Recent content by pbpara

Totally with you on that kick in the ass. My god. This is the main issue I have with CIs for young children...it's their PARENTS who want them, not the kids! The parents want the kids to be "normal" and I think it says a lot about them that it seems to purport to me that they can't accept...

I've had to wonder for the vast majority of my life whether or not my father really "loved" me. He walked out on us when my sister was just born and I was 4 years old. What could I have done other than be deaf? So that must be it. Or at least in my mind. I know that's irrational, but...

Very interesting question. Truthfully, I haven't even thought about it. Those things aren't directly involved in my world, and although they certainly matter to my mother, my sisters, and the rest of my family, for some reason it never occurred to me to think about how I would introduce them to...

Why on earth should it matter if he told her or not? My sister is a native signer because she grew up with me and it was used all the time in our house, and although she is hard of hearing, she is most certainly not deaf and her hearing impairment is not a hindrance to her. So if she becomes...

I lipread and speak as my primary forms of communication. Everyone else in my family is hearing, but we still sign at home. However, out in the "real world" I have to be able to fend for myself, so I do. Both of my younger sisters grew up signing, so that's pretty cool. The youngest is almost...

I do have to say that my mom's 500mhz iMac is faster than the 750mhz PC we used to have. Megahertz aren't everything. Also, the Mac is far more stable...we have a lot less problems with it. There are four of us using it...there isn't much time in the day when SOMEONE isn't on the computer, and...

Something in that is still decidedly female-centric to me...

I think I'm starting to see where it gets its analysis...Patricia and I have the same first four sentences...our names start with the same two letters. People with longer names have longer paragraphs. So it's just giving you certain sentences based on the letters in your name...

Paul: You don't...

Doesn't that sign for Transgendered sort of infer that all of them are male to female transgenders? I'm surprised that would be their PC sign...there are female to male transgenders too.

They really shouldn't need to make such wide eyes, though...I mean, we aren't aliens. LOL

I went to a McDonalds once that had an actual person in an outside booth in place of the speaker. I was traveling, so I don't know if they still have it or if that was some sort of a test. It was a good idea, though, IMO. If there was a person there to take orders I would not have a problem...

I took the survey, though I may throw the results a bit...I had to check the mobility impairment box as well, because I am, technically...and it ends up being my obstacle rather than my deafness. But all in all, I generally avoid drive-thrus with speakers.

When I was in high school, I had a big problem with the principal trying to ship me off into the special ed classroom, despite the fact that I had proven again and again that I was more than able to keep up with the work in a regular classroom. My life being the soap opera that it is...my...

It's so nice to finally meet someone else who appears to be just like me. I get this quite a bit. In fact, my closest online friends, who I have known for more than 6 years, still sometimes forget I'm deaf. As for whether or not it's a compliment...I don't know. I've always taken it as such...