"read each others minds" hahahaha

This video is hilarious and so helpful!! I love all the jokes you guys were cracking at the sillier / more frustratingly common questions. I am a hearing ASL 101 student and am watching as many videos like these as I can find so I can practice understanding everyday signs and conversation, plus learn more about Deaf culture and the dos and don'ts of interacting with d/Deaf folks.

Holy cow! Several minutes in I realized the obnoxious audio-music soundtrack and shut off the sound. No offense to the individual(s) who selected it. I hope you have continued uploading from this site as I'm seeing this 13 months later. Very informative, funny and kind. Thank you.

You are all so funny . I’m a hearing person learning ASL, and it so cool. Can’t wait to have full blown conversations.

this was so insightful to see the expressions and sarcasm and wittiness like just because you cant hear that doesnt mean you dont have a voice, im a coda whos going back to school to become an interpreter and im just so inspired by the culture.

"You don't look like a hearing person." Made me laugh really hard

I'm hearing but I LOVE captions, like my need for captions at this point makes English (my first language) almost impossible to understand if I don't have them. Captions are important for a multitude of reasons I don't understand why any platform/person would choose not to provide them. (Also loved the video, thanks!)

When the question "Do you need captions?" came up, I totally expected someone to say, "No, I love listening to pod casts about the meaning of life"

Omg haha if someone asked me what a deaf person looks like I would tell them "They don't have ears" with a deadpan expression and walk away...

Awesome video! I really appreciate the subtitles over voice, as I hear and cannot sign much. It helps deepen the video‘s meaning.

I absolutely love that everyone interviewed had experience with hearing devices and most preferred to stop using them and embraced who they are. It shows that although our society may be demonized, we are progressing. We've come far enough that people can feel more comfortable with who they are and the world is becoming more accessible to them. I would hate to have to rely on a device to feel "normal". I love the attitude that they use hearing devices as tools to enhance their communication skills, but also feel comfortable enough with who they are and their accessibility in the world that they don't find them necessary :)

This was a fun video and great info to share. One of the questions reminded me of the years when my Deaf friend and I were in the same ASL classes. We had quickly become like family so I was fluent, maybe even interpreter level in ASL when it came to her, only her lol.

I remember I got a customer who was deaf and no one wanted to deal with. My boss was like "well I tried working with him, he was rude."

So I just get out my phone, turn on my notepad app and wrote to him and everything was fine. Honesly, not sure why that wasn't everyone's first option. Like, I don't know sign language, but the guy read, right? Sheesh.

I need to have interaction with someone.  I am 75 years old.  Learning asl

Very good information!
1.  Braille menus?!? 😂
2.  I’m a paraprofessional who has to monitor elementary lunch daily 2 hours 15 minutes…May I work at this school? hahaha, hopefully quieter. One day I wore noise canceling headphones, and, boy, I was so alert to everything just relying on sight, but my boss said I wasn’t allowed to wear them.
3.  I’m a hearing person who hates small talk; using texting sounds like a great way to discuss things, great suggestion!

Awesome video, thanks so much!! Hearing person here learning ASL and learning all I possibly can!

Thank you so much for this informative video!

I'm a hearing person learning ASL. The story about the braille menus is hilarious and sad at the same time.

I work as a courtesy at the food store, alongside Deaf coworker, she work there 12-13 years, still courtesy position, this week I start talking to people, to get her cross-trained for checking.  Food store sister location, Teacher of Deaf work there, taught my Deaf coworker as a child, I tell my coworker, "maybe bring her over this store train you check-work", she sign "When?".  I continue rest of week talk to people at both stores, including Teacher of Deaf, training manager at that store who herself just trained at my store, managers at my store, and my checkers, bring everyone on board, will make this happen, last thing to do, which I tend always do already with random coworkers, convince everyone of her ability to communicate, which she does better than me in many ways, and people agree with that, and I have 6 years experience checking at another place that closed.  I will post a response when she is trained for checking.

When the girl with the braid talks about small talk and how annoying it is, I completely can relate. I am deaf and I despite small talk. My family always talk to me in small talk then talk more to the others.  That is why I don't like going to family functions.