...: Shit Hearing People Say to Deaf and Hard of Hearing People:

miss-badass-applejack:

weloveasl:

 

  • “Wow, I never would have known you are deaf!” 
  • “You don’t look deaf.”
  • “She was so beautiful, you would have not known she was deaf.” 
  • “What’s reading braille like?” 
  • “Can you have children?”
  • “You speak so well!” 
  • “You don’t sound like a deaf person.” 
  • “What? There’s no need for captions. Here, I’ll turn up the volume, I don’t mind.” (turns up volume on t.v. really loud, smiles and gives the thumbs up).
  • “Oh, never mind. I’ll tell you later.”
  • “Turn up your hearing aid!”
  • “Why don’t deaf people just get cochlear implants?”
  • “Oh, I love sign language! “A… . .B… . .C…”
  • “Why don’t you ever listen to me?” 
  • “I bet you are just pretending to be deaf, huh?”
  •  ”What is your problem? You were hearing me fine just a second ago. Are you listening?” 
  • “Oh, he’s probably not deaf. Selective hearing, right?” (laughs)
  • “GEEZ! I…SAID… WHAT…DO…YOU…WANT…TO…DO?!!!”  
  •  ”Doesn’t it make you sad that you won’t hear your child say, “I love you.”?
  •  ”Can you read their lips and tell me what they are saying?” 
  • “Oh, how do you sign @#%^, *#$%, %@!*&, and !@@#$%& ? 
  •  ”Can you hear me now?” (laughs)
  •  ”You don’t need an interpreter. We can understand what you are saying.”
  • “Oh, you are deaf? Like Helen Keller! Cool!” 
  • “Gosh, you deaf people are so angry and militant!” 
  • (Whispers) “Look! He has a hearing aid, just like you!” (points)
  • “Didn’t you hear? Oh- Eer, um…so sorry, um.” (laughs nervously)
  • “Oh, you’re deaf? Sorry.” 
  • “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??”
  • “i can see your hearing aids, WHY CANT YOU HEAR ME?” 
  • “this one time.. on a bus.. i saw some Deaf people!”
  • “Your accent is interesting! Where are you from??”
  • “So like, what CAN you hear??”
  • “Does it hurt?”
  • “Dont you wish you could hear music?”

So many of these things have been said to my dad, and it’s both funny and sad ((sad as in “pathetic”)) all at the same time. It just goes to show you the lack of intelligence there is in society anymore. Seriously…

Can…you…have…children…

what.

(Source: thatdeafchick)

→ Jan 26 2012 / PERMALINK

  1. mandarinpeach reblogged this from thatdeafchick
  2. captainn-america reblogged this from arfism and added:
    “You’re deaf.” *tearfully* “God bless you.” ALL THE FUCKING TIME Fuck you, deep South. “Can I wear your hearing aid?”...
  3. dr-doolittle reblogged this from thatdeafchick
  4. maybeifismilee reblogged this from what-a-deaf-girl-hears and added:
    hahahaha!! yeah, people are dumb. but i’d take a million “really? you have to ask that?” questions over sitting in...
  5. what-a-deaf-girl-hears reblogged this from thatdeafchick
  6. chinchillaghosts reblogged this from andymagnuseth and added:
    confusing braille for being related to deafness AHAHAHA
  7. andymagnuseth reblogged this from cakemeister
  8. tzadikt reblogged this from cakemeister and added:
    I don’t even know. Probably because they’re like. “How can you hear your mate during sex?” or “How can you hear the baby...
  9. squishysound reblogged this from cakemeister and added:
    No, you actually hear with your penis/vagina. It explains a lot, doesn’t it?
  10. cakemeister reblogged this from tzadikt and added:
    those ones seem to be the absolute stupidest. the rest are really ignorant (like the braille one; mixing up loss of...
  11. fuckyeahappo reblogged this from cakemeister and added:
    “What’s reading braille like?” what I don’t even
  12. stuffallisontumbles reblogged this from owl13
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  14. misohead reblogged this from maxmovinghands and added:
    … oh my god. how could anyone think any of these things are appropriate to say at all especially these
  15. maxmovinghands reblogged this from fuckyeahqueerswithdisabilities and added:
    Isn’t it so sad that Beethoven / Helen Keller / etc lost their hearing??? Don’t you ever wish you were hearing? OMG TELL...
  16. thelettereth reblogged this from thatdeafchick and added:
    and !@@#$%&?”...choose between being...or blind, I’d...
  17. faeriearmy reblogged this from diaryofahumanbeing and added:
    “What’s reading braille like?” WHAT EVEN
  18. slipfallanddie reblogged this from miss-badass-applejack and added:
    Can…you…have…children… what.
  19. miss-badass-applejack reblogged this from weloveasl and added:
    So many of these things...it’s both funny...sad ((sad as in...
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  22. whitedane reblogged this from arfism and added:
    Personally I’m not Deaf (Sometimes I wish I was! Hearing people annoy me.) Not even H.O.H, perfect hearing. But I
  23. amarishosha reblogged this from fuckyeahqueerswithdisabilities
  24. lilylunastardust reblogged this from raggedyanndy and added:
    OMG YES like 1/3...these! The Helen Keller one so often. I cannot tell
  25. raggedyanndy reblogged this from fuckyeahqueerswithdisabilities
  26. bananasforpotassium reblogged this from littleelk and added:
    bluh 99% of the deaf people I meet are customers at work and so thankfully I don’t even get much of an opportunity to...
  27. fuckyeahqueerswithdisabilities reblogged this from littleelk
  28. littleelk reblogged this from arfism and added:
    Reading some of these things made me feel like I was crumbling into a smoldering pile on the floor, sort of the...
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