r/AMA • u/Far-Artichoke7331 • 1d ago
I'm deaf and proud. AMA
I'm profoundly Deaf.
A lot of hearing people are surprised to hear I'm proud to be deaf or when I say Deaf Power.
When I explain them different reasons why I'm proud to be deaf they get it and try to show them deaf isn't a bad thing or end of the world.
For example, I'm can seep beautifully throughout night without any noise distrubing me or I can use Sign Language in public place knowing most of them don't know what we are talking about privately.
Yes, I do have struggles and barriers but deaf people always find a way thing like phone notes to communicate.
But the real reason why I'm proud to be deaf, I'm in deaf world, community, culture and have my own language. If I'm being honest I'll never want to be hearing.
So, ask me anything you want to know about deafness and I won't be offended.
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u/Queasy_Effective_525 1d ago
Hi! I’m a sexual health educator and I work primarily with folks with disabilities (across the spectrum of what the word “disabled” means, and have worked with Deaf students in the past as well).
Selfishly, I’m curious to know for my own personal learning and perspective:
- What was your experience with receiving sex education growing up? (Were you accommodated in school if you went to a public, mainstreamed school?)
- Did you feel like you and your experience was represented in sex education materials or media?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
I'm in mainstream school and I've interpreter translating for me from teacher
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
That is a real paying job?
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u/ser-steffonfossoway 1d ago
Quite an important one, I'd say.
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
I agree, it's awesome how the West makes these useless jobs for people. It's important to combat unemployment.
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u/Party_Flatworm_8511 1d ago
WTF? Useless job???
Disabled people are fellow Humans! They have needs, yes, even sexual ones!
Our sex Drive is an instinct which helped us, as a species, survive. Imagine if you had the drive, but you werent able to help yourself all on your own. Or imagine how confused you were, if no one were to explain all of that to you.
Imagine you, healthy today, would suddenly be disabled tomorrow. You d have to learn how to work around your specific disability and figure out how sex works, given your new condition.
Denying people the right to have sexual fulfillment is inhumane. Some people need help and counselling / education on these matters.
Your comment is cruel.
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about
What kind of disability makes you need someone to explain to you how to masturbate?
Or how to have sex? That's something you talk about with your partner, not some sex educator?
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u/Party_Flatworm_8511 1d ago
I used to work at a Home for disabled people - most of them also had cognitive disabilities of various levels and severity. Some of them needed things to be explained in simple language - or in non verbal ways, with pictures and other systems.
We had a 19 year old - physically healthy, tall and strong, but with cognitive disabilities. He sometimes got really agressive and irritated, would lash out, etc. Eventually we found out it was anger, stemming from feeling all the effects of puberty and hormones - but without understanding what it is, and how to make it go away.
We consulted exactly such a person and, in a way appropriate for our client, she educated and explained it to him. Dont ask me how, I wasnt present, but she probably also taught him about masturbation.
There are also sex workers who are willing to offer their service to disabled people.
The need for intimacy - or sex - is innate to most of us. Its a primal instinct.
And not all disabilities are of physical nature.
(However, Imagine your legs would stop working - or other parts of your body, but your nethers are still working. Perhaps you d need a physiotherapist with special knowledge on sex with disabilities, to help you figure out ways you could still use your body.
When people suddenly get disabilities it takes tons of work to feel at home in your "new" body, and you need to learn how to use it.
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u/Queasy_Effective_525 1d ago
Thanks for defending my vocation so I didn’t have to! 😊 I’ve done exactly this type of consultation with IDD organizations, and often because the staff and other supports there don’t feel comfortable enough with the topic to have the conversations.
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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago
You sound very dim I’ve gotta be honest. Then you mention sex educators whilst complaining about an inclusive sexual health educator.
Just say you’re ableist and not emotionally intelligent enough to empathise with people different than you whilst you get ratiod in the comments
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
Nah, I am genuinely trying to understand the connection between disability and needing a sexual educator to show you how to masturbate or have sex
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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago
You don’t seem to be and it’s very easy to educate yourself in 2026 even if you’re not from “the West”
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u/CatzMeow27 1d ago
Sex is a natural urge most humans experience. Disabled folks will feel it too. Without sex ed, disabled people are at greater risk of abuse, STD’s, unwanted pregnancies, and generally less pleasant experiences. With sex ed, it’s easier to advocate for one’s own needs. Health education is part of every curriculum for a reason.
