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Hi, I’m Adrean Clark, and I’m thrilled to share some news with you. I finished my first comic book, 8 Ways to be Deaf! It’s 52 pages, 5.5 by 7.75 inches, and in full color. The colors are striking!
The book just came back from the printer today, and I’m ready to send it out. If you’re interested in ordering, and want to know more, you can check out http://8ways.adreanaline.com — there is also a FREE download there.
8 Ways to be Deaf is about a gas-station attendant, Paul, who meets a young woman. He is surprised to find that she’s deaf, and he tries to find different ways to connect with her. His first idea was actually an ILY shirt — of course the deaf woman didn’t respond well! Paul didn’t give up and kept trying in different, hilarious ways. I won’t give away the ending — you’ll have to read and find out!
The comic book’s perfect for your own reading pleasure, or for an ASL/Deaf Culture class, for family members, or even as a gift for hearing friends, and so on. There’s a lot of benefit in this book.
Thank you!
i am hyperacute & have a sound processing disorder. basically my life (outside my front door) is like being in the front row at the IMAX all the time…sound vibrates my body, is way too loud and all the phenomes run together with each other and with background noise, so what i hear is word salad most of the time.
i will download your book, but i am wondering if you could create a HYPERACUTE character…it’s not supersonic hearing because i still cannot make out what people are saying across a room unless they speak slowly and enunciate…the average response is to yell at the same pace and to continue to mumble…average person does not grok “slow/low” or “enunciate/pronounce clearly)
I attended ASL class for a few months last year, barely learned the alphabet, it would help me a GREAT deal if you could put closed captions on your ASL videos then will watch/replay and try to get it, I do spell in ASL at times to talk to my son, who is not hearing impaired.
Finally, if you know of anyone with weird hearing impairments who needs lay help (i’m not a lawyer!) getting social security to pay benefits without seeing a shrink or accepting a psych diagnosis, let me know, i represented myself and I am on SSDI now for a year (after working for 30 years).
I would like to do something with education (deaf? autistic?) not sure what…many problems perceived as psych boil down to “connecting” and language.
Thank you for your suggestions.
Re: captions. I have provided a translation with my vlog, for non-signing readers. Captions would be nice but I don’t have the capacity for it right now. Perhaps in the future.
As for what to do — take time to think over it. Think about the skills you have and what you can offer. It took many, many years for me to figure out comics was what I wanted, that I could share the Deaf experience through art. Being patient gave me time to enrich my work with experience. It may take quite a while. I’m not saying don’t do anything — I’m saying only you can figure out what you can do. That’s a good thing. Do what you can and be patient with the process.
Hope it helps :D