#deaf discrimination

That reminds me of a time late one night at a Taco Bell drive through. My teen son was in the passenger seat listening for the voice on the speaker. When they spoke, asking what we wanted, my son tapped me on the shoulder to go ahead with our order...I was still deciding what I wanted, so I said...”umm” for like two seconds, and my son acted funny at the voice’s response. He told me to back up and not order. There were no cars behind me, so I did. He then asked me to leave and go somewhere else, still, without telling me why — as if the voice was running out of taco hell to chase us. I left at his urgent request. Once on the road heading to get some burgers, he finally told me why he acted so bizarre and insisted I leave that place...

Because when I said “um”, the voice over the speaker replied,

Hoh and deaf people get discriminated against all the time.

The hearing world is like:

“Huh, what do you mean discriminating against people who can’t hear? I didn’t know anything was different about them.”

Just because you can’t see someone’s obstacle doesn’t mean they don’t still face that obstacle every single day.

My adult (but still a teen) daughter was told by a major grocery store chain — they wouldn’t hire her until she had new hearing aids. And seeing as she needed a job to make money, she obviously couldn’t afford thousands of dollars for new hearing aids.

They hired a male hearie friend of hers the same day. Surprise!

She was hired for a different job as a hostess at a restaurant, and when she asked if she could be a server because that position paid more, the manager told her no because she couldn’t hear. She can still hear with hearing aids.

What the hell is up with you assuming since we’re deaf, we can’t cross the street or walk through parking lots safely. Like, yeah, I see it all the time on the evening news.

Today across the country:

“Yet ANOTHER deaf person mowed down in retail parking lot.”

Stop the press!

“One down, people, one down.”

BREAKING NEWS:

“Deafies getting hit by cars is the new stupidity.”

As a deaf person who started losing my hearing at age seventeen — I’m now forty three — I’ve not once almost been hit by a vehicle because I’m deaf or have hearing loss. Not at any previous jobs, not when shopping at stores or going out to eat or simply taking a walk.

Do hearies think because we can’t hear that we’re ridiculously stupid, too, and haphazardly walk down the middle of the street or PARKING LOTS without a care in the world just asking to be careened into oblivion. Because we can’t hear, we don’t know how to walk properly or abide by basic pedestrian etiquette. lol

We still have eyes, fuckers. We still see things out of the corners of our eyes and our peripheral vision. We also feel wind and vibrations of things approaching or passing.

Maybe it’s all the hearies who need a bit more education in basic human decency and consideration?

Case in point: I was recently not mowed down by a fast moving train because I could SEE and FEEL it.