operatorally
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Hi, I heard about this forum while looking up the National Association for the Deaf and wanted to check in with how you guys feel about hearing people joining, and particularly relay operators. While I like to think I get along well with my callers and that they are happy with my service I do know that hearing people might not be supposed to post or read certain things here.
To be honest, I also just need to bask in a place where I can see deaf people being treated well by hearing people and where they assert themselves and express themselves comfortably. I relay a lot of calls in which the hearing party [usually from a 1800 number or business] is extremely rude and dismissive to the caller because they are deaf, because it takes longer to type a conversation through relay, or because the caller's english is heavily influenced by american sign language. Operators are not allowed to intervene or advocate on behalf of our callers when this happens, and I understand that this is because 'they're supposed to do it themselves' but this still peeves me.
Oh, and I'm 23 and was born in Alberta, the cowboy province of Canada, and I moved to Quebec this summer because they're nice to us gays here. I speak english and am currently learning french because i just moved to a french city, but some day i also hope to learn ASL.
To be honest, I also just need to bask in a place where I can see deaf people being treated well by hearing people and where they assert themselves and express themselves comfortably. I relay a lot of calls in which the hearing party [usually from a 1800 number or business] is extremely rude and dismissive to the caller because they are deaf, because it takes longer to type a conversation through relay, or because the caller's english is heavily influenced by american sign language. Operators are not allowed to intervene or advocate on behalf of our callers when this happens, and I understand that this is because 'they're supposed to do it themselves' but this still peeves me.
Oh, and I'm 23 and was born in Alberta, the cowboy province of Canada, and I moved to Quebec this summer because they're nice to us gays here. I speak english and am currently learning french because i just moved to a french city, but some day i also hope to learn ASL.
This is a very diverse forum with hearing, deaf and everything in between. Enjoy! Dave
To All Deaf operatorally!!
