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Q: What's the dumbest question you've been asked regarding your deafness?
A: I never forgot that day. It happened on my first day on my first ever job. I was hired as a bag boy at a commissary, working for tips. Pitiful, I know. I was reading a newspaper during a break and a co-worker saw me doing that, so he said: "You can read?" Umm...yes. I wanted SO MUCH to say to him "No, I like to sit there and pretend to read in a desperate hope of fooling everyone." He then asked me to read out loud an article. I did that without missing a word. He deliberately pointed at another article few pages in. I read it out to him perfectly, word for word. Jeez.
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That was just rude and completely ignorant of him. Sorry you had to deal with such a person.
Alex - that's why I never forgot that. I found out later on that there was a deaf co-worker...he was never seen reading anything, ever. I tried to talk to him but he wouldn't talk to me because I didn't know how to sign. Okayyyy.
What an idiot.. although do you think he really meant to be rude? Some people are really curious, in so proper a way.
VL - the way he went about it...told me he didn't think deaf people could read. Jumping from an article to another sounded like he was trying to confuse me as if I had memorized the newspaper.
That's just crazy??? What the heck? Seriously?
I'd have punch him in the nuts and then pointed to my ear and acted stupid...
That was so dumb.
Says so much about how stupid he is... what an ass
Shelle - thanks...that made me feel good.
HnS - do you think he knew that afterwards? I highly doubt it, given his level of intelligence... ;)
OMG! That is the most incredibly ignorant thing I've heard! What a jerk.
Why on earth would someone think that a deaf person cannot read? That is preposterous!
What an idiot.
Nitebyrd - I never spoke to him again. Why hang around with a jerk?
Sunday - it may have something to do with a deaf co-worker there...he was never seen reading anything and he wouldn't talk to me. Shrugs.
what a moron
Um, what a douche. I'd likely have had difficult resisting gifting him with a throat punch.
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