Stephanie Wrote:
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> Wow, that's really interesting. I have often
> thought about how difficult and frustrating it
> must be for a deaf person to interact with the
> world. Go to the grocery store and you can't find
> something? Well, good luck to find somebody that
> can understand you. I remember years ago, I was
> out with some friends at a nightclub and we were
> waiting for our dj pal to get off work to get a
> bite to eat. There was a young man there who
> refused to leave and the staff at the club was
> really having a hard time of him. After watching
> for a few minutes, I realized that he was deaf. I
> snatched up some paper and a pencil from the bar
> and handed it to him. He was so relieved. It
> turned out that he had been brought there by some
> "friends" and they had all left, leaving him there
> alone. He just needed somebody to call a cab for
> him. People just don't think that this person is
> deaf and so they don't understand what is going
> on. In this case, the security staff thought he
> was just another belligerent drunk when he wasn't.
> It was just a total communication breakdown.
>


luckily he was literate!!!! One of my uncles is (was? I don't know if he is still there) deaf and mute and can't read or write!!!!!!

Once I lost my voice for a week. (beleive me, it was complete loss)... people around me celebrated it!! Really!! Balan hopes that will come again. Me too want to experience that again.