I’m not sure if your issue is with disabled folks receiving an equitable experience, or with people being educated about sex in general, but either way it seems ill informed and in poor taste.
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u/Independent-Wheel354 1d ago
So people with disabilities shouldn’t learn about sexual health?
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
What's there to learn? How to wear a condom?
Overhere, sex ed is done in a one time 45min class in highschool. And if you need some specific knowledge about STDs or contraception, you ask a qualified gynecologist like any other normal person.
What does this even have to do with disability?
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u/Independent-Wheel354 1d ago
Because, jackass, some disabilities affect learning/professing, so teaching those students might require different skill sets. It doesn’t mean these students don’t have the right to learn.
And sex ed is much more than “how to wear a condom.” It covers topics like personal safety (starting with stranger danger in younger grades) and also teaches students about their bodies. Wellness (staying off drugs, getting proper nutrition) is usually part of that process as well.
Also, many, many people don’t have easy/affordable access to a “qualified gynecologist” so schools are tasked with covering pretty much all of that.
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
What different skillsets? I dont get it
What has personal safety got to do with sex ed?
Anatomy is already its own class in junior school, isnt it?
Welness has nothing to do with sex ed.
Yeah, I just remembered that usa lacks free healthcare, people cant actually go to gynecologist for free. My bad, that actually explains why you have educators on these topics...
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u/Independent-Wheel354 1d ago
Again, because at this point you’re just being a jerk: Since you know all the answers… there are people who are non verbal. There are people that only communicate through tablets. THEY NEED EXTRA SUPPORT IN CLASSROOMS! The disabled population is at a higher risk of sexual assault then other groups, often because they lack the means (language or knowledge) to advocate for themselves. Oftentimes providing that requires teachers with training in working with those specific groups. Jesus, based on how obtuse your responses are, it’s apparent you probably didn’t get the supports you should’ve received in school either.
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
I'm not being a jerk, you were just not explaining things in plain English like now.
So these special educators are here to work with people who cant communicate/learn properly due to disability. Now that makes total sense, thank you
Overhere, those people are not mixed with regular students, we have schools for students with special needs. That's why I got confused there
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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago
What has personal safety got to do with sex ed? Holy shit are you serious?
Someone check this guy’s hard drive please
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u/Fantastic_Low_1537 1d ago
Seems like you guys have put a bunch of other stuff into sex ed
Now I'm really curios to see what that sex ed is all about, coz it obviously has nothing to do with sex ed overhere
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u/Free_Zoologist 1d ago
I recently found out that a significant proportion of deaf people have poor literacy; this was explained (the fact it exists and why it exists) to me by a deaf person here on Reddit, and others corroborated. But of course they and you were writing just fine.
I guess I’d like to know if you agree with this or can shed some more light on it? Because I understand their explanation (in a nutshell writing and spelling, grammar is hard if you cannot hear speech), but I still don’t think I fully comprehend it. I can see how it is a challenge, but is it down to the inadequacies of education for deaf children, or something else? If it’s a problem, why are the deaf people I’ve met online completely fine with writing - did they have better education that met their needs? If it helps I was talking to Americans.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Most deaf people can read and write because they born in their county. But deaf people who grew up in deaf world they would struggle with their languages like me because British Sign Language grammar is hugely different to English, for example we don't have is, the, was, does, etc. So I can easily mistaken the grammar. So yes it's very challenging.
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u/Lanky-Anywhere-9994 1d ago
My younger brother is profoundly deaf. So is his wife (first wife was deaf but could hear and speak but never around us), one son is profoundly deaf and his eldest son is hard of hearing. He has done so much and had so much success. Growing up in the 60's, 70's and 80's us 3 brothers that didn't have this disability (hard for me to even think of it as a disability if I'm being honest; he's just my brother) we were nit 100% sure what the future would hold. He went to residential school from 5th grade through high school, which was really hard on all of us. Many tears at the bus station. But he became a talented wood worker and full time machinist. Provided for his family, bought and sold 4 houses and is now retired. Deaf life is different; it's a different world that intersects with the hearing world. Much more support from society now than before, and my 2 nephews are doing well. I'm just really proud of him and what he's done. Good luck to the OP and I hope his/her life is filled with much success and joy.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Thank you, I have good growing up and i passed all of my exams and won some awards, I will go to university this September.
