Am I crazy??

Southern · 11-08-2006, 01:03 PM

Since I have started learning ASL I have it on the brain. I find myself almost signing to hearing people. If I know some one can’t hear me my mind automatically goes to ASL. I was out at a local bar a few weeks ago and my Deaf friend was with me. He asked me to ask one of my hearing friends something. They weren’t all that far away but with the music I knew they couldn’t hear me all that well. I asked the question and they said they didn’t hear me. I moved closer and then started laughing. I said I am sorry I almost signed the question to you. My hearing friend said actually I was waiting for you to do just that! LOL I have been doing that a lot here recently. I have to stop myself from signing to hearing people. So my question is, is this just me and my crazy brain or is this normal? Does this issue increase for interpreters. I start formal interpreting classes soon. I laugh at myself for doing it but I amuse myself all the time anyway. I’m just waiting for when I don’t stop myself and a hearing person gets really confused! LOL

SxyPorkie · 11-08-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Southern

Since I have started learning ASL I have it on the brain. I find myself almost signing to hearing people. If I know some one can’t hear me my mind automatically goes to ASL. I was out at a local bar a few weeks ago and my Deaf friend was with me. He asked me to ask one of my hearing friends something. They weren’t all that far away but with the music I knew they couldn’t hear me all that well. I asked the question and they said they didn’t hear me. I moved closer and then started laughing. I said I am sorry I almost signed the question to you. My hearing friend said actually I was waiting for you to do just that! LOL I have been doing that a lot here recently. I have to stop myself from signing to hearing people. So my question is, is this just me and my crazy brain or is this normal? Does this issue increase for interpreters. I start formal interpreting classes soon. I laugh at myself for doing it but I amuse myself all the time anyway. I’m just waiting for when I don’t stop myself and a hearing person gets really confused! LOL

hahaha.. no you are not crazy... it did happened to me.. i am deaf... i was living with blind/deaf friend f or 4 months.. i had to fingerspell under her hands.. i ended up doing to the hearing friends...fingerspelling under their hands...RME...

armymech81 · 11-08-2006, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Southern

Since I have started learning ASL I have it on the brain. I find myself almost signing to hearing people. If I know some one can’t hear me my mind automatically goes to ASL. I was out at a local bar a few weeks ago and my Deaf friend was with me. He asked me to ask one of my hearing friends something. They weren’t all that far away but with the music I knew they couldn’t hear me all that well. I asked the question and they said they didn’t hear me. I moved closer and then started laughing. I said I am sorry I almost signed the question to you. My hearing friend said actually I was waiting for you to do just that! LOL I have been doing that a lot here recently. I have to stop myself from signing to hearing people. So my question is, is this just me and my crazy brain or is this normal? Does this issue increase for interpreters. I start formal interpreting classes soon. I laugh at myself for doing it but I amuse myself all the time anyway. I’m just waiting for when I don’t stop myself and a hearing person gets really confused! LOL

I have done that with my own mother. We went to visit my family and one morning, my mother asked me to ask my wife what she wanted for breakfast. After my wife told me nothing, I turned to my mother, called out her name and tapped her on the shoulder and started to sign to my mother what my wife said too me. My mother just went bugged eye and almost spilled the pan on the floor. I had to walk away and sit down while I finished laughing cause I did that. My wife disappeared into the bedroom to hide her laughter too. It is very common. What is funny, is when you start signing to yourself to figure something out or instead of talking in your sleep, you sign in your sleep.

RDC_girl · 11-08-2006, 03:08 PM

you are not alone, I sign at work! for example. If I have to go to the bathroom I sign bathroom and expect them to know where I am going. Most of them know now but they were confused in the beginning.

Interpretrator · 11-08-2006, 04:09 PM

It has happened to me on occasion that when a question is signed to me I will re-sign it to the hearing client instead of voicing it, or vice versa (re-voice a question to the deaf client instead of signing). It doesn't happen often, and it's usually in a consecutive situation where the conversation is going quickly and my brain stalls out. Of course I get the blank stare from the recipient and then I quickly realize my mistake, explain what happened to both parties, and move on, and usually the deaf client laughs at me, and it's all good.

