral school?
Deafhood question: Have you ever suffered of any kind in oral classroom with other deaf or with hearing students? Have you ever thought of really want to get the hell out of the oral (or public) classroom to go elsewhere? If you were aware of sign language and the deaf community, then have you ever dreamt or fantastize of getting out of “hearing” world and seek the Deaf World? Would you like to share your experience here? Anonymity is fine here.