Hi! Welcome back to the channel.
So I'm sad today.
When am I not.
So I thought I would try
to cheer myself,
and maybe you, if you're having
the same problems as me today,
with more reacting to deaf memes.
I've done a video
on this in the past.
You all seemed to like it and there's
a couple more that I've seen
that I just...I just wanna do
a little reaction to.
Especially one in particular.
And we're gonna go back
to deafmemes.exe
which I promoted the Twitter for
but as it turns out
they have a whole whopping
Instagram account
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"Hearing people: it's not
nice to point at someone.
"my deaf ass:
*points at someone out of curiosity* "
Yeah. So the whole
pointing at someone
is definitely a big no-no
in the hearing world.
I grew up in the hearing world.
And every time I'd point,
somebody's got something to say.
They're like, "Don't do that,
don't do that!"
But yeah, when you
point at something,
it's part of the whole ASL thing.
It's part of sign language
in general, right?
You identify something.
You gotta point at it.
It's just...it's part of the grammar.
It's part of the language.
So, you kind of just gotta point.
"ASL instructor Jack Volpe
tells us that
"when using sign language
"being direct is necessary,
not rude.
"Deaf individuals tend to point
"and how they point
identifies something.
"You see that man over there?"
"Oh yeah!"
"Then you know
who's being talked about.
"If you just use
facial expressions,
"it's impossible to know
who you're talking about."
It is what it is.
It's not meant to be rude.
It's just how are we
supposed to know
who you're talking about.
"Me (interpreted voice): excuse me,
you don't have to say 'tell him...'
"every time you talk to me.
"my signing impaired doctor:"
And there's a little GIF
of this man
looking incredibly confused.
Yeah, I've had people say
from time to time
when I have
an interpreter around
or when I have a captioner
or even when I was using TTY
to talk to people,
make appointments and stuff.
They would always say,
"Tell her, tell her, tell her."
I've even had "tell him"
from time to time.
And it's like:
you're talking to me.
Like yeah, we have somebody
with us to interpret
or whatever.
But you're talking to me.
I am your client.
Or your customer,
your patient, whatever.
Like, talk to me.
Look at us and
address us
personally, as you should.
"How my hearing cousin tells me
"what we are gonna
have for dinner."
And there is a GIF of
Will Smith from Suicide Squad.
Signing this.
Or this.
And what non-signing people
would think of...
is...pizza.
Cause it does look like
a slice of pizza.
What it would actually mean
is vagina.
So I understand
that hearing people
would probably use that sign
if they couldn't figure it out.
Actually, it would be signed
more like this.
Wouldn't it? Well...
YouTube can't
demonetize me for this
because they don't know
what the heck I'm saying.
So, this is hilarious.
But either way,
even though...
(LAUGHS)
It's very obvious
that we would probably get
what a non-signer
is trying to say.
If they're trying to
gesture "pizza" to us.
But I can't help but think
that this is actually...
funny.
I once had a friend who
got out of a speeding ticket
because the cop was trying
to sign to him "license,"
so he would give him
his license.
But he ended up
signing like this.
And my friend was laughing.
And the cop was like,
"Why...why are you
laughing at me?
"What's going on?"
And once the cop found out
what he was actually signing,
he let him go.
And that's a story about
how someone
got out of a speeding ticket.
"When a signing-impaired person
"reads my note carefully
be like:"
And there's a GIF of somebody
putting on, like, reading glasses.
This is why I use Big.
Because Big:
it starts out big
and then goes small.
I hate using Notes for things.
Like, unless it's for me
personally, I...
no.
"Waiting for the interpreter
to show up before a meeting.
"Me trying to figure out
where I am supposed to look at."
Me at YouTube events. Yep.
When we're all
in the green room,
especially if I'm at a panel.
It's one thing
when I'm at a workshop,
cause then I'm...
or when I have a workshop,
cause then I'm by myself.
So I'm not really
expecting anyone
to come to my table
and wait with me.
But when there would be a panel
at VidCon or Playlist,
and it would be
one of those panels
where it was all, like,
hearing people
or non-disabled people.
Actually, that was really at Playlist.
So everybody's talking
and whatever.
And I'd just kind of
sit there awkwardly
because I'm waiting
for the interpreter.
Or before I even
had interpreters
and it was only captions.
The captions would not be
available to me
until we were actually
on the panel.
Because there would...
All the equipment would
be on the panel table.
So, that was incredibly awkward.
Though thankfully, when I was able
to get interpreters,
when I felt comfortable,
it was less awkward that way.
(LAUGHS)
I...oh, I love this one.
"What is an extreme sport?
"Waiting to see
if the captions appear
"at the very beginning
of a movie
"after a series of commercials"
(LAUGHS)
"and trailers without captions."
And there's a photo of a couple
with the caption glasses
and they're looking.
This is so true.
I hate those devices.
I hate the caption glasses
even more.
But the CaptiView things...
I've done a video on this,
I'll link it up, if I find it.
They make great weapons
if somebody annoys you.
So you can slap them.
I've never actually done that.
And I probably would be
too chicken to.
