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Hello. So, today I want to talk about being deaf - and, well,
my personal experience with being deaf and ordering food,
whether it be like...
Say you're going to a Whole Foods and picking something up from the deli
or going to Taco Bell or McDonald's
or like, actually sitting down at a restaurant.
Somebody on Instagram requested this and I thought I would
just kind of like give all of the kind of ordering food options in one video.
By the way, if there's any time that you have a video request,
feel free to leave them in the comments.
I can't do all kinds of video ideas
but it never hurts to leave a comment and ask just in case.
I'm always looking for ideas, even if I don't actually use it.
So, all of these ways of getting food kind of go together
and I use the same format or I have the same experiences.
But some can be more difficult than others.
So, I don't normally get food from like, a deli.
Like, you know, if you go to Walmart you had that take-out,
that take-home option,
or the little pizzas at Whole Foods, stuff like that.
Sometimes I like to do the pointing.
I point to the food and I point to the size that I want.
I do tend to go the oral route because I grew up mainstream,
it's what I have been used to and conditioned to do, all of my life.
Although I have been more and more shifting to like,
actually writing down what I want,
typing it, and leaving it the way that it is.
I've had good luck sometimes
and then sometimes I don't have good luck
and then it just becomes like this sort of frustrating,
confusing sort of interaction
and the person that I'm ordering from tends to get annoyed with me sometimes.
But it is what it is.
So, pointing tends to work out.
Ordering food from like, McDonald's or something, I don't really order
from McDonald's anymore because I don't eat animal products anymore.
But there is a kiosk. At least, when I was in Toronto, they had like a little kiosk
that you could just push.
And well, the Toronto McDonald's has vegan options, right?
American McDonald's, why are you cooking your fries in beef fat?
This makes no sense whatsoever.
So, the McDonald's in Toronto, at least that I've seen, has a little kiosk
so you can just click on the stuff, send in your order, and move on.
I personally love apps that you can order from. Those are like, my go-to.
Every time I go to Starbucks I use the app.
Or, except recently because the app
will not let me remove milk, 2% milk from my option, from my order.
So now I have to actually personally go to the register and order,
which I guess is a good thing
because some of the baristas can't stop stirring my double shot
when they're not supposed to.
But also a good thing is that some of the people there
know my order by now so if I see them I'm just like, "Hey."
And they're like, "Double shot. We've got you. Come on."
So, I love the app.
It's the most accessible way for me personally,
and I can just go and pick it up and be done.
When it comes to sit-down restaurants, that tends to get a little bit awkward.
When I am by myself I tend to point to the menu or write it down
and it'll be done.
When I've gone out with other deaf friends we are like, full on,
we're in signing mode.
We don't do any of that talking nonsense, you know?
We're just pointing or we're writing or we're typing and whatever,
and that's how we're going to communicate.
My friend Elena and I, we went to go get sushi together.
That was an experience.
That was extremely awkward and the waitress was not willing to accommodate.
So that was a bit of a ... That was a little annoying.
However, I did go to Doomie's with my friend, Katsya,
and we had a waitress there that did not know ASL, any ASL.
Well, maybe like, one or two signs.
But she would hand gesture and she would also write stuff down.
So that was pretty awesome.
And I remember my friend Elena and I also went to a Chicago diner
and that was probably the worst experience
that I've had in a long time,
where they flat out just did not want to…
They didn't care at all.
But then sometimes I still go the way,
the route that I've been conditioned to go
and like, ordering like a regular hearing person
which I do usually only if I'm going out to dinner with my dad.
That tends to be the only reason why
because then if I don't understand something,
he can relay whatever they're saying back to me because he's like,
the one, number one person that I understand 95% of the time.
Sometimes it's just easier to do that.
Because I also feel like if I write my order down
while they're seeing me talk to him, because he doesn't sign at all,
I feel like it's weird and I feel kind of self-conscious.
Even though I shouldn't be. But, whatever.
But like, recently we went to a pub and...
We went out to the pub for a late dinner and we could not hear a thing.
We both cannot hear a thing so ordering was very difficult.
And at one point when the waitress was coming back to us...
Because she wanted to... She asked me if I'm vegan, right? And I said, "Yeah."
And then I was kind of thinking that maybe she was gonna tell me that
the dressing that I ordered was not vegan.
But then she starts to have a conversation with me
and I'm like, "What is she saying?"
And he is like, "I have no idea what she's saying. What are you saying?"
And then apparently we got into some conversation about consuming hemp hearts
as a source of protein or whatever and I was like,...
I looked like a complete jackass.
I looked like a complete jackass because I was like, "But what about smoothies?"
Because when my dad was trying to relay the information to me
he's like, not getting it either and he's not giving me the full context.
So I kind of looked like an asshole because I'm trying to get the context.
Because I haven't said, "Oh, by the way I'm deaf."
Because sometimes it just doesn't come out.
But my dad and like, people that I know like to do that for me
and I'm kind of like, "Oh I can do that. What are you doing?"
But then, you know, still sometimes I'm just sitting there and I'm like,
"Yeah, hi. I'm deaf.
"I'm just going to point to this, going to write it down." Or whatever.
And that's going to be the end of it.
That's actually what I'm trying to do from now on. I'm trying to get more...
Get out of the mainstream route and more into the just...
Doing what I do at Border Control which is straight-up not speaking
because usually what ends up happening is when you speak,
then they start to not believe you.
Because if you talk you must be able to hear something, right?
Which I can hear some things, but I can't hear everything.
So like, even then there are people
more profoundly deaf than me - Shoshannah Stern, who speaks
but she still, you know, she hears less than I do, I'm pretty sure.
But especially now that like...
I don't eat animal products, right?
So, I need to make sure all communication is clear
so I don't accidentally misunderstand something
and then I end up eating meat or dairy cheese and like
whatever, right?
So, that's been my experience. I love the apps.
If the restaurant has an app,
Starbucks has an app, anything has an app, I love the app.
If you are deaf, have hearing loss, whatever,
it's all kind of the same thing,
and you have had your own experience,
feel free to leave them down in the comments.
And now, before you go, if you haven't pledged on Patreon
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but I just want to throw that out there in case you do.
And I will see later. Bye.
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