Do deaf people write differently?

I am deaf.

I think the biggest difference here depends on whether he's involved in the deaf communities.

Sign language has its own structure and I know quite a few deaf people that end up writing what seems to be horrible sentence structures to us. They end up thinking in terms of sign language but that's not always the case.
 
Both my parents are deaf and I can tell you that their English, generally written more than verbal, isn't always what it could be. It's down to the way they pick up words off the mouths of other people. My dad doesn't read very much so he often misses out on spelling, grammar and mistakes words for others. For example, "you are dreamly careless" when what he means to say is: "You are extremely careless". These often go missed unless you see it written down such as in the case of the OP's forum man.

I suspect he is embarrassed about it and is making up an excuse as the language structure isn't different, backed up by other deaf people on the forum. My parents both sign the way they would speak to anyone else and it doesn't differ. I don't know whether this is the same for all deaf people but...
 
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My friends mum is deaf, she has a big red light that lights up the living room when someone's at the door :)

She's really quite amazing, she can lip read unbelievably well, she reads a lot so her English for the most part is much much better then average. I quite often can have a fairly normal conversation with her it's just odd if she's signing to someone (she always has deaf people over because she's involved in a few local deaf groups)

Her many attempts to get me to learn sign language keep failing :p
 
We live next door to a deaf couple, both of whom are I think completely deaf. They can't speak or even get close to sounding like what they want to say. They have two very autistic sons who also cannot speak although they can hear.

She sometimes texts us or drops a note through the door and she writes in a shortened style, missing out many smaller words like 'am' and 'a' and most punctuation. She doesn't use txt speak tho.
 
I'm profoundly deaf, and my writing is fine... As in both GCSE and A-level equivalent English. However, I learnt to speak before I lost my hearing, so this gives me a big advantage in speaking and writing compared to a lot of deaf children. I don't use sign language, I just lip read.

I think the issue here is that this person has sign language as a first language. I have a friend whose mother is deaf, and she has been communicating with her in sign language all her life. She didn't learn English until she went to school because all she knew was sign language and right now her English is fine, but not perfect.

Some other posters have also mentioned that sign language uses a grammatical shorthand "My name Tom" "I live London" etc and for some deaf people this may transfer into writing.

HOWEVER, there is no reason why a deaf person can't have perfect writing. I think this guy in question might have a few other problems - dyslexia or mental problems maybe? I'm not a doctor though.
 
It sure does look like a train wreck of a paragraph there.
However upon reading the various deaf peoples posts explaining how he's likely to have written like that it is totally understandable.
I'm sure I would have been one of the ignorant ***** telling him to learn some grammar or GTFO until I knew better myself.
 
my boyfriends deaf, albeit he has hearing aids in both ears but still it doesnt affect him in any way. if anything he is probably better than me
 
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