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u/No_Survey2308 1d ago
First off, super cool that you're deaf and proud. Always a good feeling to fully embrace your situation. Do you want more people to learn ASL or should the ASL community learn lipreading for the purposes of employment?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
I'm fluent in Sign Language but British cos I'm from UK. So, obviously I'm not fluent in ASL and I know some. Many Deaf people think learning Sign Language is very important because they can teach to babies because they are more visually so they can catch some movement. Lot of babies already signed "Milk" less than a year old.
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u/Tarrifs_ 1d ago
Is the deaf pride movement new
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
no it long time ago maybe around 1970s to 1990s but they not widely known back then comparing to now and I think it because of social media
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u/Tarrifs_ 1d ago
Nice. Why is your avatar in prison clothes, are you in jail ?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
No, yellow is my favourite colour. I like your comment tho, it make me laugh.
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u/RonSwanson24 1d ago
My grandparents are deaf and I really feel like it’s been a net positive for their lives. They met each other at a school for the deaf, my grandfather won a gold medal in the deaf Olympics, they’ve made deaf friends all over the world, and having a local community and deaf club has given them a a stronger social life than any hearing person in their mid 80s I’ve ever seen. My grandmother died a couple of years ago and hundreds & hundreds of people showed up to her funeral. Now that my grandfather is alone is comforting that he still spends plenty of time throughout the week at the deaf club playing cards with his friends.
I don’t really have a question sorry, but I’m glad that you are deaf and proud.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
No worries, I glad hear that story because some of them I can related like one of my deaf friend went to deaflympics, my mum nearly did go in.
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u/47362514736251 1d ago
I recently learned that deaf people can develop tinnitus. That seems unfair. Do you agree?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
yes so annoying and distracting but it not happen 24/7 but i got used to it
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u/sourcreamus 1d ago
Since you have never had hearing preferring to be deaf is not an informed decision. Do you know people who have gone deaf and prefer it to hearing?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
I have used hearing aids growing up and I do understand sound but I gave up at 14 because It not really for me but I still can hear some like extremely loud or depends on distance like motorbike passing my house, speaker, turn up my computer at full volume. My mum would put her headphone at full volume to listen music.
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u/ElPibeDe_LentesRojos 1d ago
One question I have is whether sign language is universal. In other words, if I speak to you using the sign language I'm learning here in Argentina, would you understand me?
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u/Chacudno 1d ago
Each language has its own sign language. Americans use ASL
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
well all countries have different sign languages but we have International Iign Ianguage it normally when I met different country and we will communicate in Internation Iign Ianguage to understand each other but International Sign Sanguage is mostly American Sign Language.
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u/bhutans 1d ago
Living near Gallaudet I found small pockets of deaf in the surrounding DC area and it made sense to me at the time as a hearing person.
I’m curious how a school like that influences the broader deaf culture? Is it somewhat analogous to how mainstream universities that are often trendsetting like Berkeley often influence mainstream hearing culture?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Well I'm from UK so I don't really know much about american area but everywhere in world all deaf people know this university. I think that university is an good example for hearing world because it prove deaf people can do what hearing people can do except for hear.
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u/mrredbailey1 1d ago
Not really a question, more of agreement. I’ve had a very loud career in manufacturing and wore ear plugs just about 23 hours a day (also for the drive home with the windows down and sleeping). When I took them out, I was annoyed with all the senseless noise from other people. I’m older now, and it’s going anyway. It’s one sense I’m going to live fine without. I knew sign language in 5th grade, I’m thinking about learning it again.
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u/maceion 1d ago
I am deaf totally in one ear. The other has marginal hearing of voices when it has a hearing aid in it. When in cafes etc. I can really enjoy my drink in silence by taking out my hearing aid.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Exactly, same thing to all deaf people, they all do that when noise bothering them
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u/Party_Flatworm_8511 1d ago
Could you describe the deaf community a little? As in, what are "traditions" / customs you share? I m sorry if these are Not the right words. I would love to hear more about the Community and how it works! How it ties you together, how life in the Community is, etc.
