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[flippy_floppy]

Where's that bandwagon heading? Park it outside my house!

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✓ I miss somebody right now. ✓ I don't watch much TV these days. × I own lots of books.  (Not as many as I should.) × I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (

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[prilbot]

Don't worry about it. Most deaf people just don't really care about music, but there are a few that still love it. My Mother for instance adored Prodigy because she could feel the rhythm a lot more, and thats especialy odd as she was a monkeys fan. My father never did forgive her for that.

Its odd, I always get shouted at by people that don't understand deaf culture for sayign this... Most deaf people, especialy in big towns don't liek to socialze with hearing people, they submerge themselves in thier own culture and many hold alot against hearing people. Which made hearing children's liek myself lives more difficult as 9 times out of 10 deaf parents have hearing children, so the whole thing is just really segregated.
if you are a deaf child they look after you, adore you and tell you not to hang around with the "hearing lot"... The whole thing is totally insane.

My parents were pretty cool though, probably helped that myfather wasn't profoundly deaf, he "became" deaf at the age of like 6.

man I could go on about it all day, it's just such an odd community, like the benefits-sopranos or something.

[flippy_floppy]

My dad's girlfriend's ex-husband had a brother who was deaf, and when she married, she learned to sign because she thought it would be a good idea. It was strange, his parents never learnt, and neither did his other brothers... I don't know how he coped.

She said it was really worthwhile, and I can see that... it's another language after all. But she said some of the 'politics' around it were really strange. Like when you were examined, if the examiner person was deaf they tended to discriminate against people signing who could hear, and some of her fellow students were the same... victimising people and things like that. I'm sure not everyone is like that of course, but it's really interesting.

Anyway, she had some funny stories about her ex-husband's brother. He used to work for the post office, driving the van, and sometimes his brother (who worked there too) used to turn the stereo in the van up REALLY loud, and obviously he couldn't hear it so he was just driving around merrily in his Parcel Force van with this insanely loud music playing.

[giro_playgirl]

There was a really good article in the Guardian a while back about deaf culture which mentioned a deaf couple who refused to give permission to allow their child to have an operation which would enable them to hear and refused to even give their child the choice to wear hearing aids. It was really interesting.

[prilbot]

I have never met a deaf person who refuses to wear hearing aids, the noise of them makes me feel 5 again, their screeching was terrible...

many deaf people have also become rather materialistic, in reguards to new commuincation tools, such as fax machines, mobiles, picture mobiles, palm thingys, every friday at Walthew house deaf club was just like being sold items at Currys, like the deaf version of bigger peacock feathers... I also never understood how every deaf person could afford to update every other month. But, they do get a lot from benefits. it actually annoys me, my mothre probably makes more than most average full timers as she ticks all boxes, deaf, disabled, widow... Ytou name it, she claims it. It annoys me. yes, she is entitled to this money, but if she can afford 5 hoildays a year, a caravan new cars and new gadjets then she is obviously getting too much. All of her health care, deaf disabled equipment is already on the NHS and now she has a free house, everyting she gets is pretty much profit. She was also claiming for looking after me and mae when I was put into care, they let her get away with as she was in a wheelchair. - It's very naughty.

This is going to sound terrible, but other than my parents the only nice deaf people I knew were gay men.
I think maybe thats because majority of deaf people are also right-wing so they probably felt left out too... thinking about it, I have never met a Deaf lesbian. Odd.

it never made sense to me that Deaf people are usually very right wing. If my dad was around now he wouldn't be happy with the way me and Mae turned out. Eak... The Gay police officer, and a libreal, bisexual, ex druggie who studies art.

Why dont I go out and a real job? :P

[giro_playgirl]

DON'T GET A REAL JOB! You're bloody good at what you do and you're Dad would be well proud of how you turned out.

I see your point about the hearing aid though. My Dad spent a grand on a state of the art hearing aid and he ended up returning it because he could hear absolutely EVERYTHING which went on. He said it was like being bionic or something. A phone would ring on Coronation Street and he'd jump out of his skin because it sounded so loud. Apparently his deafness is inherited too. What with that, his cancer and the history of high blood pressure in our family my forties really are going to be my golden years. :(

[prilbot]

The NHS are terrible with hearing aids they never get it right, I costantly have the remains of hearing aids around me when growing up.

I am sure my father would of grown to come to terms with me and Mae, and I am sure if he could see me now after things bad things have happened he would be pleased with me. he was just VERY family orientated as his family didn't really try to understand him, he was bunged into a deaf school that he hated. he went to that one that was in the news about 2 years ago, many deaf people claimed stupid amounts of money from all the abuse that went on in there... (It was the one near the airport)
The stories were disgusting and thinking back to it, he did tell my sister about how they would hit your hands if you "sounded like a deaf person", instead of learning new needed life skills, such as signing, they would constantly ask you "why you didn't sound normal"... Terrifying.

Ok, off topic, do you have any blank CDS I need to make Cathrine a mix tape by Saturday but I have lost my CDS, I think I accidently threw them out.
XXX

[giro_playgirl]

I'm sure I've got a few lying about the flat. I'll see if I can dig one out before I come round to yours tonight. xxx

[prilbot]

Danke it would be muchly APRILiecated.

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