raeanna74, your reply wasn't long at all!
Sorry to hear your relationship didn't work out well.
I hate people who are deaf or hard of hearing and have disability. As far as I'm concearned, being deaf dosen't get you the right to live off taxpayer's money but... that's just my humble opinion.
Cool name sign. I knew someone at CSD Fremont (California School for the Deaf-Fremont) with the same name, and name sign as yours.
I was thrilled to hear that you work in a gun shop AND that a deaf guy was in there! I'm very pro-gun myself, and participate regularly in smallbore, and highpower competition, and this Sunday, I may be shooting my first black powder muzzle-loading match.
I talk those who are hearing impaired rather than sign, but usually I talk AND sign since they sometimes miss what I say. Sometimes when I'm talking to an ALMOST deaf person I'll use their "voice" while signing. Like my friend Charles for example. I can imitate his voice exactly. I don't know how, but I can. So I talk to him with his voice (hoping that he may understand better. But just now as I wrote that, I realize that may be harder for him to understand). I think I’ll just use my voice from now on.
It was cool to hear about you, thanks for sharing.
bermuDa, that's funny. Swear words are the first thing that hearing people want to learn. This is true for any language. There's something about cussing in another language and not having people understand you that is "special". Not really special, but I'm sure you get my meaning.