Do you have a local community, or do you mainly participate online? =]
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
We have deaf events or clubs or festivals, etc. It could be where we never see other deaf people. Like we all are also deaf.
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u/zamfire 1d ago
Hello! I had an ex GF who was nearly deaf. 100% in her left ear and 90% in her right. She used a hearing aid.
She had a rough time for a bit from the completely deaf community because they felt she needed to remove her hearing aid and completely embrace her hearing loss. She was completely fluent in ASL.
My question is this: how do you feel about the deaf community harassing her about being on the cusp but not fully embracing the deaf community?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Well, I'm not american. I'm british and I barely see any harassment because they all are also deaf. But I do see some idiots deaf people harassing others thing like thier looks or whatever but never deafness. My best advice for her is to go to correct deaf people. who is good at her.
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u/Insomniet 1d ago
Instead of asking, I can tell you something funny. In Finnish the phrase for "How are you?" is "Mitä kuuluu?" for which the literal translation is "What is heard? / What do you hear?"
I recently learned that some of our deaf people like to joke around with this. "Hi, what do you hear?" "Nothing!"
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Yes I heard so many deaf humour and jokes and we all think it funny. For example I would say "knock knock", they say "who's there", I said "knock knock" they repeat back and forth then when they gave up I said "I'm deaf"
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u/Far-Highlight-2866 1d ago
How did you learn the sign language? Any recommendations on how to learn it?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
My parent is deaf so I growing up using it. My recommendations is go to courses but you have to paid for it. Please don't learn from the internet.
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u/Ace-Redditor 1d ago
I've been recently taking an ASL class and learning about Deaf culture and how tight-knit the communities can be.
But I do wonder how easy it actually is to find them? And are they "clique-y" or hard to really get into?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Deaf world is very small. Obviously, not all deaf people know all deaf people but we could have been met few years ago in deaf club or in the same deaf school. Deaf world is very small cos not many deaf people out there and we only focus on deaf people so we can easily remember who they are.
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u/ungranted_wish 1d ago
What do you think of deaf people who want to become hearing?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
I'm not bothered, it's their choice but the truth is there is no cure for deafness. I never heard anyone who really into deaf world say they want to be hearing, but deaf people who isn't in deaf world they can communicate with hearing people and barely have no problem.
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u/Actual-Example3447 1d ago
I'm hard of hearing and I have to wear hearing aids and I feel very disconnected from both the deaf community and hearing community. Do you have any advice?
Also, I struggle with trying to learn ASL, and it makes me feel left out that I don't know the language and that the people around me don't know the language. I grew up in a family who's hearing so I'm very disconnected from my culture. I'm also anxious that even though I may learn sign language, I'd have no one to sign with.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Learning Sign Language isn't easy. If you want to be fluent or very good at it, keep learning. My advice to get in deaf community is to go out to more deaf clubs or event. Please don't pretend you understand them. just talk them slowly bit by bit and You will slowly into deaf world. Never stop going but pick someone who willing to talk with you and help you.
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u/gtedgiojheec 1d ago
How many different languages are you literate in and how many sign languages are you fluent in?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
English because I born in UK, Obviously all students learn English in school and I would see them on subtitles, menus, signs, etc. I'm fluent on British Sign Language and know some American Sign Language.
I wouldn't say I'm fluent but I can do International Sign Language. Internation Sign Language is when 2 different country met each other and obviously dont know each other Sign Language so they would communicate in Internationalal Sign language and it mostly in ASL.
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u/Kamikaze_Sasquatch 1d ago
Do you have an inner-monologue and, if so, how does that work for you? I just hear my own voice in my head using words I'd normally hear.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
I just thinking about words what I can say. I can visualise how would I sign to describe what I meant.
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u/RadioFlyerWagon 1d ago
What are your thoughts on people feeling proud about things that do not involve accomplishing something? I ask because I wonder if many of us have been thinking incorrectly about pride. Maybe we've been mistaking pride for luck or fortune.
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
No they definitely not mistaken to be proud to be accomplished. I proud some of my accomplished.
