I wondering about people asking about deaf people.. If you feel interesting in Deaf Culture but all you have to do just ask me because I know alot about Deaf Culture. I will be happy to help you.. The truth is I am deaf myself. I love to help or teach people to understand the about Deaf Culture. I believe it is very interesting educational to understand why deaf people used Sign language. (Ask me if you are interesting!)
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Hey by the way the correct spelling is "Interested."\n\nYou already know I am deaf, so no introductions here. But anyways, I'd like to share something that is kind of interesting from a deaf perspective.\n\nI grew up speaking and lip-reading all my life going to hearing schools. Yes, I did have oral education, but only up to 6th grade. It became a part-time thing all through elementary school, then no more of that after that.\n\nI had never learnt sign language because I was always in hearing schools, and I lived too far from my old deaf classmates to be able to socialize with them on a regular basis. So I pretty much was not part of the deaf culture for most of my life growing up.\n\nI attended a community college that had a small deaf program (Ohlone College). I also played on the tennis team. There was another deaf girl on the tennis team too. She only communicated via ASL with no lipreading. I only communicated via speaking. Despite the fact that we were both deaf, we could not communicate at all!\n\nIt was so strange. I truly felt what hearing people felt sometimes when they try to communicate with a deaf person. I was taking ASL 1 at the same time, so each day I was not only learning more signs in class, I was also learning them from her. Those first six months were probably the fastest I had ever learnt a language. I didn't even have to go to class nor did I have to study it because I already knew it all! Got an easy A plus in ASL 1!\n\nThis experience taught me what it really felt like to be in hearing people's shoes with the hearing perspective on deafness. So I already know what it feels like to be on both sides of the fence. I also learnt that it is possible to really learn a new language very quickly if you really have a strong desire to communicate with someone. It just takes regular practice and dedication on a regular basis, and then before you know it, you already become fluent in it.
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You'd be surprised how many people get to know you, at least a little, through YA.\n\nLots of people on here find it interesting to research some of the questions and to help people out.  Some people are on here for the fun questions and to have a little fun - nothing wrong with that.  Many people seriously need an answer to their questions and have trouble finding the answer without help.\n\nPersonally, I usually answer serious questions, many of them in Education, which is my area of particular interest, but I also answer a few questions in other categories.  I try to give good answers, and I don't ever give answers to mislead someone.   For me this is an interesting site and it occupies my mind right now while my husband is ill and recovering from chemotherapy.  \n\nI believe there are now more than a million people using this site.  So there are obviously all kinds of people on here for all kinds of reasons, and so there are all kinds of answers. \n\nEnjoy your YA experience.  It's a great site.  Best of luck.
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Because in a written medium, writing is all we see of another's personality.\n\nIf a guy I was talking to on the street - no matter how interesting the conversation - suddenly started speaking in a heavy Creole dialect that I couldn't understand, I might mention it. In fact, I'm pretty darned certain that I would mention it!\n\nTypos and spelling errors, IMO, aren't that big a deal, so I don't point them out as a rule. If someone is misusing a word I might ask, "Do you mean thisword? In that case I think . . ." as a way of letting them know politely.\n\nbt i gota tl u dat wen i c a centnc lik dis, i skp d intir post. What is the point of trying to communicate with someone who can't communicate clearly in that language? I figure that if I'm shouting at a deaf person, ~I'm~ the one with the problem.\n\nPersonally, I appreciate it when someone corrects my writing ~if~ they do it gently and with a helpful attitude. If they're just playing one-up, I may learn something, but they lose my respect.\n\nAnother reason, I think, is that some of us simply love language. Here's something I wrote which shows how I feel:\n\nAmerican English is a beautiful language, though many Brits would laugh at the suggestion. It’s a fluid language, growing and evolving as fast as our upstart country itself. It’s spoken in a symphony of accent, idiom and dialect, sung on street corners and in opera houses, the child of many parents. It takes what it needs from this or that language to round itself out; it’s vibrant and alive.\n\nOf course the spell checker isn't working, so no doubt I've made errors! Ain't it always the way?
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This website has quite a lot of information available in sign language, including free Christian publications which you can obtain. -- http://www.watchtower.org/languages/sign.htm\n\nAlso, I'm sure you will enjoy this personal life story about a deaf woman. -- http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2001/4/22/article_01.htm
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Yeah, I've realized that some people have a go at others over things beyond spelling.  Some aren't good typists, some don't care and the others are spelling "phonetically", but the main problem is there are some really mean people on Yahoo answers that seem to get enjoyment out of tearing others down,  for whatever reason.  If you care enough to read a question and try to answer truthfully, you should be patient enough to try and "read between the lines".  Some people are in a hurry because they feel their question is urgent and some people don't care how they spell, or don't know how to spell.  I've said it before, this site needs more "constructive" criticism than it does hateful and hurtful answers.  Yahoo answers has made an effort to change this by offering "check spelling" but what more can they do?  It isn't fair to degrade someone for not being able to spell properly or degrading someone for spelling phonetically!
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hey everyone has different reasons for visiting an posting in this site. i think its pretty cool and i am amazed at what people say. i admit its funny and sometimes very stupid questions.i only feel sorry for people who are on line 24/7. its good to be on line you also need t be around people. that's just horrible!! anyways this site is pretty interesting. sometimes there's questions you cant actually stand up and ask.  so you can feel comfortable. or whatever reason. as for my stupid questions...I'm surprised how many people are actually supportive and informing me with there intelligent information. as for sellfesteem , confidence, accepting who you are, most of all listening to your own advise. dont always rely on other people. no one knows you better than ure self. iight hun... good question. good luck
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I found one. All I did was type in www.deaf.com and there was a link to chat. Have fun!
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Learning to sign or studying American Sign Language (ASL) can be very interesting ot aanyone whether they are hearing or deaf.  \n\nSign can allow people who do not have the facility for spoken language to communicate fluently and quickly where writing or other non-verbal communication can be inconvenient.  The speach disability could be from birth, due to accident or stroke or illness, temporary or permanent.\n\nWithin the deaf community, ASL, like any other spoken language, has an impact on the culture of those who are fluent users, and ASL is evolving and changing as the "deaf culture" develops and changes with new words and ideas.  \n\nWith computers and words processig speach aids now available, keyboards are helping more people communicate without relying on knowledge of sign -- yet we all still use gestures and informal signing when trying to communicate accros language barriers.\n\nChildren in special education can sometimes use signing as a temporary form of communication until theyare able to develop speach or the ability to use a keyboard - or may rely on signing completely if they are severly disabled.\n\nSpecial education teachers and classroom aids study ASL to better teach and understand their students.
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It is a "breath of fresh air" to hear someone relate a story or question that isn't either:\n\na). How do I get him/her to like me?\nb). Is God, _________________________?\nc). Whats your favorite________________?\nd). Go (insert obscene word here) yourself and your ideals?\n\nYou are a brave "cookie". Good for you!!!!!! I guess turtles aren't so "slow" after all. (smile)
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A good read. \n\nThe first school for deaf people was the Institut Royal des Sourds-Muets (or the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Mute). This institute taught French sign language, or presently known as FSL.\n\nIn the 19th century educators were starting to oppose sign language being taught to the deaf. Supporters of this idea questioned that if the deaf were taught to speak they could be less isolated from everyone else. This method, the method of teaching the deaf individuals to speak, was called oralism. By the 20th century many educators of the deaf were using this method called oralism, in fact all deaf education in the United States and France was oralism. But oralism not consisted of teaching the deaf to speak but also teaching the deaf to read lips, in a sad fact they often went to the extreme as punishing deaf children when they signed among themselves. Linguist William C. Stokoe was to thank for today’s booming 500,000 individuals that speak sign language today, because he worked to place sign language education back into the schools and succeeded.\n\nLinguists have found similarities between spoken language and sign language.
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I can understand...from what I have seen on this site, there are more people asking questions trying to get attention or be "cute" than that really need help. (Not saying this about you...just in general). Same goes for people answering the questions...Can't tell you how many "I don't know"s I have read on here as answers. Immatuirty sums it up in a word.
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Actually there is that one deaf actress that probably make more than you and I combined. So there goes that theory. \n\nBut the question was about listening not hearing.
