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p behind said deaf kid and throw his hood on his head seriously some ass hole did that i sweetly schooled him on what not to do to a deaf person while his embarrassed wife and kids listened intently and i wasn t at all surprised when a man stopped as he walked past pointed at owen and asked me in sign deaf yes sign yes he turned to owen and signed some more how old your name what grade and so on i hadn t noticed the child with him until the man was signing his goodbye and nice to meet you i d assumed the man was deaf until he called after the child and the child turned around and i clapped my hands so hard i thought i d sprained my wrist i knew this kid years ago when owen was in preschool just a baby a new boy came to the program niklaus came from the czech republic he had no hearing no speech and knew only a few czech signs this beautiful little deaf person had thick curls of blond hair almost to his rear end and the most intense icy blue eyes he thrived in his new signing environment and was using asl signs within a week the staff were amazed at his progress and owen would talk about his friend nikki often when kindergarten started owen came home sad and told me that nikki wasn t at his school anymore he d asked his teacher and all we knew was that he d gone to a different school and we never saw or heard from him again until last saturday sitting on the green rubbing my sore wrist i know you you re niklaus the father looked baffled as i frantically signed to owen that this was his long lost friend nikki when the information clicked into place owen s face exploded into joy he d remembered and after a few minutes nikki did too we spent the rest of the day with nikki and his dad bryan the kids ran around the green owen checking in with me often to ask when nikki could come to our house to play bryan and i chatted comfortably he lives right in town nikki is mainstreamed in the public school but still knows and uses sign he loves karate and books and superheros he plays the cello he has a hard time connecting with other kids and could use a friend as luck would have it owen is in a similar boat so yesterday the afternoon sailed by as the boys played in nikki s room while bryan filled me in on his fantastic voyage from the czech republic an unbelievable heartbreaking and triumphant story of survival not unlike owen s own tale i m usually thankful for the basic stuff this time of year food shelter clothing kids and family but this year i m thankfully indulging in the spectacle of these two boys neither of whom should even be alive whom the universe saw fit to bring back together posted by tulpen at 9 47 am 35 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ack awesome shit deaf kids kick ass thursday november 8 2012 on kindergarten hangovers and hope a kindergarten classroom would be my last choice in which to spend a hung over morning but at bea s open house last month there was desperate pleading for any parent with the desire and the time to please volunteer in the class other people s kids don t thrill me a bunch i much prefer the over 80 crowd and i can t say i wanted to give up one kid free weekday morning per week but not wanting to seemed a poor excuse to not actually do it so i do wednesday mornings though yesterday my post election fog almost had me bailing sending bea to school with a note to her teacher claiming sickness despite the headache and fogginess i was feeling oddly energized and positive given what had kept me up so late tuesday had started out with yet another discussion with bea and owen of all things election who is the president what is his job who is the other guy no they aren t actually going to be running alongside each other who should we vote for mommy well i m going to vote for the guy who wants everyone to love everyone the guy who wants to help people they guy who wants us to want to help people and many more questions over breakfast as we prepared to head to the high school down the street to vote trying to keep it simple for the five year old and utilizing newly obtained signs for the deaf nine year old owen made me stop in the driveway as we were about to leave ran into the house to fetch his encyclopedia of past presidents bea became silent and appeared terrified as we made our way across the parking lot into the school i m scared i don t want to talk to the president so damn cute oh i would love to talk to him but sadly he s not going to be here today they hovered over me while i took the sharpie to the ballot and filled in my ovals then it was their turn how cool is my state the rest of our day was spent exercising our rights to get hair cuts to eat great southwestern food and to attend karate class the second the kids were tucked in i assumed the position in the big living room chair wielding remote control and iphone cross stitch project on lap wine glass filled to brim and election coverage on the tv i rather enjoyed the bumpy ride just ask the mostly empty wine bottle the big one and then just after 11pm feeling more of a fun mix of relief and disbelief than of victory and quite possibly a goofy grin before i know it i m standing in a kindergarten classroom cursing the flourescent light wincing at the sound of the bell wishing the little voices actually sounded little as i perform my assigned tasks of cutting and folding and stapling story time happens being the month of thanksgiving the focus is on family and the book of the day visits all different kinds of families i find myself abandoning my cutting and turning my attention to the teacher as she reads it went pretty much like this some families have a mommy and a daddy some have only a mommy or only a daddy some families have step parents and step siblings and because i m a dork when she got to the next part some families have two mommies and some have two daddies i teared up i teared the fuck right up because i know a boy in the class who has two mommies and not one kid on that rug thought anything of it not a hand raised to question not a snicker or a giggle a family is a family is a family love is love is love i know that this is a very small part of what tuesday s decision means but in that classroom surrounded by those kids who get to grow up with that understanding of love i felt so stupidly hopeful and if things had taken a different turn on tuesday i d have been crying for a different reason posted by tulpen at 6 44 pm 20 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels i m a dork love monday september 24 2012 nuggets of deaf awareness i m not sure how i feel about awareness campaigns that is a lie i know exactly how i feel i just don t want to share those feelings at this time as it happens to be deaf awareness week and i ve got a deaf kid over the past several mostly non blogging months there have been some bright shining moments of awareness that are worth sharing and celebrating awkward teenage girl at movie ticket counter is now a bit more aware me three kids and an adult for brave her uhhh ok nervously i don t know if you re aware but it is a captioned viewing so the words will be on the screen i hope that s not a problem me big smile right hand giving her thumb up left index finger pointing back and forth between owen and his deaf friend jay deaf kids score her uhhhhh ohhhkaaaay old lady sitting next to me at pond requested the awareness after seeing reading brave i