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Deaf people don't see themselves 'handicapped' in our world, We consider ourselves as normal people because we are physically fine and have normal life... We view Hearing people as 'disabled'. Why we call them 'disabled' because they are unable to communicate us in our language. Hearing people placed deaf people on the rut because they do not know how to deal with them. They even think we are retarded or "dumb". That's called "communication barrier".
I have been treated like retarded when I worked as a Night Stocker at food store. The manager had retarded son and assumed that I'm just the same. It ticks me off big time. I had knot in my stomach and feel like I want to have a death wish on him. He was trying to show me where the baby food belongs to. I told him that customer mess up the baby food flavor order on shelf. He doesn't believe me and think that I was not smart and quick enough to remember all the flavors on shelf in one night. I told him "Who can memorize all those in one night!! It's all mixed up with different flavor at a wrong place!!". He was agiated and act like he's going to fire me. I told him "I QUIT!!" before he was about to say "You're Fired". I walked out of store and never regret. My co workers were left speechless when they heard that I left. Few months later, I bumped into former co worker. They told me the manager who treated me retarded was fired. I was so HaPpY to hear that LOL. Sweet revenge!!
It is fairly common that when deaf people trying to start Home business under popular business like Amway, Quixtar, Herbalife, and more (common business runs by hearing people), Hearing coaches recruits deaf and after few weeks, they ditches deafie and move along because they think it's too hard to communicate with them even Emailing, Text messaging and all those technology provided today. They says that hiring interpreters are too expensive and time consuming. Our money was wasted from trying to start Home Business through hearing. It's sad tho.
I had a strange dream many years ago that everyone in the world are deaf. Any babies born hearing considered as 'handicapped'. We had to implement some kind of communication system to help hearing child to understand our language like sign to voice machine. Hearing adults have their own 'Club of the Hearing'. Every Government, Military, Social Service and all the enities are controlled by deaf government . It was a rather strange and wishful dream I ever had... I thought it was soooo funny about it.
Catty
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