Do you know how to sign language?

[ToxBox]

Do you know how to sign language?

I use sign language because I cannot hear anything

 

[Puddin]

I learned a little bit because I knew a deaf girl in high school. At first, I kept accidentally saying "fuck you" instead of "thank you" because apparently those two signs are very similar.

I also learned a few sentences such as "please give that to me" and "you are very funny."

 

[ToxBox]

How thank you and fuck is similar?

 

[Puddin]

I don't remember exactly. I think "thank you" is an outward hand motion from the mouth, but she said "fuck you" is an outward hand motion from the chest.

Maybe she was lying.

 

[ToxBox]

I don't really know and kids fingerspell "F"

 

[schmutz]

My friend is pretty good with sign language (even though she's not deaf, she's just interested in it) and I picked up a few things, such as the alphabet and how to talk about potatoes.

 

[Lily x]

I know some as my now deceased grandad was deaf.

 

[YamiHoshi]

I don't know any sign language, I can't even understand that.

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

My mom was deaf in one ear and she ran a camp for the hearing impaired, so I was quite fluent when I was younger, but I haven't done any signing in at least five years now.

 

[Pokemon DP]

Now that you mention it, no, I don't know any sign languages. I should probably learn Auslan one day, seems like it'd come in handy someday.

 

[EctoBiologist]

I never did despite being deaf.

 

[Soundless Voice]

I know a little.

My mom took sign language and she passed down her old textbook, I have another one too, I just haven't looked at it.

 

[EctoBiologist]

hey toxbox have you considered getting a hearing aid?

 

[Toad85]

Short answer: no.

 

[Mario4Ever]

I don't know any ASL or any other variety.

 

[ToxBox]

hey toxbox have you considered getting a hearing aid?

I cannot hear anything, I cannot hear if I'm right next to an atom bomb

 

[YamiHoshi]

He means, something to enable you to start hearing.

 

[Smasher]

I do not.

 

[EctoBiologist]

He means, something to enable you to start hearing.

yeah.

 

[schmutz]

He means, something to enable you to start hearing.

yeah.

Cochlear implants and other aids for the deaf are very very expensive (although insurance could cover it). If a person has been deaf their whole life (I don't know if this is the case with Toxbox), implants wouldn't really help because they wouldn't know how to distinguish sounds at all.

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

implants wouldn't really help because they wouldn't know how to distinguish sounds at all.

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, yes they would. It's better to be able to hear and be kind of disoriented by it for a while than to not be able to hear at all.

 

[2257]

whoa,

no.

if you grow up completely deaf the entire sound-processing centre of your brain develops differently. you can't just glue on fake ears and expect it to rewire itself to match a person who grew up hearing. brains don't work that way.

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

I may have misunderstood what he was talking about, in which case I apologize, but I've heard stories of (and seen at least interview one with, I think) people who were deaf their entire life getting their hearing back through implants and stuff.






I have a feeling that this conversation is going to end with me looking like a dumbass.

 

[ToxBox]

I used to have Cochlear implant but I don't use it anymore

 

[GalacticPetey]

Wait. Toxbox is deaf?