Deafness - to hear or not to hear
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I worked with a profoundly deaf guy at IBM who was so good at speaking and lip reading that people would to him from behind who worked with him everyday because they never knew he was deaf at all. We shared an office and sometimes I'd be like "You do realize he's completely deaf and doesn't know you are in the room, let alone speaking, right?"
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I feel at a disadvantage most of the time for communicating in the deaf community. I was taught Rochester Method (completely finger spelling everything said) or ESL. That doesn't translate to ASL at all.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I feel at a disadvantage most of the time for communicating in the deaf community. I was taught Rochester Method (completely finger spelling everything said) or ESL. That doesn't translate to ASL at all.
That the deaf community is heavily divided does not help them any.
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Maybe the biggest question is not "when to hear", but when does "not hearing" turn into "not listening"?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Maybe the biggest question is not "when to hear", but when does "not hearing" turn into "not listening"?
For anybody with hearing aids... when they turn them off and make it look like they are just scratching their ears, lol.
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@Minion-Queen said:
It's about your attitude more than anything how you fit into the world.
This is a good life lesson for anybody with or without disabilities.
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By no means did it render me deaf, but I lost some hearing from a hunting accident. I'd get it back if I could but it's a whole other level to go from unable to hear I'm sure.
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If not from a hunting incident, quite possibly from the long term exposure from a server room, lol.
Our two server rooms here are extremely loud (even to me)... I don't have a hard time understanding the guys in there since I can read lips. But they have a terrible time understanding me (oh, sweet irony).
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Apropos
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