This video is hilarious and so helpful!! I love all the jokes you guys were cracking at the sillier / more frustratingly common questions. I am a hearing ASL 101 student and am watching as many videos like these as I can find so I can practice understanding everyday signs and conversation, plus learn more about Deaf culture and the dos and don'ts of interacting with d/Deaf folks.
Holy cow! Several minutes in I realized the obnoxious audio-music soundtrack and shut off the sound. No offense to the individual(s) who selected it. I hope you have continued uploading from this site as I'm seeing this 13 months later. Very informative, funny and kind. Thank you.
I'm hearing but I LOVE captions, like my need for captions at this point makes English (my first language) almost impossible to understand if I don't have them. Captions are important for a multitude of reasons I don't understand why any platform/person would choose not to provide them. (Also loved the video, thanks!)
When the girl with the braid talks about small talk and how annoying it is, I completely can relate. I am deaf and I despite small talk. My family always talk to me in small talk then talk more to the others. That is why I don't like going to family functions.
I remember I got a customer who was deaf and no one wanted to deal with. My boss was like "well I tried working with him, he was rude." So I just get out my phone, turn on my notepad app and wrote to him and everything was fine. Honesly, not sure why that wasn't everyone's first option. Like, I don't know sign language, but the guy read, right? Sheesh.
I absolutely love that everyone interviewed had experience with hearing devices and most preferred to stop using them and embraced who they are. It shows that although our society may be demonized, we are progressing. We've come far enough that people can feel more comfortable with who they are and the world is becoming more accessible to them. I would hate to have to rely on a device to feel "normal". I love the attitude that they use hearing devices as tools to enhance their communication skills, but also feel comfortable enough with who they are and their accessibility in the world that they don't find them necessary :)
I work as a courtesy at the food store, alongside Deaf coworker, she work there 12-13 years, still courtesy position, this week I start talking to people, to get her cross-trained for checking. Food store sister location, Teacher of Deaf work there, taught my Deaf coworker as a child, I tell my coworker, "maybe bring her over this store train you check-work", she sign "When?". I continue rest of week talk to people at both stores, including Teacher of Deaf, training manager at that store who herself just trained at my store, managers at my store, and my checkers, bring everyone on board, will make this happen, last thing to do, which I tend always do already with random coworkers, convince everyone of her ability to communicate, which she does better than me in many ways, and people agree with that, and I have 6 years experience checking at another place that closed. I will post a response when she is trained for checking.
The store director literally and directly threatened to fire me if I stood up for other workers at my store again, and he insisted it was about communication, yet he bullied me and bad-faithed me the entire time and cut me off every time I tried to make a point in anyone's favor, I think this warrants a lawsuit.
Also, the example of having a conversation with a hearing person and then have them be distracted by a noise thereby ending the conversation -- my thought was, just because you cannot register it doesn't mean it wasn't important. I'm sure there are visual things that would distract you that a hearing person may never note. Not really a good example of audism, I think.
I was thinking the same thing. Noises alert me, so I'll glance over to make sure everything's ok. Dog growl, car horn, someone hollering... these are all sounds that demand our brain's attention for a second, and it's instinct to look. So it'll be ok 🙂
I think this has to do more with deaf culture than anything. Imagine every time two hearing people talking and every time one of them gets distracted, they put on ear buds or headphones out of nowhere, blasts music and looks for that distraction and completely disregarded your conversation. I imagine that's what it's like to just have someone you're talking to just completely ignore you for something else; and trust me, at that point, you might as well have closed your eyes deliberately and ignored the person signing.
I'm wondering about someone who is autistic, has low affect (doesn't/isn't able to make much in the way of voluntary facial expression), and is deaf and signing. The consensus on the video is that lack of facial expression is anywhere from boring to missing half of the information. There doesn't seem to be an awareness though that facial expression isn't a choice for many people - particularly if they aren't neurotypical. I had thought that actually ASL would be a God-send for some autistics because it takes the pressure off being verbal - which can be super tiring and difficult for some people while still being able to communicate. BUT then this pressure to show facial expression. Wondered if any of the respondents here have encountered austic people with low affect signing.
I'm no expert or anything but my understanding is that the facial expressions are how you communicate inflection, tone, and emotion in sign which is a big part of communication but its not technically a requirement. It may come across a little stilted, but you can still communicate a lot of information without facial expressions. ASL isn't designed for folks on the autistic spectrum so I'm not sure how effective it would be for them conversationally but I imagine knowing even just a few signs would be a benefit to anyone who's non-verbal
@@mallowmoors7777 Okay, so basically, it may be the same issue they face communicating verbally without the facial expressions that hearing neurotypicals expect to see.
