Most of the time, I don’t know that there are many people (hearing) are thrill to talk to me. But the problem is that they don’t know sign language to communicate with me. I do want to talk to them but I feel little funny and odd to talk them by paper or use cell phone to “typing” out and show me what message they saying to me. Sometime, I thought that’s cute or either it’s weird me out. I have to admit that I thought it’s nice that someone have courage to try talk with me.
For sometime, I have thought that I wish I could talk well though speech therapy. I took it when I was child. Only thing, that I wasn’t motive or interest to learn until I was in high school and I tried little hard to see how I can talk and sign language at same time. People been tell me either I can talk ok-ok or sound funny. I can talk few basic words or read lip as I manage well. I learn that read lip is only 30% successful while rest is make-up to guess. I don’t appreciate to see people tried to make their lip so wide and slow motive as they thought I could read lip. That’s umm… rude to me in the way. Anyway, I have t-shirt that my mom brought me few years ago. I think it was from my birthday gift. The quote said:
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I don't blame you for that. And even I had a speech therapy for over a decade or so, I have still struggle with lipreading what people said. However, you are right that it's very rude of them to move their lips very slow or too wide because it made me feel like that they treat me a low-intelligent person or an idiot. And that's why I have my pager to type the words to them. And at least up to 45% of time, I understand what they said by lipreading. Lipreading is a difficult skill to learning and practicing.
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Most of the time, I don’t know that there are many people (hearing) are thrill to talk to me. But the problem is that they don’t know sign language to communicate with me. I do want to talk to them but I feel little funny and odd to talk them by paper or use cell phone to “typing” out and show me what message they saying to me. Sometime, I thought that’s cute or either it’s weird me out. I have to admit that I thought it’s nice that someone have courage to try talk with me.
For sometime, I have thought that I wish I could talk well though speech therapy. I took it when I was child. Only thing, that I wasn’t motive or interest to learn until I was in high school and I tried little hard to see how I can talk and sign language at same time. People been tell me either I can talk ok-ok or sound funny. I can talk few basic words or read lip as I manage well. I learn that read lip is only 30% successful while rest is make-up to guess. I don’t appreciate to see people tried to make their lip so wide and slow motive as they thought I could read lip. That’s umm… rude to me in the way. Anyway, I have t-shirt that my mom brought me few years ago. I think it was from my birthday gift. The quote said: