What’s it like having parents who can’t hear you cry? That’s something I always wanted to know. How do deaf parents take care of babies? Do they get up every hour to check if the baby is crying?
Did you ever get put into any parent roles as a child of immigrants? Dealing with banks or other things? I ask because this has happened to friends of mine.
Also, what flavour of milkshake is best and why is it blueberry?
So I’ve met a few deaf people in my work and from what I understand – every language have their own sign language – how was that transition for them? Was it hard for them to learn the new one?
Was it hard for you learning to speak a new language when you couldn’t practice with them at home?
And.. some of my worst idiot embarrassing moments was when I accidentally asked a deaf person questions multiple different times – knowing they were deaf but somehow forgot- and then realise afterwards that I’m dumb – is this something they experience often? What would be the best way of apologising for this? Am i just stupid?
I saw from other comments that both of them weren’t deaf since birth, did they meet each other after becoming deaf and it was some sort of bonding factor or did they originally meet each other while still being able to hear?
I heard that some deaf people can feel vibrations and in this way they can sort of listen to music and in rare cases even understand speech through the vibrations, is it something that you saw happening?
This is more of a philosophical one but did they ever showed desire to hear your voice if they had a chance to?
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Do they sign with an accent? (Joke).
Did they have to learn a different sign language when they immigrated? Is it more or less hard than learning another spoken language?
Do they vocalise, or are they completely mute ?
What’s it like having parents who can’t hear you cry? That’s something I always wanted to know. How do deaf parents take care of babies? Do they get up every hour to check if the baby is crying?
Are you?
Why haven’t they learned sign language? Wouldn’t that be a bit more universal ?
I’ve actually been thinking of teaching myself British Sign Language. Do you have any tips or advice for starting out?
Did you ever play tricks on them, knowing they couldn’t hear you?
Did you ever get put into any parent roles as a child of immigrants? Dealing with banks or other things? I ask because this has happened to friends of mine.
Also, what flavour of milkshake is best and why is it blueberry?
So I’ve met a few deaf people in my work and from what I understand – every language have their own sign language – how was that transition for them? Was it hard for them to learn the new one?
Was it hard for you learning to speak a new language when you couldn’t practice with them at home?
And.. some of my worst idiot embarrassing moments was when I accidentally asked a deaf person questions multiple different times – knowing they were deaf but somehow forgot- and then realise afterwards that I’m dumb – is this something they experience often? What would be the best way of apologising for this? Am i just stupid?
I’ve got a few questions:
I saw from other comments that both of them weren’t deaf since birth, did they meet each other after becoming deaf and it was some sort of bonding factor or did they originally meet each other while still being able to hear?
I heard that some deaf people can feel vibrations and in this way they can sort of listen to music and in rare cases even understand speech through the vibrations, is it something that you saw happening?
This is more of a philosophical one but did they ever showed desire to hear your voice if they had a chance to?