Jonathan Henner claims to be writing an article entirely about numbers (which means no opinions, right?), but with a title like “Numbering Our Flaws,” it’s hard to believe him: he’s putting the responsibility on the Deaf community. Our kids have educational problems, he seems to be saying, and it’s our fault: our focus should be on these problems, but we’re not working on it. Bad us. Except it’s a confusing [...]

This is an article about numbers.  It does not purport to be anything else.  I will delineate numbers that varying researchers spent quite a bit of time gathering, and then I will discuss them briefly and draw connections to the potential political consequences of having the numbers listed define our reality.  It is my personal opinion that the energy of our community is wasted on dithering about identity politics, such [...]