Given these circumstances, the participants believed they were on equal footing with hearing people, which is the group that Deaf people tend to compare themselves with, rather than other groups of disabled people.
Væru þær aðstæður fyrir hendi töldu þátttakendur sig standa jafnfætis heyrandi fólki, en það er sá hópur sem döff fólk ber sig gjarnan saman við fremur en aðra hópa fatlaðs fólks.