Awsome and positive hearing people stories

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Please share your stories about positive attitudes that hearing people have with regards to people that are HOH or Deaf.
 
Ok let me be your first. Hi, I bet it would be wonderful to get to know you.
 
xc700 said:
Ok let me be your first. Hi, I bet it would be wonderful to get to know you.
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Where are you from in Michigan? I grew up in the southwestern corner, also have relatives up in the Keewanau.

Happy stories about the hearing: I count my blessings to have my wonderful husband. He makes whatever phone calls need doing; he will repeat comments as necessary if I didn't understand something; he will double-check if he thinks I might have missed something important and didn't realize it.

I depend on him a lot, and love how he has learned, along with me, how to deal with this.
 
green427 said:
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I am sure there are plenty of positive stories, but when there are negative, we all come here to vent.
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Well, you are probably right. But then again...Is being nice and friendly something positive or something one should expect?
Honestly, what counts as a awesome and positive hearing people story?

Well here is one: Once I and some friends wanted to buy tickets for a trip. As soon as the woman noticed we are all Deaf, she handed us a paper and a pen.
(You know, I really can't say that it was awesome. It was nice, but that's about it. )

Okay, I'm sooo not got at this, I think I'll stop at this point. It is not that there are no friendly hearing folks out there. There are just not that many.
 
Hey Beach Girl. I live about twenty minutes west of Michigan School for the Deaf.
Where in S.E MI are you from? I'd like to make it to the Kee sometime.
 
Latascha said:
Well, you are probably right. But then again...Is being nice and friendly something positive or something one should expect?
Honestly, what counts as a awesome and positive hearing people story?

Well here is one: Once I and some friends wanted to buy tickets for a trip. As soon as the woman noticed we are all Deaf, she handed us a paper and a pen.
(You know, I really can't say that it was awesome. It was nice, but that's about it. )
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I'm hearing, and I agree, being polite and respectful should not be that remarkable. It's something we all should be able to expect from others.

I also get the need for venting. And honestly, it's just human nature that venting stories are more interesting than nice ones.

I realize it's not the same thing at all because this story is about an activity you choose, not one one that just happens to you, but I used to be on a breastfeeding forum, and we had a regular thread where people vented about obnoxious people, especially people who were rude about mothers breastfeeding in public.

It wasn't necessarily that this happened all the time, it was just more memorable. And who wants to write out, "I went to the store today, fed my baby on a bench by the door. Nothing happened, nobody was rude. Came home."

How boring, right? And if everybody treats you decently, you have no build up of steam that you need to vent.
 
xc700 said:
Please share your stories about positive attitudes that hearing people have with regards to people that are HOH or Deaf.
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Can you give an example ?

I don't consider things like being treated with respect, or not being discriminated against etc as anything other than what should be the norm.

I'd be really interested what you'd think any example would be.
 
Some jobs are open-minded to Deaf people.

Some people are willed to recognize sign languages as an actual language.

Some colleges in USA accepted ASL as a real language unlike other colleges.

Some people are actually speak up against rude ones when they teased Deaf people.

Some people don't mind Deaf people sign to each other at public unlike another closed-minded ones who do mind.

I can't think of more... :)
 
xc700 said:
Interpreters. Do they all have bad attitudes?
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I've dealt with interpreters for the last 26 years....my estimate is that 25% of them have an attitude. I had the balls to ask some of them why they had an attitude, and their answer was.....of course....deaf people with bad attitudes make them miserable.
 
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xc700 said:
Interpreters. Do they all have bad attitudes?
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No, I haven't really had any issues with the 'terps I've worked with.

Keep in mind though that they work for us, and are required to adhere to fairly specific codes of conduct.

(Was that meant to be an suggested example?)

(BTW did you do an intro post about yourself? Are you hearing, hoh, deaf/Deaf ? Fluent in ASL/BSL etc ?)
 
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KarissaMann05 said:
Some jobs are open-minded to Deaf people.

Some people are willed to recognize sign languages as an actual language.

Some colleges in USA accepted ASL as a real language unlike other colleges.

Some people are actually speak up against rude ones when they teased Deaf people.

Some people don't mind Deaf people sign to each other at public unlike another closed-minded ones who do mind.

I can't think of more... :)
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Right - but those are really examples of "being a good human-being", or "not being ignorant".

I'm honestly trying to figure out what the OP wants as examples that aren't in fact just examples of people "not discriminating" , you know what I mean ?
 
KarissaMann05 said:
Some people are willed to recognize sign languages as an actual language.

Some colleges in USA accepted ASL as a real language unlike other colleges.
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You know, that reminds me of something that happened, oh, either 1981 or 82.

The first sign language class I took was SEE, because that's all that was offered where I lived at the time, and I didn't know any different. Then I moved to Portland to go to school and learned more and wanted to take an ASL class.

