What to say when people ask if your hearing loss is real?

Cappy said:
When I was in middle school (12-13?. I'm 56 now), my mom actually bought me this button (still have it somewhere):
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I seriously considered making a tee shirt that says "Don't shoot, I'm deaf!"
 
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True. I'm not laughing.
Some years ago, I had two friends parked on a street in a "bad area" in St. Louis. One got shot through his testicles because they were signing. Apparently there were gangs in the area, so... *shuddering*
 
Beowulf said:
True. I'm not laughing.
Some years ago, I had two friends parked on a street in a "bad area" in St. Louis. One got shot through his testicles because they were signing. Apparently there were gangs in the area, so... *shuddering*
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What part of the Lou were you in? ( My stomping grounds )
 
sonocativo said:
What part of the Lou were you in? ( My stomping grounds )
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I used to live on Hampton Avenue, and my friend was shot near Martin Luther King Drive and Sarah Street. A pretty hairy place, full of drugs and hookers, but I still visit friends there.
 
well shit you were in my hood basically, I was on the southside (Gravois/Grand) I worked the entire city when I was with Building Division so I know the Northside very well and yes been in the middle of some shootouts from drug deals gone wrong at and near the jobsites...lol
 
I blow them kisses.

Cause explaining to people like them is impossible. And only kisses make the impossible happen, just like in sleeping beauty. Preach.
 
It appears that I am a bit older than many of you here (I'm new here by the way). But being profoundly deaf for so many years, I have been confronted with all types of annoying nonsense....But not from a great many people. (As someone said here already, many people are polite about it all).

One of the more sillier things I've had people do (after telling them I am pretty deaf) is to mouth words without sound, as if to see if I am lying...How stupid is that?

I encourage all of you to do the best you can to keep communications with people...(wear your hearing aids, do ASL, get whatever surgeries will help...) . Otherwise you will start losing your social network...even with your own (hearing) family.

I say this as I have been going deaf over the course of 40 years...You can start to become very isolated.
 
Some guy said:
One of the more sillier things I've had people do (after telling them I am pretty deaf) is to mouth words without sound, as if to see if I am lying...How stupid is that?
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No kidding. I've had people do that to me too. Really? How rude can you get? I'm in my mid 40's and deaf since birth, so I've plenty of stories to tell. :)
 
AlleyCat said:
No kidding. I've had people do that to me too. Really? How rude can you get? I'm in my mid 40's and deaf since birth, so I've plenty of stories to tell. :)
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Thanks for mentioning it...I can imagine the stories you have..We all probably go through much the same.
 
anakin said:
I was born profoundly deaf in both ears. Even some Deaf people think I'm hearing because of the way I sign. I sign in English order with some ASL signs. My hearing parents learned signs from that yellow Signing Exact English book and taught it to me. It's a difficult habit - hard to break from SEE and use ASL more.

Also, I used to work at a grocery store as a stockclerk. This old lady refused to write down what she needed. I found out that she started screaming at me as if I could understand her, because a coworker ran into the aisle with some serious concern. Geez.
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I do not know if she meant to be rude to you by screaming...I am profoundly deaf - I hear very little in one ear only, and it sounds garbled. So with a hearing aid I can hear some people, but not many...But almost everyone raises their voice to a scream, hoping I hear them.

And I think they get this habit from living with elderly parents or someone that developed deafness...So, perhaps she did not mean to be rude.
 
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I do not know if she meant to be rude to you by screaming...I am profoundly deaf - I hear very little in one ear only, and it sounds garbled. So with a hearing aid I can hear some people, but not many...But almost everyone raises their voice to a scream, hoping I hear them.

And I think they get this habit from living with elderly parents or someone that developed deafness...So, perhaps she did not mean to be rude.
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Eh, she refused to write down what she needed. Maybe something was wrong with her writing hand, too.
 
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