My Supports (wk6)
My fiancé and daughter are my true supports. They are my source of enjoyment, entertainment, and companionship. My daughter helps me with chores around the house. My fiancé' whom is my best friend helps me with the yard work and repairs, he typically grills us dinner. He also helps pay the bill1s.
I constantly have a honey-do list for him. We have been together for 9 years, and without him, I really don’t know what I’d do.
My other supports are my phone, which allows me to keep in contact with my family, and friends. It is also is my camera and my alarm clock. My car gets me wherever I need to go, and my computer helps me to keep up with family, friends, school, advertise, etc. I am very grateful to have been born into these times with things like washers and dryers, dishwashers, baths/showers, and curling irons!
I have chosen the challenge of being deaf, because my father has hearing aids for damage suffered in the military.
The deaf culture is fairly isolated. It is a smaller community that bonds strongly. I would need the support from my family if I were deaf. Raising my daughter if I were deaf would have been more challenging, because I wouldn’t hear them cry, or speak, or cry out if in trouble. They sell products to the deaf community, such as flashing lights for cars that lets them know if there are emergency sirens, for example. There are flashing lights for phones and for smoke detectors. There are beds sold that vibrate and flash for an alarm. I would not be able to enjoy movies except when they have ones with close captioning, and then only at the limited times when that service is provided. They have interpreters for phone calls, in church services, and even at concerts. I think that being able to text has to be one of the best technological inventions for both the hearing and the deaf. There are cochlear implants, but many in the deaf culture are against them for various reasons. These supports such as texting, flashing lights, and close captioning are ones that I benefit from even though I can hear.
It is very difficult for the deaf to communicate with the speaking population, because those who can read lips only are able to understand a small percentage of the words, and not very many speaking people can use sign language. Not very many hearing people take the initiate to try and communicate with the deaf.
Some in the deaf culture are for public school inclusion and some are against. There are interesting arguments both for and against printed on this page: http://www.zak.co.il/d/deaf-info/old/inclusion. One letter includes a very interesting but sad description from the point of an interpreter: the student she signs to has no one to communicate with but her. Another letter states the belief that inclusion hides bad teachers.
The only real benefits to being deaf that I can imagine are that it would be peaceful and quiet. I would not hear the irritating noises like barking dogs in the night, airplanes, horns blaring, snoring, whining, or angry people arguing.
I constantly have a honey-do list for him. We have been together for 9 years, and without him, I really don’t know what I’d do.
My other supports are my phone, which allows me to keep in contact with my family, and friends. It is also is my camera and my alarm clock. My car gets me wherever I need to go, and my computer helps me to keep up with family, friends, school, advertise, etc. I am very grateful to have been born into these times with things like washers and dryers, dishwashers, baths/showers, and curling irons!
I have chosen the challenge of being deaf, because my father has hearing aids for damage suffered in the military.
The deaf culture is fairly isolated. It is a smaller community that bonds strongly. I would need the support from my family if I were deaf. Raising my daughter if I were deaf would have been more challenging, because I wouldn’t hear them cry, or speak, or cry out if in trouble. They sell products to the deaf community, such as flashing lights for cars that lets them know if there are emergency sirens, for example. There are flashing lights for phones and for smoke detectors. There are beds sold that vibrate and flash for an alarm. I would not be able to enjoy movies except when they have ones with close captioning, and then only at the limited times when that service is provided. They have interpreters for phone calls, in church services, and even at concerts. I think that being able to text has to be one of the best technological inventions for both the hearing and the deaf. There are cochlear implants, but many in the deaf culture are against them for various reasons. These supports such as texting, flashing lights, and close captioning are ones that I benefit from even though I can hear.
It is very difficult for the deaf to communicate with the speaking population, because those who can read lips only are able to understand a small percentage of the words, and not very many speaking people can use sign language. Not very many hearing people take the initiate to try and communicate with the deaf.
The only real benefits to being deaf that I can imagine are that it would be peaceful and quiet. I would not hear the irritating noises like barking dogs in the night, airplanes, horns blaring, snoring, whining, or angry people arguing.
