AquaBlue

Being a hearie myself, I could imagine that learning to read lips must be an awesome task. How hard is it to learn that skill? Very, very difficult I must imagine.

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shel90

It is not only difficult but very very hard on the eyes which was why I usually ended up with headaches or exhaustion at the end of the school day. Since learning ASL, I dont let myself be in non-signing environments as much as I used to.

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AquaBlue

I wholeheartly praise all those folks that can lip read. Wow!

Secretblend

Thanks! I enjoy rarely given praise. (grin)

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doh

Difficult. British people say things differently than Americans and it's almost impossible for me. I've had no formal classes but I do ok in rochester or torono in the US and Canada, respectively.

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VamPyroX

LOL

I've gotten that a few times.




Here's one... "What country are you from? You don't seem to understand English very well."

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lumbingmi

#1 annoying all time - 'Can deaf drive?"


For me, one of worst and dumb questions I ever get:

After they write something then hand note to me.."Can you read and write?"

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shel90

That is my favorite one!

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AquaBlue

I would think that hearies figure that deaf folks would not know if an emergency vehicle is rushing towards them. This is NOT my view.

Gobae

That's interesting! One of my first experiences with deaf/hoh was while I was on the ambulance (before I learned ASL). The patient was having a horrible time understanding what was going on and then when I got there she announced: "Him [pointing to me]. I can hear him; he HAS a mustache."

Apparently, she read lips better when guys had facial hair.

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cdmeggers

when you're talking with a hearing person, but you can't understand what they're saying (speaking too quietly or quickly or who knows what!), and you ask them to repeat what they said... "Never mind!" no not never mind, just repeat it dammit!

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MaxUFC

Gave out by hearing guy during the lobby outside of sport arena...that happened, he walked to me and gave me that card. I looked at him and I did sign language to him "I am deaf and no thank you." He was susprised and walked away. I was puzzled then shouted at him. He looked around to look at me.
Ah, he acted to be deaf to earn people's pity to earn money for himself.

Cheri

Word MaxUFC!! It's an embarrassment to the deaf community, because when a person who passes out those ASL flyer's, would say that they don't have a job, and wants to sell this for a dollar.

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Chase

Correct, Cheri. They are just dishonest beggars.

You can really tell the bad ones because the cards are so cheap and blurred that they're useless.

Like Max does, my sister and I try to expose them as frauds by signing a phrase which their face tells us they don't understand or calling to them after they turn away.

I have some sympathy for those who are truly deaf, as I have college and graduate degrees and had a tough time finding even menial jobs after I went totally deaf.

But my sister has been deaf all her life and raised four boys on her own by working one or more full-time jobs at a time--so she has no sympathy for street beggars.

Koala

I had one woman ask me 'Can deaf people drive?'. Then she went on blah blah about deaf people shouldn't be driving at all cos it is too dangerous and we may cause an accident. I told her excuse me madam I start driving when I was 10 yrs old on my parents farm. She got that OMG look on her face. I told her that we don't need ears for driving. We are visible and aware of what going on around us whilst driving.

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Cheri

Yep, I've got asked before too.

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Koala

Yes same here too, I get a 'never mind' and this person went on to talk to another person.

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jillio

I'm more afraid of the hearing drivers that are driving, talking on a cell phone, grooming themselves in the rear view mirror, and eating a cheese burger all at the same time! Those are the idiots causing all the accidents, and I see them on the road every day.

Cheri

I've seen that too, but some deaf people text their way on their sidekick while driving too, I don't, I pull over to a parking lot and type away if it's an emergency, If it's not an emergency they can hold their pants.

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JClarke

Everytime, I am walking in the City, some stranger come up to me and talk, and I had to tell them that I am deaf and they go "Oh, I'm sorry" and they walk off, everytime this happens, I say "I'm sorry" < --- This is pissing me off. They should just find another way to ask a question, if they are lost, I would have been happy to point them in the right direction if the words out of their mouth have converted into text or somewhat more better understandable.

In relation of the VRS, I didn't get any hang ups until recently, when I rang a hearing friend, who got the NRS (National Relay Service) via TTY (We don't have the VRS here in AUS, yet) and she said to the Relay "I am not interested in buying......" she didn't realise it was a relayed call

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JClarke

Didn't realize that there is two pages in this thread!



Hearing doesn't require to drive, Deaf people can drive, no matter if you can't hear. Didn't you know that Deaf people are better drivers than hearing people? (No offense, hearies)



Yeah, that's is just so annoying, wasn't it? But I was glad when a young woman, were talking to me in relation of some work, I told her that I was deaf, she didn't walk away, she went over to my desk and found a piece of paper and a pen and wrote what she was asking me earlier and the end it went smoothly.

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Jolie77

Everyone has pretty much covered the lists of what ticks us off.

In addition to this, I was also encountered with a question that threw me off for a moment. This happened to me twice, not once but twice.

"Would you like this in braille?"

I was boarding my connecting flight from Atlanta to SF, California and the stewardess asked me if I wanted to have something to read. Without thinking of what would come next, I said yeah it'd be fine to have something to read. The stewardess walked away and returned to me with a pamphlet that has braille on it. I was like, WTF?? So, of course, I politely reminded her that I didn't need a pamphlet with the braille on it.

The other incident was -- I was at McDonald ordering something from the menu and I requested for a pen/paper. The cashier gave me a menu which also was in braille. *shakes my head*

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jillio

Actually, Jake, there has been some research done by insurance companies that supports exactly that. Deaf drivers are more attentive visually and have better eye/hand/foot coordination than hearing drivers, and have fewer accidents as a result. After all, we drive using our eyes, hands, and feet...not our ears.

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