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Fine lines. Here we are dealing with an extreme case. Not all cases are. However once written the law tends to disregard the difference between an extreme case and a mild case. In the past it was not considered a crime to lie to the police. It was pretty much taken for granted everyone did. If...

I was almost 30 when I married. We were married almost 30 years. When she died it was six months before I could talk to people. It was a year before I smiled. It was five years before I tried to start a normal life again. It was two more years before people said I was my normal happy self...

Because the concept of precedence governs U. S. law "slippery slope" reasoning should be considered a standard rather than a fallacy. So in the future someone calls the police saying they saw a man in the backyard. Turns out it may have been a shadow from across the street -- But the person...

The same reason Deaf people could once be thrown out of a restaurant in the U.S. for signing, "Because it was distracting to the other customers."

My daughter loved BecLak's S T E P acronym so much she used it in her class where she teaches ASL.

I saw this video last night. Thought about it. Think about the complex communication that must have taken place between Papa Buff, Mamma Buff, and the herd? "Help. The lions have our baby." "Where? Lets go get him." They did not use speech, as humans know it. They could not use signs...

I would like to discuss, without arguing or derailing the thread. Can we redefine some terms here. Effective thinking is like a rifle. It has a specific problem as a target and the attempt is to find the bullet that will solve the problem. One problem with this approach, socially, is...

A good thinker posits questions that will produce a profitable journey of thought and a destination worth contimplating. Always keeping in mind that the journey to an answer may be more profitable than reaching the destination. I am a thinking person. I know very little and question...

I think Jiro and I think alike in one area. Everything can be defined in terms of cost versus reward, or potential reward. In other words everything has an economics and it does not have to be money. It can be as abstract as isolation versus a feeling of belonging. It can be different for...

Looks to me like it is headed that way. Our whole "professional" concept is skewed. For example if you become an interpreter you are not supposed to associate with any Deaf socially and you are not supposed to accept as clients any Deaf you socialize with. In most communities this...

Right! And what is, or would be, healthy? Knowing teachers, police, the store keeper, the librarian, outside of work -- As human beings who carry on lives with spouses and families just like mommy and daddy -- And knowing mommy and daddy outside the home in their work place. Over...

The Jillio Fan Club.

Sounds simple to me. Hire teachers who hate students and all children. Then we shall surely have much improved schooling and no inappropriate contact.

Forgot about lucid dreams -- I love them!

I think most people are damaged and broken. Most of them refuse to realize it and try to pass it on by taking it out on someone they think is more broken than they are. Never let ANYONE, parent, friend, lover, stranger, co-worker, or boss, make their problems your problems.

Neither deaf nor a parent of deaf But The fact the attitude the OP is talking about is still in full force is an incident I have related before. We were signing in a large store when the parents of a two year old girl came up and asked us to "stop doing that" because their daughter was...

I had trouble with dreams when I was a kid. People back then had a LOT of stupid ideas about dreams. Like you can't dream in color. If you remember colors in your dreams then you added the color after you were awake -- But all dreams are really in black and white. Like you couldn't...

I guess you don't need to know any ASL. A girl asked me how she could communicate with a Deaf girl she met. (Okay to me everybody under 30 is a kid). I told her to start by looking at her and smiling. Say, "Hi". If you know her name say it. I figure the first thing any Deaf person learns to...

Me too?

Now I've done it, and I'm sure this thread and thinking about it is at fault. Texting. Sending and receiving texts. The whole dream.