[thejsjunky]

A little tangential to the story but a good thing to be aware of is that the barrier of communicating between deaf people and hearing people is not always that they simply can't hear the sounds you are making. Many deaf people (especially those who are born deaf) are illiterate or have low literacy in written language; so you can't expect to always be able to just pop out a pencil/paper and write back and forth normally as you would with a hearing friend while playing "the silent game".