But, you know,
the thought is there,
the action is there.
But you know, the trailers start
and everybody
is enjoying the trailers.
And you're just kind of
sitting there like...
"So, do I...
"Do I...do I get to...
"Do I get the captions?" Like...
I don't know what it is.
For some trailers,
you have the captions.
And then for some, you don't.
So, it's really just a nice...
fun, I say that sarcastically,
game to play
while you're there.
"Every signing impaired person
be like,
"hey, I know ASL!"
"In reality:
sloppy fingerspelling
"(learned in 7th grade)"
OK, so this is not
to knock anyone
that's learning ASL
and trying, OK?
That's not the problem.
The problem is when
somebody's really acting like
they really know ASL, OK?
And then they just
start fingerspelling...
everything.
And especially slowly.
And it's so time-consuming
and hard to read
and da, da, da.
So, just say you only
know the alphabet
and you're not really
that great at it. It's fine.
But you don't know ASL
when you can only do the alphabet.
"Dinner Table Syndrome
is when you are finished eating
"before everyone else."
Empty plates. Empty coffee.
Yep. (SIGHS)
Yeah, just sit there eating
and you could probably
get through three plates.
and it's only fifteen minutes,
because you have
to distract yourself.
And what better way to do that
than just eating.
And this is why I really
stopped wanting to go to
any events,
holiday dinners,
at any relationship.
"My hearing parent
ordering food for me."
Then there's me.
Quote, quote.
With a shorter guy,
basically acting as
a child looking up.
This does not happen
so much anymore.
I order myself.
When I was a child,
yeah, I would have
somebody order for me.
Half because I was a child,
so I was shy.
And also because, like,
if anybody would
ask me questions,
I'd just be so confused.
The downside though,
if I'm out with my dad
and we get food...
Or with anyone rather.
I'll say my order out loud.
And then they respond back
to me and I...
suddenly look back over
to my dad
or whoever I'm with.
I'm like...
"Can you continue?" (LAUGHS)
Because I'm like, oh...
But I'm also afraid to, like...
I don't know if it's just me.
This is probably silly
that I feel like this,
because why feel silly about it?
But it...it's never established
at the very beginning
that I'm deaf.
So like, I'm talking.
Or like if I have the order
written down on my phone
and I show them.
Or I point, gesture, whatever.
And then I'll be talking
to the hearing person.
And so they come over,
and I'll sit and be like...
"What?"
So you're talking
or whatever.
And I get so confused.
So then I'll try to order
the simplest thing possible
so I don't have to make any like...
what's the word I'm looking for?
(CLICKS FINGERS)
Adjustments to my order, right?
Oh, completely relatable
right now.
"When a masked
signing impaired person
"keeps talking to you
after finding out you're deaf."
And then a person with a mask on.
"Muffled screams internally."
Yeah, that...
that keeps happening.
Everywhere I go,
I tell them, you know,
I have it written down
or whatever.
And they'll just be talking
and I'm like...
"Are we for real right now?
Like, come on.
"Like, why are we doing that?"
This actually happened recently
when I was picking up food.
And I messaged them
on Facebook and
I was like
"Hey, by the way,
"I don't know why your staff
is talking through me...
"Talking to me
through a mask."
And they were like,
"Oh, we didn't know
"that you were deaf."
I was like...
it's written on here
and I'm signing to you.
Like, come on!
Anyway, so...
Yeah. Like if somebody
especially is telling you
that they're deaf
and write it down,
and you keep talking to them
through your mask,
what are you doing?
That doesn't mean
take off your mask.
But it does mean, you know,
get out a pen and paper.
Whatever. Hand gesture.
Don't talk to them.
How does that make any sense?
It's one thing
if the person
is trying to then use, like,
body language
and hand gestures.
But when they keep talking regularly
and you're just like
"I don't know
what's happening right now."
"How to recognize a STRONG-DEAF
driver on the road."
And there's like a van,
I'm going to guess,
with all the stereos.
Volume 45 right over here.
The highest that it'll go.
I don't have any fancy
bass equipment in my car,
cause it's a car shared with
three people total.
So...including me.
"A popular signing-impaired tiktoker
'teaches' ASL
"for clout."
And then there's a cat.
A Tiktok of a cat.
Like, just raising its paws.
That's adorable!
Anyway, yeah!
Hearing people who barely know ASL,
stop teaching!
People still ask me to make videos,
like teaching signs.
And I'm like, "no."
I recognize I did that one
with Jessica.
The guest video, during Vlogmas
a couple years back.
And since then, I'm like...
"No..." (LAUGHS)
"Just no."
"Hearing person:
wow, you don't look deaf!
"Me: what the (BLEEP)
am I supposed to look like?
"A potato?"
I do look like a potato.
But yeah, what's the deaf uniform?
I don't understand...
We still don't understand.
Which, by the way,
if you are deaf,
hard of hearing, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Deaf is an umbrella term.
Go with it.
I have "Do I Look Deaf Now?"
merch in my shop.
We got masks in there,
t-shirts,
other apparel, pens,
stickers, things like that.
