#ASL I'm the person you want to cook for a party. I'll go early, set things up and put things away later.

I'm NOT the person you want at the party unless it's a bunch of HoH or deaf people. Noisy environments are killers for the hard of hearing.

I got up and walked away while they were banging boxes of jingle bells as a game. What game? Got me.

The people who know I don't hear well can't remember. Even the person who teaches ASL.

People wonder why I almost never go to parties.

@J_Windrow Please forgive me if this is a dumb or insensitive question. I truly mean no offense. Why would you be uncomfortable at a loud party? Hearing people might not be able to hear and understand one another, but wouldn't you read lips as well as if it were silent? Some deaf people have trouble speaking understandably, which might be worse with noise, but the same goes for people with a strong accent. Clearly I'm missing something.

@walterbays #ASL Ahh, the fallacy of lipreading. If one is extremely good at it one might get 25%of what it is said. Assuming the person is standing close enough that you can stare at their mouth while they're talking. Which tends to freak people the fuck out.

Not only that, normal speech is too difficult to speech read because people talk too fast.

Have you ever READ anything about lipreading? Are you aware that most Deaf/deaf don't bother. We tell people we can't hear them.

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