It always amuses me when people ask 'What's it like not being able to hear?'- if it's obvious they mean well, I talk about how frustrating it is when I mishear things, things like that, peoples' attitudes towards me, but otherwise I tend to say 'How should I know? What's it like being able to hear?' hehe. Sometimes I want to ask, if they're male (I'm female) 'What's it like being a man?' and watch their face- I've always heard the way I do, and they've always been male, so there!
I have a friend who uses a wheelchair, and I did once ask him 'What's it like being in a wheelchair?' and he looked at me blankly- he hasn't always used a wheelchair though, he used to use crutches, and I think the difference between the two was what I really meant.
