Yoooooooooooo!!! I'm back again after a while! XD I don't know what I wanna write about... so I let myself flowing in a time stream until I read this recent post: How to Make New Friend with Deaf Person in Selina's Wing.Thus something "flashy" popped out in my mind. I should mention how the hearing people reacted when the deaf person is trying to communicate with the hearing person or the deaf person is chatting with the deaf person.
After my schoolhood which I was kept "ALIVE" at home and for tuition for 14 years, I had made some discoveries on how the hearing people reacted towards the deaf culture. I found out that some of the incident I encountered turned into a funny eventful ones. XD Oh yes, I didn't know how to communicate with the hearing people at the first time. It's because I never see how my friends communicate with the hearing people. At that moment, I had have myself to figure out a way on how to communicate with the hearing people.
I was enjoying the first time although I feel weird in the way I communicated with the hearing people. Well, until now on, I noticed that there are some kind of situations which showed how the hearing person encounters the deaf person.
I know that there are still a plenty of the hearing people are not getting used to the deaf culture. I have seen how the different people reacted when communicating with the deaf person and me. Some are interested in learning sign languages. Some are interested in how they going on with their life. Some are hardly to understand what we are trying to convert our talking by using sign language. To communicate with the deaf person, you need a lot of patience, tolerance, understanding and time indeed. Soon or later, you will be adapted with their lifestyle. I'm sure you will enjoy it so much. ^_^v
After my schoolhood which I was kept "ALIVE" at home and for tuition for 14 years, I had made some discoveries on how the hearing people reacted towards the deaf culture. I found out that some of the incident I encountered turned into a funny eventful ones. XD Oh yes, I didn't know how to communicate with the hearing people at the first time. It's because I never see how my friends communicate with the hearing people. At that moment, I had have myself to figure out a way on how to communicate with the hearing people.
I was enjoying the first time although I feel weird in the way I communicated with the hearing people. Well, until now on, I noticed that there are some kind of situations which showed how the hearing person encounters the deaf person.
SITUATION 1:
When the deaf person is ordering for a meal, it depends on how old the cashier/waiter is.. Young hearing people could understand faster but sometimes confused. Older hearing people are much slower in understanding. For example, if there are no menu on the counter desk or table, the deaf person have to give out some hand gesture (yet it's non-official sign language) to tell the cashier what they want to order. it often happens when I go to KFC or McDonald restaurant. Sometimes they give wrong meal to me..... -___-
SITUATION 2:
When the deaf person is in a lounge or a cafe or a public space, the hearing people would be curious. Haha, does it sound weird to you? But that is how they talked. In my college time, there was no enough space which caused my deaf friend and me have to sit between a hearing friend. We chatted and suddenly my hearing friend laughed. We become puzzled and he told us he never seen the sign language before. We also laughed because we knew the sign language is something that people don't see so easily in public.
I know that there are still a plenty of the hearing people are not getting used to the deaf culture. I have seen how the different people reacted when communicating with the deaf person and me. Some are interested in learning sign languages. Some are interested in how they going on with their life. Some are hardly to understand what we are trying to convert our talking by using sign language. To communicate with the deaf person, you need a lot of patience, tolerance, understanding and time indeed. Soon or later, you will be adapted with their lifestyle. I'm sure you will enjoy it so much. ^_^v
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