Deaf or hearing

• Posted on 4th August 2018
• in This-n-that
• by Dragonfly

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Put your right foot in, Put your right foot out, Put your right foot in and shake it all about.

That’s how I feel everyday navigating this deaf/HOH/hearing world. I don’t fit in anywhere…

Deaf community calls me HOH. Talk to my audiologist she says I’m deaf. Talk to a deaf friend….she says I need a deaf person to do this or that. So I’m excluded.

Born hearing….losing my hearing…hearing aids yes… Are they the fix all…. Not no, but hell no!

So where does that put me? One foot in each world and understanding neither…

I’m at a loss.

I This small small deaf community… I have 2 friends. One deaf. One HOH. She was raised in deaf community went to deaf school. So she is….Deaf.

These two are amazing people and are trying to help me navigate…. Helping me learn more asl. I’m more fluent than the hearing….But not fluent to the deaf.

Lost.

We talk about the discrimination of sexes, race, and disabilities. What we don’t talk about is the discrimination of people.

Think about it… Here I am becoming deaf…slowly over 20 years. And the deaf community doesn’t accept me because I’m hearing and the hearing don’t accept my deafness….

I’m going to ask all for tolerance. No matter the difference.

Religion, political views, defecets, gains, love, sexes, race.

Just love each for being human. The differences work themselves out if you are tolerant.