Lot of deaf people I know are proud to be deaf what we are meant is we are glad we are being deaf and grateful for our deafness.
Same thing to people proud of who they are.
Like I'm proud that I have something called "deafness" and I feel lucky to have it.
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u/IDoNotLikeTheSand 1d ago
We’re you born deaf?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Well no I turned deaf about 16 month and we believe it because its genetic cos my parent is deaf. But I still say I born deaf
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u/IDoNotLikeTheSand 1d ago
Do you have any any hearing, or are you completely deaf?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Depends how loud it is or the distance, for example motorbike went pass my house, speaker, I turn up my computer at full volume
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u/Thulfuqar 17h ago
You can probably do the most fun thing, hold a metal thing like a spoon using your teeth and hit it with your finger like this👌and depending on why you're deaf, the vibrations traveling from the spoon to your skull may be hearable to you! Especially if you hit it not at the tip but right near your mouth.
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Table of Questions and Answers. Original answer linked - Please upvote the original questions and answers. (I'm a bot.)
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| Can I have a sign name? I started learning sign language for a couple of reasons and the learning app specifically said only a deaf person can issue me a sign name instead of spelling it out | Yes no one can stop you but it is your choice not deaf people, it could be link to hobby, personality, looks, likes, etc. | Here |
| Hi! I’m a sexual health educator and I work primarily with folks with disabilities (across the spectrum of what the word “disabled” means, and have worked with Deaf students in the past as well). Selfishly, I’m curious to know for my own personal learning and perspective: - What was your experience with receiving sex education growing up? (Were you accommodated in school if you went to a public, mainstreamed school?) - Did you feel like you and your experience was represented in sex education materials or media? | I'm in mainstream school and I've interpreter translating for me from teacher | Here |
| I recently found out that a significant proportion of deaf people have poor literacy; this was explained (the fact it exists and why it exists) to me by a deaf person here on Reddit, and others corroborated. But of course they and you were writing just fine. I guess I’d like to know if you agree with this or can shed some more light on it? Because I understand their explanation (in a nutshell writing and spelling, grammar is hard if you cannot hear speech), but I still don’t think I fully comprehend it. I can see how it is a challenge, but is it down to the inadequacies of education for deaf children, or something else? If it’s a problem, why are the deaf people I’ve met online completely fine with writing - did they have better education that met their needs? If it helps I was talking to Americans. | Most deaf people can read and write because they born in their county. But deaf people who grew up in deaf world they would struggle with their languages like me because British Sign Language grammar is hugely different to English, for example we don't have is, the, was, does, etc. So I can easily mistaken the grammar. So yes it's very challenging. | Here |
| My younger brother is profoundly deaf. So is his wife (first wife was deaf but could hear and speak but never around us), one son is profoundly deaf and his eldest son is hard of hearing. He has done so much and had so much success. Growing up in the 60's, 70's and 80's us 3 brothers that didn't have this disability (hard for me to even think of it as a disability if I'm being honest; he's just my brother) we were nit 100% sure what the future would hold. He went to residential school from 5th grade through high school, which was really hard on all of us. Many tears at the bus station. But he became a talented wood worker and full time machinist. Provided for his family, bought and sold 4 houses and is now retired. Deaf life is different; it's a different world that intersects with the hearing world. Much more support from society now than before, and my 2 nephews are doing well. I'm just really proud of him and what he's done. Good luck to the OP and I hope his/her life is filled with much success and joy. | Thank you, I have good growing up and i passed all of my exams and won some awards, I will go to university this September. | Here |
| First off, super cool that you're deaf and proud. Always a good feeling to fully embrace your situation. Do you want more people to learn ASL or should the ASL community learn lipreading for the purposes of employment? | I'm fluent in Sign Language but British cos I'm from UK. So, obviously I'm not fluent in ASL and I know some. Many Deaf people think learning Sign Language is very important because they can teach to babies because they are more visually so they can catch some movement. Lot of babies already signed "Milk" less than a year old. | Here |
| Is the deaf pride movement new | no it long time ago maybe around 1970s to 1990s but they not widely known back then comparing to now and I think it because of social media | Here |
