Do you find your speaking very difficult?

Hah, same thing for me! Except, people usually think I'm from Spain or Austria. Since I'm originally from California but now living in Midwest, when I tell people I'm from California, they just figure my "accent" is Californian. In California, if people ask about my speech, they just ask if I have a lisp or something. I like being in a different part of the country, because I'd rather think of it as an "accent" than a lisp anyway.


ecp said:
I have a bit of an "accent" but most people think/assume that I'm just not from the Southern US. I was born and raised in the south but I have absolutely no southern accent. I thank speech therapy for that.

I work at a major research hospital where there are workers from all over the world. When people meet me they usually spend a few minutes trying to guess where I'm from. Their guesses are (in order of frequency)- Ireland, Canada, and "not from here".

The funny thing is that my grandparents were Irish and most people assume that I'm from Ireland because of the way I talk.
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Hearing people who laugh at a deaf persons' speech is absolutely cruel. They ought to understand and be grateful for the speech attempt to get something across.


Alex , are you from socal or nocal?
 
Absolutely! That goes without saying, but unfortunately it still happens from time to time. I'd say mostly among children though. I have not had my speech mocked since high school.

Spent my entire life in Nor Cal. I've never been below Santa Barbara. No plans to, either. Too many crazies! :D

Oceanblue7 said:
Hearing people who laugh at a deaf persons' speech is absolutely cruel. They ought to understand and be grateful for the speech attempt to get something across.


Alex , are you from socal or nocal?
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TheWriteAlex said:
Absolutely! That goes without saying, but unfortunately it still happens from time to time. I'd say mostly among children though. I have not had my speech mocked since high school.

Spent my entire life in Nor Cal. I've never been below Santa Barbara. No plans to, either. Too many crazies! :D
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People are just mean period


That breaks my heart, you must think I am one of the those crazies (socal here) :P
 
You probably are! :D

Just teasin! Actually, I'd like to go down south at least once or twice. No extended stays though... I'm a country boy at heart, and I could never handle the impacted city life of So Cal.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
You probably are! :D

Just teasin! Actually, I'd like to go down south at least once or twice. No extended stays though... I'm a country boy at heart, and I could never handle the impacted city life of So Cal.
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:aw: :giggle: I know what you mean, likewise, a country girl at heart ;) Its been now, 5 years since, I've been in the south and I miss it!
 
what i dont get is...[SOME] hearing people force us to take speech classes and then they laugh at our voice. or they exclaim at the fact that i as a 9 year old, could pronounce the word 'ketchup' rather than celebrating that i could fully sign a grade 7 level novel in ASL when i was only 9 years old?

don't they get that we dont have perfect hearing therefore, we won't ever have a perfect voice? forcing us to use our voice makes us sound stupid and below our actual intelligence level.
 
I haven't had that big of a problem with my speech since elementary school, thanks to speech therapy... but people still do laugh at me when I mispronounce words, mostly my coworkers... I so gotta find a better job lol.

But I have only had one person in my entire life outright say I was hard-of-hearing with only talking to me for 5 minutes, of course she was also part of the disability department at my college lol
 
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