As early as 500 BC, people viewed those who were hard of hearing as unpeople and uneducated, and misperceptions and mistreatment continued for years (Avery). Today, mistreatment and overtly blocking attitudes toward deaf people are mostly extinct, but stereotypes and discrimination continue to run rampant. Furthermore, not everyone has been or is fortunate enough to have the support of the possibilities offered by Kisor. A poem written by Stephen J. Bellitz in 1991 titled “Thoughts of a Deaf Child” compares the early chapters of What's That Pig Outdoors?: My family knew I was deaf when I was only three years old, and since then fifteen years ago I never signed me I know when I'm around