Etoile · 11-09-2006, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Interpretrator

It has happened to me on occasion that when a question is signed to me I will re-sign it to the hearing client instead of voicing it, or vice versa (re-voice a question to the deaf client instead of signing). It doesn't happen often, and it's usually in a consecutive situation where the conversation is going quickly and my brain stalls out. Of course I get the blank stare from the recipient and then I quickly realize my mistake, explain what happened to both parties, and move on, and usually the deaf client laughs at me, and it's all good.

I've done that too! Especially re-signing to the hearing client. I'm definitely guilty of that one.

Southern · 11-09-2006, 09:30 AM

whew Well I am glad to know i am not the only one!! I am highly expressive anyway and have always talked with my hands so when i start a sign and realize and stop myself i think hearing people just think i am being me. LOL i have told a few though when i just start laughing for no apparent reason. Well i will do it when i haven't been around Deaf people too. Then i think lord where the hell did that come from. I guess maybe my brain is starting to get used to ASL as a form of communication just like using my voice and gets wires crossed! LOL my poor brain! =)

Reba · 11-09-2006, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Interpretrator

It has happened to me on occasion that when a question is signed to me I will re-sign it to the hearing client instead of voicing it, or vice versa (re-voice a question to the deaf client instead of signing). It doesn't happen often, and it's usually in a consecutive situation where the conversation is going quickly and my brain stalls out. Of course I get the blank stare from the recipient and then I quickly realize my mistake, explain what happened to both parties, and move on, and usually the deaf client laughs at me, and it's all good.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who does that!

It's really awkward when I speak a question to the Deaf consumer, and then we just stare at each other while I'm wondering to myself, "why doesn't she respond?" Duh! Just

me, please!

sillycat · 11-09-2006, 10:06 PM

Happened to me too! Also the opposite have happened to me but not that often--interpreting conversation between deaf and hearing persons and going back and forth so often that my brain gets confused. Then I speak to the deaf person!!

robbielyn · 11-17-2006, 04:08 AM

Early this morning I hadn't quite waken up yet I was still dreaming, but I vividly remember signing to MacGyver(tv show in the 80"s) this" Your clothes? Movie people need buy you new. This was after noting how roughed up his clothes looked and as rich as he was I couldn't understand why he wore them. Anyways the point of this is I actually signed correctly and knew what I was signing for the first time in my dream. Before I would sign but I couldn't tell you what I said or if they were real signs or not.

gothgirl · 03-07-2007, 04:19 PM

I find myself singing to my boss at work all the time, I think he responds I'm not drunk enough to understand that yet. I also started signing to my roommate but she started to learn so if I sign some thing to her she signs back "what?" in one of my classes I signed all my answers to the teacher, that was funny.

jillio · 03-07-2007, 04:22 PM

I find myself doing it to. For some reason, I seem to be especially guilty of signing to small children--I guess its a carryover from when my son was little.

Canuckian_Chick · 03-07-2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jillio

I find myself doing it to. For some reason, I seem to be especially guilty of signing to small children--I guess its a carryover from when my son was little.

Don't feel guilty!!! maybe those lil small children will get use to it and not be rude to someone that is deaf in their time. As I use to do that with my lil niece and nephews.. they think it was fun to do... no harm to it!!!

Canuckian_Chick · 03-07-2007, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by gothgirl

I find myself singing to my boss at work all the time, I think he responds I'm not drunk enough to understand that yet. I also started signing to my roommate but she started to learn so if I sign some thing to her she signs back "what?" in one of my classes I signed all my answers to the teacher, that was funny.

At first I thought you said "singing" like singing a song... oppies.. I got what you mean!!! hehehe.. well maybe it's time that your boss to learn some signs so it'll be easier to communicate smile.. just make a fun day out of it!!

Canuckian_Chick · 03-07-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Etoile

I've done that too! Especially re-signing to the hearing client. I'm definitely guilty of that one.

Tsk tsk tsk shame on you!!!!

