I generally only use fully form sentences and only for informational purposes only with my wife and kid and co-workers. I don’t text with friends because, I don’t really have any friends. Again I have a wife and kid and a job.

Oh, I hated... HATED these. I honestly don’t remember what I wrote for these years ago. In my mind, my grades were good and my parents could afford tuition... That should be enough.

Hey, I understand that! But in the first part of the article, several situations it wasn’t clear that the offending party had been informed that the person was hearing impaired

How nice it must be for you to sit in your Ivory Tower and demand that the rest of us poor peasants be 100% prepared for every contingency and every personal interaction that we may have on any particular day. If I am prepared to accommodate somebody with a disability, great! But God forbid I be caught off guard by…

From the article, its not clear that the author explained why they wanted the host to come find them. If they explained that they were deaf, and the host refused, then yeah, that was a crappy thing to do. But if they walked up, spoke to the host (from what I’ve seen, its not impossible for hearing impaired people can…

I’m glad someone else read it that way too. I thought I was the only one. I would have liked the second part of the article , the one with the tips in it, all by itself. But the first part of the article was off putting.

What’s amazing to me is, that because my disability is invisible, people feel like they can get away with a lot of bullshit.

See, this is an honest mistake. But the writer assumes it is stupidity or an intentional slight.

I’m great fun at parties with people who don’t expect me to be a mind reader. Oops, sorry, that didn’t make any sense -I got my the comments I was replying to mixed up

The article should have started with the sentence “Hearing people of the world, here’s how you can do better” and cut out everything before that point.

I see what you did there. I was just pointing out that the article was not very understanding that hearing people might be legitimately unaware on how to accommodate deaf people. It doesn’t mean they are jerks if they make mistakes.

I understand , it’s just the tone of the article is a bit confrontational.

I don’t deal with deaf people in my every day life. I don’t know any deaf people. In fact, I can’t remember ever actually meeting a deaf person. Additionally, deaf people aren’t immediately noticeable (unlike a blind person with a dog or cane, or a person in a wheelchair) so one might not know they are interacting…

Just because people are unaware with how to accomodate deaf people, doesn’t mean they’re jerks

Having recently diversified my 401k, I’m looking at this correction with some satisfaction. Previously, I had about 40% of my 401k in my company stock, and 60% in one mutual fund. Now it’s spread over about a dozen investments.

Maybe. Perhaps I was focusing on the word “prayer”. If they used the word “hope” instead, then maybe I wouldn’t have had such a reaction.

Did anybody else read the first part of this article as, well, obnoxious? Look, I can empathize how frustrating it must be to have a disability that other people don’t notice and ignore.. but it seemed as if the writer was assuming everybody else was intentionally acting like jerks towards deaf people. I like the…

Sooooo, pray for something more vague, so it’s easier to fool yourself into believing that your prayer was answered.

Meh. I never much got into comics. It seemed a waste to spend that money on something I could read in 5 minutes. I’d rather buy a actual book that took a couple hours, for not much more money.

personally, I like the Bluetooth earbuds that are still connected to each other by a wire, so I can pull them out and hang them around my neck when i need to listen quickly to something else. But to each their own.

personally, I like the Bluetooth earbuds that are still connected to each other by a wire, so I can pull them out…