Recent content by Icemancm

Born this way. Unknown cause. I get that question a lot - "Why are you HoH/Deaf?" If I'm feeling defiant or just want to cause some waves, I'll answer back with "Why are you stupid/short/wearing that?" or something along those lines.

That's awesome! Cute girls!

So I was working in the electronics department at Wal-mart one day when my friend Jason was talking about my ability to read lips. Soon a small crowd of employees were congregated around me and "tested" my ability by saying different phrases that I easily picked up on. I even told THEM that...

Of course, you could just be cheering the Wolverines and not being a fan of OSU.

? Go Blue is referring to the Michigan Wolverines... Wisconsin is white and red; mascot's a Badger...

Because they don't know. People just assume they're like glasses- presto; you can see clearly now! I tell people who are genuinely interested that I don't really hear all that well; it helps, but the lip-reading and the Conversational Hangman game I'm constantly playing in my head helps immensely.

Yep, I'm HoH and my wife hears. Most of the time there's no problems; but there's always the inevitable conversation whether it's on the phone or even in person where she gets frustrated when I didn't hear/respond, or even hear incorrectly. I sometimes have to remind her that I'm constantly...

I'm in!

I guess I'm one of the rare few... but that doesn't mean I don't have any regrets. I do wish I had more access/spent more time in the deaf community growing up and as an adult. But I do love being in the hearing world... I do wish I could be in on some of those silent dinners. I do have...

Seriously? *scratches head* I'm sorry, I don't follow this at all... Of course they want you to work fast, efficient and hustle, hustle. No lollygagging around or goofing off. If you're looking for a job where you can fart around and basically be lazy all day, you certainly aren't going to...

I worked at Home Depot, got promoted to department supervisor - most of the time people came and found me instead of trying to page/call me. That worked 99% of the time considering everyone knew who I was or where I was at any given moment.

Always - considering I always interact with hearing people... and hardly ever with deaf or hoh people. And I communicate with speech, so hearing speech is important since it helps fill in the gaps with the lipreading.

I had an answer to this very question, but I forgot it. Oh well!

Ha! Some of these posts made me laugh. Based on my own personal experiences, I've noticed that people could never tell that I'm HOH. Guess that's my own fault for speaking so fluently. But I've also noticed that it's not a look, it's the behavior that sets apart the deaf people from the...

What I always always ALWAYS hated was when I was in a noisy environment and was trying to hold conversations... back in high school... say, in the cafeteria or at the football games... was that if I asked someone to repeat themselves, sometimes more than once (at this point, everyone knew I was...