Hi Pete
"If a person wants an interpreter because he or she is going "voice off" that day just for the matter of principle, he or she should start looking for a job and get off disability because they are doing this just to catch the court system of "violating" his rights to an interpreter". Ouch!
As well as being deaf, I am also a w/chair user.
An elderly gentleman approached me some years back, he said "People like you play on their disability" whilst I was trying to get out of my car. My reply was " Yes some people do, I am not like you who has parked in a Disabled Parking Bay, abusing the system, not having a Blue Badge (Disabled Parking Pass) who has no mobility problems.
He got found out, and find £60.00, I never saw him again after that....
Had lots of people approach me and say your not deaf why are you signing, so I take my hearing aids off and hand them to them, then they appologise...
If I feel I need to use an Interpreter anytime such as for meetings/training courses then I do so.
