I love how people assume as soon as you have a disability that you are stupid. It gets me EVERY time! As soon as you tell someone you are hearing impaired, they start talking real LOUD and real SLOW! I get they are trying to help. Sometimes I laugh because they look stupid.
It's the ones who look at you like your stupid and whisper behind your back. Dummy I can read lips!
One incident that I can't erase from my head is when we first moved to Walla Walla. We were at Starbucks and I was looking at what I wanted to order. I had my hair up and you could see my hearing aid. My oldest was standing at the counter and the women working asked her if she could ask me what I wanted to order. I went up to place the older myself and her face turned bright red. She responded "I didn't know deaf people could talk!?!" Seriously!
Goes back to that one saying "You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover..."
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