Hi.. This is really goot point to be raised on here... 
I'm deaf, I've raised in hearing world all my life up until when I was 11 or 12 years old, I attended deaf school for the first time. I'm very observant, I noticed a lot things that hearing people does. Well Hearing people depends on their ears more than they do with their eyes. My mother doesnt even look at me when I talk to her, or when she talks to me. She says she can hear me just fine. Even tho she get what I said wrong sometime... I've been deaf since I was 7 weeks old. She know ASL.. I feel she should already know how deaf people really communicate... and our culture a bit.. In hearing's version of communicating this way... it's not rude... but in deaf's version, to us... it's rude. Because we feel that if no eye contact, watching each other signing or speaking, is rude.. We feel that we're being ignored. right?? I've come across a lot hearing people that wouldnt look at me when they speak to me or when I speak to them... I cant do anything to change that but to remind them that Im deaf and I need to look at their lips to speak, and for them to actually look at me so I know they are really listening and understanding what I say. and often, I get frustrated, and being a bitch, ask for paper & pen to communicate with people.
I got a question... Do any of you deafies feel self-concious when it come to using your voice front of hearing people?? to speak to them??
