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this is my second year of learning asl. i really love it and i wanted to know some things about deaf people. ok so heres a question for you. When you meet a hearing person and they cant sign vary good, or if they dont understand you and keep asking slow down or agian. do u get really annoyed?? second question how do deaf people think? do they think in signs? or see pics??

well thanks :cool:
 
if a hearing person doesn't understand what deaf people say, they either try writing it down via paper and pen or sidekicks. Or using gestures that are not really ASL, but show what the deaf person means.

And I don't know about all deaf people, but personally I just think of what I want to say and convey it via signing. That's just me.
 
If I am at a deaf social and there are hearing people there who are just learning to sign, sure I will chat with them and have the patience for it. After all, isnt it a social a time to meet people? :)

However, if I am out with my friends, especially at a restaurant, and hearing people who approach me wanting to chat with me and my friends for the sole purpose of improving their signing skills, I do not like it. This is my time with my friends or family and I do not want to use the time, espeically if it is friends or family that I havent seen in a while, to meet strangers or to teach anyone sign language.

As for thinking in pictures...since I was raised orally and English is my first language, I think in English. From time to time, I think in ASL but that is very rare.
 
shel90 said:
If I am at a deaf social and there are hearing people there who are just learning to sign, sure I will chat with them and have the patience for it. After all, isnt it a social a time to meet people? :)

However, if I am out with my friends, especially at a restaurant, and hearing people who approach me wanting to chat with me and my friends for the sole purpose of improving their signing skills, I do not like it. This is my time with my friends or family and I do not want to use the time, espeically if it is friends or family that I havent seen in a while, to meet strangers or to teach anyone sign language.
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I agree with ^

As in thinking...it depends. Sometimes I think the signs in English and other time in ASL. Well, the best example would be, think it like TV with CC on for me. Both picture and word for me. Not so much on signing, but a lot of pictures and words. So in a sense I am getting a little of both from both worlds.

Again, it depends... I am in college right now, so I have to do a lot of reading so I am thinking in English and use words a lot rather than signing even though I communicate through signing.
 
blonde2 said:
this is my second year of learning asl. i really love it and i wanted to know some things about deaf people. ok so heres a question for you. When you meet a hearing person and they cant sign vary good, or if they dont understand you and keep asking slow down or agian. do u get really annoyed?? second question how do deaf people think? do they think in signs? or see pics??

well thanks :cool:
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Hah! I have no problem with hearing people even though Im Hard-Of-Hearing,...maybe I do, bcuz sometimes if I say something they go "Huh?", or totally not understand a word I say, often I speak so fast or don't pronunciate my words 100% acuurately enough for them to understand. this happens with my family too . Sometimes you feel like SCREAMING. so yuh, I do get very ANNOYED and it takes alot of patience. As a HOH, (i suppose no such thing as a stupid question) I think like any other person, in plain English most the time. I have friends who are deaf, I think they think in plain English too. Hope I answered your questions.
 
Although I am not Deaf, I would like to comment on how it feels on the hearing side of this. I actually find it a lot easier to learn ASL through interaction, so if there were a social club for the Deaf in town, I would be there. I actually had a CODA that I befriended at Harvest Baptist Church for the Deaf comment that I was becoming more fluent since we first met at the NCAAD (National Christian Athletic Association of the Deaf, If I am wrong, please correct) Volleyball Tournament last semester. Blonde, I say, based on my personal experience, that if there are no required Deaf events in your class, you clock them in as much as possible anyways. If my friend is right, then immersion might be one of the best ways to learn.
 
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