You're quite welcome!
Are you immune to women nagging because you are deaf?
Lol nope. They will find a way!
Describe your inner monologue....
When you think about stuff in your head, is it a pair of hands signing or letters forming words?
For instance, when I think the words writing right now, I'm thinking them as I would speak them. Do you think words how you would sign them or right them?
I usually try to imagine sitting across from the person or people and knowing what they are saying, but would try to imagine how they would gesture, their face expression, and other things as they are talking.
people who weren't born deaf can hear their thoughts in the voice they remember having, and maybe with other voices they've heard. i know you wouldn't be able to recall sounds and mimic them in your head, but is it possible for a deaf person to create a noise from a blank slate?
For me... Since I'm good at picking vibrate up. I sorta of have a rough idea of what certain noise must sound like and stuff like that.
Best example would be, put a blind fold on and try to feel the object. You will have a idea of what it probably would look like but you won't know exactly how it look until you take the blind fold off and look at it.
My mom is deaf and when she is thinking aloud she signs to herself. But in a real inconspicuous way, its hard to explain. But when I was a kid I would always see her her right hand signing on the shifter while she was driving.
Yeah some deaf person do that. Sometime if I'm pondering, my hand would shift or move as I'm thinking but nothing that would stand out to others.
Aren't there certain words you don't use when you sign? Like "the" for instance?
Also, isn't there an implant you can get that will allow you to hear?
Yes there are certain words. For example words like "is", "the", "a", and so don't exist in sign language. Also some words are so rarely used or modern that it don't even really have a sign such as route and others I cannot think of. To make thing even more complicate, some signs are use for more than one words so you have to know what the signer is talking about to be able to tell the difference. Also some words in English use same words for more than one thing, in signing, sometime we use same sign for same words sometime we use different sign.
That's one main reason many people who try to learn how to sign get really confused. In fact first thing that is drilled in their head by sign language teacher is that American Sign Language is a whole different language of its own and is not related to English in any manner or any way. The sooner people accept that, the faster they can learn sign language.
As for implant, yes there is and it have improve greatly in last few years. However it really depends on individual. I've know some who have great success with it and is almost at point where they don't even sign any more while it don't do a thing for others.
They still have to learn to read. Think about how much of learning to read involved hearing for you. The teacher would give you instructions and corrections that you could hear and apply. People are able to talk before they read. Now imagine having no means of communication with somebody who is teaching you to read. Sure they may be able to sign, but to what extent. They still need to know how to sign for the instructor to teach them to read, and the signing is basically like learning to read on it's own.
Exactly! Thanks.
Is sign language all the same or is spanish sign language different then american.
Also can deaf people be schizophrenic, I imagine they cant hear voices in there head because they cant hear, but I could be wrong.
There are different sign languages. America doesn't use English signing at all, American Sign Language is similar to French sign language, so it is much more close related to French language than English.
Also just to get this out of the way, nope, I cannot understand any other sign language beside American Sign Language.
AS for schizophrenic, honestly I don't know... I have never knew of any deaf person who have it.
Also I have deaf neighbors and I work with a deaf guy who Ive seen flinch when I slam a pallet on the floor buy him, Is that because of the vibration?
Yes he flinch because he wasn't expecting it and when he felt the vibrate, he wasn't sure if something fell or if it was done on purpose.
Similar to how people would flinch if they hear a firearm going off.
can you hear in your dreams?
In my dream, I seems to be able to hear. For example if person is talking to me, I can understand them but cannot hear them.
how do you visualize words in your mind? when i read text i pronounce it in my mind, and i think everyone has a voice they think with, as illustrated by thought bubbles in cartoons. how would your thought bubble look like? i assume you are able to vaguely reproduce these sounds, so you have some understanding of the association between speech and written words. i always have a hard time imagining this.
Already covered that above. Hope that answer your question. Let me know if you want anything cleared up.
you mentioned you fight. how do you communicate with the ref when the fight has to be stopped (end of rounds, opponent taps)?
The ref are told ahead of time and they often would meet with me and my coach beforehand to go over any question they may have. Then during fight, the ref are very hand on and use lot more big gestures and stuff. Never really had a problem, only time I really had a problem was when I swept a guy in clinch and the ref called me on it. I don't quite understand why though.
Why do deaf people don't like books?
Because lot of them have very poor reading skill. Many cannot read or write beyond maybe 5th or 6th grade level, many even lower. Big percentage of them cannot even read at third grade level.
So in the end, lot of them just don't have the skill to read.
Personally I don't have tv but have tons of books... *shrug*
Why haven't my questions been answered yet?
I apologize, I must have missed it. Can you repost please? I will make sure to answer it.
Btw it is really weird that your cousin didnt know the vacuum was turned on. Thought she'd have been able to feel it running.
Day-to-day, what is the most frustrating thing about being deaf? Is there some routine task that most of us take for granted that ends up being a real pain in the ass for you (other than using the phone, of course)?
Tell us something that the average person would be most surprised to know about being deaf.
Meeting people! It is incredibly frustrating! It is extremely difficult to make friend, get a date, get a job, and all sort of things. People often end up acting really awkward and question everything. It suck!!! To make it worse, I try to get out of house as much as possible. But I often would try to decide if I want to try and make myself invisible just to avoid awkward situation with people or if I want to try look more approachable than others in hope people would at least make some effort to carry out conversation with me.
Something average person would be most surprised to know about being deaf? Hm... Tough one... Probably that even though USA have a incredibly strict ADA law, it is absolutely worthless in most case. Out of all countries in the world, it is Europe that treat deaf people the best.
Also other thing, deaf community are extremely close knitted and everybody know each other so it is pretty much like being part of a small city. So they most likely know of almost all deaf people who live in their area. However there are few deaf people that pretty much distant themselves from the deaf community for various reasons.
This got me thinking: what is the proper, most polite, or correct way to communicate with a deaf person? Obviously if they're my friend I would take up sign language, but what if its somebody I'm meeting for the first time? Would they be able to lip read well enough? Would it be rude to communicate with pen and paper?
Paper and pen is the best way to go. Also you can use your phone to communicate via typing in stuff. Some can read lips well but this really depend on the person. For me... I cannot read lips that well at all, so paper and pen would be the best way to go.
Thanks again for sharing stuff and inputs!
Sherdog is giving me a hard time right now, so I'm gonna put this in and try to get back to it.
