This is one of the topics within the deaf community that has always interested me... I can speak well and I'm very oral (but I have been involved in the deaf community since I went to a deaf school for years when I was 10 and have been mainstreamed my entire life) so I do not understand what it is like to be embarrassed about my voice. I do, however, understand what it is like to be embarrassed about mis-pronouncing words. I do this a lot. My boyfriend is hearing, and he corrects me all the time because no one else did when I was growing up. I get really embarrassed about this, but then I realize that, hey, we're deaf! we cant help the fact that we never heard the word correctly! So I cant understand you completely, but I definitely understand certain aspects to that issue.
