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Do your hearing familys communicate in sign or fingerspelling with you because you're Ddeaf/Hhoh?

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pek1

Nope. I'm an oral deaf, but do have a hearing dog, which they cherish and know that I trained her myself.

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CrzyMeg

my family speak only.

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AlleyCat

Not too much. My mom knows sign and my sister a few signs, but otherwise I have to lipread...

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Bottesini

Everyone in my family can fingerspell and knows minimal signs, but I am oral. Signing not used much.(I also only know minimal signs.)

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Chase

My sister and I converse in ASL on visits. Since she lives in California and I live in Oregon, we e-mail the reast of the time. I write in English, and she writes English in ASL syntax, but we understand each other.

With our other siblings who don't know how to fingerspell or sign, I speak and speech read, and interpret for my sister. What a bunch of lazy, thoughtless louts they are.

My girlfriend signs SEE with me a lot, and I speech read the rest of the time.

deafbajagal

My youngest sister can do some basic signs. My oldest sister can fingerspell but she often doesn't.

They all expect me to do the hard work and speak with them while trying to play the guess game called "speechreading." Two of my sisters do use IM and textmessages. My mother very recently started calling me on my VP but often she will ask one of my sisters to text me and and ask me to call her.

shel90

I have a Deaf brother who is fluent in ASL so we converse in ASL. The rest of the family do not know sign language except for maybe the alphabet.

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Byrdie714

My entire family uses ASL.

My mother who is hearing said that it's more appealing than spoken English, especially the cuss words!

Chase

Great line, Deafbajagal! I'd like to use it from time to time, 'cause it's true so true.

Bebonang

All my family don't sign, except for my younger sister who used to fingerspell and probably forgot about it after a long time no see her. My son can sign ASL with me only at home. I don't know if he is trying to teach his daughters to sign with me. Maybe not. My husband knows a few signs just the easy parts. I noticed from time to time that my nieces (my husband's side of the family) tried to learn sign words and they are doing right, so that is good.

Miss-Delectable

Mum signs a lot, three of my sisters knows signs, but two relies heavily on sim-com whereas the other one can communicate in signs without voice also she's the only one out of all sisters who knows Auslan.

My brother and another sister doesn't sign. Nor does my nieces and nephews.

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paperclip

Oral also. Everyone talks. I lipread fairly well if English was your first language. Otherwise, I nod my head. Such a bad idea though - I've gotten myself into some awkward situations. Like admitting, I've met a person 4 times at different parties and admiting I've never learned their name or understood anything they had ever said to me. Otherwise, I allow myself to be oblivious to the talking. If it was important, someone will tell me. Otherwise, I don't concentrate on conversations where it is obvious that others want me to understand. Way too much concentration and focus that I don't always have.

overthepond

Whole family speaks orally and clearly. They did sign when i was small but as i got older and speaking more, then signing frizzled out... I don't have problem interacting with the family.

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jazzy

I have two oldest brothers and three oldest sisters. Oldest brother left home when I was 5 so he never learned some sign. Then my second oldest brother learned some sign and fingerspelling but over years we do not see each other, he forgot alot of it. Then I have three oldest sisters, they all know sign languages, one used to be vr for the deaf and other used to work at state hospital as RN nurse so she used some skill to work with deaf patients there. My closet age sister, we fluently very well with each other in sign language. My mother signed very well and she used to work with deaf adults for 10 years. Then my dad, what can I say about him, he was old dog that can not learn a new trick. He fingerspel most of time and few signs even thou he took classes and he still can not remember them.

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JennyB

My family is all oral. They know some sign but don't use it anymore. I speech read and sit there lost at family gatherings...

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Jolie77

Apart from my deaf cousin and my sons, My mother can sign pretty well. She has the tendency of signing in English rather than ASL but nevertheless, I am able to understand her. My father can sign but he is not exceptional at it and is very rusty on it. My sister, brother and step-sister are at the beginner's level and they tend to rely on finger-spelling most of the time. Some of my cousins only signs a little but they also rely on finger-spelling too. Other than that, the rest of them are on a spoken dialogue.

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kimpossible

don't i wish my family could sign! my older sister knows about as much ASL as I do but she never uses it unless she knows i'm not wearing my hearing aid, like in the swimming pool or when I'm being woken up.

Dixie

My family is all hearing so all dialogue is spoken and I get to play 'Speechreading'.

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~*Kaelei*~

I'm Oral but I also can sign...haven't learned until 6th grade but my family refuse to learn and they only speak, so I just listen and lipread when they talk.

lol...they have to cover their mouths if they want to have private conversation if I'm in the room or in front of them, because I'm prolong to read their lips.

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~SG~

Nope, my hearing family are oral. I do wish my family signs.

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Dixie

And I hate it when people do that. My older cousins did that a lot when I was younger and they would pull pranks on me. The adults would do nothing about it. So I just quit hanging out with my family altogether.

Nowadays, when someone intentionally does that in front of me - I will pull their hands down and politely say - it is rude to cover your mouth when speaking. If you want to have a private conversation please do so when I am not around.

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VamPyroX

I have a cousin who is thinking about learning sign language. He just found out that one of his hearing friends is going deaf and will likely be fully deaf by next year. So, they both thought about learning sign language so that they can communicate when he becomes deaf. He hasn't said anything about CI, but my cousin was excited about the thought of learning sign language. He told me about the situation, then he said... "Hey, when I come visit you for Christmas... we'll talk to each other in sign language and no one will know what we're saying! Hahaha!"

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VamPyroX

They do that? Seriously? That sucks.

My parents say they want to learn, but they never really took the time to learn. They did learn very little years ago when they volunteered to host parties for my deaf group from church. They were never committed to it.

Today, my mom decided to start learning again because of something that happened in our family... but she's a little slow. She does wish that she learned sign language a long time ago when I was a kid.

You know what you should do? When you have a deaf friend in the house, start signing and don't use your voice. Do it in front of your parents. Tell each other jokes and then laugh about it so that it makes your parents wonder what you're saying. If they ask, tell them to learn sign language.

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kimpossible

my mum would say it's rude for my sister and I to sign if there are non-signers in the room

Matilda

Same scenario with hubby and I. *sigh*

My mother has a habit of covering her mouth when she doesn't want me to know what she's saying and I find that jolly rude! It's so obvious what they're doing .... we're not stupid!

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