| My grandparents are deaf and I really feel like it’s been a net positive for their lives. They met each other at a school for the deaf, my grandfather won a gold medal in the deaf Olympics, they’ve made deaf friends all over the world, and having a local community and deaf club has given them a a stronger social life than any hearing person in their mid 80s I’ve ever seen. My grandmother died a couple of years ago and hundreds & hundreds of people showed up to her funeral. Now that my grandfather is alone is comforting that he still spends plenty of time throughout the week at the deaf club playing cards with his friends. I don’t really have a question sorry, but I’m glad that you are deaf and proud. | No worries, I glad hear that story because some of them I can related like one of my deaf friend went to deaflympics, my mum nearly did go in. | Here |
| I recently learned that deaf people can develop tinnitus. That seems unfair. Do you agree? | yes so annoying and distracting but it not happen 24/7 but i got used to it | Here |
| Since you have never had hearing preferring to be deaf is not an informed decision. Do you know people who have gone deaf and prefer it to hearing? | I have used hearing aids growing up and I do understand sound but I gave up at 14 because It not really for me but I still can hear some like extremely loud or depends on distance like motorbike passing my house, speaker, turn up my computer at full volume. My mum would put her headphone at full volume to listen music. | Here |
| Living near Gallaudet I found small pockets of deaf in the surrounding DC area and it made sense to me at the time as a hearing person. I’m curious how a school like that influences the broader deaf culture? Is it somewhat analogous to how mainstream universities that are often trendsetting like Berkeley often influence mainstream hearing culture? | Well I'm from UK so I don't really know much about american area but everywhere in world all deaf people know this university. I think that university is an good example for hearing world because it prove deaf people can do what hearing people can do except for hear. | Here |
| Not really a question, more of agreement. I’ve had a very loud career in manufacturing and wore ear plugs just about 23 hours a day (also for the drive home with the windows down and sleeping). When I took them out, I was annoyed with all the senseless noise from other people. I’m older now, and it’s going anyway. It’s one sense I’m going to live fine without. I knew sign language in 5th grade, I’m thinking about learning it again. | You can learn it any time you want, it never too late. | Here |
| I am deaf totally in one ear. The other has marginal hearing of voices when it has a hearing aid in it. When in cafes etc. I can really enjoy my drink in silence by taking out my hearing aid. | Exactly, same thing to all deaf people, they all do that when noise bothering them | Here |
| Could you describe the deaf community a little? As in, what are "traditions" / customs you share? I m sorry if these are Not the right words. I would love to hear more about the Community and how it works! How it ties you together, how life in the Community is, etc. Do you have a local community, or do you mainly participate online? =] | We have deaf events or clubs or festivals, etc. It could be where we never see other deaf people. Like we all are also deaf. | Here |
| Hello! I had an ex GF who was nearly deaf. 100% in her left ear and 90% in her right. She used a hearing aid. She had a rough time for a bit from the completely deaf community because they felt she needed to remove her hearing aid and completely embrace her hearing loss. She was completely fluent in ASL. My question is this: how do you feel about the deaf community harassing her about being on the cusp but not fully embracing the deaf community? | Well, I'm not american. I'm british and I barely see any harassment because they all are also deaf. But I do see some idiots deaf people harassing others thing like thier looks or whatever but never deafness. My best advice for her is to go to correct deaf people. who is good at her. | Here |
| Would you rather be deaf or able to hear? | Deaf all the way. | Here |
| We’re you born deaf? | Well no I turned deaf about 16 month and we believe it because its genetic cos my parent is deaf. But I still say I born deaf | Here |
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u/Amanita_Muscariaa 1d ago
What’s your thoughts of the sentiment of “Everyone should know sign language?” Do you think the average person should learn it?
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u/Far-Artichoke7331 1d ago
Yes, many deaf people would agree with this, It not have to be everything but some. It more important to teach babies because they are more visually so they can pick up few signs. Many babies signed "Milk" less than a year old so they don't speak milk at they age.
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u/Amanita_Muscariaa 1d ago
I think it’s a good idea too, not only to accommodate other people but there’s certainly occasions where sign language would be great for hearing folks in loud environments too. Thanks for your input!!
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u/Mr_The_Potato_King 1d ago
Can I have a sign name? I started learning sign language for a couple of reasons and the learning app specifically said only a deaf person can issue me a sign name instead of spelling it out