(evil laugh)

jillio · 03-07-2007, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Canuckian_Chick

Don't feel guilty!!! maybe those lil small children will get use to it and not be rude to someone that is deaf in their time. As I use to do that with my lil niece and nephews.. they think it was fun to do... no harm to it!!!

shel90 · 03-07-2007, 05:32 PM

My hearing husband told me that he sometimes signs to his coworkers about going to the bathroom. At first they were all confused and thought he was crazy but now thanks to him, they know the sign for "bathroom". LOLOL!!!

Kuifje75 · 03-07-2007, 05:40 PM

I sign to people at my work, and the funny thing is that people do understand me!

Megaman · 03-08-2007, 01:57 AM

Heheh it happens to me too. Im hearing and im taking an ASL class at school. In my first year this happened mostly because i was having to concentrate more to learn it but my teacher would give us a project to sign a song. My mother would usually come in because she would hear me play the same part over and over again until I got it down. But i guess i was just in signing mode because I would turn around and respond in sign lol. She just walked back out the door.

***VamPyroX*** · 03-08-2007, 05:17 AM

It happens. I have hearing friends who sign to other hearing people sometimes.

jabbur · 03-08-2007, 10:26 AM

The further I go in my sign classes the more I find myself "thinking sign". This usually is a good indication of a grasp of the language. Just like learning French or Spanish. When you can think in the language and not have to mentally translate before saying what you want. I look at it as an accomplishment! My friends all know I'm taking classes and if I find myself signing I try to go ahead and speak what I'm signing as well. Thank goodness they are all supportive!

jessewhitelaw · 03-18-2007, 01:37 AM

i did signed to my boss at my work and i told him im need go bathroom he was like what you say and keep say me fag lmaoo so i final sign him asshole he said what and he learned that i called him lolol and he dont care if i say bad word becasue he know me that i am redneck as he too lol

Silentwolfdog · 03-20-2007, 12:28 AM

I had hearing friends who speak to me rather than signing. It was pretty funny when they realize they made a mistake. It is good news, it means they looked at me a normal person rather than their "deaf" friend. At least what I think it as of.

BearBeauty · 03-21-2007, 05:51 PM

I remember having a converstation with my mom and one of my deaf friends.. I had to interpret cuz my friend couldn't lipread or talk.. she had a problem with her vocal chords.. I don't remember why. and we started chatting.. soon enough.. I forgot my mom was hearing.. so i'm signing back and forth and I signed something to my mom (she doesn't sign) and she gave me a look of "WTF?" and I was like.. Oh man! I forgot she didn't sign.. So i told my mom "I"m sorry mom. I forgot you can hear and don't sign."
Mom was cool about it. She was glad to see me having fun chatting.. cuz i do it so rarely. I was still using my voice.. cuz i grew up voicing and signing at the same time.. So she knew what was going on.. she just was shocked that i'd sign something to her.

MaxUFC · 03-21-2007, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SxyPorkie

hahaha.. no you are not crazy... it did happened to me.. i am deaf... i was living with blind/deaf friend f or 4 months.. i had to fingerspell under her hands.. i ended up doing to the hearing friends...fingerspelling under their hands...RME...

Yeah, I did that way...but worse I spoke to deaf friends during dark night thur put my hands on their hands. Next thing, they took hands out from my hands "what you doing?!" OOOH...that was my habit since I has been with usher gal for decade year.

I knew that was my automatic to do from my brain cells!

HearingSwede · 04-09-2007, 07:35 AM

Yes, I've done that a lot too. Especially through windows or when someone's out of earshot. It's really kinda funny!

Canuckian_Chick · 04-09-2007, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by HearingSwede

Yes, I've done that a lot too. Especially through windows or when someone's out of earshot. It's really kinda funny!

Hahahah I've done that alot since my sisters and mom can lipread me lol...

WBHarley · 04-09-2007, 08:56 AM

lol thats funny...

