This is why deaf people tend to be reclusive and oftentimes loners...because being deaf is not a common thing. You take an entire town and you gather them all up in one space, and I’m willing to bet you won’t find many deaf. I’m not talking about hearing loss due form the onset of old age. I’m not talking about people who listened to the music too loud when they were a teen or people who had a serious accident that caused the injury of deafness.
I’m talking about people who were born deaf or born HoH or born with the genetics of becoming medically deaf at some point in their early life. You won’t find many of those people concentrated in the same space. It’s not easy for medically deaf and hoh people to find each other. We are spread out across the world. I can’t just go out to my local grocery store and find a deaf person shopping for apples. I can’t go to the local Walmart and find a deafie admiring a new set of drapes for their living room.
It’s not like every other person is deaf or every every other person. I don’t know, it just seems like I haven’t crossed paths with many deaf people, except the ones I know, like family and well...family. I’ve been a small-towner my entire life, which is probably part of the problem.