I could not take it on my college campus- it was a small Christian school and they had a limited course selection. They worked with the state schools, however, and I could take classes at the state school for credit.

However, at first they told me I could not get credit for ASL because I already had a sign language class which they had accepted and given me credit for.

I did a bit of research, wrote a two page paper explaining that ASL was its own language, so saying I couldn't get credit for an ASL class because I already had a SEE class was kind of like saying I couldn't get credit for Spanisih because I already had French- sure, some words were the same, but they weren't the same language.

My Dean met with me for about five minutes, thanked me for the information and let me take the ASL class for foreign language credit, as well as letting me keep the credits they'd already counted for SEE.

The whole thing took about a week, maybe two. That was very nice of him to resolve the issue so quickly and so personally, but it was a small Christian school, and personal service was one of their selling points.

So, yes, I appreciate him doing that for me, and taking care of it quickly, and being openminded enough as a college Dean to learn something even from a freshman girl who didn't know that much herself.

But it shouldn't be that amazing that an adult educator was open to learning something new and changing his mind.
 
I do have one more, but maybe it's not my place, as a hearing person, to say whether this is remarkable or not.

My preacher at church, I think, is going a bit above and beyond. Because we don't have an interpreter, the preacher makes a special outline ahead of time, a much longer, extended outline with most of the sermon and all the Bible verses written out so we don't lose track of the sermon hunting up verses. He does this just for J, the deaf lady, and emails both of us the outline on Saturday so both of us can look it over ahead of time, and she can follow along during the sermon. He also has started putting more of his stuff on the power point, which is hard for him because he's old school and would rather not use it at all.

He also comes up as soon as J gets to church to ask if she got the outline in time and was able to print it, and if she didn't for some reason, he prints another copy for her.

I don't think the power point is such a big deal, that's just what he ought to do. But going out of his way to write an extended outline each week just for her does seem like more than just the minimum anybody should be able to expect.
 
Grayma said:
I do have one more, but maybe it's not my place, as a hearing person, to say whether this is remarkable or not.

My preacher at church, I think, is going a bit above and beyond. Because we don't have an interpreter, the preacher makes a special outline ahead of time, a much longer, extended outline with most of the sermon and all the Bible verses written out so we don't lose track of the sermon hunting up verses. He does this just for J, the deaf lady, and emails both of us the outline on Saturday so both of us can look it over ahead of time, and she can follow along during the sermon. He also has started putting more of his stuff on the power point, which is hard for him because he's old school and would rather not use it at all.

He also comes up as soon as J gets to church to ask if she got the outline in time and was able to print it, and if she didn't for some reason, he prints another copy for her.

I don't think the power point is such a big deal, that's just what he ought to do. But going out of his way to write an extended outline each week just for her does seem like more than just the minimum anybody should be able to expect.
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I always had print out available of my sermons/homilies for anyone who wanted them to read along - it may not be exactly word for word what I actually said, but it was about 90% the same. It's actually one of the main reasons that I took the time to write out a complete homily versus expounding on multiple point form notes.


I also used to make sure that we had large print text versions of everything for those who are low-vision, including copies for the lectionary readings (bible readings) for that week. We also all wore mics so that it was easier for people to hear, and for special events would ask if anyone wanted an ASL/English interpreter for the service (even if the usual congregations didn't including anyone who used ASL - it was offered in case there was family/friends they'd be inviting who'd benefit from it)

For those who were home-bound, I'd send out an email each Saturday afternoon which the readings, prayers, and anything else that would be used as a part of the order of service, as well as any announcements etc.
This allowed those who couldn't physically make it to the church participate to some degree by being able to read through the service themselves.


I never thought of this as being unusual - I considered it my job to make sure anything I was involved with as inclusive as possible for everyone including hoh/d/Deaf, low-vision/blind, those with mobility issues etc.
 
Sorry for the deferred response I've been a bit busy studying for my ASL final exams.

I'm a individual with hearing and am currently going to school to become an interpreter.

General respect is kind of a parallel to general disrespect. Hearing people are rude to hearing people in gargantuan amounts every day. I'm trying to learn and become part of the Deaf culture and asked the original question with honesty and was looking for some examples of what many thought were counters to the examples of rudeness.

I see what many are saying though. I guess there's really not much to comment on if people are acting as they should.


I am a peace maker but I really dislike bullies. It actually turns me into an instant bully to the person being immature and rude. Pretty much like I would react in any other situation, if I saw someone acting immature and rude to a Deaf person or any person for that matter, I'd probably shut them down and make an example out of them so others heard what was going on. I have a way with this.

I see instances of stupidity every day that blows me away. It's equal opportunity.
 
I go to Michigan quite often to visit my girlfriend. There is a deaf get together in Grandville, MI every Tuesday at a mall.

That is where I met my girlfriend's ASL teacher with whom I had a good conversation with. She said that I would go to ASL class with my girlfriend if I want to.
 
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