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Are you saying that maybe there will be next deaf president of USA?I'm also deaf and not joking!Of course deaf people will listen to the people and help the people rather than a war with other.i think you are right that deaf will be the next president but who will?
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There are people from all over the world here.  Not all of them speak or type English that well.  Please pay attention to the question and not the typing.  Also there are people who do speak and type English but are a little on the lazy side.  Its easy to tell them apart.  Just move to the questions you understand and have fun.
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Hi Maddy, I am taking a few moments this morning to reduce stress, pre-wedding jitters, not really nerves, just the usual worries of everything going correctly, as planned. lol \n\nSo, here I am anwering one of your great questions! ;-)  I too have often mused on how the blind or others who have lost a sense, manage to do things, normal everyday things those who have all five senses take for granted on a daily basis. I have mused on what it would be like to be blind. You see, one of my daughters had a knife put out her left eye when she was six. It was a horrific experiance for her and also her father and I. While she has not been completely blind sense birth, we have always been very worried, and sensitive of the worry she may lose sight in her one remaining eye. She was able to 'keep' her damaged eye, but she is basically 90% blind, only able to see shadows and blurred color in it. So, you can imagine this is something I have thought about a great deal. \n\nI read the answers you received when I first clicked here. Bonacua B is as close to an honest interpretation, or considered response than any other. Now, imagination does not require sight. They 'way' they imagine things will be different than those with sight, but they still will have dreams and imagination. Blind folks are as capable of those with sight of being able to be imaginative, innovative, creative and otherwise intuitive. They are in a unique position to provide an alternate view, which can be very impressive. When we are in a 'think tank' it is of best interest to implement as diverse a group as possible. When we keep the group diverse we are able to obtain a uniquely cohesive thought process which can produce great innovative and creative 'out of the box' thinking. This will enable the group to come up with a tremendously increased measure of ideas and concepts. When we place a group of non diverse members into a position of requiring innovative and creative ideas, they are limited to only simular processes as they all have the same abilities and therefor are limited. \n\nThe blind may not be able to see 'color' but color has more than a visual affect. Color is uniquely viewed by each individual with sight. Men and women see colors differently. There are scientific studies which demonstrate these differences between the sexes when it comes to seeing color. The blind are able to imagine colors by using verbal stimuli to create a visual concept. Colors also create emotions, blue is calming, red is stimulating, yellow is comforting, black can be either rage, or blankness, grey is dismal, etc. By utilizing all the elements of color the blind are able to concepulize these and form their own unique 'vision' of color. \n\nEmotions are very strong elements, and they are created from many differing sourses. When we are able to utilize all of our resourses we are then able to acheive our highest potentials. The blind are not any different in this as those who see. \n\nThose who are born blind do NOT increase other senses to 'compensate' for the lost sense. Studies have shown that the other senses which are seeminly increased, are available for the sighted to acheive those inhanced heighths. We ALL have the capasity to use our senses to a maximine capasite, the same as the blind, we just don't do it. When we are trained to use our senses to the highest levels we are able to acheive seeminly spiritual elements within our abilities to minipulate them. Most people just do not work on increasing their senses to the degree of their full capasity. The blind are trained to do so. So, it is not an ability to obtain any higher degree of use in remaining senses, above the ability of any seeing person, it is just they work at acheiving these 'high' degree of developed senses. \n\nI firmly believe the born blind are as able as any other to imagine and dream. The way this is manifested may be different, of course it
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Nobody is perfect or normal for that matter. Yes, the popular terminology sucks. I'm sorry for your dificulties with your family and the "establishment".\nThe language presumes incorrectly that different is damaged.\n\nWould you agree that some things can be more Challenging for the deaf?\nOne of My Daughters has a high frequency hearing loss and learning clear speech and reading were both quite challenging for her. She did learn and now does much better than many people who are supposedly "abeled" .  We also object to the label.
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I used to own a very large night club...gay, and truthfully, although there were nights when several students at Galudet (Washington DC school for the deaf) would come in droves, the overall percentages didn't vary from the standard. I saw no evidence that deaf and gay were any different than the general population. AND YES, they do like the vibrations set up by the bass. I asked, I was told. Good luck