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How many hearing friends (close friends I mean) do you have? In other words, do you have more deaf friends than you do deaf friends?
 
AquaBlue said:
How many hearing friends (close friends I mean) do you have? In other words, do you have more deaf friends than you do hearing friends?
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Fixed for ya.

I have several hearing friends but I have more deaf friends. I used to tolerate with slow signing and ABC's. But lately I just get tired of it, so I hang out more often with my deaf friends more than hearing friends. I usually go with hearies whenever I'm out to bar or club.
 
I have both hearing and deaf friends, most of my deaf friends live far away from me, I only have some deaf friends that live in my area of my hometown like an hour or two hours drive, and some live about half hour from me.

Some of my hearing friends don't know any sign language, but some of them do. As long we could communicate well, I can read lips and speak very well, so I don't have any trouble understanding the ones that doesn't know any sign language.
 
i have both hearing friends and deaf friends but mostly i have deaf friends and they live near me i see them few times now.
 
AquaBlue said:
How many hearing friends (close friends I mean) do you have? In other words, do you have more deaf friends than you do deaf friends?
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I do have some hearing friends who are interpreter program students. I enjoy to work with them everyday, it is fun for us to do challenge in sign language. It is a good for them practice to see me into ASL with my facial expression. I do sometime baiting on them to test if they can understand me or not. :giggle:
 
Right now all my friends and family are hearing ... :(
Not that that is a bad thing ... but I miss having Deaf friends !!!

I was in a car accident a few years ago ... and was hurt .. couldn't sign (URGH) and as such stopped going to the social stuff ... It was/is very sad ... I'm trying to get back involved but it's hard (I grew up mainstream ... so that makes it hard too ... )
 
My husband hearing and 2 of my closest girlfriends are deaf. Also, I am very close to my deaf brother too.

Do I have any hearing friends that dont sign, yes but they are all in AZ from my mainstreamed days. I keep in touch with a few of them.

I guess the answer is I have more friends who are fluent in sign language whether they are hearing or deaf.
 
I do have hearing and deaf friend. Yea I been around with hearing more then deaf. I havent gone to the deaf social lately since I moved into my new home.
 
I do have hearing friends, sadly, not many of them.

I also have some deaf friends, and not many of them, too.
 
I do have hearing and deaf friends. I have more hearing friends than deaf because I was in hearing world for 27 years then socilize with deaf friends two years ago. Never had problem communicate, but I am not good at any signs. (I only know SEE, but rarely now bec 27 years no signs) I am learning to sign more, but I fingerspell too much hahaha...old habit.
 
I have both deaf and hearing friends. But most of the time I don't feel like I have time to hang out since I been so busy with the baby. So, both deaf and hearing do stop by on some occasions to visit me and my daughter. But it always nice to know they care when they visit. :)
 
Since I grew up mainstreamed all my life, I have more hearing friends than deaf. There was only few deaf classmates in mainstream. I still keep in touch with some few old hearing classmates. I also joined bowling league with hearing people. When I moved back to California, I met and made some new deaf friends. Also met some new deaf friends in real life in east side mainly in Ohio that I've known for a long time from the old time in another chat room. It takes time for me to make new deaf friends down the road. I'm pretty much around hearing world than deaf... oh well.
 
Calvin said:
Since I grew up mainstreamed all my life, I have more hearing friends than deaf. There was only few deaf classmates in mainstream. I still keep in touch with some few old hearing classmates. I also joined bowling league with hearing people. When I moved back to California, I met and made some new deaf friends. Also met some new deaf friends in real life in east side mainly in Ohio that I've known for a long time from the old time in another chat room. It takes time for me to make new deaf friends down the road. I'm pretty much around hearing world than deaf... oh well.
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I don't blame you, I am pretty much in the same way, grew up in mainstream school and have so many hearing friends. Some of them are pretty much motivated to learn some signs. But I am glad they show some interests to learn to commuicates in signs. It worth teaching them. :)
 
Anij said:
Right now all my friends and family are hearing ... :(
Not that that is a bad thing ... but I miss having Deaf friends !!!

I was in a car accident a few years ago ... and was hurt .. couldn't sign (URGH) and as such stopped going to the social stuff ... It was/is very sad ... I'm trying to get back involved but it's hard (I grew up mainstream ... so that makes it hard too ... )
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D: I hope everything goes well...

Also, what does growing up mainstream mean?
 
I am in sort of a 'middle' world right now. I don't know what's happening with myself in the 'deaf' world.... there is really situations that I would have to deal with, but I mostly contained myself in the 'hearing' world. I am quite comfortable on the stage where I am right now. You might have noticed few things in other threads that I have mentioned. But I can deal and manage the situation in my life right now. In the end, I'll survive.

By the way, in the ways of my explaining, I have more hearing friends than I have for the 'deaf' friends. In my town, is really a small city.
 
GarnetTigerMom said:
I don't blame you, I am pretty much in the same way, grew up in mainstream school and have so many hearing friends. Some of them are pretty much motivated to learn some signs. But I am glad they show some interests to learn to commuicates in signs. It worth teaching them. :)
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Yep I do teach some too :)
 
kirstology said:
D: I hope everything goes well...

Also, what does growing up mainstream mean?
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mainstream ... I mean I attended strictly hearing schools (no interpreters, no assistance with anything ... can't speechread the back of a teacher's head worth beans !! lol )

I had only hearing freinds, family - and was told I should be "pretend-like-hearing" ... It was made pretty clear to me (from hearing) that "HEARING-WORLD" was good ... "DEAF-WORLD" was bad ... I was forbidden to learn ASL (found books on it anyway, but had to learn secretly) and was constantly told how i was "not like them" ( meaning us - hoh&deaf people)

I was 19 before I was able to start really learning ASL, and start meeting Deaf.

it was lousy ... and even as an adult it still influences how I see myself ... my identity as a hoh/Deaf person. The truth is that I've never felt I fit into the Hearing world ... but I don't sometimes feel fully accepted in DEAF-WORLD either ... it's difficult!

I only started using 'terps in college last year because all the time growing up I'd been told by friends, family and school teachers that I wasn't allowed to have interpreters, I just needed to try harder (I think they wanted me to be... ummm you know the sign "HEARING-IN-HEAD"??? ICK it's very insulting, and makes me upset, even know) - they weren't supportive at all.

Mainstream - here at least- is better now ... now they have social events for hoh/deaf so they can be involved in Deaf culture etc ( I think parent's still have to allow it though ... )
 
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