Now I Know

[AquaBlue]

It is difficult for a hearing person to understand the frustration of a deaf individual in a hearing world. That’s why deaf folks are viewed as they are by hearies. The deaf person feels out-of-place by the alienation given them by a cold-hearted hearing society.

Now the tables have been turned (in my case).

You see every Monday and Friday night I attend a gathering of Deaf and hard-of-hearing folks. I treasure those meetings and look forward to them very much. But…I feel like the one left out. Constant frustration and a feeling of worthlessness invade me during such occasions. I am thus the minority and the lesser one (so I feel) in the group.

That dose of reality brings me to attention and I realize that this inner conflict must be what my deaf friends experience daily in my hearing world. It is outrages and totally unnecessary. What a tragedy!

 

[Byrdie714]

It is difficult for a hearing person to understand the frustration of a deaf individual in a hearing world. That’s why deaf folks are viewed as they are by hearies. The deaf person feels out-of-place by the alienation given them by a cold-hearted hearing society.

Now the tables have been turned (in my case).

You see every Monday and Friday night I attend a gathering of Deaf and hard-of-hearing folks. I treasure those meetings and look forward to them very much. But…I feel like the one left out. Constant frustration and a feeling of worthlessness invade me during such occasions. I am thus the minority and the lesser one (so I feel) in the group.

That dose of reality brings me to attention and I realize that this inner conflict must be what my deaf friends experience daily in my hearing world. It is outrages and totally unnecessary. What a tragedy!

Tragedy?

I think it's great that you are experiencing this but it's not different when an English speaking individual goes into little Havana and doesn't speak English. That is expected.

Tragedy? I don't think it is.

Just a fact-of-life.

 

[AquaBlue]

Tragedy?

I think it's great that you are experiencing this but it's not different when an English speaking individual goes into little Havana and doesn't speak English. That is expected.

Tragedy? I don't think it is.

Just a fact-of-life.

I meant in the sence that hearies trreat deaf ones so wrongly.

 

[Jolie77]

Now the tables has been turned.

My hearing sister had an experience being in this predicament. I took her with me to a deaf event. Most of my friends knew who she was. When she was tagging along with me, I would be either chitchatting with my friends and I've tried to include her in the conversation. Most of the time, she would get "lost" in the conversation and ends up asking me "What did he/she say?", so and on. Without realizing it, I ended up telling her "Nevermind" or "I'll tell you later".

She would get upset at me for telling her that. So, I shot back and told her that it is exactly how I feel whenever I am with her or the family. She in the end realized how I felt about it because she has experienced being in the situation or more like, lost in translation.

I was hoping that it would help her understand where I am coming from a bit better but it really didn't do a help to it. She still sometimes tends to forget about that.

So, AquaBlue, I'm glad you got to experience being on the opposite end and to understand how we (deaf people) have been treated like this for a long time. Has it been a learning experience for you, so far, that is?

 

[AquaBlue]

Now the tables has been turned.

My hearing sister had an experience being in this predicament. I took her with me to a deaf event. Most of my friends knew who she was. When she was tagging along with me, I would be either chitchatting with my friends and I've tried to include her in the conversation. Most of the time, she would get "lost" in the conversation and ends up asking me "What did he/she say?", so and on. Without realizing it, I ended up telling her "Nevermind" or "I'll tell you later".

She would get upset at me for telling her that. So, I shot back and told her that it is exactly how I feel whenever I am with her or the family. She in the end realized how I felt about it because she has experienced being in the situation or more like, lost in translation.

I was hoping that it would help her understand where I am coming from a bit better but it really didn't do a help to it. She still sometimes tends to forget about that.

So, AquaBlue, I'm glad you got to experience being on the opposite end and to understand how we (deaf people) have been treated like this for a long time. Has it been a learning experience for you, so far, that is?

Yes! An awareness/revelation is more precise.