CHRISSY: Hello everyone! Welcome back!
I'm Chrissy, this is my sign name, and this is!?
RIKKI: I can't fingerspell that fast, joking, I'm Rikki.
[Hearing aid chimes]
[Whistles]
CHRISSY: So today what we are going to do is talk about mainstream experiences.
RIKKI: Fun time!
CHRISSY: When you are mainstreamed to hearing schools when you are a deaf person,
So, I guess you want to start?
RIKKI: Okay I am going to try and keep it short, I have many videos about this.
So I didn't know I had hearing loss til I was eleven years old,
but it took many years for me to realize I had hearing loss because
I was kid I just wanted to play pokemon that's it.
I didn't care about anything else.
Around middle school some things were confusing,
but really high school was when it all started.
I was still hearing minded, but I have two examples.
I had one math teacher, short story,
and I was sitting facing the board and the teacher was in the back talking.
So I was looking back and forth and couldn't understand.
That was a problem, when I wanted help, no when I needed help I'd have to get up and ask.
The teacher would be like, why aren't you paying attention, and I'd be like I'm trying I can't hear you.
It didn't work.
Second, my US history teacher. We had to put down note while watching the TV that had no captions.
No accessibility.
My paper was just me writing down word with lots of gaps.
Long story short I was made fun of, the teacher made fun of me because my paper was incomplete.
CHRISSY: Not your fault.
RIKKI: My grades were shit.
In English class we'd have discussions about books or whatever and it was hard.
I didn't have an IEP or 5O4. I didn't even know that was a thing. Nobody told me about that.
I don't know if that was new, there's a big age difference. She's 18 I'm 27.
I don't know things may be different today. But back then nobody told me anything.
Some classes I was good, technology classes I was fantastic,
but math, science, English, most of the time I just kept to myself, my social life was eh.
CHRISSY: Just worked individually.
CHRISSY: So my experience was really different, I had an IEP and a specialist to help.
They helped accommodate to classes and things like that.
I knew I had hearing loss at 2 ½ so I knew earlier than you.
But elementary school I had an FM system
which was like a necklace (for the teacher) and I had specific hearing aids to match and connect with that.
The hearing aid itself was big and and looked like and alien.
And it had an antenna.
So I was bullied a lot for that. It was strange to look at and it was a little frustrating,
but as a kid I didn't care I was walking around dressed in pink and whatever and I just didn't care.
So also in elementary school I had my specialist who helped with things.
I did have a teacher kick my specialist out of class. Like my specialist was forbidden to come in the classroom.
Looking back that's ridiculous.
It's a struggle to help teachers understand that accommodations are not a want, they are a need.
Moving on to middle school it was pretty much the same.
I didn't have the fm system anymore, I hated that and it didn't work.
Like, for the fm system you only get the teachers voices, other kids hanging arounds chatting you completely miss.
So you only get the teacher and that's frustrating like with group work you just don't understand.
Just lost.
So middle school was similar,
for my hearing loss I was supposed to be profoundly deaf by middle school,
I was lucky I kept a little bit of residual hearing through high school.
Middle school I didn't really fit in with other kids, I was alone,
that's the thing about being mainstreamed your always alone,
you don't have the deaf community and those connections, just yourself.
So moving on freshman sophomore year I had a lot of depression and anxiety, problems like that.
I was struggling with my identity and who I was.
Like most high school kids.
Junior year of high school I had interpreters in class for the first time.
WOW that was a big change.
A whole new world!
Just changed everything. I understood, my personal signing was not awesome,
but receptively I understood 100(%).
Things were better and I could understand.
Full accessibility changed everything.
The first time I had interpreters I left to the bathroom and cried.
I was like I've been missing everything and now I can understand.
It was a big change.
But still in high I was uneasy about having interpreters in class,
I was still feeling it out with other kids judging me and I had two interpreters following me.
RIKKI: Why follow?
CHRISSY: Also in class if you have interpreters other kids always are searching who is the deaf kid,
So it's uncomfortable.
And before that I was always voicing and speaking,
I was mainstreamed and did speech therapy for 13 years so I was always practicing my voice.
Other people didn't understand that.
So I was uneasy about having interpreters, but at the same time there was a huge change in accessibility.
Also with speech therapy, in elementary school I did speech therapy.
So I'd leave music class and be absent to go to speech therapy in school
and after school I had speech therapy again.
So I did a lot of speech therapy to try and fix, practice, and improve my voice.
RIKKI: I've never had that.
CHRISSY: Thats a different video, speech therapy.
RIKKI: That'll be a long video.
CHRISSY: So much to say about that!
I know mainstream is confusing I had many experiences with teachers
kicking me out, or hating me, or not understanding I needed accessibility.
So with IEP, the individual education program, I had extra needed accommodations.
So I had testing in a different room with other kids who needed outside testing,
added time for testing, and I had interpreters, obviously.
If I wanted I could get notes from teachers, some teachers don't want to give notes.
But I'm happy as someone who was mainstreamed I had that IEP to really help improve things,
I know it was different for you.
Still, I don't regret it, but I know deaf schools have socializing with people who understand each other and those connections.
It's different from mainstreamed kids, it's hard to understand you aren't alone.
Not the only person who struggles with things, not the only person with trouble hearing.
I know deaf schools are more accessible, you socialize with signing it's a different experience obviously.
But for the mainstreamed people, we really have to understand/ analyze internally and struggle with identity.
Growing up getting involved in the deaf community changes things.
RIKKI: For me like, you knew a lot of ASL, for me I only had English that makes a different experience,
I was still really hearing minded.
I didn't find any identity really till recently, 2015.
I always I identified as hard of hearing (severely), now I'm really deaf.
But back then I was pretty hearing-minded too.
My family applied this thinking to me that I just had to work harder than everyone around me.
I had to improve myself, struggle myself.
You don't really have to.
But I know if I wasn't mainstreamed I wouldn't be who I am now.
RIKKI: I think being mainstreamed helped me with what I do now.
If I wasn't mainstreamed what would I be doing? Would I make videos about deaf things?
CHRISSY: Maybe I don't know.
RIKKI: I'm mainstreamed trying to learn the culture, community, and whatever ASL and accessibility.
Being mainstreamed helped me advocate for these things, to do advocating work for.
CHRISSY: Really a challenge,
RIKKI: That make sense?
CHRISSY: but makes a stronger person in the end? I guess? Tough Love?
RIKKI: I mean finding a community helps more, but being mainstreamed, that was the start.
It's confusing!!!
CHRISSY: Many of my friend who go to Deaf schools- maybe I'd have that bias against hearing people I don't know.
Mainstreamed means you have to adapt with other hearing people learn to pick up English.
You have to adapt to the hearing world which honestly is reality.
Just introduced earlier and more abruptly.
So I think that's it for today.
RIKKI: I already have a lot of videos about mainstream topics, so I'm just suggesting you watch those videos.
CHRISSY: Maybe in the future she'll make more.
So if you can go watch her videos!
Mainstreamed kids can relate and understand.
I know we aren't alone on this, I know many many deaf kids are mainstreamed too.
So comment if you relate or have something else to say or want to share.
Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video!
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Thanks for watching! Bye!
RIKKI: See you later!
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