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I understand that, definitely! I think my parents had the attitude (mostly because of the therapists and doctors we talked to) that ASL was more for "unintelligent" people who were profoundly deaf. I have a severe loss but my parents knew I was very intelligent, so I guess they felt that...

AHA! Now I get it. Thanks, that really made a lot of sense. :wave:

I probably was insane at that moment, yes. :) Ok ok, I get your point. I'll do the research. :)

Just some random stream-of-consciousness-type stuff here.... Am I losing my mind? Nah surely not. But am I pushing what just happened deep inside so I don't have to think about it? In other words, am I hurting myself? Nah, maybe I just need to do all this on my own terms. Or something...

Of course you won't pay us back! That's just not how it's done in this moral society that we have! How DARE you think otherwise? :Ohno::Ohno::Ohno: :giggle:

Oh, and where exactly WAS this wonderful place they told you to go?? :giggle: :wave::wave::wave::wave: bye-bye now, have a nice trip! :giggle:

That sounded like SUCH a pity party to me. That is all I'm going to say.

:giggle::laugh2::dance2::wiggle::wiggle: (ok, maybe I went a little too far there [my emotions are a bit out of whack at the moment])

Hon, sorry to say this, but you really shouldn't ask people you don't know for money. It's not just for their protection, but yours too.... did you think about that? Remember, if you really want to, you can find a way to save money for them. :D

I recently watched the movie Clerks II (which I believe was released in 2006) and although I do usually enjoy that type of humor in GENERAL, I found some of the jokes very offensive to certain groups of people, including deaf and hard of hearing people. Anyone know what I'm talking about? The...

I actually did know this one. I remembered this because someone once told me the year I graduated from high school was itself a palindrome (2002). Amazing how funny things like that get stuck in your head. :giggle:

That would be nice, but let's not be idealistic here. I mean, with every new "solution" comes its own set of unique problems. (God, I feel like I'm turning into my mother.... a realist bordering on constant negativity...) :eek3::eek3:

Here in KY it is around $3.75 in my area which seems to be relatively cheap. Gas prices have been falling for a few weeks now. I've also heard that gas prices could rise up to $7.00/gal by the end of the year, which I think is crap, but then again my stepfather is a local radio personality who...

I already knew that. I felt that was a personal insult to my intelligence after I'd already made a point that I'd had the Deaf Education. That seems like it would have been inherent information, don't you think? Anyway, I thought that maybe the ADA might have covered previous years.

I have always wondered why YouTube doesn't offer captioning capability on the videos they offer! I know it's probably because the videos are user-generated, but there has to be a way, somehow! I've tried to figure out how to contact them and don't know where to go. Anyone else have any...

For the last year or so, I have not had access to cable TV, and so have relied on the use of an antenna to receive my signal. I have noticed that it ALWAYS seems that when the reception is even the SLIGHTEST bit off, the captions get so messed up that they're unintelligible. Who else has this...

I had some brief Deaf Education in high school when I was assigned to work with a special-needs instructor solely for the purpose of teaching me sign language to qualify as my foreign-language credit. This woman had been working with deaf people for years. I was told about the ADA and found...

Y'know, it's strange. I used to think that I was a person who never regretted anything, but of course that's not true. I very much regret the fact that I spent over a year in a relationship with someone who was physically and emotionally abusive. I feel like I wasted that time in my life...

I also grew up this way, and the more I learn about it, the more I wish I had both as well.

Hi guys, I'm a 24-yo female from Kentucky. I've been hard of hearing since birth. I know very little ASL (I took one class in high school and got frustrated so I gave up) and so my main mode of communication is (and always has been) lipreading. I have always been able to remain mainstream in...