julysrain
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OK I dont know where to put this thread so I'll put it here!
I was at the mall and working on training my hearing dog (I'm training my own lab to work as a hearing dog to let me know when the phone rings, when people come up behind me and stuff like that). So I want her to get used to being out in public because I'm going to take her to work and places like that with me after she's trained. So the mall people gave me permission to train there.
So my dog is wearing her "hearing dog in training" vest. And this is what happened.
There is a girl who saw my dog, and then came over to talk to me. She told me very sincerely, oh, you can't hear? WELL, I know how to fix that. You need to PRAY! You need to give your problems to Jesus and then you're hearing will come back! If you TRULY believe, then you will be CURED. She gave me a mini-lecture all about this before I was able to tactfully end the conversation.
I know I'm asking for it by having my dog out with me, but this upset me. This has happened once before when someone saw me practicing signing with my now ex-boyfriend (he was good about it, knowing I am hoh, going to be deaf eventually, and wanting to learn sign, and he totally hearing but willing to sign), we were sitting quietly in the back corner of a coffee shop, and the girl who came up to me started quoting Bible passages where miracles were performed and deaf people could hear, telling me I needed to learn from that.
Does this happen to other people too? What do you say? I am so shocked when it happens I don't know what to do.
I was at the mall and working on training my hearing dog (I'm training my own lab to work as a hearing dog to let me know when the phone rings, when people come up behind me and stuff like that). So I want her to get used to being out in public because I'm going to take her to work and places like that with me after she's trained. So the mall people gave me permission to train there.
So my dog is wearing her "hearing dog in training" vest. And this is what happened.
There is a girl who saw my dog, and then came over to talk to me. She told me very sincerely, oh, you can't hear? WELL, I know how to fix that. You need to PRAY! You need to give your problems to Jesus and then you're hearing will come back! If you TRULY believe, then you will be CURED. She gave me a mini-lecture all about this before I was able to tactfully end the conversation.
I know I'm asking for it by having my dog out with me, but this upset me. This has happened once before when someone saw me practicing signing with my now ex-boyfriend (he was good about it, knowing I am hoh, going to be deaf eventually, and wanting to learn sign, and he totally hearing but willing to sign), we were sitting quietly in the back corner of a coffee shop, and the girl who came up to me started quoting Bible passages where miracles were performed and deaf people could hear, telling me I needed to learn from that.
Does this happen to other people too? What do you say? I am so shocked when it happens I don't know what to do.