Communications Etiquette

Communications Etiquette (as I understand it):

 

1. Phone - Need to talk NOW [usually].

2. Texting / Messaging - Within the hour.

3. E-mail - Within the day.

4. Snail Mail - Weeks to months.

5. Pigeon Post - Seriously?

6. Telegram - Nobody uses these anymore, stop.

7. Smoke Signals - Alright, you're just mocking me now.

The Bad Old Days

 

When someone says they want "to bring the old ways back"; that's your warning. They have nothing new to offer. Now is not the time to be complacent, or scared.

We must SPEAK UP against the entitled few who deem themselves qualified to dictate to the common people what is right and wrong. They are scared of becoming extinct, so they create artificial conditions & lament their gilded place in society as insufficient, then enact legislation to ensure their survival. It doesn't have to be this way.

Signing Gloves

Someone has invented signing gloves - again. While I understand the thought process behind sharing news such as this - these gloves really aren't as useful as they would seem. 

There are a lot of non-manual markers used in ASL that can't be relayed on the hands. (Facial expressions, queries, emotion, etc). It would take less time learning how to finger spell, at the very least to get your point across than it would to develop & market these things.

Write What You Know

In the last year, I decided to resurrect my Blogger site & renamed it "Hard Of Hearing Problems".

Afterwards, I thought maybe I should have named it something else, perhaps a more general type of blog; then I realized no - I think I did it right this time.

I often hear people say, "Write what you know". I am writing from a place I know intimately - as a disabled person trying to make their way in an ableist world. It may not be great prose, but it's honest.

Choices

 

"Happy Holidays"

If somebody gives you guff for offering "Happy Holidays", then say "Fine, have a terrible one," because I can't assume to know everything about everybody.