Not sure where it said I didn't want to make an effor to learn to sign, I WANT to go on a sign course, however one which focuses on social interaction skills not on how to give and receive directions. It's not stuff I want to learn For free I'd learn it, for thousands of pounds I'm not interested. I signed up for the Deaf socials and I got offered fun running and rock climbing, so clearly I made an effort to sign up for those things, that's how I got them sent to me. If you think that all these non-sport social situations are all out there, please point me to them, I
AM LOOKING!!! What I have not successfully managed is
FINDING. Please, if you can point me towards an online provider that has a "sign a day" course (rather than "sign a month" as that's slightly slow progress!!! It's all I've found) or a BSL learners' club I can contact on Skype, a local event to Scotland, UK (that doesn't involve sports), anyone looking for a "sign buddy" that is BSL not ASL please do.
NHS provides powerchairs for people who need them? Spoken by a person who has truly never been through the assessment process!!
Thing is, if you can push a manual chair a single push, and I mean literally ONE, you can move 2 feet and then you have to stop for the day, then you do not qualify.
I didn't want to do an introduction all about my disabilities because I don't feel it defines my life. I just brought it up as a small irritation to do with all the Deaf clubs seeming for one reason or another to focus on sports activities, but an introduction which went on about being a wheelchair user is just making like my life is defined by that, and it definitely isn't. I am in my 30s, I am a mum, I am a wife, I am a student, I am a teacher, I am a driver, I have hobbies, I have interests, I have commitments and I have irritations in my life,
that is 'about me'.
Anyone who thought I was attacking grammar, seriously, that is entirely in your own thought process, possibly your own hang-up? I don't know. It never even began to occur to me. I apologise if that was what you took from what I said, but seriously I never said a single word or had a single thought about grammar. The only reason I said "in case English is not your first language" is sometimes if you look stuff up in a dictionary you get non-PC translations, like often you get "handicapped" from dictionaries. I know that term is much more acceptable in the US than in the UK so manufacturers of dictionaries perhaps don't make the distinction in terms of "English", and the poor person with English as an additional language strides into an interview and says they "work with handicapped children" and gets torn to shreds.