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you could learn it, i was wondering if you already knew. most hearing people i know learned the ASL alphabet back in elementary school and they use it all the time to talk to people from across the room in class when the teacher is talking and such haha. but what i advised you to do was find out...

hmm so last night I met my younger sister's (sis #1) new bf, who's about a year younger than me, and they were watching tv. I came in, my other sis #2 asked if I wanted to watch. I sat down then quickly sat up because sis #1 was looking at me and mouthing "nooooo" ... so I got the hint, me...

great video, and not hypocritical because it was subtitled for hearing people! =D I agree 100%.

hey technically, i'm deaf, but you can put me under Hard of Hearing as i've been HoH most of my life and have never really experienced any change in communication. I still wear just one BTE like I have since the 5th grade and my ability to distinguish speech without lipreading is basically...

come to think of it that's probably an important thing you should consider if you have never done ANY sign before or never made an attempt to learn a few signs. knowing how to fingerspell in advance would be a huge asset because it's a difficult skill to pick up. i was a teacher's assistant...

naw it's an open thread and i'm done ranting so, time for other people to relate! =) I love that 72% of the residents voted yes for CC! great idea to have the remote wired and everything. i love it when we can pull hearing people into using closed captions :D

you're probably right about that but she certainly needed a reality check =P also I'd probably die if I had to be a cashier, ugh. I was at mcdonalds the other day and I always make a point to lay my entire order out before the cashier can ask all those little questions like "for here or to...

haha i love that payback sort of feeling... good for you =D =D

i know, i was just saying that when I was a kid I didn't know that there was such thing as closed-captioning. :P

I wouldn't get a CI because i still get quite a fair bit of help from my BTE and my hearing loss is sort of riding the new technology market wave... whatever.. thing. I don't like the cost of maintenance... and I'm also not sure how much i'd benefit from it, I probably wouldn't be making a very...

my mum knows what she's doing. =) they've already done way too much stuff behind her back that it's really a great thing that they're telling her about their boyfriends now. thanks for the compliment...! but i'm sooo scared to ask someone out ... i don't exactly have a heck of a lot of friends...

i love it when hearing people use captions! and not just in places like noisy restaurants, either. I remember having a mild loss as a kid and screeeaming at my family for talking too loudly in the room next door when I'm trying to watch TV, if only i'd known captions even EXISTED...

hi I see nothing wrong with your question, you're right, it's just a big "what if?" thing and it helps arrive at some sort of conclusion that's based solely on the cultural and health-related aspects of getting a CI. my answer would be yes, I'd do it in a heartbeat because i have no problem with...

- this is more of a deaf/HoH sort of thing but I don't like it when, at a presentation of some sort, there is speech and signing but nothing else. Okay, great, thanks for the accommodating gesture but errm what if you don't know sign? I do know quite a bit of ASL but i suck at following sign...

hey this is only what I know from my high school classes - Intro to ASL 11 (which is the prerequisite to regular ASL 11). They started out with fingerspelling (duh), numbers, pronouns, who/what/when/where/why/how, time concepts, ASL word order/grammar, and then moved on to more specific...

I just felt like adding this little "experience" (though not really much of an experience) I had tonight at the dinner table that went something like this... [Denise & Kendall = my two younger twin sisters, age 14 (grade 9)] Denise: mommy, i have a boyfriend. [our mom doesn't let us date 'til...

yeah I've heard great things about concordia! my sister's ex-bf just got accepted there. and my sis goes to McGill... hmm well I might be heading to montreal for reading break in february but if I'm ever in Ottawa yeah we should meet up :D

"Canada" is A-hand taps side of chest (if you sign with right hand, tap right side of chest; if you sign with left hand, tap left side), and i think it has to do with Mounties... and rifles... or something....

Thank you SO much deafmama and vallee, those were incredibly helpful! so I'm starting to consider it more and more, now, to tell you the truth. but I think I'm going to wait a while. my feedback problems occur when I hear a loud and sustained noise, regardless of whether my ear is...

haha the next time someone apologizes I think I'm going to use that voodoo doll line. jokingly... in a nice way.. of course. =)