tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5081169281807294595.post7818806207695203073..comments2023-12-01T07:32:08.698-08:00Comments on Silent Mountain, Roaring Road: Deaf Voice DilemmaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13291612934384813351noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5081169281807294595.post-21655214823825607092015-10-07T17:21:56.467-07:002015-10-07T17:21:56.467-07:00Am interested if you learned to ride a motorcycle ...Am interested if you learned to ride a motorcycle prior to learning sign? As a non-sign deaf without hearing-aids, am struggling to get motorcycle instruction in my state. One organization has the monopoly to instruct (I literally would need to go out of my state to get smaller individual instruction). However, their 'beginning course' is for those who, in plain-speak, fit the hearing mold and have had some familiarization or experience on a motorcycle. Wanted to find out methods used that were most helpful, as what I have asked for is 3 sets of 10 minute time increments of personalized one-on-one with an instructor (before and after range time and during lunch break.) The response was 1) to 'try to make me hear' with speaker relays, 2) repeated offer for me to read on the range while instructor talks, -the impracticality of this, I don't even have words, not least to say, I tried it with them and it did not work, yet they keep coming back to it. The take-away from this plan is essentially, to memorize the basics in order that I don't need to rely on instructor communication, but am able to cue directions and keep moving with the assembly-line. <br /><br />The reality is, because I can speak well, they do not trust me when I say, "I can not hear." Your words where like a pin-poke release to the mounting frustration I am going through. Am so grateful to read them:<br /><br />"I discover the hearing person has already firmly established in their mind I am not different and finds it extremely difficult to accommodate my communication requests and needs. <br /><br />All because I opened my mouth. <br />All because "I speak so well." <br /><br />A lifetime of this frustration has taught me that sometimes it is just easier for everyone involved if I simply do not speak at all."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10074873320456307787noreply@blogger.com