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Post by Elijah Noel Cartwright on Jan 15, 2019 15:28:00 GMT
Deafness FAQ
i created this for a site a long time ago because people asked me questions so i'm just going to leave it here <3
wait, are you deaf, jem? lol no. i have a huge interest in deaf culture and american sign language. my favorite musical is spring awakening performed by the deaf west theatre. i have been teaching myself american sign language using the internet since december 2017. i've carried on conversations in asl with deaf people and additionally have been learning about their culture along the way. i also teach basic asl in both casual and professional settings.
do deaf people speak (orally) at all? not all deaf people are the same. some do speak and some do not. it depends on the situation. some people were born deaf and may not feel comfortable speaking because they have never heard spoken language. some people went deaf after learning to speak and so asl is not their first language. these people might feel comfortable speaking. some people do not feel comfortable speaking because people who are deaf often have "accents." to summarize, whether a deaf person is comfortable enough speaking can depend on a lot of different factors such as how long they have been deaf, what their first language was, how confident they are in general, how much speech therapy they have taken, and how much speech they have been exposed to. realistically, if your character speaks english without an accent, your character was probably not born deaf. do all deaf people use sign language? not all deaf people are the same. sign language TENDS to be the preferred mode of communication for deaf people but some people are unable to learn. some people don't want to learn. some people prefer writing things down to communicate with others. some people start to go deaf after they have become fluent in a spoken language and so they have difficulty learning sign language. some people are surrounded by hearing people and so there is no use in signing since no one around them signs.
is american sign language universal? no. american sign language is the main sign language used in the united states of america and canada. deaf people in other countries likely use a different sign language. also, just like spoken languages, different signers from around the country may sign with an "accent" or dialect.
is saying "deaf" offensive? no! a lot of people who have no experience talking with deaf people think that saying the word "deaf" is bad. it's not! deaf people are generally proud to be deaf. terms like "hearing impaired" tend to be more offensive to people with deafness because the term implies that hearing is the "correct" way to be and that a deaf person is defective.
what's the difference between lowercase deaf and uppercase Deaf? little d deaf refers to someone who cannot hear. big d Deaf refers to someone who identifies with the culture and community that comes with deafness. for example, a fifty year old man who has just gone deaf recently may consider himself little d deaf because his family is hearing and he lived a hearing life. an eighteen year old woman may identify as big d Deaf because she has been deaf her entire life and spends most of her time with other deaf people. for Deaf people, there are cultural differences. one example is that hearing people tend to prefer not to be touched by strangers because it's considered impolite. on the contrary, it's generally acceptable to tap a deaf person on the shoulder to get his or her attention.
how do you represent signing in your posts? the method i have always used is replacing quotation marks with slashes to depict signing only, and one quote and one slash to depict signing and speaking at the same time. i.e. "how are you?" is spoken. /how are you?/ is signed. "how are you?/ is spoken and signed simultaneously.
it is important for you to understand, however, that the asl and english sentence structures are NOT the same. i type my english sentence between slashes to show that my character is signing, but just be aware that if the character is signing correctly, he or she is not signing a direct translation of the english sentence. i.e. the english sentence "i just got home" would be signed "recent home i go." i think it's important that you know the difference (especially if you have a character learning asl, because many people struggle with this). NOTE also that if a character is speaking and signing at the same time, the signs would probably match the english sentence structure so that the signs would be interpretations of the words as they're spoken.