Dinner Table Syndrome: The Holiday Edition
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- The Community Education vlog provides an illustration of Dinner Table Syndrome and what it entails to a Deaf or Hard of Hearing person. This vlog also includes impromptu interviews with DHH community members. It is voiced, captioned, and in American Sign Language (ASL).
Lol I feel bad for any blind people listening to this, because whoever did the voiceover did NOT do it well. It sound like they did it in one take and didnt even try to edit and fix reading mistakes, so they just kept going. So now the blind people who listen to this wont get the whole story. Great. Also, the guy mumbles a lot and just isnt a very good reader anyway, and hes not fast enough at all. Anyway, the signing is great, but really slow in the beginning. I had to use this for a school project, so thanks.
Shut up
I am in same boat. The family know I am deaf, can't hear, and can't speak. They don't know ASL because I grew up and was in oral program. Oral activist was "father" and "god" to many hearing parents of deaf and my parents. He brainwashed them. He controlled deaf adults who used ASL. Anyway when the family chatted and laughed. Few times, I asked my mother what they said. She tapped my hand and showed sign "shhhhhhhh" means refuse to interpret. I was puzzling. Until several years later, my hearing children heard them and don't want to interpret for me because they don't want me feeling hurt. One day, my children told me...I was shocked. I really felt hurt. How image what they did. I sat with them, they know I can't hear. They gossip about me and make fun of me and jokes about me. they laughed. I felt bad my parents involved. I wish they stop them and make good respect. I started to step off from the hearing family. I don't go any more. All I am alone and isolation in most of my life. No one from family don't contact me in text or facebook. I don't know them. Sad. I had no language in my childhood life. my parents neglected me most of my life. No communication. No interact. Until at 11, one student passed A-Z hand cards out to oral students and me, I learned A-Z hand, I spelled my name. I finally got my own identity. I don't know my last name, my parents' names and siblings names and address. That student taught me some ASL. It was my first time to open communication and interact. I felt I have language with ASL. No tantrum, fight, lost everything in my mind. I showed my card to my mother. She was very angry, tore the card and abused me. I tried to tell her how I feel and I wanted to explain that to her but she shut up. I was stuck. Then at 17, I started to socialize deaf people and learned a lot. I read books and internet. My language was late. Now I have a doll, it is Dr. Grant Bitter, oral activist. I yell at doll and hit him and kick him. I wish he leave hearing parents and my parents alone and refer to deaf center, deaf school, etc. and deaf adults can help them. I know I cannot turn back to the past and fix. My life is hard.
I will say no write back and forth and no text cuz I rather sign language better since family barely induced me in conversation so I feel like I am not part of family and more like I am dead to them so I start less eat with family for holidays cuz of their behavior and treat me like this for too long time