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Being deaf in a largely hearing world, I'm sure you learn to except hearing people... but on the other hand hearing people don't come into contact with nearly as many (if any at all) deaf people. In the 19 years of my being alive I'd only met 1 deaf child when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, it wasn't until I was 19 and started learning ASL that I met more deaf people. I wouldn't say "HEARING people are ignorant" but rather "PEOPLE are ignorant" and it's largely circumstantial. Humans tend to have a prejudice (or a FEAR) of that which they don't know or understand.