funny about diarrhea of mouth.
That's totally understandable, and I totally get what you mean about the conversation. I don't bring up the hearing at all, unless there was something significant about their HA or something, but just try for like any ordinary conversation.. "Are you from around here/*Looking at food item* What do you think of those jello donuts/I can't stop eating these little debbies/so on" (assuming this is a person around my generation). If it's an older lady, like a grandma or grandpa I just treat them with general etiquette like if they couldn't hold on to their stuff or seemed like they needed help putting something on the conveyor belt. Of course, I do it for hearing too, but I'm more likely to help out if I see a deaf granny than a hearing granny.
For folks old enough to be my dad (50-60s), I haven't really ran into them other than at deaf events. I'm not good at steering those conversations due to generational differences.
But I get it about the hard conversation too, that's where ASL comes handy. It seems to be pretty quick for me to be able to jump into a conversation with another signer. With other oral HOH I realize we both got to take it slow or we're not going to be able to understand the other.
I do hope there was an easier way to communicate between oral-oral. I still haven't figured it out yet.
it's not like we know the whole story about what happened, I didn't see that it was mentioned the 'terp pointed at her. I think if she was cool with her terp's personality, then that's all that counts because she is the one who decides what she wants and doesn't want to hear from the terp right? (Not saying this is right or wrong)
You don't think the two of us could have a conversation?
I'm not sure but she did post that the terp signed "LOOK" which is a directional sign.
Let's just say, that's not necessarily the case. I hate to say it but some terps don't respect their clients' preferences.
This black bold explain why it is not the way to point finger at the new HOH person in your class and then she explained to you about where she was sitting and all that. Pointing finger is a no-no. It is impolite to point finger. No pointing, please.
I secretly was too. I should explain though... I was there to learn. Plain and simple. If I had another Deaf person there, we would probably end up visiting too much.
I do not talk to other Deaffies when I'm doing my own thing in public. In fact, I'm probably a little unnecessarily rude about it but Austin's got a big enough of a Deaf community as to where it becomes very annoying. I give dirty looks then walk away without saying much. I can be grumpy sometimes. I'm even sometimes grumpy to friends...
I secretly was too. I should explain though... I was there to learn. Plain and simple. If I had another Deaf person there, we would probably end up visiting too much.
I do not talk to other Deaffies when I'm doing my own thing in public. In fact, I'm probably a little unnecessarily rude about it but Austin's got a big enough of a Deaf community as to where it becomes very annoying. I give dirty looks then walk away without saying much. I can be grumpy sometimes. I'm even sometimes grumpy to friends...
You don't think the two of us could have a conversation?
Well, I'll be sure to remind myself not to greet you at a grocer.
There's a lot of good points and arguments going on in there but we're missing the main point IMO. I think the question the OP is trying to find out (besides the education or interpreter ethics) is about meeting other random deaf people for the first time in real life, not specifically under a certain pretense, esp. when you don't have much if any deaf friends already. I think the classroom experience is used as an example, but not necessarily supposed to be the exact conditions if you ran into someone like that.
Are you against greeting them, or are you not and why?
