Well I will tell you, life seems to amuse me more and more every time I turn around. More with being deaf. It is truly amusing.

Like today, I am in a meeting with some random people. I am in there, and we get a break for a bit. I decide to take my hearing aid out because it is EXTREAMLY uncomfortable. I mean seriously, the BTE hearing aids fucking hurt! So I take it out, and therefore, become deaf. I can not hear without it. Well apparently some guy started talking to me while my back is turned to him. Well OF COURSE I can’t hear him, and I certainly don’t know he is talking to me as I am turned away from him! So I guess he was greatly offended that I didn’t acknowledge his presence and got REALLY pissed off. HOW CAN I!!!??? So I am still turned around back to him not knowing anything, just reading posters and this dude starts yelling and cursing me out for not seeing him. I, still deaf, am in my own world STILL, not paying him any attention, and he continues to yell. Well, my supervisor comes out and throws a look at me like WHAT THE HELL!!! I was scared, and I give a concerned yet clueless look. She walks right pass me and gets in a mans face! So now I am REALLY confused. She starts yelling at him, all I can make out through lip reading was WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!!!??? The man reply’s she is being rude and not even acknowledging that I am here talking to her!!! And some other stuff I couldn’t make out. By this time I scramble to put in my hearing aid to only pick up him calling me a bitch and all this other shit. Then my supervisor yelling in his face, “DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT SHE COULD BE DEAF!!!???” So of course putting 2 and 2 together, I gather what happened. The man, looked mortified. He looked like his penis went inside out and he turned whiter than white. You KNEW he felt like an ass. GOOD, you deserve it! Seriously, after a MINUTE of talking to someone and they are still in la la land not responding AT ALL, I would assume they were probably…I don’t know… DEAF! Let alone doing it YELLING for FIVE minutes!!! Dumb shit. In the end he got sent to some anger management classes or something… lmfao…My supervisor apologized and took him into the office… heheheh…

Then later after that, my hearing aid was giving me problems. I couldn’t hear correctly all the way, and the ASL interpreter sucked I am determined, I think he used ESL, I honestly don’t think I am THAT bad at reading ASL… lol… really…So I am trying to hear, and I keep asking the man who is instructing us to repeat things. So towards the end apparently he didn’t know I was deaf either, makes a snide remark. “God are you fucking deaf?” Everyone starts laughing thinking it is funny, and I sit there with a disgusted look on my face letting them finish their laughing. After a minute or so of them laughing, the room got quiet, and I calmly replied, “Yes, actually I am.” I have NEVER seen smiles turn to frowns that quickly in my life. One woman even hit her husband telling him not to laugh at “disabled” people. Now, we are not disabled, we are deaf. There is not anything disabling about that. We just can’t hear. Now it sucks that I can’t hear music and everything, and that if I want to hear, I have to wear something EXTREAMLY uncomfortable! But other than that, I have learned to deal, no big deal…  

Then a couple weeks before all this I was speeding. I get pulled over of course and I am shitting myself… The police officer walking closer and closer. “Think fast Iceis, you have expired tags, no insurance, and were speeding,” I am thinking to myself. He comes up to the window and I look at him dumbfounded. “License and registration please.” My reply… *points to ears and shakes head* ( The universal yet not technical way to tell hearing people you are deaf ) He looks at me as I smile with a stupid grin, and does what I hate the most. SLOWLY ANNUNCIATES AND T..A………..L………KS  ………………………………L…………I……….K…………E ………..T…………H……………..I………………….S! God that is the worse thing EVER! Looks at me and yells SLOW DOWN, slow and retarded like. Nodding innocently and scared I agree and he walks back to his car. If he wants to talk to me like I am retarded, and it will get me out of a ticket, GO AHEAD ASS JOCKIE!!! WHEW!

So this is where I will tell you, people, we are deaf, not stupid, please do not get in our faces, talk REALLY slow, and move your mouth over obviously. We can see, we can usually tell what you are saying. Don’t fucking do that, again we are not fucking stupid, dear god. Anyways… I am going to leave it at that. I am sure there will be more stories to come! Late all

Iceis