Recent content by Taphy

I'm taking a college ASL class (ASL1). I'm deaf/HofH. I'm picking up a lot of vocabulary from the sites posted in the other thread and the class has helped me learn how to sign in ASL and use classifiers. I've gone to Deaf socials and I love being part of Deaf Culture!! *kissfist* The Deaf...

I'm learning ASL as well. ASL is a visual language and learning it out of a book is not a good way to learn. I don't know if you have this experience, but the class I'm taking is designed for hearing people to learn ASL. It can be very frustrating.

The bf doesn't have any right to be upset about how your family, in your family home, communicates. Lots of families have their own communication style, even hearing people have inside words and different meanings for things that outsiders would have trouble understanding. What it indicates to...

I got an awesome deal on a 2006 Toyota RAV4, one-owner, with 77,000 miles. According to it's CarFax, it was dealer maintained every 5000 miles. I bought it a week before this last Christmas. I thought that few people would be looking to buy cars between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I...

Thank you DeafNerdMomm. I wasn't sure what the etiquette is. I don't have an issue saying I'm deaf. I guess I'm just really nervous about meeting people in the Deaf community. I've been isolated for a long time. It's hard for me to meet people and make friends, because I can't hear.

Hi Everyone, I grew up hearing and didn't begin hearing loss until I was 25. I have an auto-immune disorder that is hereditary on my mother's side. It only affects my hearing. I have a few family members who have hearing loss. They act like it's the worst thing in the world that happened to...