Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I would think only a deaf girl would go out with most of you guys
Originally posted by: Alchemist99
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I would think only a deaf girl would go out with most of you guys
Whats the implication here? Deaf girls have lower standards because they are deaf and therefore less desirable and the
guys on this forum are geeks so they can't get a "hotchick" hmm
I'm open to your explanation.
Originally posted by: crumpet19
I'm pretty sure I would. A disability such as this should have little effect on emotion. But, what kind of problems, if any, could you foresee is such a relationship? Assuming you know no sign language but she reads lips fairly well.
What about public events.. going to movies, etc?
What kind of aid is available for deaf people? IE: if you go to a movie do the theatres offer any aide?
Con: Always have to watch DVDs with captions on.
Pro: Never have to talk on the phone!
Pro: You could talk dirty almost any time you felt the urge...
but, ok. I'm kinda serious about this.
Wow!!Originally posted by: Nohr
We met online on a MUD and I guess you could say we "dated" over the internet for around 3 months. I moved in with her and we got married shortly after. It was very quick and a pretty dumb naive move in retrospect, but we're lucky that it's worked out. Been 4 years now.
Some blind people prefer canes, some prefer dogs. My wife uses both and is on her second guide dog. They can get around quite well on their own once they're familiar with the route, it can take a lot of practice. Manhattan is pretty damn extreme but anything's possible obviously.
It's cool watching my wife and her dog work, even just to take him out to do his business. He's very alert and always looking around. If a car's coming and it's going to cross their path he'll stop dead and won't move until he's sure all's clear. She'll even discipline him for it sometimes because she's not aware of the danger but he still doesn't budge. Then she feels all bad when she hears the car go by, hehe. Apparently he's had $30,000 worth of training. :Q
Originally posted by: Nohr
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Really? Wow, that is interesting.
We met online on a MUD and I guess you could say we "dated" over the internet for around 3 months. I moved in with her and we got married shortly after. It was very quick and a pretty dumb naive move in retrospect, but we're lucky that it's worked out. Been 4 years now.
Some blind people prefer canes, some prefer dogs. My wife uses both and is on her second guide dog. They can get around quite well on their own once they're familiar with the route, it can take a lot of practice. Manhattan is pretty damn extreme but anything's possible obviously.
It's cool watching my wife and her dog work, even just to take him out to do his business. He's very alert and always looking around. If a car's coming and it's going to cross their path he'll stop dead and won't move until he's sure all's clear. She'll even discipline him for it sometimes because she's not aware of the danger but he still doesn't budge. Then she feels all bad when she hears the car go by, hehe. Apparently he's had $30,000 worth of training. :Q
Originally posted by: IEatChildren
Originally posted by: Nohr
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Really? Wow, that is interesting.
We met online on a MUD and I guess you could say we "dated" over the internet for around 3 months. I moved in with her and we got married shortly after. It was very quick and a pretty dumb naive move in retrospect, but we're lucky that it's worked out. Been 4 years now.
Some blind people prefer canes, some prefer dogs. My wife uses both and is on her second guide dog. They can get around quite well on their own once they're familiar with the route, it can take a lot of practice. Manhattan is pretty damn extreme but anything's possible obviously.
It's cool watching my wife and her dog work, even just to take him out to do his business. He's very alert and always looking around. If a car's coming and it's going to cross their path he'll stop dead and won't move until he's sure all's clear. She'll even discipline him for it sometimes because she's not aware of the danger but he still doesn't budge. Then she feels all bad when she hears the car go by, hehe. Apparently he's had $30,000 worth of training. :Q
How does a blind person use the internet? With voice recog software?
Originally posted by: Nohr
Lets see..
My wife has a heightened spatial perseption, meaning she's aware of things even though she can't see them. For example, one day I was helping her learn a route to a friend's house that lived nearby. Part of it involved walking down another apartment complex's driveway and through the parking lot behind a row of cars.
Often times many of the spaces were empty, but never all of them. So the way I thought she'd have to navigate it with her cane was to follow the curb in front of where the cars parked. When she came upon a parked car I figured she'd have to walk around it, ie down the right side, then behind the trunk, then back up the left side to curb. Unless there was more cars in which case she'd just keep following the line of trunks. Anyway, ends up she could cross empty parking spots and make it from trunk to trunk on her own with no need for the curb at all. She can sense which spots have cars and which are empty, by the way ambient sound reflects off them I guess. Was kinda a "daaaamn" moment.
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