took the kids for a swim the second we staked our claim on the perfect patch of sand owen and jay bolted toward the water me deaf kids the boys trudged back toward my outstretched hands owen placed his hearing aids in one hand jay placed his cochlear implant processors in the other i signed my thanks and gave orders for being careful and polite and all the requisite pre swim jazz and sent them on their way i assumed there were numerous pairs of eyes pointed at me i chose to make contact with the old lady to my right she beamed at me and asked a zillion questions about the boys the differences in their technology their school their language and their lives in general and i believe we may have made her day hopefully verizon guy will pass awareness along as a beginning of school treat i rented the lorax on demand for bea and owen as the movie started i fiddled with the remote and couldn t seem to get the captions to come on owen is getting anxious and whiny as i call verizon to see what the problem is as we ve always been able to get the captions to work the nice young man attempts to school me on the workings of the remote i assure him that i know how to make the captions appear and nothing is working he then asks me if i d noticed when i d rented it if it said that captioning was available for the movie because as it turned out they were not available for the lorax i insisted there was no such information given and it would be nice to have known that beforehand as i have a deaf kid who is now in tears because he can t read his movie nice young man goes on to explain that the children s movies aren t usually captioned at which point i cut him off and politely no really i was polite tell him that there are in fact children who are deaf and that they very much like movies he apologizes profusely assures me that he will mention it to someone and passes me along to a customer service person who will refund my money my favorite part is when he transfers me i hear a recording saying that there is an unusual call volume and i will be waiting a long time for assistance he s still there and says no that s not cool you re cutting in line customer service person listens to my story agrees that it should state if the movie is captioned or not apologizes and credits my account i then tell owen that he won t be reading his movie and crank up the volume and then i check the main menu where it should have clearly stated whether or not the movie was captioned it clearly stated that it was not in which i am made aware of a very specific animal sound the county fair is a summer must as i walk the kids around i m on the alert for sounds that are and are not available to owen the toothless carnies shouting demands that we throw money at their unwinnable games owen is oblivious the scary shrieks and bangs in the haunted house he hears enough enough to be a brave big brother and see his little sister through the animals baby goats and their wee little bleats he leans in close and hears them chickens he hears the clucking he asks and is allowed to hold one and is so scared of the thing he nearly strangles it i see a group huddled around a pen i hear an odd grunting sound and peek over someones shoulder a large really large tortoise i wonder if owen can hear it so i get his attention sign to him that there is a huge turtle as he runs over to me woman whose shoulder i had peered over is giving me a curious stare as i grab owen and lift him up to see and hopefully hear the turtle i hadn t thought much of the look the woman gave me as i was too concerned with owen getting the full turtle experience and now i am aware that people don t just give me weird looks because i m signing to my kid they also give me weird looks when i hold my deaf kid up so he can watch giant turtles have extremely loud sex bea is as aware as one can be owen can barely hear bea the constant chatter of her high pitched voice is just not accessible to him most of what she says if he cares to know it i have to repeat to him or give him in sign i ve been on a mission to make the two more self sufficient in their communication i d love to remove myself from their equation so i encourage bea to use the signs she knows remind her to face him and to be aware of the noise level in the room that could interfere with his understanding and implore her to be patient when owen asks her to repeat what she s said none of the above is going very well as evidenced by this exchange as we were getting ready to go swimming me bea do you have everything you need bea my orange towel it s upstairs i ll go get it owen what she said now it is just a towel he s not been deprived of some important piece of information but it is these little incidental bits that he misses that make my brain scream no fair so if he demands to know what his sister said as insignificant as it may be then he has the right to know it me bea tell owen what you said he missed it bea no me tell him please he wants to know it isn t fair tell him please now bea no so on and so forth for far too long but i am determined to make my point finally i resort to threats of not going swimming bea you re going to tell him what you said right no i can t i didn t hear myself aparently she is determined to make her own point atta girl possibly more deaf awareness stuff later this week posted by tulpen at 1 29 pm 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels deaf kids kick ass monday september 3 2012 summer 2012 remember that summer when all i did was drag the kids to the beach and the pool and the pond and every time i dragged them to the beach or the pool or the pond they d be fighting and whining and complaining as i tried to pack all the necessities required for a day at the beach or the pool or the pond and somehow i d manage to remember all the proper snacks and drinks and sunblock and bug spray and sand toys and boogie boards and goggles and masks and books and extra clothes and towels and five hundred other things and you d think the children would sing my praises for such a feat they would not but they would remind of that one forgotten thing and piss and moan about it all day you know how exhausting it is to referee deaf kid and hearing sister at the beach or the pool or the pond so very exhausting which is why this day at the water park made me so damn happy deaf kids signing at water park remind me to tell you some day about our how our movie theater in town got all sorts of high tech stuff for deaf folks thus greatly enhancing owen s moviegoing experience also remind me to tell you about how badly i didn t want to correct owen when he talked about his favorite movies ice age 4 carnival of death and pronounman how about that time after a typically draining day at the beach or the pool or the pond when the kids and i were sitting at the dinner table and they thought they d rename themselves owen declared himeself fart o bea chose stink o and both of them agreed i shall now be known as wine o or how about the time the kids met their newest cousin or all the times they got to do this or this or this or this or this they are damn lucky kids i was lucky to do this a few times even and after a long summer day of frolicking at the beach or the pool or the pond after hours of bickering and interpreting and intervening if when we pulled into the driveway and the kids were fighting over who was going to get to the door first before the car had even sto...