While I do think using facial expressions is very helpful to get the entire message across, I don't think it's necessary because we still have other aspects of the language to help us to understand clearly. - A Deaf woman
That’s true if so, whatever happened to deaf blind people who barely write notes 📝 at many restaurants at many stores at many local banks, etc ?! We really never complain about how many times we show up our total communication skills to lipread speakeasy don’t really hafta wear hard of hearing aids UFO newspapers on closed captioning TiVo everyday, that’s why we preferably put our headphones 🎧 on playlists since more than fifty five years ago, since the 1st grade classroom at Ohio school for hearing impaired total asl communication skills into mainstream music venues, among other things that we can really enjoy hear BOOM!!! We just learn to read and write only homework at time study 📖 rather than write notes to show people at the stores, etc ? Other than that, we are working hard together without any problems communicating on videophone calls everyday to get the best out of it all ever since then we can still hear our headphones 🎧 to improvise our own business as usual approach to drive rental car to turn on radio station fm out of town and plus, we are born totally deafness still love loud music 🎼 that’s what happened last night and then we saw that deaf blind people can still see outside somewhere still can’t hear always wear hard of hearing aids complain to blame lie deny worry sick headaches cry jealous upset nervous blow up vomiting bubbly brown sugar germs at many restaurants everyday while we always cook delicious homemade meatloaf mashed potatoes kernel corn 🌽 and spaghetti incident dinner time, etc ... we never become so tired of very busybody, period
This video is hilarious and so helpful!! I love all the jokes you guys were cracking at the sillier / more frustratingly common questions. I am a hearing ASL 101 student and am watching as many videos like these as I can find so I can practice understanding everyday signs and conversation, plus learn more about Deaf culture and the dos and don'ts of interacting with d/Deaf folks.
"read each others minds" hahahaha
Holy cow! Several minutes in I realized the obnoxious audio-music soundtrack and shut off the sound. No offense to the individual(s) who selected it. I hope you have continued uploading from this site as I'm seeing this 13 months later. Very informative, funny and kind. Thank you.
You are all so funny . I’m a hearing person learning ASL, and it so cool. Can’t wait to have full blown conversations.
Awesome video! I really appreciate the subtitles over voice, as I hear and cannot sign much. It helps deepen the video‘s meaning.
When the question "Do you need captions?" came up, I totally expected someone to say, "No, I love listening to pod casts about the meaning of life"
I'm hearing but I LOVE captions, like my need for captions at this point makes English (my first language) almost impossible to understand if I don't have them. Captions are important for a multitude of reasons I don't understand why any platform/person would choose not to provide them. (Also loved the video, thanks!)
"You don't look like a hearing person." Made me laugh really hard
When the girl with the braid talks about small talk and how annoying it is, I completely can relate. I am deaf and I despite small talk. My family always talk to me in small talk then talk more to the others. That is why I don't like going to family functions.
I remember I got a customer who was deaf and no one wanted to deal with. My boss was like "well I tried working with him, he was rude."
So I just get out my phone, turn on my notepad app and wrote to him and everything was fine. Honesly, not sure why that wasn't everyone's first option. Like, I don't know sign language, but the guy read, right? Sheesh.
Thank you so much for this informative video!
I need to have interaction with someone. I am 75 years old. Learning asl
I absolutely love that everyone interviewed had experience with hearing devices and most preferred to stop using them and embraced who they are. It shows that although our society may be demonized, we are progressing. We've come far enough that people can feel more comfortable with who they are and the world is becoming more accessible to them. I would hate to have to rely on a device to feel "normal". I love the attitude that they use hearing devices as tools to enhance their communication skills, but also feel comfortable enough with who they are and their accessibility in the world that they don't find them necessary :)
It was really nice of them to give a person without hearing a job as the audio editor for this video
I work as a courtesy at the food store, alongside Deaf coworker, she work there 12-13 years, still courtesy position, this week I start talking to people, to get her cross-trained for checking. Food store sister location, Teacher of Deaf work there, taught my Deaf coworker as a child, I tell my coworker, "maybe bring her over this store train you check-work", she sign "When?". I continue rest of week talk to people at both stores, including Teacher of Deaf, training manager at that store who herself just trained at my store, managers at my store, and my checkers, bring everyone on board, will make this happen, last thing to do, which I tend always do already with random coworkers, convince everyone of her ability to communicate, which she does better than me in many ways, and people agree with that, and I have 6 years experience checking at another place that closed. I will post a response when she is trained for checking.
