Asgiliath
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So, a tiny bit of background...I’m profoundly deaf from birth and nonverbal. I use ASL and typing exclusively to communicate.
Anyway, today I asked my roommate (an interpreting student) if she wanted to ride down and grab feeders with me. I mentioned on the way that I was thinking about talking to the owner (a pretty cool chill dude) about his (abhorrent) tarantula husbandry Wood chips....sponges...screen tops...etc.
She was telling me that he’d probably take it as rude and it would be awkward for her so I probably shouldn’t say anything. We were chatting a bit about T’s while I was checking out (my roommate, interpreting and voicing for me) when the owner pulled out a g. rosea juvie to show me.
It had basically no sub and a big nasty sponge. I started signing some suggestions. Nothing over the top, just bottle cap water dish etc. and my roommate stopped voicing and walked away which was basically a “F U” “shut up”. I carry a tablet with a chat app for nonverbal folks but didn’t bring it as I figured I’d have a terp.
I don’t know where else to go with this and this is probably an odd place to rant about it but I’m still pretty upset with my roommate. I don’t think I was being rude at all. Just trying to be helpful. She disagreed with my decision so she took my voice. (She’s not gonna get many jobs if she does that with her deaf clients but I guess I’m not paying her lol)
Anyway, today I asked my roommate (an interpreting student) if she wanted to ride down and grab feeders with me. I mentioned on the way that I was thinking about talking to the owner (a pretty cool chill dude) about his (abhorrent) tarantula husbandry Wood chips....sponges...screen tops...etc.
She was telling me that he’d probably take it as rude and it would be awkward for her so I probably shouldn’t say anything. We were chatting a bit about T’s while I was checking out (my roommate, interpreting and voicing for me) when the owner pulled out a g. rosea juvie to show me.
It had basically no sub and a big nasty sponge. I started signing some suggestions. Nothing over the top, just bottle cap water dish etc. and my roommate stopped voicing and walked away which was basically a “F U” “shut up”. I carry a tablet with a chat app for nonverbal folks but didn’t bring it as I figured I’d have a terp.
I don’t know where else to go with this and this is probably an odd place to rant about it but I’m still pretty upset with my roommate. I don’t think I was being rude at all. Just trying to be helpful. She disagreed with my decision so she took my voice. (She’s not gonna get many jobs if she does that with her deaf clients but I guess I’m not paying her lol)