Long time no see..

It has been a while since I have written in here. It’s kind of hard because of the chaos going around and people resigning from deafread. I will probably be one of those few ones who will stay, read, and listen. I have been reading up on all of the blogs/vlogs related to the situation, but I’m not going to talk about it since it has been mentioned so many times.

I want to bring up something that’s completely different from the situation that is going on around on deafread. I have been thinking about this for a while, but I’d like to hear some of your opinions on this.

A friend and I were talking the other day about the differences between hearing people and deaf people’s opinions on affection. For example, with our hearing friends, when we greet each other in public, it usually is a hug and a kiss on the cheek (depending on the strength of the friendship.) But with our deaf friends, we can’t do that because we would be looked at as lesbians. I say this because of experience. I went to a hearing school so I’m used to hugging and kissing on other people’s cheeks, but when I went to college, I became more immersed into the deaf world. So I “continued” the hugging and kissing on the cheek with my close friends, but then I started hearing rumors about me being a lesbian because I hug and kiss girls on the cheek. I do the same thing to my guy friends, but people primarily picks on me because I do the same with girls. The recent spring, I took a class called “Deaf Culture in America” and I learned that deaf people tend to be closeknit because they value their culture and such. And deaf people have to touch each other to get each other’s attention; so deaf people do rely on touching because they cannot hear. I don’t understand why some deaf people cannot view the hugging in the same way as touching someone else to get attention? It is in the same form: touching.

I also get annoyed about the fact how deaf people tend to pick on me about me and my best friend. They think that we hang out too much and all that. But it’s not true: we do have our own schedules. They probably say that kind of thing because we’re also roommates. But, really, why do deaf people do this? The hearing people view me and my best friend as..best friends. nothing more. And they’re cool with that. But not deaf people. We also have the same group of friends; which is probably why people assume that we hang out too much, but..ahh, it just bothers me!

Please leave comments with your opinions, if you can. I’d appreciate if the comments could be clean. And if you need to be negative in a way, say it in a nice tone so it won’t cause problems or anything.

Thanks for reading!