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I rarely call people audist though I certainly think it exists. I've dealt with people who discount other deaf peoples' experience. Some things that really gets on my nerves is when they think I'm smart because of my speech. If they think hearing is better than deaf and try to rub our noses into it, i'll get offended or if they insist that we behave a certain way like being unhappy at being deaf, etc.. in short, an attitude of being superior based on hearing status is audist in my book.