What did you learn today?

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I learned that we must be getting close to Easter Sunday--the JW's were out in force in my neighborhood today.
 
Reba said:
Yes, but I wasn't in the mood to chat.

I saw that they had cars and teams all along my street.
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I'm "never home" when they come by, as I hide behind the curtains and peek out.
 
Annie09Z said:
I'm "never home" when they come by, as I hide behind the curtains and peek out.
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I've sat in my chair by the living room window with the blinds open and ignored people at my door. I'm sure they could see me if they bothered to look in the window from the porch.
 
not learn much today had one of those headaches on cusp of migraine so kept thinking down to minimum
 
Trying to learn ASL using Lifeprint.com

I wish for the tests they would show you the sign and have you answer it. Instead they describe the sign, you have to figure out what they are describing and then answer it. My brain can't handle all of that. If I just look at the signs I can get 100/100....the way they do the test I do horrible.

That is my vent for the night.....
 
Not much of a lesson learned, but a sudden realization that because I was raised strictly hearing (asides from the six years of speech therapy in elementary school), I've lost out on tons of opportunities, assistance, and maybe perks for being deaf.

I had no deaf community until a few days ago.

I never applied to any disability scholarships because no one told me that I'm considered disabled enough to apply for it.

No one told me about VRS until I was 23, but they only mentioned the free hearing aids aspect of it, not the fact that it helps you to find jobs.

No one told me in depth about ADA and its laws, what employers had to do when asked for accommodation, I was just told to suck it up and move on, that the world isn't fair.

The college for the deaf in NY, contacted me to go there a long time ago. I never knew that I was eligible, I thought it was only for people that sign, that were really deafened, not for people like me also, so I never bothered going there. Now I'm kicking myself for it because I wished I had gone :(

And it wasn't until a year or so back that someone (my husband) made me aware that I have a deaf accent, all along I thought I just had a weird accent and I always made excuses for it -- but now that I know, I don't have to make excuses or feel ashamed or frustrated when someone doesn't understand me. FWIW, my excuse was that my brain is two-three sentences ahead of my mouth so sometimes I cut myself off and confuse myself. The only times it's not ahead is at work, where I force myself to slow down and try to speak clearly.

I also realized that these past 10 years when I was not hired, passed over, or just ignored because I was deaf actually DID mess me up mentally because I have severe depression from time to time, social anxiety, a feeling of dread when I go to work in a noisy environment, and often think I'm mentally inadequate when my non-hearing "gets in the way" of my duties. That also explains why my former college contacted me, they were notorious for accepting students that were otherwise rejected by society, taking their money and not teaching them (students had to teach other students because teachers were either watching porn or coming into work stoned). I didn't withdraw then even when I told my parents it was a scam, they forced me to finish that college. So I have a Bachelor's Degree from a fake school (college shut down awhile ago due to fraudulently changing their student's loan information to get money and other stuff). No, I don't think I can ask for loan forgiveness for being scammed, so I'm stuck with the student loans.

*sighs* If I could do my life over, knowing what I know now. That there IS help for people like me, I wouldn't have experienced all this heartbreak :( Oh how I wish I *wasn't* raised hearing!
 
You have to be more proactive in finding things out. You can't blame everyone else for you missing out.
 
I don't think she is blaming anyone else for things she did not know. She is only saying she WISHED she had known those things but didn't until either she found out or it was pointed out in passing.

:hmm: just what IS a deaf accent anyway? Wonder if I have one- I was once asked if I was from Boston (no- never and never have been there either). Knew another hard of hearing guy who grew up oral (and as far as I know never learned sign language either) who was at a soccer event (World Cup maybe) in Chicago one year- someone kept insisting he was from Germany when in reality he was from Kentucky.
 
DeafDucky said:
I don't think she is blaming anyone else for things she did not know. She is only saying she WISHED she had known those things but didn't until either she found out or it was pointed out in passing.

:hmm: just what IS a deaf accent anyway? Wonder if I have one- I was once asked if I was from Boston (no- never and never have been there either). Knew another hard of hearing guy who grew up oral (and as far as I know never learned sign language either) who was at a soccer event (World Cup maybe) in Chicago one year- someone kept insisting he was from Germany when in reality he was from Kentucky.
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I, too, have been asked, even before I started losing my hearing, if I was from Boston or England. I always say that it must be a mix of the southern (born in GA) and the mid-atlantic (parents were from here and I moved here when I was 11).

I have been told by one or two people that I have a bit of a deaf accent. One of them is an interpreter, so he would recognize it.
 
I suspect I may also have a slight deaf accent too, as I've been asked if I'm from the south by a couple of people. Nope a true "Mainer" all the way. I probably have that silly Maine accent, ayuh!
 
Annie09Z said:
I suspect I may also have a slight deaf accent too, as I've been asked if I'm from the south by a couple of people. Nope a true "Mainer" all the way. I probably have that silly Maine accent, ayuh!
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I been told I have a beautiful Spanish accent by a Hispanic man and a woman said I had nice French accent and a guy asked if I was from England b/c I had an accent like his wife who was from England . And people had asked what country I am from. :giggle: I was told by a speech therapist that I had a nasally voice , I think New Englanders have a nasally voice .
 
I learned that I will be interpreting a sports ministry event. I will meet one of the Seattle Sea hawks coaches lol stay classy and respect :) Go Patriots!
 
Learned today that an Arizona lawmaker wants to make it a law for Americans to attend church. So DUMB!!!
 
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