Annoying ignorant hearing people stories

trueup84 said:
You know half of the comments and complaints can be blamed on just plain ignorance. I am a "hearie" and I have most likely somewhere in my past said something just as stupid. Here is the kicker, I feel you are rightfully angry, but if ignorance is half the problem and it for at least a lot of these complaints only takes 30 seconds to explain that maybe you would be doing yourself and everyone else around you a huge favor by simply correcting a person. Don't get me wrong and please don't be offended but the deaf community and culture is a foreign nation. The hearing people have spent decades studying your way of life as has people that study the French or Celtic culture. To be fair deaf people are all over the world and not just thousands of miles away.

Case and points:
Unless you are a kid that blasts his music in his car than the correlation to hearing when driving can seem really important. For instance the sirens of emergency vehicles, motorcyclists that can't figure out how to stay out of blind spots. Deaf people are trained to use peripheral (pardon the spelling) vision a thousand times over hearing people. That is the reason that hearing people that speak ASL can’t just focus on your face we have to watch your hands. The normal everyday person doesn't know that.

During my first day of class for ASL I used the term and please forgive my ignorance "hearing impaired" (to us this is politically correct) low and behold that is all wrong and had I said that to a deaf person? I have a lot of respect for the deaf culture and it is only consistently growing greater but this isn't something we can pick up from a 3 page pamphlet. Had I been screamed at been rude to my immediate impression would not have been so good.

Communication for the hearing is verbal, all be it people can be cruel and like I stated before you have every right to your irritation and even for those people that would purposely disrespect anyone let alone you should be hit. But a lot of it is misunderstanding. Miss ordering or getting incorrect food because of a breakdown in communication happens every day regardless of race, level of hearing, or even if you are mute but can hear perfectly.

My point is this, although some people are vicious I find them for the most part to be just as welcoming as you all are. Albeit I have had a lot less contact with the deaf community (something I aim to fix) the real frustration shouldn't be at people. If anything being a little less sensitive and a little more education will only lessen the gap of misunderstanding and difference.

Last but certainly not least because I go to school and am Learning ASL and self studying deaf culture doesn't mean that you are a specimen of an experiment. As previously stated we can go ahead and call the deaf community and culture foreign, with different intricacies (again pardon the spelling), triggers for anger, language, self-expression, ways and styles of life. Being a point of study just means you are interesting, and I'll admit it in a lot of ways I am very jealous about many things. The biggest one is that the deaf community is very close knit in comparison. There are people from all over the World on this website alone and are all willing to be one heck of a support group.

My hope and aim in going to college is to teach high school, and for those students that are hard of hearing or deaf I want them in my class. There is a lot to be said for deaf institutions but a lot of kids, as you all know, are not that fortunate. Although I can guarantee you that a lot less prospects that could be the same bridge to the gap, is dumbed down due to lack of patients and understanding of each other’s circumstance.

I challenge you, all of you, to seek the higher road because in the very end you can only gain from it.
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are you coming back yet? :aw:
 
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My BIL attended his first asl social and he said it was like being in a foreign country. He likes to learn new things so maybe he'll learn asl.
Not an annoying story except that he commented on how much dessert I got. So rude in any culture. *rolls eyes*
 
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I was out with some friends and this guy started talking to me. I couldn't understand him so I said, "Sorry, I'm deaf. What was that again?"

This idiot started moving his hands as if he was speaking is ASL. But he didn't know ASL. He was just miming like he was signing and I could tell he really thought that's all that ASL was. Just moving the hands in any fashion.

I could have gotten upset or offended. But being an entertainer (Comedy magician) I turned it around on him. A few of my friends where watching this take place so I said out loud:

"Did you see that? This Dude just tried to propose to me!!!"

Lesson learned. When faced with these ignorant people. If possible use humor to put them in their place. Believe me it's better then getting mad.

Ron Jaxon
 
RonJaxon said:
I was out with some friends and this guy started talking to me. I couldn't understand him so I said, "Sorry, I'm deaf. What was that again?"

This idiot started moving his hands as if he was speaking is ASL. But he didn't know ASL. He was just miming like he was signing and I could tell he really thought that's all that ASL was. Just moving the hands in any fashion.

I could have gotten upset or offended. But being an entertainer (Comedy magician) I turned it around on him. A few of my friends where watching this take place so I said out loud:

"Did you see that? This Dude just tried to propose to me!!!"

Lesson learned. When faced with these ignorant people. If possible use humor to put them in their place. Believe me it's better then getting mad.

Ron Jaxon
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hahahahahaha I LOVE YOU!!!
 
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Brilliant, Ron. I'm going to remember this.
 
RonJaxon said:
I was out with some friends and this guy started talking to me. I couldn't understand him so I said, "Sorry, I'm deaf. What was that again?"

