[DeafBoo]

Hi,

I don't listen to the radio - I'm Deaf, as my name suggests. I don't know who Chris Moyles is, but my husband who is hearing, loves Chris! Laughs his head off whenever CM is on the radio. Hmmm.... No idea myself!

However, my husband told me about Chris's plan to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.... I wish you all the best, Chris! I have the same plan next August - to climb the mountian to raise money for NDCS (National Deaf Childrens Society).

I wish I could hear your programme; everybody tells me how funny you are. Please contact me if you feel you can help with sponsorship in any way; Deaf people are so GREAT!! We can't hear your programme, but if we could, you would be top of our listening preference!!

Good luck with your trek... please email me to let me know how you get on and if you manage to do it. Best of luck; I can't wait to go!

I'm just about to start fund raising - please PLEASE sponsor me (once I've registered for the trek, I'll post again).

Good luck Chris,
DeafBoo xx

[foot-loose]

The Chris you are talking about rarely visits in here, so he says at least (it's actually me, but don't tell anyone).

Anyways, even though you are on the quieter side of hearing, you can enjoy the banter in here with us. You aint missing much anyways - some nonsense about truck drivers, a few jingles, the future Presidents name repeated over and over and Dom bumming every day at 09:50.



Question: what makes deaf people great?

[DeafBoo]

What makes Deaf people great?

Our language (British Sign Language); our humour (very funny; different from hearing humour in that it's very visual); we play a lot of games together - for example, if we are at a party, it won't just be drinking and chatting; we tend to organise ourselves and maybe play games like Twister (the game with the plastic sheet and bending around each other); we are very tactile - touch a lot to get attention... hearing are very "stand away from my personal space"; we tend to remember faces easily but won't always remember names because we don't hear them; hearing people tell us we can't do things because we're Deaf - the only thing I can't do is HEAR... I abseil, kayak, sing (badly!), dance, drive, cook, clean, scuba dive, cry, hurt, laugh, swear.... I just do it all in Sign Language. I work in an office and always finish my work before the hearing girls - they spend their time chatting... I get my head down and get the job done. I chat around the water cooler.

Some hearing people are scared of Deafies.... the only thing scary about me is my hair first thing on a morning (bed-head)! I have a different way of living my life to those who can hear.... all in all, that makes us Deafies GREAT.

Anything else?!

Maybe I'll hang around a bit.... thanks for the invitation!

DB

[foot-loose]

Ahh, but is it the fact you are deaf that makes you great? I don't dispute it is an important aspect of your life, but would you not be great if you were not deaf?

[S4B]

What makes Deaf people great?

Our language (British Sign Language); our humour (very funny; different from hearing humour in that it's very visual); we play a lot of games together - for example, if we are at a party, it won't just be drinking and chatting; we tend to organise ourselves and maybe play games like Twister (the game with the plastic sheet and bending around each other); we are very tactile - touch a lot to get attention... hearing are very "stand away from my personal space"; we tend to remember faces easily but won't always remember names because we don't hear them; hearing people tell us we can't do things because we're Deaf - the only thing I can't do is HEAR... I abseil, kayak, sing (badly!), dance, drive, cook, clean, scuba dive, cry, hurt, laugh, swear.... I just do it all in Sign Language. I work in an office and always finish my work before the hearing girls - they spend their time chatting... I get my head down and get the job done. I chat around the water cooler.

Some hearing people are scared of Deafies.... the only thing scary about me is my hair first thing on a morning (bed-head)! I have a different way of living my life to those who can hear.... all in all, that makes us Deafies GREAT.

Anything else?!

Maybe I'll hang around a bit.... thanks for the invitation!


DB

Sounds a lot like hearing people's life only we have the added benefit of being able to hear Chris Moyles. I think what you have to remember DB is that life is what you make it no matter what your physical capabilities.

[Andy B]

*! That's weird not being able to listen to the radio. I never thought of that. Oh I mean weird in an "I never considered it before" kind of way. I've decided now I'd rather be blind than deaf. I rely on my hearing so much. At least TV has subtitles and closed captions, radio has bugger all.

[MK Chris]

I would definitely go for blind too. The thought of not being able to listen to music, for a start, would be horrible.

Out of interest, have you been deaf from birth, DeafBoo? Is your husband fluent in sign language? I think it's amazing how people with impairments like that manage to work round them - your other senses probably go some way to make up for your lack of hearing, right? Often people who are deaf have great eyesight, for example, and vice versa.

[Johnny 1989]

I'd actually rather be the other way round TBH, I find the prospect of being blind but hearing everything around you rather frightening TBH

[Boboff]

Pardon?

[Zoot]

Welcome Boo
It's funny - i watched Miracle on 41st Street yesterday for the first time ever, and I actually shed a tear (a little) when the deaf girl sat on Santa's knee and her Mum say's 'She's deaf, you don't have to talk to her', but Santa starts speaking to her in sign language - beautiful scene!

[Sunny So Cal]

Nope. I'd rather be deaf. You can still watch movies or television with subtitles. If you were blind you wouldn't be able to read a book, you couldn't see art on display, view beautiful landscapes or even see your children's faces. What is radio compared to that?

[wireman2004]

welcome boo.
I hope you can get the general idea of what chris is about with his jokes from us on this forum.

Other posters. When reading this topic. I think that how lucky we are too have our sight and our hearing and i take my hat off too boo and that the things we take advantage of are not nesisary what other people have. It makes me feel honored. And that if i could swap with someone who couldn't listen too moyles. Or watch him or anyone. I would. Because at the end of the day. We all deserve too look at the trees. And listen too the radio.

[Yudster]

I have had problems with both my eyesight and my hearing in the last year - my eyesight should eventually recover, but I will probably permanently lose 80% or so of the hearing in my left ear. Believe me, that is bad enough - how difficult must it be to have no hearing? I am nearly going mad as it is - hats off to you Boo.