silence

PART 1)
    I found that this experiment was not as difficult as I though it was going to be. It was hard to get started but once my sister started talking, all I did was nod and agree by shaking my head back and forth. Then I would smile, forwn or make some sort of face expression that went along with what she was talking about.At first my sister thought it was better that I did not talking at all. She kept talking and I kept agreeing and shaking my head but towards the end of the conversation it looked like she wa beginning to get annoyed. She began to say shorter statements and eventually she just started asking questions where it was easier for me to just nod my head. Her behavior did alter and it was pretty ineteresting to watch her go from enjoying the conversation to just waiting for it to be over. If we were two different cultures trying to communicate my sister the speaking one would have the advantage over the non speaking and symbolic one. People who are deaf have a hard time communiacting with our culture because we as a whole do not understand sign language. People who do speak try to imitate what the hearing impared are trying to say or they try to act out or point at the object that they are trying to get across. I know that I have experienced this when I worked at a retail store I had an impaired woman come in and she immediately let me know that she was deaf by pointing at her ear. Then she took out a notepad and began writting to me what she wanted to buy.

PART 2)
  I was actually only able to last about eight minutes. Although I was able to freely talk I wasn't allowed to put any emotion behind it or use any hand movements. This was harder than I thought it was going to be because as much as I wanted to keep the conversation going not being able to put any emotion or facial expressions in my conversation made it a lot more difficult. My sister first laughed at me and said I sounded like a robot, but then she said it was harder for her to communicate with me than the first time. I actually found that it was harder as well.  I never noticed how important our signs and face expressions were to our culture and language. I believe that this says that we as humans have to have some type of emotion when we speak in order to communicate properly. Autistic people cannot read body language or facial expressions. The advantage of being able to read someones body language is that you are able to tell what kind of mood theyre in if theyre crossing their hands they might me mad. Things like this help us read each other without actually speaking to one another. An environment where it might not be beneficial to read body language might be in a court house. If the jury cannot read your body language , and if you are nervous they will not be able to tell. I don't know it was a little more difficult thinking of one so that's my best. Over all I really enjoyed this experiment and actually learned a lot from it.