Everyone’s different. I don’t have any real friends (except for my wife). I haven’t for a long time, and I’m OK with that.

I actually specifically enabled it, because I thought it was a cool idea. Is there a particular reason I shouldn’t have?

Oh fer crying out loud... Some of us just want a job. I’ve worked in I.T. at the same company for 30 years. I adapt, I grow,but essentially I’m doing the same job I did when I started. I’ve just gotten much better at it and I use more modern technology. I never once had a five-year plan, or even a 6-month plan. I just…

Thank goodness someone else understands

“Too many days of confinement and you forget how to people. It can get lonely—depressing, even”

Now thatI know the ending... Meh, it’s not worth it

I don’t think you can do this with AT&T U-verse right,?

I don’t think you can do this with AT&T U-verse right,?

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…