Don't know if this is on topic but for anyone who signs - I find I sign just as unclearly as I speak. Idiosyncratically. I will blur signs into my own sort of muddled way that is slightly different in form to standard correctness. I also do so less-than-expressively. I see lots of especially deaf people who seem (to me) to exaggerate facial expressions and other gestures, mouth the words while signing, etc. One tutorial I accessed even said "botox users need not apply - you must be expressive!" When I sign, I will look at my hands or like I do when I talk, look around and not at the other person directly. I do not make eye contact when I sign or speak. Autism affects the way I sign just as it does how I speak. I wonder if there is a huge difference between someone who signs because they are partially nonverbal autistic, and someone who signs because they have a hearing impairment.
Joined: 30 Aug 2015 Gender: Female Posts: 1,548 Location: Sovereign Nation & Commonwealth
18 Jun 2017, 3:06 pm
I hope i can continue to communicate boldly and brashly without miscommunicating my mantra onto anyone too much. They might mind so much that they want to take the law into their own hands and start mischarging entrance fees as a continuous misemploy of the mind.
I am so incredibly DONE with verbal communication, that's it, I quit, I never want to speak another word as long as I live. After yet another epic fail because of verbal communication (or at least partially) it really rubs my face in how important signing fluency is. If I can sign more fluently, then it is a great indication to other people that I CANNOT speak, and therefore others cannot FORCE me to speak and just screw everything up which is what happens every time I try to talk recently. They cannot engage me in pointless chatter which is just noise noise noise and I don't want to have to deal with it anymore. I hate speech. I need another way. Formal class isn't on until October and that's if they even get the numbers, and private tutoring is $60 an hour for a minimum of two hours + travel.
Joined: 3 Sep 2016 Gender: Male Posts: 14,762 Location: UK
12 Aug 2017, 10:06 am
kraftiekortie wrote:
People are just too sensitive on here sometimes......
I was hoping, Mr. Ferret, that you would Google Neil from 7-Up. He's quite a success story, actually.
I just watched this , is this who you mean ? It was interesting to watch and seems eerily close to my story but completely different ( if you know what I mean ) , Has he ever been diagnosed , do you think he was on the spectrum ( sure seemed like it to me ). I've always felt like I wasn't prepared for life and often wondered what stumbling blocks I missed like Neil alluded too. Even though you deemed him a success I found the story quite sad , I didn't get the feeling he thought he had won at life , maybe because I felt his pain
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