The Secret Deafie is a regular column about deaf experiences submitted anonymously by different contributors. If you have a story you’d like to tell, just email thelimpingchicken@gmail.com
The day I was rejected from the Deaf club, for having one arm
The day I stopped wearing my hearing aids in public
Cochlear implants and MRI scans
The waitress who walked away before getting an answer
Educating the couple at the bus stop
A misunderstanding at the hand dryer
How a train delay was made worse
The day I was sworn at… without knowing it
The sound of silence (with a touch of tinnitus)
My collision with a wheelchair user
The world’s worst chat-up attempt
Playing the deaf card – in a prime mugging spot
I wanted to drop-kick a box office assistant
cody m
November 28, 2012
You dont sound deaf…!!
I used to wear old siemens bte hearing aids big beige lumpy things. I recently converted to ite buds because of ear infections..
Any way i was waiting fir my bus home ans was reading something in my phone when this woman hits mw in the shoukd and all i could make out was are u listening to me rude you gsters these days..
Obviously she was talking tk me and i didnt acknowledge that..
I pointed to my ears and mimed ‘im deaf’ she didnt realise and was still waffleing on..
I then carried in and said i cant hear you im deaf .. to which she said yiu dint sound deaf..
So my reply was i wouldnt know…
She kept talking to people saying im so rude on thw bus and eventually someone had enough and piped up and said she is a deaf teen she is not being rude unlike you lebelling them all the same..
There are nice poeple out there and obviously alot of rude and discriminative people also..!!
Diana
May 1, 2013
I enjoyed reading various stories of different aspects of being deaf. Now i am 70 years old and continue being amazed at people’ignorance of deafness and i reckon that there is no excuse these days with amazing technology and computers. Anyway lovely stories thanks