You ever talk to someone that you've had to ask them over and over and over what and play a big guessing game because you can't read their lips? Because they just suck at forming words?
I was at the gym, doing chin ups and dips, so for one thing she's interupting my workout to ask me a question, which is a little annoying. But she smiled the whole time and she talked through her teeth, like her teeth stayed closed the whole time, how do you talk like that? I soooo badly wanted to tell her what she was doing, but I didn't want to make her embarrassed or self conscious, so the guessing game. She kept saying something and then point to some stuff on this counter, a water bottle, a towel and her phone. So obviously she's saying something about one of the items over there. After much much much guessing, I finally figured out that she was asking if the music coming out of her smart phone was bothering me.
WHAT??!! Woman!! I can't even hear you talking to me!!! at what point through doing all of this do you think that she might have figured out....hey this girl can't hear me, I bet she can't hear my music maybe I can stop asking her about it
Oh lord. She was an odd one though, then she interupted me again why to know "how you doing that?" (the chin ups and dips) well darling.....because I'm strong, and I'm little, that helps. Do you need a physics lesson too? you weigh probably 150, I weigh 103-5..... I'm lighter.....not as much weight to be trying to pull up.......made me wish I just didn't wear my aids, then I could have just signed that I was deaf, she wouldn't know what it meant but she'd recognize that it was sign language and go away and leave me to my workout.
still hard though cuz I have to take eyes off the road to do it.
My son will turn on his cell so the screen lights up and holds in front if his mouth do I can see his lips
No shit! That would be hard while driving. "Hey, can't you see that I am driving?" Doesn't your son sign?My son will turn on his cell so the screen lights up and holds in front if his mouth do I can see his lips
She can see him signing if he signs below the rearview mirror with arms reaching out. That's what many deaf people do. That way the driver can still keep the eyes on the road. Of course it depends on a traffic. As for lipreading, the driver would have to turn the head all the way to the passenger's side which is unsafe.
my kids try to talk to me while driving but until we get to a light and I can give them my full attention I have no idea what they're sayingSure. Most if the time it makes things worse, I don't get speech out my left one just noise. BUT that wouldn't help me whe driving anyway because a) my good ear is the one facing the passengers and b) even my good ear I can't understand anything unless I can see their mouth moving.
No, but I don't really either. I can finger spell and I know done signs but nit enough for a conversation. But we pretty much keep thus to traffic lights
) for SMS text messages. Being deaf, I don't use it for voice calls, so my voicemail states very clearly "Please do NOT leave a message as I'm deaf and cannot hear it. Instead, send a text to this number." 
I didn't even set up voicemail on mine
