I've not noticed people shouting at me that much, I think Im quite lucky because I "appear" to be hearing: Im quite a good lipreader, everyone says that my speech is really good and my hair hides my hearing aids.
I went out last night and had two different reactions when people found out that I was deaf. The first time, I was at a bar with my friend and a guy come up to me and started talking, my friend told him that I was deaf (I never tell strangers that Im deaf, but my friends and family usually end up telling them). He started making his mouth huge when he spoke to me - the typical reaction I get!
The second time last night was to my friend, some guy was following her around trying to talk to her and she wasn't interested in him (she's hearing but she's doing the Deaf Studies course with me, she knows BSL) so to get rid of him she started pretending she was deaf. But to our surprise he didn't start talking weirdly he actually started to fingerspell what he was saying. We were shocked cos we thought he was all muscles and no brain!!
Other situations are where my old teachers would bring out a video for us to watch. I would often ask if it had subtitles and usually they didn't, it didn't bother me that much as I expected it, but the teachers would go all embarrassed and say what if I put your radio aid transmitter by the tv. I told them loads of times that it didn't work if they did that, but they went ahead and did it anyway :roll:
P.S Sorry for the long post! I didn't realise I typed that much!
