Patience of a saint

whatdidyousay! said:
"You have every right to be. Those special snowflakes don't know shit. You should send them here. We will give them the Patience of a Saint treatment. You get 1st dibs of course." :)
Cappy used the term " snowflake" ! So you're :owned: This is why I asked what is this crap about calling people "snowflake"!!!
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That's enough please... let it go. We asked you nicely to move on.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
"You have every right to be. Those special snowflakes don't know shit. You should send them here. We will give them the Patience of a Saint treatment. You get 1st dibs of course." :)
Cappy used the term " snowflake" ! So you're :owned: This is why I asked what is this crap about calling people "snowflake"!!!
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Who are you talking to?
 
Cappy said:
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Snowflake :mrgreen: caused all this rukus at least this gif made me lol I needed it . I had a rough week losing two friends in a week :cry:
 
DeafDucky said:
Here is the comment my friend made on FB. Reposted with permission-

The difference between a Deaf person and a hearing-impaired person is that the Deaf person feels complete despite her deafness, but the hearing-impaired person feel incomplete without hearing

That actually sums up better what I was trying to say. I AM complete because my deafness has always been there. Granted there are likely some individuals born deaf who use the term hearing impaired...
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Thisss. Let me share my experience. Growing up, I have only heard of the word "hearing impaired" and honestly it doesnt feel great at all because it always makes me feel like i have some weakness. But as I'm in mainstream schools since young, i struggled a lot with my identity and always tried to hide my hearing aids because i hate the stares/questions/pity from people. Believe it or not, i was teased for being Hearing impaired when i was young and i got emotionally scarred. I think that term will always make me feel lesser of a person.

However, some people are just so exposed to the term Hearing impair that they might have never heard of HOH like me until i joined the forum. I now prefer using the term HOH when refering to myself as compared to HI, but HI is more commonly used. Even club names are "Hearing Impaired club" so i never thought of it as a really negative thing generally.

As for growing up, i did not have hearing aids until I was 4 or 5 and my teachers said i did not respond to them at all. So my parents decided to finally get me hearing aids, but i lost out on a lot and couldn't make friends at all because I did not develop my social skills before then. I struggled to make friends for a few more years after that. I do not know ASL at all because I had always been in mainstream school since birth and had never really met someone else who is HOH.
 
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