Before I TELL you to shut the eff up. Your sarcasm is noted and appreciated.

Now, shut the eff up.

It's tiring. Leave it alone. My friends are more able and more willing to learn to fly than anyone I know. People who congratulate themselves for doing what anyone would do for any other person in this hobby is embarrasing. Sorry if you don't like what I have to say about it...no wait, I'm not sorry at all.

You make yourselves feel better by 'helping' a deaf person and then posting stories about it in a public forum such as this? Nobody else is talking about their hearing students and trying to get accolades for helping them out. Why do you think it's so different?

Deaf people get by just fine without your so-called 'help'. It truly is patronizing, demeaning and offenbsive. If you can't understand that, then you are as dumb as I now think you are.

Now, run along and help someone else who would rather you didn't; and then make yourself feel better by bragging about it.