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I'm not sure if I'm adjusting or rebelling. I keep losing my hearing so I can no longer play my musical instruments of choice since I can't tell if I'm playing them in tune. I can't hear conversations when more than one other person is involved, and my family seems to have given up signing...

Honestly, I'm still having a tough time deciding. I've asked everybody and their dog for help, but the best I can get out of them is, "You can do anything you want. It doesn't matter that you're deaf!" I donno what I want to do. I do know that I don't wanna fight for it. I've been fighting...

And getting your doctor to provide documentation that your school's disabilities department will understand, which in my case means getting an audiologist appointment that coincides with my hearing schedule, which is unfortunately severely unpredictably random. Don't worry, Bott, I'm really...

I can only imagine. Sometimes my vision gets a little screwy, and I think, "Crap, I don't wanna be blind too!" My chances of permanently losing my vision any time soon are very low, about as good as the next guy. I just wouldn't know what to do with my life without it :)

Weird, I've always used my middle finger (of (palm in) 5 hand) for thirsty, but I looked it up, and you're right. Is mine a local variation or a common variation? I think if I wanted to say sexual desire, I'd put a loose palm-forward x by my eye and slide the pointing finger down my face...

Okay, good, it's not the one we use here :)

Yeah, sorry about that, hope I wasn't too out of hand. :Oops:

To me, rude demands don't deserve my consideration. That's why I didn't automatically assume you were considering rude demands. With this new information, my little sample conversation was completely irrelevant. Just disregard it or take it as humour.

Don't worry about it. It was a misunderstanding. I don't need any fingers pointed.

I hadn't read your most recent post yet when I wrote this, so this is obsolete. The fact that you weren't considering polite requests was unstated, and therefore I missed it. I have no further concerns with impolite demands.

Did you answer the bold part of the question? Nowhere does it say "if it's requested in a rude tone" or "if the citation is excessively complex" or any of that. Did you answer that part of the question without those "hidden" conditions?

1. This forum has so many posts on it that you cannot possibly expect any one person to have read them all. 2. I was not comparing anything to information that would be difficult to replicate. 3. I was comparing a social interaction to another social interaction. (Note: both instances of...

It seems restating may be the only way to get a straight answer, but the odds of getting nothing but emotionally charged language makes it a waste of my time.

Okay, where's the fallacy?

I got tired of restating questions.

Jimmy: Hello! Lily: Hi, nice to meet you! Jimmy: My pleasure! My name is Jimmy. What's yours? Lily: Somebody asked me that before, so if you weren't there, you were obviously not interested, so really there's no point in telling you. Jimmy: :shock: Lily: :cool2:

Oh-oh! I only know one sign for "ready" so I have to ask, which sign is it? I need to make sure it isn't the sign my family uses :shock:

I think I understand all the main positions here now. I think most of us agree with the concept. We just don't seem to agree on how to describe the concept.

I thought it was a pretty civil discussion :shock: Okay, I'm asleep! Really! :zzz:

Well, this camper is rolling out his big fluffy sleeping bag and calling it a night. I'll catch up later if there's anything more.