Another thing.
My mom has a *BAD BAD HABITS*
every time I visit my mom or she visit us...
She would make sure my husband or one of
my kids to LOOK AT HER before she start to
speak!!!
she said "DAMN IT its a habit! I always have
to wait for Wendy to look at me but you guys
don't need to look at me. I'm very sorry"
my family giggled a lot but they got used to
her way because she does that OFTEN..
even to my 2 other sisters.. they get annoyed
sometime LOL they said "MOM I'm not Wendy"
Grins... I guess all hearing peoples will have that
bad habits!!! even deaf people too

11-08-2006, 01:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
Southern Southern Boi Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 646	Am I crazy?? Since I have started learning ASL I have it on the brain. I find myself almost signing to hearing people. If I know some one can’t hear me my mind automatically goes to ASL. I was out at a local bar a few weeks ago and my Deaf friend was with me. He asked me to ask one of my hearing friends something. They weren’t all that far away but with the music I knew they couldn’t hear me all that well. I asked the question and they said they didn’t hear me. I moved closer and then started laughing. I said I am sorry I almost signed the question to you. My hearing friend said actually I was waiting for you to do just that! LOL I have been doing that a lot here recently. I have to stop myself from signing to hearing people. So my question is, is this just me and my crazy brain or is this normal? Does this issue increase for interpreters. I start formal interpreting classes soon. I laugh at myself for doing it but I amuse myself all the time anyway. I’m just waiting for when I don’t stop myself and a hearing person gets really confused! LOL

11-09-2006, 10:06 PM	#9 (permalink)
sillycat Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Kitty travel carrier Posts: 910	Happened to me too! Also the opposite have happened to me but not that often--interpreting conversation between deaf and hearing persons and going back and forth so often that my brain gets confused. Then I speak to the deaf person!! __________________ Where's my kitty litter??

03-07-2007, 04:19 PM	#11 (permalink)
gothgirl Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Santa Clara Posts: 22	lol I find myself singing to my boss at work all the time, I think he responds I'm not drunk enough to understand that yet. I also started signing to my roommate but she started to learn so if I sign some thing to her she signs back "what?" in one of my classes I signed all my answers to the teacher, that was funny.

03-07-2007, 05:32 PM	#17 (permalink)
shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 16,155 Blog Entries: 1	My hearing husband told me that he sometimes signs to his coworkers about going to the bathroom. At first they were all confused and thought he was crazy but now thanks to him, they know the sign for "bathroom". LOLOL!!! __________________ ~Shel~ "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana

03-07-2007, 05:40 PM	#18 (permalink)
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11-08-2006, 03:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
RDC_girl TERP student Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 486	you are not alone, I sign at work! for example. If I have to go to the bathroom I sign bathroom and expect them to know where I am going. Most of them know now but they were confused in the beginning.

11-08-2006, 04:09 PM	#5 (permalink)
Interpretrator Crime fighter Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,425	It has happened to me on occasion that when a question is signed to me I will re-sign it to the hearing client instead of voicing it, or vice versa (re-voice a question to the deaf client instead of signing). It doesn't happen often, and it's usually in a consecutive situation where the conversation is going quickly and my brain stalls out. Of course I get the blank stare from the recipient and then I quickly realize my mistake, explain what happened to both parties, and move on, and usually the deaf client laughs at me, and it's all good.

11-09-2006, 09:30 AM	#7 (permalink)
Southern Southern Boi Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 646	whew Well I am glad to know i am not the only one!! I am highly expressive anyway and have always talked with my hands so when i start a sign and realize and stop myself i think hearing people just think i am being me. LOL i have told a few though when i just start laughing for no apparent reason. Well i will do it when i haven't been around Deaf people too. Then i think lord where the hell did that come from. I guess maybe my brain is starting to get used to ASL as a form of communication just like using my voice and gets wires crossed! LOL my poor brain! =)

11-17-2006, 04:08 AM	#10 (permalink)
robbielyn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 127	Early this morning I hadn't quite waken up yet I was still dreaming, but I vividly remember signing to MacGyver(tv show in the 80"s) this" Your clothes? Movie people need buy you new. This was after noting how roughed up his clothes looked and as rich as he was I couldn't understand why he wore them. Anyways the point of this is I actually signed correctly and knew what I was signing for the first time in my dream. Before I would sign but I couldn't tell you what I said or if they were real signs or not.

