1monkeymissing
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I had that last week! I was asked if deaf people can drive, and she knows I drive! I don't know if I found it rude or not, kinda did but kinda didn't. Just confusing.
I cover my mouth when I yawn and for obvious reasons when I cough and sneeze. Did your boyfriends laugh and talk at the same time?
Does laughing make it harder to lipread someone? Cuz... I laugh a lot, and I'm wondering if that could be problematic if someone tried to lipread me.
Do you laugh and talk at the same time?
Do you laugh and talk at the same time?
yea I do that all the time
Keep in mind that most hearing people, when they learn you are deaf, apologize and walk away.
believe me, we'd rather you'd stay, and make an effort to meet us halfway, by writing things down if you don't know sign or we're having trouble lipreading you.
like howag said, deaf people are forthright and blunt, so don't worry, just talk, er, write to her forget all the PC crap.
Do you laugh and talk at the same time?
As of now, nothing has made me laugh, but the husband informed me that I DO laugh while talking. That would make it hard for you to lipread, right?
Yep. Also a lot of people that laugh and talk at the same time habitually put their hand over their mouth. Dang them!!!
I don't really do this: much anymore... but I do laugh and talk, mainly because I'm usually laughing about something or other. Crap!!
How to break the habit?
Do you laugh and talk at the same time?
maybe she is just nervous?
My sister-in-law does that, and man, it drives me crazy. I don't see her very often (she lives in the U.K.), but her strong nearly-Welsh accent plus the irritating (IMHO) habit of laughing at the end of every sentence and sometimes between words - even when she is just saying normal, not-at-all amusing stuff - makes it very hard for me to understand her.
I need my husband to translate quite a bit when I'm with her.