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Yep, time to put on your big-girl panties! I've found that if I stop being self-conscious-worrying about making mistakes signing-and just do it, it comes more naturally. Just start signing and don't worry about being awkward or making a mistake-if someone doesn't understand, they'll ask you...

I wasn't aware of this. Interesting how many people looked at the OP but chose not to respond, while the "monkey attack" thread has hundreds of responses. Nobody wants to talk about sexual assaults. Yes, it's an uncomfortable topic, but everyone, especially women, need to know about it...

getting back to the OP... I was like you, went to regular schools, and didn't experience deaf people or signing very much till I went to Gallaudet. Yes, it's a culture shock, but I decided to plunge into it, like diving into a pool instead of dipping a toe in. I consider myself shy, but I...

I walk like I'm drunk when it's dark both inside and outside. I experienced a weird thing once when it snowed a lot and I was looking down at the ground in my back yard a little too long, I started to fall forward and went in the snow face first-couldn't help it, it was such a weird feeling...

and by the way, just about everything that tastes good is bad for you, and just about everything you eat or breathe or drink increases your mortality risk. I don't pay attention to those studies anymore.

I'm a carnivore, and proud of it, but I don't eat meat three meals a day or whatever. I don't want to be falling out a window on a high-rise and wishing I'd eaten that second slice of pizza. :D

This isn't in the same league, but I had a friend who introduced me to a third person by saying "This is (flyingace), she's deaf, but she's really smart". :roll:

The Pope is simply following established Church rules that artificial means of contraception are a sin. The use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS also prevents conception, which in the black-and-white, no shades of gray eyes of the Church, is a sin. The Church would like to prevent...

You're brave to remind her about it again so soon! If it were my mother, I'd wait at least a week, preferably a month, before I talked about it again. :laugh2:

Oh, I see what you mean. Thanks! :D

Care to explain what "our way of thinking" means? I'm confused.

It will be interesting to see the Obama girls grow up. I remember the Carters, they were more like a regular family-with embarrassing relatives-than the "clean-cut images" of First Families in the past. Remember Miss Lillian? Even Patti Davis was a breath of fresh air in the Reagan years. I...

Thanks for that link-it's great! The death penalty might not give victims' loved ones much satisfaction, but it lets good people sleep at night knowing there's no chance the murderer will escape, or get out on parole. And I think the chance of an innocent person sentenced to death are very...

It was my day off work and I was cleaning my apartment. I always watched space launches, and I watched the liftoff, and when it blew up, I couldn't believe it. I kept watching the reports, stunned, and eventually realized I'd been sitting on the couch clutching my dustrag for a couple of hours.

Interesting! That's a little scary though. Thanks for posting this!

It's easy to say "you're meeting the wrong guys". I'm aware that there aren't many online, but I have met a few really nice guys online. Some people (not just me) live in areas where there aren't too many other deaf people, or can't get out and socialize for various reasons, or have tried...

Lots of reasons. Mental illness, drug abuse...you name it. There was a case not long ago of a woman who put her baby in a microwave. I guess life is just cheap these days, especially when a woman has a baby for the sole purpose of trying to lasso in the baby's father. When he doesn't want...

not the TV, I was given a modulator. My 13" tv is a few years old. I'll send an email to Sorenson, but like I said, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.

I just got a Sorenson vp-200 installed yesterday, and the installer didn't have a black cable (I don't know what the name of it is) so I found one I had and the vp works just fine, but after he left I discovered that my TV (which is connected to cable) picture is messed up on several channels...

and how would you know this? I thought you were married!