People often think that a disability means the person is cognitively incompetent beyond the obvious, or not so obvious truth. I firmly believe that people should be labeled based on their abilities rather than their disabilities. This is why I like the idea of ​​the deaf community calling themselves culturally Deaf with a capital D rather than Deaf with a small D, which is the condition of not being able to hear. When Drolsbaugh received strong reactions from using the word Deaf, it was because those individuals were unsure of what to do about his deafness. I wonder what the world, or at least America, would be like if everyone understood this concept; even more so, I wonder what it would be like if sign language were commonly taught in elementary schools in hearing