Lol, nice of them to basically just ship themselves! *g*
And people's first line of thought is often that you must be a. a foreigner (weird pronunciation, bane of my communication experiences/fails) or b. retarded ("Huh?/What?", not getting things, etc.), not that it's just that we can't hear! Gah.
YES. I think I mostly get the retarded, since I tend to speak rather clearly - but also I'm an accent/syntax SPONGE but apparently I default to sounding British, which is endlessly hilarious because I've never been outside west coast US! I've considered getting an "I'm Deaf, Not An Idiot" button to wear when I go out. xD
Heeee, true! :D
(... You know, I hadn't even really considered myself "prolific" until I started uploading stuff to AO3 a few days ago and realized I've already got 30 works up there, and that's not even half of all my stuff! I always feel like I'm one of those dabblers, you know? xD)
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YES. I think I mostly get the retarded, since I tend to speak rather clearly - but also I'm an accent/syntax SPONGE but apparently I default to sounding British, which is endlessly hilarious because I've never been outside west coast US! I've considered getting an "I'm Deaf, Not An Idiot" button to wear when I go out. xD
Heeee, true! :D
(... You know, I hadn't even really considered myself "prolific" until I started uploading stuff to AO3 a few days ago and realized I've already got 30 works up there, and that's not even half of all my stuff! I always feel like I'm one of those dabblers, you know? xD)