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heh...I can't remember if I posted here before either and am too damn lazy to go filtring through all the posts. I was in the closet for a while, then came out - at first little by little, then just living pretty openly though wearing badges and all isn't my thing. I swore I'd never live in the...

Everyone's parents are different when it comes to bi/homosexuality; some come around, some don't, some can deal with it only when it's never actually talked about. About the only thing that will tell is time. if your mom came from a really strict religious or traditional background, be patient...

Just like when you're speaking with a person with a very limited understanding of English, of course it can be frustrating. But if you really want to talk with that person, you deal with it. Having been on the learning end of both spoken language and now sign, I also have to add my gratitude to...

Do all you can to separate your thinking from English and instead learn how things are expressed in ASL. I'm learning Turkish sign but unfortunately what we're being taught is more like "Signed Pidgin Turkish." (There is no Signed Exact Turkish and I'd shudder to think of trying to sign that...

I thought about a time in college when some black people I met in the cafeteria and often had lunch with invited me to a party at a skating rink. I got there, I was the only white person there. It was the first time I had ever felt like such a minority. At one point I talked to one of my friends...

Here are a couple done by a friend who is an interpreter of Greek Sign Language, along with his partner. It's pure GSL; I think they did a nice job. They've not gotten any negative comments at all. YouTube - akatallili skini GSL YouTube - Eimai kala GSL YouTube - Ela GSL

Contributing to bad morals in songbirds. Me?

Yeah, when they would bring her out when she was about one and a half or two years old. Who'da thunk that 40 years later she'd be turning into a guy! Now it's hard not to wonder if she rebelled at wearing those cute little dresses, or burned her Barbie dolls and cried for a GI Joe!

BTW my teacher and some colleagues have been working for a long time on a TSL web site that should be up in a few weeks. I might be adding English to it as well. I'll post it when it comes up.

Thanks for the encouragement. The teacher has no problem with me jumping ahead outside of class, and he's trying new things as well. Our talk was not an "accusing" sort of thing; I tried to make him aware of other appraoches. He's taken the ball and run with it, and told me the other day that...

Beşiktaş İşitme Engelliler Derneği, tanışalım tabii! Do you have facebook? You can connect to the Türk İşaret Dili ve Tercümanları Eğitimcileri page, it's free for anyone to go into. I go every Thursday and Friday, işitme engellilerle konuşma pratiği için başka günler de gidip takılıyorum. But...

God...even the question seems crazy. "Wrong?" Deaf simply is, like any reality, life is what we make it. There are people who have what would be considered a "severe disability" and yet live much fuller lives, and love life, more than people who are the norm. "Nothing is good or bad, but...

Well, I have a *lot* to learn before that, but it crossed my mind. What I'd really like to do is learn Turkish sign well, then perhaps collaborate on a good book on the subject. Right now it just doesn't exist; there are a couple collections of signs but very little about grammar, sentence...

Thanks, I already know how to sing after all. ;)

No, he doesn't have to stick to any particular course, he wrote the course book! Anyway, we did talk today; I forgot to mention that we have become friends so the channels are fairly open. Yes of course we have to learn some basics, but when we learn the basics, it's much easier to assimilate...

I mean Learning Sign of course...but can't change the header now. :p Are there any ASL teachers here? I need a bit of advice. After waiting for months for an opening, I finally got a place in a Turkish Sign Language class (I live in Istanbul). The teacher is a native speaker of TSL, a...

I first came out to my mom at 19. I suppose I should have known she would not have a big problem with it because my mom and dad were both professional musicians, but it was still scary as hell. She said "Well, it had crossed my mind." I hadn't dated in high school, this was Iowa in the 1970s...

Well...I guess we know what part of the country the smartest people live in! :) Yay New England!

Wow two more from Istanbul in one day! Hoşgeldin sen de!

Alldeaf'e Hoşgeldin Sercan. :) I'm in Istanbul too, I'm hearing but learning TID at the Beşiktaş Derneği.