Hello strangers, long time no talk!
I'm back in school after a long awesome summer. I am going to keep this post short and sweet. I'm in a nursing school so my class consists of 15 people unlike the size of lectures. I have a Cochlear Implant and a heavy thick accent as well. However I will be starting speech therapy hopefully at the end of this month or by next month so I'm happy that I got that covered.
In school, what I've noticed is that whenever I'm in a small group - a maximum of 3 people - the members don't make eye contact with me. I'm not exaggerating, I'm only observing what's going on around me.
For example, I have two girls sitting at my sides so I'm in the middle of the whole group. What I've observed is that the girl to my left would make eye contact with the girl on my right side. Why is that? I even contribute to discussion and talk about whatever the assignment is about. I even listen and participate in the conversation but how come no one is making eye contact with me? Perhaps it's my speech that's causing this different behaviour in people. Perhaps these people don't want to talk to me as a "deaf" person.
Why is this? Have you been in this situation before?
I'm back in school after a long awesome summer. I am going to keep this post short and sweet. I'm in a nursing school so my class consists of 15 people unlike the size of lectures. I have a Cochlear Implant and a heavy thick accent as well. However I will be starting speech therapy hopefully at the end of this month or by next month so I'm happy that I got that covered.
In school, what I've noticed is that whenever I'm in a small group - a maximum of 3 people - the members don't make eye contact with me. I'm not exaggerating, I'm only observing what's going on around me.
For example, I have two girls sitting at my sides so I'm in the middle of the whole group. What I've observed is that the girl to my left would make eye contact with the girl on my right side. Why is that? I even contribute to discussion and talk about whatever the assignment is about. I even listen and participate in the conversation but how come no one is making eye contact with me? Perhaps it's my speech that's causing this different behaviour in people. Perhaps these people don't want to talk to me as a "deaf" person.
Why is this? Have you been in this situation before?