I gotta ask. Anyone deaf or hard of hearing here?

Hey, I look new here? Never seen me around here? No, no. I have been here for several years but been extremely busy and couldn't find any time to spare to log back here for several months but everything is settled and I am trying to get myself back into here. When I logged in for the first time in several months, my first thought was "I wonder if there's any deaf or hard of hearing people around here, this never been asked" so here I am asking. Anyone deaf or hard of hearing here who happens to know to run websites? I am one of them, I am hard of hearing and some of people may be afraid to say that they are deaf or hard of hearing because often they are afraid to be picked on but let me tell any one of you who is one of them, don't be afraid to because there's no reason to be now.

Anyway, I am interested to see who is deaf or hard of hearing here to at least have same culture I have or common.

Lastly, I miss you all.

 

I did a search and this person came up: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/any-deaf-hard-of-hearing-folks-here.2680097/ (He/she didn't log in since 2013 though).

I am sure in the community of this size there should be more who can identify with you.

 

A lot of people gets confused what deaf or even hard of hearing means or what type of person are they? So it is understandable although we would have to keeps explaining what it is quite often.

Never seen the sign language families map before, interesting. But maybe it could be used by everyone if it was universal sign language but it isn't. American Sign Language is considered a language just like English and Spanish and others. But interesting story about your childhood.

 

I have been around deaf people my whole life. I am not deaf. I have worked with numerous deaf people as well. One of my regrets is that I never learned sign language. I always meant to. In fact, I got a book on sign language probably 20 years ago and never got around to learning it. It's a shame because it is easier to communicate with the hearing impaired if one knows some sign language. I always thought that school kids should be taught a little bit of sign language, or at least methods of communicating with the deaf because it can be challenging at times. (I have had deaf people misunderstand me and get angry because they thought I said something I did not say many times.)

The nice thing about the internet is that it does not matter what you are so much or what you look like, just what you can do and who you can help.

 

I agree about the internet which sometimes deaf or hard of hearing are afraid to tell that they are deaf or hard of hearing, I used to have difficult time saying it in public for some reason but several years ago when I first announced that I am hard of hearing and communicate in American Sign Language I found out that I was holding out deaf or hard of hearing for nothing since after revealing that I am hard of hearing I didn't get anything negative responds although there may few of people (trolls) who would bash them about it but should never take them serious anyway.

I agree with you that there be should be taught of sign language in school. I think it would be best if every schools provide American Sign Language class because there's Spanish, French and other classes but not American Sign Language while it is actually language too. Well there is few classes that offers ASL but rarely. I think every school and college should add American Sign Language as their languages (French, Spanish and others) class then it would make everybody's future easier especially if they grow and become a business owner so that they and customers can work together more easier or to help the business owner to have more customers. Because in my opinion that some businesses that can quickly lose good potential customers (deaf or hard of hearing customers). The more languages you have skills for the more comfortable you can bring in customers.

As goes for learning sign languages, it can be done within' few weeks. Every one that I become friends with learned how to communicate with me in sign language within' 2-3 weeks tops especially the basic but to fully learn it could take a good one to two months maximum.