How do you want to be treated/viewed in the hearing community?

shel90 said:
Employment is my priority. I am not looking for a job to make friends with hearing people. If it happens, great, if not, I don't care. My family and close friends comes first.

BTW, I am married to a hearing guy.
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I second this. No deaf person looks for a job to make friends with hearing people. (that I know of) I always ended up making friends with hearing people on the job on all my jobs I've had. It's great when it happens but if not, like Shel says, I don't care either. There's life outside of work.
 
I want hearing people to listen to my needs as a Deaf person. If they don't get it that I am deaf and can not make out what they are saying whether in schools (colleges) or public places. Then it is a waste of time trying to get across to them that I need accommodations for me like ASL interpreters and close captioned in movie theaters. They refuse to listen to me. They don't know what it is like to be deaf or hard of hearing. :(
 
Eowyn said:
So you don't want to be friends with hearing people? Or am I misunderstanding you? Why not? Isn't that just the opposite of being audist? I mean we are all people, differences just make friendships more fun. I have a friend who is learning english, and we frequently miss communicate but we just laugh about it and let the differences make the friendship stronger. I am pretty sure if I ever got to really know you, we could probably be really good friends. And I know if the world ever got to know you, they would not only see you as someone who is employable in a job sense, but as someone who could be a really good friend. So why not give them a chance to see that?
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In the bold statement, I remembered back then when I was young that I made friend with a hearing person. We were young but every time we joked about my language or something which I could not remember. She would laughed and I laughed with her but she kept doing this over and over in time and days and it gets boring but not her. So I got turn off or just ignored her every time she joked. There is nothing to laugh about just because I am deaf. If we can laughed only once, that would be enough. It is not good to kept going on the same thing over and over. :ugh:
 
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