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Originally Posted by Kaitin
Agree.
I don't like people when someone gestures a lot to communicate with me - not normal hand motions and not sign - but useless signs like asking about a assignment papers and waving a pen around. Why? We aren't talking about the pen. Or gestures that make more sense but are HUGE, with arms waving like drowning persons. It is embarassing.
Also people who say "Good for you!" when they learn I am in college, like you say to a good dog or a little kid.
Not common, but I had people touch my BTE HAs. This is wrong and makes me want to hit their hands, or bite  Usually they are interested and ask questions about HAs - good, I will answer without problem. But touch? No. |
I'd feel the same way if people were to do that to me.
I also don't like it when people gestures a lot as it confuses me. I'm not talking about sign or homemade gestures either.
When I turned off my HA years ago and watched my parent's maid speak on the phone and she did a lot of gesturing which made me nervous and think something was wrong but when I turned on my HA, her voice didn't sound loud or nervous and her tone sounded calm. It was just too much for me so I walked off into the next room.