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Working in special education, people's ignorance comes as no surprise to me. However, I never had any direct encounters myself because I grew up hearing. Last week I was at the grocery store and I was checking out in the "self-check out" lane. I find this is easier than dealing with a clerk and much faster. I was trying to punch in a code for a bag of halloween candy and it wasn't working. I tried picking it up, putting it back on the scale etc. Finally, a clerk comes over and SCREAMS at me "Don't you hear me talking to you!?" :eek3: I looked at her and screamed back, "NO! I can't hear!" Then she got all apologetic and helped me with the code while everyone stared at her.

That's another thing that is starting to piss me off. My hearing loss doubled in a month and people who know about my situation or who I run into but haven't seen in awhile are always going "I'm so sorry" "How terrible" Stop apologizing!! Unless you have a voodoo doll that you're jabbing needles into the ears of, please don't tell me how sorry you are! I know people don't mean it in a bad way, but it's annoying nonetheless.


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