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Old 11-27-2007, 04:04 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by shel90 View Post
If you are being ignored, pls consider that Deaf people are not here to teach you nor to improve your ASL skills.
Our teacher made it clear that even though the events we were attending were welcoming to students overall, we might encounter people who would have that kind of feeling. At the events I went to there were many deaf people who were so charmingly polite with us knuckleheads, so that the deaf people who didn't want to deal with us didn't have to. It worked out nicely.

This is also the reason I was defending the members of the deaf club to that gentleman (sorry, I forgot his name) who was offended by their seemingly unfriendly attitude...because really, I see y'all's point.
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