So, go on. Have fun.
"When we sign,
do hearing people
"think we are yelling
all the time?"
This...this is like
in retaliation
to that meme made
by hearing people, like,
"If a person is yawning,
"do deaf people think they're screaming?"
Or whatever.
Oh, god, OK.
So, you know those videos
about cakes that look like
actual objects.
So I've seen phones,
purses, shoes, whatever.
And a person's
gonna bite into them
or cut into them
and it turns out it's actually cake.
So, it started
freaking everyone out
during the start of quarantine.
"When you want to know 
if both of your hearing aids
"were made of cakes too:"
And then there's a photo
of somebody with a knife
and hearing aids that
definitely don't
look like real ones.
I don't know.
But yeah, don't.
Please don't attempt that.
(LAUGHS)
I don't think anyone's
actually attempting that,
but the thought of it.
Oh my god!
Those are so expensive.
(LAUGHS)
There's a comment that says,
"My dog found out they were not."
(LAUGHS)
"Every deaf road trip be like:"
And then there's
the photo of, like,
us in the very back seat.
And then another person, like,
turning completely around.
No seatbelt on.
Yep! That's...that's right.
Put your seatbelt on.
Don't be unsafe.
But, yep! That's right!
"When you move
to a new town
"and show up in
a deaf community event
"for the first time:"
And then there's
"local deaf people,
"who the (BLEEP) is this asshole?"
(LAUGHS)
That feels like me every...
That's me every time
I show up at an event
or something for work.
I...I...I feel like that asshole.
(LAUGHS)
"When you see
a cute hearing stranger
"waving at you
and you wave back
"but you realize someone else
is standing behind you."
Yeah.
Cause typically someone will
shout out to a person
and then they wave.
And there are times when I hear,
like, residual hearing.
There's that little yelp somewhere
and I turn around.
And yeah, it turns out
they're not actually waving at me.
There goes the love of my life
that I possibly
could have married.
(LAUGHS)
"When you are
on a video relay call
"but you are being
placed on hold for a long time:"
And a video of Kanye West, just...
A photo of Kanye West.
Really, this is not actually happening.
Kanye's not using an interpreter.
But then there's...
In the corner,
the interpreter and you all
just gotta stare at each other.
Yeah, when I made
my first VRS call ever,
I was trying to talk to my dad.
I couldn't figure out
how it worked.
And it was...awkward.
Just kind of, like,
staring at each other.
(LAUGHS)
"When hearing people
try to not get caught
"staring at you
talking with your deaf friends."
Oh god, yeah.
My friend and I,
we were at Chicago Diner.
Is that what it was called?
And we were signing
to each other.
And both hearing couples
on either side of us,
would not stop staring.
Like, we're just having...
We're just trying to have a conversation
and they were just full on staring,
like the whole time.
Every time our hands were lifted,
they were staring at us.
Oh my god.
Actually they weren't even...
I don't even think they were trying
not to get caught.
They were just staring.
"Me five minutes into
being at a deaf party:"
Me in the middle.
My drunk friend
zooming in
and hitting me?
OK, no. I am the drunk one
because deaf events make me
so nervous.
So I would instantly
go to the alcohol,
if there was any,
because I was so scared.
(LAUGHS)
I would be absolutely petrified,
because I...
Every time you find me
at a deaf event,
if...if it's people
that I don't really know,
then I'm convinced
everyone hates me.
And I get scared
and I'm just like "Ahhhh!".
Then last but not least,
my absolute favorite one.
And this is really what made me
want to make this video.
"Deaf drivers are safer on the road.
"Also deaf drivers."
And the GIF of "Too Fast, Too Furious"
or one of the very beginning
"Fast and Furious" movies,
with Paul Walker staring at
that woman whose name I forget
and they just stare at each other
while they're driving.
I love this.
This is hilarious.
Yes, statistically,
deaf drivers are
better drivers and safer drivers.
I made a whole video
on this on the past,
and I'm likely better
at you at driving.
(LAUGHS)
This is also...
But this is like
why I don't want hearing people
or really anyone
talking to me
when we're in the car,
if I'm the one driving.
Because if you're gonna
try to talk to me,
like my dad will try to talk me,
or anybody else is
trying to talk to me,
and then I...like,
Really, unless you're signing
and you're like leaning forward
so that I can actually see you,
and also, mainly
concentrate on the road.
Hearing people,
why do you want to talk to me
while I'm trying to drive?
You know, especially here.
This is like
my completely deaf side.
I have some residual hearing here.
And almost practically
nothing here.
So, you're trying to talk me,
you know what I have to do?
That's why hear...
if hearing people
actually come into my car,
which is very rarely
because nobody ever wants
to socialize with me.
Don't talk to me!
You're not allowed.
(LAUGHS)
You're gonna have to sign,
if you wanna do that.
Other than that,
you're not allowed.
Oh my God, that's so funny.
I...I...I love that meme so much.
All right, there we go.
Part two of meme reactions.
I love that account so much.
You gotta go follow it,
if you haven't already.
I'll link it down below.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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