What Ticks You Off (Most) About Hearies?

craigm26 said:
a) strangggeee. Never had something like that happen. Did you slap him/her or something?
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Even if they did do something to that person, what does deafness and ASL have to do with it? Think about it.
 
TXgolfer said:
People I play softball with knew I was losing hearing. Some that didn't know me well didn't. When I started wearing a hearing aid people posted on a message board that I was so pretentious and full of myself that they saw me on the field playing with a bluetooth in my ear.......
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For real? LOL. I wonder what they'd call my CI?
 
HoH_Jordan said:
I actually had several people in high school I've never met come up to me and tell me, "You're the best-looking person with hearing aids I've ever met! I didn't know there were any attractive people who wore hearing aids!".

No lie. I didn't even bother to thank them for their so-called "compliment"! It really had me burning up!! :mad:
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What? HAs make people ugly? *peer* I'd be ticked off too. :pissed: Damn, it's just a HA - nothing more.
 
BelleSorrisa said:
I hate it when people say "Oh, I'm so soooooooorry" when they find out I'm deaf. Jeez - I don't need your apologies. Just be yourself.
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I concur.

I used to hate that too, until I found out that a few people (not culturally Deaf) ENJOYED that attention. What the hell? Either way, you can't really undo what other people has enabled.
 
I think that it's an age thing. Only old foggies wear HAs, don't ya know?

I'm irritated with hearing people who try to insist that I use my voice at the deaf center. I need practice and speaking slows my progress. If people want to hear voices, they can do that anywhere.
 
sallylou said:
I think that it's an age thing. Only old foggies wear HAs, don't ya know?

I'm irritated with hearing people who try to insist that I use my voice at the deaf center. I need practice and speaking slows my progress. If people want to hear voices, they can do that anywhere.
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But then they get medicine. :hmm:
 
Get medicine? I don't understand.

The deaf center operates on the immersion principle.
 
A said:
Even if they did do something to that person, what does deafness and ASL have to do with it? Think about it.
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It's just confusing to me that someone would keep trying to communicate to someone who probably can't hear with trash talk? I mean that's the whole point of trash talk- at least in basketball- to wear down your opponent or make him do something that he normally wouldn't do. I mean, sure you could just let it slide, or you could escalate it with something that's more universally understood to the guy who's trash talking.

I always let it slide in sports, but sometimes there is a nugget of gold behind the trash talk. If someone gives me criticism at work and it seems unwarranted, I question it. If I think there's more to the meaning of the conversation, I elevate it so that I can fully understand where the person is coming from so that I can do my job better.
 
She is a CODA = hearing child of deaf parents. I don't think she asked for it.
 
Denture wearers who attempt to talk to me without their dentures in. That's a guaranteed conversation fail.
 
Denture wearers who don't enunciate are challenging, too.

The other day my hubby was literally talking into the kitchen cabinet. I burst out laughing.
 
(said by my evil first boyfriend during an argument after he mutters something under his breath): 'You heard me.'

Or- someone says something, I catch bits of it say and say 'What was that?' then I guess from the context and respond, then they say 'See, you did hear me!'- I don't think this is purposely to upset but I have to say, no I didn't, I guessed.
 
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