The store director literally and directly threatened to fire me if I stood up for other workers at my store again, and he insisted it was about communication, yet he bullied me and bad-faithed me the entire time and cut me off every time I tried to make a point in anyone's favor, I think this warrants a lawsuit.
Also, the example of having a conversation with a hearing person and then have them be distracted by a noise thereby ending the conversation -- my thought was, just because you cannot register it doesn't mean it wasn't important. I'm sure there are visual things that would distract you that a hearing person may never note. Not really a good example of audism, I think.
I was thinking the same thing. Noises alert me, so I'll glance over to make sure everything's ok. Dog growl, car horn, someone hollering... these are all sounds that demand our brain's attention for a second, and it's instinct to look. So it'll be ok 🙂
I think this has to do more with deaf culture than anything. Imagine every time two hearing people talking and every time one of them gets distracted, they put on ear buds or headphones out of nowhere, blasts music and looks for that distraction and completely disregarded your conversation. I imagine that's what it's like to just have someone you're talking to just completely ignore you for something else; and trust me, at that point, you might as well have closed your eyes deliberately and ignored the person signing.
Omg haha if someone asked me what a deaf person looks like I would tell them "They don't have ears" with a deadpan expression and walk away...
Thank you for uploading!!
Love this!
I'm wondering about someone who is autistic, has low affect (doesn't/isn't able to make much in the way of voluntary facial expression), and is deaf and signing. The consensus on the video is that lack of facial expression is anywhere from boring to missing half of the information. There doesn't seem to be an awareness though that facial expression isn't a choice for many people - particularly if they aren't neurotypical. I had thought that actually ASL would be a God-send for some autistics because it takes the pressure off being verbal - which can be super tiring and difficult for some people while still being able to communicate. BUT then this pressure to show facial expression. Wondered if any of the respondents here have encountered austic people with low affect signing.
I'm no expert or anything but my understanding is that the facial expressions are how you communicate inflection, tone, and emotion in sign which is a big part of communication but its not technically a requirement. It may come across a little stilted, but you can still communicate a lot of information without facial expressions. ASL isn't designed for folks on the autistic spectrum so I'm not sure how effective it would be for them conversationally but I imagine knowing even just a few signs would be a benefit to anyone who's non-verbal
@@mallowmoors7777 Okay, so basically, it may be the same issue they face communicating verbally without the facial expressions that hearing neurotypicals expect to see.
While I do think using facial expressions is very helpful to get the entire message across, I don't think it's necessary because we still have other aspects of the language to help us to understand clearly. - A Deaf woman
Thanks for sharing!
About the discrimination at the store, what if everyone closed their account at the store bank.
Just great
Why kept cut videos? It sounds like no respect Deaf people talk!
Sorry who are speaking to? Deaf or hearing. I want to learn about deaf culture.
The blonde girl is GORGEOUS !!!!
The music is unnecessary
That’s true if so, whatever happened to deaf blind people who barely write notes 📝 at many restaurants at many stores at many local banks, etc ?! We really never complain about how many times we show up our total communication skills to lipread speakeasy don’t really hafta wear hard of hearing aids UFO newspapers on closed captioning TiVo everyday, that’s why we preferably put our headphones 🎧 on playlists since more than fifty five years ago, since the 1st grade classroom at Ohio school for hearing impaired total asl communication skills into mainstream music venues, among other things that we can really enjoy hear BOOM!!!
We just learn to read and write only homework at time study 📖 rather than write notes to show people at the stores, etc ? Other than that, we are working hard together without any problems communicating on videophone calls everyday to get the best out of it all ever since then we can still hear our headphones 🎧 to improvise our own business as usual approach to drive rental car to turn on radio station fm out of town and plus, we are born totally deafness still love loud music 🎼 that’s what happened last night and then we saw that deaf blind people can still see outside somewhere still can’t hear always wear hard of hearing aids complain to blame lie deny worry sick headaches cry jealous upset nervous blow up vomiting bubbly brown sugar germs at many restaurants everyday while we always cook delicious homemade meatloaf mashed potatoes kernel corn 🌽 and spaghetti incident dinner time, etc ... we never become so tired of very busybody, period