By Darn, My Summer Storyblog Will Continue!
Posted by LaRonda on July 25th, 2007
This is a special note before I begin the continuation of my storyblog about My Journey into Deafhood.
First, HEARTFELT THANKS to those of you who have encouraged me to come back and continue my tale. I appreciate the support and will go forward with the posts as originally planned. My story might not interest everyone. That’s okay. If people are not interested, they can skip over it. I do not think that my frequent appearance of my summer storyblog will “hurt DeafRead” as once commenter suggested.
I set a short-term course (just 1 summer month) to post my storyblog at DeafRead, and made a promise to the community to complete it by Aug. 8th. I developed a readership and people have been following it along. It isn’t fair for me to leave them hanging because of a commenter’s remark that left me vulnerable. (See my comment on my previous vlog post.)
My sincere apologies to all of you for the confusion. I hope I did not insult the intelligence of readers at DeafRead. That was not my intention. Certainly we are all able to handle reading the plethora of diverse blogs and vlogs and issues covered out there in the deaf community. I thank DeafRead for showing faith in the value of my storyblog. I believe it brings a unique perspective and experience of someone on their journey of Deafhood, which is why I thought it was worthy of being posted on DeafRead in the first place.
I just let this commenter rock my boat! (we all have vulnerable moments….)
I am humbled by the pleas to keep going with my storyblog, and I will not let you down! It has been important for me to share what life was like before I became deaf so that people understand the significant transition that occurred when I became deaf — a transformation I not only understand and accept, but also celebrate! Keep on reading!