This idiot started moving his hands as if he was speaking is ASL. But he didn't know ASL. He was just miming like he was signing and I could tell he really thought that's all that ASL was. Just moving the hands in any fashion.

I could have gotten upset or offended. But being an entertainer (Comedy magician) I turned it around on him. A few of my friends where watching this take place so I said out loud:

"Did you see that? This Dude just tried to propose to me!!!"

Lesson learned. When faced with these ignorant people. If possible use humor to put them in their place. Believe me it's better then getting mad.

Ron Jaxon
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You made me laugh. That's a great way to handle such situations, love it!
 
RonJaxon said:
I was out with some friends and this guy started talking to me. I couldn't understand him so I said, "Sorry, I'm deaf. What was that again?"

This idiot started moving his hands as if he was speaking is ASL. But he didn't know ASL. He was just miming like he was signing and I could tell he really thought that's all that ASL was. Just moving the hands in any fashion.

I could have gotten upset or offended. But being an entertainer (Comedy magician) I turned it around on him. A few of my friends where watching this take place so I said out loud:

"Did you see that? This Dude just tried to propose to me!!!"

Lesson learned. When faced with these ignorant people. If possible use humor to put them in their place. Believe me it's better then getting mad.

Ron Jaxon
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Best. Post. Ever.:laugh2:
 
so mine for the day... it is adventures in lipreading... client... "how do i increase numbers in access 6.5 peasants..." me... "6.5 peasants?" client "why the hell would you think I said peasants" me... "because it looked like it..." client... "i said peasants... peasants... like you must only use 50 peasant of your brain..." that is when it clicked... percent... not peasant... very different thing... me (with a confused look on my face)... "ok you want to increase your numbers in access 6.5 percent..." client... "what? access? no... the thing that adds numbers for you" me... "a calculator?" client (his face was beginning to turn red now)... "why do they hire disabled people here... the thing... the thing with the little boxes... microsoft access... the speedshit" me... being highly embarrassed... "sir... can you write this down for me, I'm sorry i'm not understanding... but I am deaf..." client... starts talking while turning around... finally wrote it down... excel... me... "ok let me show you..." client... "can you do that again... slower?"
 
How much do I love that he had to ask you to go slower, after making his remarks?

Also, I am not kidding--from now on, I'm measuring everything in peasants. So much more fun that way.

Solidarity, sister.
 
sallylou said:
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What a prick.
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this is why I am so ready to get out of the customer service business... and just get on with my programing... or something else... hopefully one of the 4 jobs I applied for will work out!
 
RachelRene said:
How much do I love that he had to ask you to go slower, after making his remarks?

Also, I am not kidding--from now on, I'm measuring everything in peasants. So much more fun that way.

Solidarity, sister.
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and might i ask, just so i know... what does a peasant equal Rachel? that way i'm not as confused in our conversations...
 
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Ash, hope that you find a new job soon.
 
ash345 said:
so mine for the day... it is adventures in lipreading... client... "how do i increase numbers in access 6.5 peasants..." me... "6.5 peasants?" client "why the hell would you think I said peasants" me... "because it looked like it..." client... "i said peasants... peasants... like you must only use 50 peasant of your brain..." that is when it clicked... percent... not peasant... very different thing... me (with a confused look on my face)... "ok you want to increase your numbers in access 6.5 percent..." client... "what? access? no... the thing that adds numbers for you" me... "a calculator?" client (his face was beginning to turn red now)... "why do they hire disabled people here... the thing... the thing with the little boxes... microsoft access... the speedshit" me... being highly embarrassed... "sir... can you write this down for me, I'm sorry i'm not understanding... but I am deaf..." client... starts talking while turning around... finally wrote it down... excel... me... "ok let me show you..." client... "can you do that again... slower?"
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Oy, that made me tired just reading it. :shock:
 
some hearies just do not have a clue. I'll admit that I WAS one of them without a clue many years ago, but I learned & eventually became an interpreter for the deaf/HOH. That was 20 yrs ago at least...Now, because of cancer that I had(past tense), I have to use interpreter because I can not talk right; my words come out mumbled...like I have a mouth full of poop or something. So I use sign because it's easier for me & all those I have to speak with.

The hearing community needs an education about us that are deaf or hard of hearing.
 
annoying ignorant people stories

A while ago, I was visiting my parents and the three of us went to this little bakery. I wandered off and browsed the pastries. My dad came up and told this worker who was talking to my back that I was Deaf... Her response? "OHH how CUUUUUUUUTE!!" like I was a puppy. :roll: lol

My friends and I are playing a drinking game and swapping stories and I'm fresh out because I don't hang with hearing people almost ever soooo.. help me out![/QUOTE]


I know what you mean, I get ticked off at hearies when they try to talk to my backside & then get mad cuz I don't hear them....
One had the gall to ask me if I was deaf...I gave them a "salute[flipped them off]" as I left the store.
 
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