(marker scratching)
(electronic game chime)
Hello! So, first thing first,
before I get into this video as a whole,
I want to ask you all
if you are able to help out with this kind of thing.
I have a friend who I've known for so long.
We met when I was like 10 years old,
so I've known him for 15, 16 years now.
His dad has cancer, again,
and they're going through some rough times and stuff
that normally comes with this,
and one of those rough things is financial trouble.
He has a YouCaring page that I will post down below
to help out with bills, any of that kind of stuff
while he and his family take care of his dad.
So if any of you are able to donate a dollar
or five dollars, whatever,
a link for that will be down below.
If you can't donate, that's totally okay, it happens.
If you could at least share the link around
maybe there's somebody out there
who would be able to do that.
So we both thank you very, very much.
Now in happier news, welcome to the first episode of
I guess what I'm gonna call Deaf Poynters,
yes, that's the same name as my website,
because I cannot think of anything better.
So basically what this is
is, okay, I took inspiration from Kat Blaque's True Tea
and instead of always answering questions
on a website or whatever,
I was kind of just thinking you ask me a question,
anything, as long as it's like deafness
or disability related,
I would say as long as it's related to that,
and if you have like a personal experience or something,
send me a question to deafpoynters@gmail.com,
and we'll do this kind of sit down in the car
and chill relaxed kind of video.
Basically imagine me, I'm picking you up
and we're gonna go out to dinner
but you've had a bad day
and we're just gonna like chill out,
that kind of thing.
We're going for a drive, except I'm not driving,
I'm not driving, okay?
I promise, this car is parked, this car is off,
and I'm actually in the same parking spot
that I was before so that's awesome.
So welcome to the first episode.
Some of these will probably be written on the website
instead of answering in the video like this.
It just kind of depends on the topic
and how personal it is.
Now I was going to read the question out loud
because this was on my phone on Instagram direct messaging,
but I'm filming on my phone.
I didn't realize this until I got here and parked.
So to summarize there is a girl who is 16 years old,
she is deaf, has cochlear implants,
and she is in a mainstream public school like I went to.
We have a similar upbringing.
She is oral, public school.
The difference is I don't have hearing devices,
I never have.
And at her school there are a lot of like social activities,
camping activities, that kind of thing,
group project activity stuff,
and one of those things is
that they have to play the game Telephone essentially.
The teacher will give the first student a message
and they have to pass it down.
You have to whisper it into their ear,
and then register it in your head,
go to the next student and whisper it in their ear
until you get to the last person in the line,
and then they have to recite what the message is.
Some people get it right,
and then some people come up
with the most non-sensical stuff
because they couldn't quite understand things.
She struggles with understanding the answer,
and the team always ends up losing,
and stuff like that, it brings down her confidence.
So she wanted me to give my thoughts on the matter.
I have to say I understand how you are feeling 100%.
We had to play that game every once in a while.
I remember 10th grade biology class
was the last time I played that game
because I just didn't want to,
I couldn't do that game.
I did not like it.
Whispering is one of the worst things that you can do to me
to try to communicate with me, I cannot stand it,
and people still do it today.
I don't really understand why.
This is the part where I would say
be very upfront with your teacher or with your classmates
and just be like, "Hey, it just does not make sense
"for me to play this game.
"It does not make sense for me
"to attempt to play this game."
Like if we were to play a game called Guess the Sound
at a very low volume,
why would I want to waste my time doing that?
Because I know it's just not gonna work.
And I know that you say your classmates encourage you to try
and all of that,
but I just don't feel like that's necessary,
especially since it's something
that brings down your confidence level.
If I had to do something that I knew wasn't going to work,
it was just gonna make me feel silly,
then yeah, I don't know.
And that's what I did in 10th grade.
I told my teacher, I said,
"Mr. Campbell, this isn't gonna happen.
"I'm deaf.
"It's not worth it for me to struggle
"to come up with the message,
"potentially get made fun of,
"and then give the wrong message.
"It's gonna make me feel bad.
"I don't want to do it."
And yeah, chances are if you tell them that
they're gonna be,
"Oh come on, just try, just try, just..."
Yeah, you gotta be upfront.
You gotta get a little blunt maybe.
Don't get mean about it like, "I said!"
but just one more time be like,
"Nope, it's not gonna happen.
"I'm not comfortable playing this game.
"I know it's not going to work the way you all want me to.
"It's just not worth it."
Oh, this woman has a puppy.
She's walking her puppy.
I drove by that puppy, and she's so cute.
It's a little white poodle, and it's just...
Oh, I love that puppy.
To wrap it up, I don't think you should feel pressured
to do anything that you really don't feel comfortable doing.
That just isn't gonna work out.
It's not worth it.
Hope that helps you out a little bit.
You need me to help talk to them about it,
I'm all for it.
Send me your teacher's email.
Let's have a conversation.
Remember, if you got a personal experience
that you want me to share my thoughts on,
help you out with some advice, deafpoynters@gmail.com.
Let me know if you want it to be an article
like if it's a more like general kind of topic,
like let's talk about education,
or if you want it to be put in a video
because it's like a very personal experience
that happened to you, just you.
If you want to follow me on my social media
links to that will be down below.
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or you can leave a tip on ko-fi.
Both links will be down below.
I upload every Monday and Thursday unless otherwise stated,
and I will see you later, bye!








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