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:werd: "Oh, you raped little girls, but I love you anyway." :wtf:

I got invited to that very meeting by two friends of mine. I didn't go though. They target the blind too. They have all their Bible materials and pamphlets in braille. I made the mistake of letting them come in a few times cause I wanted a chance to practice ASL, but then they kept inviting me...

Sounds like a great solution for all three of you. :)

A lot of these are just replacement of old technologies with new technologies, but not a loss of the activity itself. People still use cameras, watch TV, follow the news, write letters, just with digital technology instead. Doesn't really sadden me. Trees, crabs, and bees going extinct is sad...

Not deaf or hearing here, hard of hearing, but care a little, just cause I appreciate people trying to become aware of Deaf culture, but seems like most ASL students see sign language as a fun game and not a real language.

The way I see it, animals are made of the same "stuff" as we are, but are still closer to nature/less corrupt than we are. So I guess, if we have souls, they have souls, though I'm not decided on whether we have souls yet. :P

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Oh, got it. :ty: Before I was just thinking along the lines of signs used in public places (like the wheelchair symbol and the white cane symbol) to denote accessibility. Hard to think of a Deaf symbol that won't piss off some sub-group of Deaf people (either signers, or oral, or...

I liked this movie too. Though I don't know exactly how accurate everything in it was, it did have a good overall message. :)

:laugh2::laugh2: Epic!

Someone already posted about this.

Isn't the universal symbol for deafness an iconic ear with a bar through it?

There's a monthly bowling event here that serves as the monthly Deaf/HH meet up. And there's a cafe that all the Deaf people flock to cause the owner knows sign language. :)

What is the topic? Still trying to figure that one out. :whistle:

Don't know where you got that from. Most people you ask if they'd rather be deaf or blind will say deaf. The average person thinks blindness is worse. :whistle:

My grandfather is HOH but doesn't like to admit it or talk about it.

There's a safe way of going about it, like having company that's either sighted or used to being blind.

Another option is if the deaf person is non-oral, they can type to the blind person on their computer which has text-to-speech (or magnification). If the blind person knows the print alphabet, with a little practile, the deaf person can print block letters on their palm.

I have a friend that did this and he's actually much more sympathetic in situations that confuse me because of it. He did it for a whole week, too, not just a day.