It disgusts me how many adults in my life have tried to raise me as a hearing person. It’s their secret way of saying, “No. We don’t accept this.” And to think how I’m not the only one. It happens to all of us, everyone, in different ways. And not just deaf and hard of hearing people.

Nobody ever takes you seriously. They’re all too blown away by the fact that you can speak and breathe, and do things like other people. It’s like you’re some other creature pretending to be human. They don’t see you for who you really are, and then wonder why we either overcompensate or retreat and isolate ourselves.

HOH tip

Sandwich yourself in between two hearies at all possible times when out and about to create a halo of hearing detectors.