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Hello, all!

My name is Brian Stacy and I am a 23-year-old male who is enrolled at Mountain State University in West Virginia in the Legal Studies Online program (Bachelor's Degree) and will begin classes 15 February 2010. I hope to become a Certified Paralegal.

I am also engaged to be married on April 16, 2010 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Washington DC Temple in Kensington, Maryland.

I am partially deaf and wear a hearing aid in my right ear. I was diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis when I was three years old. I was mainstreamed and always taught that I was normal and to use my oral skills and was not really taught much about ASL or Deaf Culture. Hopefully that will change soon.
 
BrnKthStcy said:
Hello, all!

My name is Brian Stacy and I am a 23-year-old male who is enrolled at Mountain State University in West Virginia in the Legal Studies Online program (Bachelor's Degree) and will begin classes 15 February 2010. I hope to become a Certified Paralegal.

I am also engaged to be married on April 16, 2010 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Washington DC Temple in Kensington, Maryland.

I am partially deaf and wear a hearing aid in my right ear. I was diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis when I was three years old. I was mainstreamed and always taught that I was normal and to use my oral skills and was not really taught much about ASL or Deaf Culture. Hopefully that will change soon.
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:welcome: to AllDeaf forum. Er, I have put a bold on your word taught which you mean Thought or thinking. :hmm: Taught is the word for teach with the past tense. Every one make mistake when it come to misspelling, even me. So I hope you have fun reading and posting all the threads here. See you around here. :wave:
 
:welcome: to AD...MD has one of the largest Deaf communities. I live here in MD. :)
 
Thanks, Simown, ~SG~, Bebonang, and shel90!

Bebonang, no I meant taught in both places. I truly wasn't very informed of the Deaf Community or Deaf Culture growing up. Matter of fact, my audiologist from when I was a kid told my parents there was no need to learn sign language, that they should just enroll me in a public and deaf preschool and then from there mainstream me. Even though I had a HoH class that I attended until third grade, they taught me on an oral level.

shel90, I figured that much. My fiancee found a deaf ward that is close by the Temple, not too far, that we will attend the Sunday after our wedding. Can't remember the name of the town though.
 
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Thanks, Simown, ~SG~, Bebonang, and shel90!

Bebonang, no I meant taught in both places. I truly wasn't very informed of the Deaf Community or Deaf Culture growing up. Matter of fact, my audiologist from when I was a kid told my parents there was no need to learn sign language, that they should just enroll me in a public and deaf preschool and then from there mainstream me. Even though I had a HoH class that I attended until third grade, they taught me on an oral level.

shel90, I figured that much. My fiancee found a deaf ward that is close by the Temple, not too far, that we will attend the Sunday after our wedding. Can't remember the name of the town though.
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Okay, I misunderstood what you are writing. So I see that you have been taught to think that you are normal, must used oral skills and that you were not taught about ASL and Deaf Culture. I get it. :ty: :cool2:
 
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Okay, I misunderstood what you are writing. So I see that you have been taught to think that you are normal, must used oral skills and that you were not taught about ASL and Deaf Culture. I get it.
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Yep, that's what I meant. ;)
 
BrnKthStcy said:
Thanks, Simown, ~SG~, Bebonang, and shel90!

Bebonang, no I meant taught in both places. I truly wasn't very informed of the Deaf Community or Deaf Culture growing up. Matter of fact, my audiologist from when I was a kid told my parents there was no need to learn sign language, that they should just enroll me in a public and deaf preschool and then from there mainstream me. Even though I had a HoH class that I attended until third grade, they taught me on an oral level.

shel90, I figured that much. My fiancee found a deaf ward that is close by the Temple, not too far, that we will attend the Sunday after our wedding. Can't remember the name of the town though.
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You arent the only one. I was born with a bilateral profound deafness but the doctors told my mom not to expose me to sign language if she wants me to be "normal" so I grew up oral and mainstreamed. I started to learn ASL at 25 years old and now it is my primary language and I am very involved with the Deaf community. Never went back to my old upbringing.
 
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