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Hello and welcome to episode five of Deaf Poynters
where I take us for a drive, sort of, I'm parked, really,
and you talk to me
about your deaf or disability-related problems.
I have a question or concern from Ingrid today.
"Hi, my name is Ingrid, and I was just diagnosed
"with conductive hearing loss.
"I live in an area with a small population,
"so there isn't a large Deaf community.
"Outside of the medical side of being hard of hearing,
"I don't know anything about Deaf culture.
"I'm not really sure what to look up even to be honest.
"What are some things someone who's new to being
"hard of hearing, deaf, should know or look into?
"I'm not sure what there is to know,
"or what I don't know, so I feel really nervous
"I'm going to acc..." Oh!
"So I feel really nervous that I'm going to accidentally
"do or say something uncool
"when I finally do move somewhere with a community,
"or that I might just not know about the culture enough
"to connect with anyone."
I kind of paraphrased that a little bit,
but that's the - can I help you, Sun?
We're just gonna be in like weird positions today
to try to avoid the sun as much as possible.
I already moved parking spots, okay,
so it's just not gonna help.
Anyways, so the first thing you can do,
the first thing you should do is google.
And I don't mean that in the, like, condescending
or belittling, like, oh my god, google it, kind of way.
I mean really, that's your best bet.
That's your number one thing that you need to do,
and I would just really, I would just google
'"Deaf culture", "Deaf community", "Deaf history".
Um... There are books out there.
Gallaudet has a book that they use
in their curriculum.
I can't remember exactly what it's called.
I wanna say it's like Deaf History something,
it's something that I really want,
but it is expensive.
Books and the internet are going to be
your best bet, really.
There is, there's a book called Deaf President Now,
which I read a little bit of,
but I have not finished,
and I think that's going to be one of the major
kind of topics that you can read about
because the protest at Gallaudet for a deaf president
was a very huge deal and is a very huge deal.
YouTube definitely helps,
there's a lot of videos out there.
There's my channel, obviously,
but there's a documentary called Through Our Eyes,
I think that's what it's called, Through These Eyes,
Through These Eyes, Through Those Eyes, something.
Mostly an Alexander Graham Bell kind of thing, I think,
maybe, I don't know,
but you gotta learn about how Alexander Graham Bell
really was, which I'll have a video on it eventually.
There's a lot of research to be done on that video.
As far as YouTube channels go, ASL Stew is
a very, very good channel.
And, let's see.
There's a Facebook group called,
I don't remember exactly what it's called,
it's Learning ASL and Deaf Culture, I think.
It's a fairly new group,
it moved from the ASL Practice Pals group,
so I will link that down below.
Being part of actual Deaf events is
really, really helpful, too.
I would say google "Deaf events",
put your city in, see if you can pull something up.
Obviously towns that are very, very small,
you'll have a harder time finding something,
you may not find anything at all,
but it's worth looking into.
I think that's pretty much all that I can really tell you,
I would just, if you google "Deaf culture",
"Deaf community", into Google, and look through books,
and then move on from there.
Google is going to give you so many sources.
I'll have the links I mentioned down below.
If I forget something, which I probably will,
people in the comments, please let me know.
People who are watching this,
you might also have some resources,
so please leave those down below,
any other tips, but internet and books, really,
those are your two biggest and greatest things
that will help you out.
They helped me out a lot.
So hope that helps.
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I think this series is doing pretty well,
we're on episode five, so I feel a little better.
I get an email for at least one per every episode
that I upload, so I'm feeling good.
I'd feel better if I didn't have this sun happening,
but, and all these noises, what is it?
(motor sounds)
I don't hear it, but I feel it.
What is this?
I don't, there are no other, well, I'm downtown,
so okay, but still, creepin' me out.
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