03-07-2007, 04:22 PM	#12 (permalink)
jillio Banned Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,197	I find myself doing it to. For some reason, I seem to be especially guilty of signing to small children--I guess its a carryover from when my son was little.

03-08-2007, 01:57 AM	#19 (permalink)
Megaman Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2	Heheh it happens to me too. Im hearing and im taking an ASL class at school. In my first year this happened mostly because i was having to concentrate more to learn it but my teacher would give us a project to sign a song. My mother would usually come in because she would hear me play the same part over and over again until I got it down. But i guess i was just in signing mode because I would turn around and respond in sign lol. She just walked back out the door.

03-08-2007, 05:17 AM	#20 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hell Posts: 27,872	It happens. I have hearing friends who sign to other hearing people sometimes. __________________ Check out my city... CLICK HERE! (If you already visited yesterday, visit again today!)

03-08-2007, 10:26 AM	#21 (permalink)
jabbur Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 11	The further I go in my sign classes the more I find myself "thinking sign". This usually is a good indication of a grasp of the language. Just like learning French or Spanish. When you can think in the language and not have to mentally translate before saying what you want. I look at it as an accomplishment! My friends all know I'm taking classes and if I find myself signing I try to go ahead and speak what I'm signing as well. Thank goodness they are all supportive!

03-18-2007, 01:37 AM	#22 (permalink)
jessewhitelaw Alien Head :P Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: FL tamarac Posts: 106	i did signed to my boss at my work and i told him im need go bathroom he was like what you say and keep say me fag lmaoo so i final sign him asshole he said what and he learned that i called him lolol and he dont care if i say bad word becasue he know me that i am redneck as he too lol

03-20-2007, 12:28 AM	#23 (permalink)
Silentwolfdog a toku fangirl Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Earth Posts: 705	I had hearing friends who speak to me rather than signing. It was pretty funny when they realize they made a mistake. It is good news, it means they looked at me a normal person rather than their "deaf" friend. At least what I think it as of. __________________ If you are using red or blue font, there's a good chance that I am not reading your posts due to it being blended into background! I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ~Sarah William Check my art at http://silentwolfdog.deviantart.com

03-21-2007, 05:51 PM	#24 (permalink)
BearBeauty Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 818	I remember having a converstation with my mom and one of my deaf friends.. I had to interpret cuz my friend couldn't lipread or talk.. she had a problem with her vocal chords.. I don't remember why. and we started chatting.. soon enough.. I forgot my mom was hearing.. so i'm signing back and forth and I signed something to my mom (she doesn't sign) and she gave me a look of "WTF?" and I was like.. Oh man! I forgot she didn't sign.. So i told my mom "I"m sorry mom. I forgot you can hear and don't sign." Mom was cool about it. She was glad to see me having fun chatting.. cuz i do it so rarely. I was still using my voice.. cuz i grew up voicing and signing at the same time.. So she knew what was going on.. she just was shocked that i'd sign something to her. Last edited by BearBeauty; 03-21-2007 at 05:53 PM. Reason: added more.

04-09-2007, 07:35 AM	#26 (permalink)
HearingSwede Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 14	Yes, I've done that a lot too. Especially through windows or when someone's out of earshot. It's really kinda funny!

04-09-2007, 08:56 AM	#28 (permalink)
WBHarley Multitaskin' Wanderin'Mom Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere Posts: 1,378	lol thats funny... Another thing. My mom has a BAD BAD HABITS every time I visit my mom or she visit us... She would make sure my husband or one of my kids to LOOK AT HER before she start to speak!!! she said "DAMN IT its a habit! I always have to wait for Wendy to look at me but you guys don't need to look at me. I'm very sorry" my family giggled a lot but they got used to her way because she does that OFTEN.. even to my 2 other sisters.. they get annoyed sometime LOL they said "MOM I'm not Wendy" Grins... I guess all hearing peoples will have that bad habits!!! even deaf people too