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Soooo true! Since learning sign language and being a lot more involved with deaf people and deaf culture I have made more of an effort to make eye contact. Most hearing people see almost no eye contact as someone being shy and a lot of eye contact as someone being confident. I am a fairly confident person to begin with, but as some deaf had commented on my lack of eye contact, I worked more at it. However, it made the hearing people I was around very uncomfortable, especially people older than me. Some saw it as threatning their authority or a sexual advance.