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Wow, all of your posts are very thought-provoking. I have a feeling once we unshackle ourselves from the past, only then can we really move forward in a positive direction. I wish for my family to stop ignoring the elephant in the room, and allow open dialogue so that we might find clarity and...

You and I are two peas in a pod. Did you feel self-conscious and silly when people paraded you around? I used to think, "Sheesh, so I got straight A's, so did half of the class??? No need to shout it from the mountaintops." Too funny on being the spokesperson! In middle school, I was...

Even beyond the hearing parents-deaf child dynamic, the impact on hearing siblings must be considered as well. My older sister, well, that's a whole other can of worms. Her feelings towards our upbringing wavers between fierce protectionism for me or bitter resentment towards me. My sister...

Speculating on their thought process is all I can do, as my parents get tight-lipped and emotional if I ask them out of curiosity. I have a theory on my family, however. My grandparents immigrated (or emigrated?) to Detroit in the 30s/40s, and for the Italians, it was considered a source of...

Yeah, we do that, too - an informal game of charades in the morning when I don't feel like popping in the HAs yet. :D We fall over laughing sometimes when I guess some off-the-wall interpretation of what he's wildly pantomiming. The biggest motivating factor in learning ASL is my concern of...

Thank you, that brought tears to my eyes. The AG Bell award epitomizes my life, I was praised and congratulated on how well I concealed being deaf. It took years to figure out why that award and organization had an unsettling effect on me.

Hah! I must've bungled that phrase - a play on "it's all french to me," meaning I couldn't hear a word of what my guests were speaking so they might as well have been speaking in french? Sorry for confusing you. :Oops: Yes, DH is hearing. Our plan is to take classes together, he wants us...

I agree, and I do wonder from time to time if perhaps my parents would've chosen a different path had the world wide web been available in 1980. To this day, I don't know if they researched and made an informed decision or simply followed one so-called expert's advice.

By the way, I've been checking out the other "introduce yourself" threads, and there's some blunt and/or brutal responses to the hearing ASL students. Getting first day of class jitters here, so any posting advice or etiquette lessons would be greatly appreciated! Thx :D

Hi Melissa, I'm new to AD and joined for the same reasons as yours - dealing with the inevitable loss of even more hearing and wishing there was a technological fix. It's a painful feeling when everyone around you is "normal" and will never be able to relate. And we have to deal with the...

Online classes definitely seem attractive because it's private and you control the pace. Can anyone explain why formal classes are believed to be the best? I also wonder who these in-person ASL classes are geared towards - hearing people wanting to learn or oral deaf people like myself...

:lol: You'll have to pardon me, I've spent the last 18 months posting on wedding forums with all their crazy wedding codes. "BWW": big, white wedding. The kind of ballroom wedding where hundreds of guests are speaking french to you over the din of DJ dance music and party chatter, and you...

Hi alldeaf.com, Newbie here, I've been a long-time lurker and decided it's time to participate. It's refreshing to relate with others on topics I keep hidden or cannot successfully explain to family, friends, associates and strangers. Short background: 30-something newlywed, unemployed...