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Being born hearing my family never had a reason to learn to sign nor I. When I became deaf, I did myself a disservice and made sure that my "disability" would never be a burden to anyone! Therefore I made serious progress with speech reading so that my family and friends wouldnt have to learn to sign. Now I seriously regret that decision. Now I'm trying to convince my family and friends to learn to sign in order to make life easier for me and them. Lip reading solely requires waaayyy to much effort on my part and is just out and out not fair! So thankfully it seems my family and close buddies are trying to see things from my view as best they can. my life long friend thankfully now chats with me threw messenger and web cam and were are able to practice signing skills even though she lives over 4 hrs from me! Where there's a WILL there's a WAY!
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