- “Wow, I never would have known you are deaf!”
- “You don’t look deaf.”
- “She was so beautiful, you would have not known she was deaf.”
- “What’s reading braille like?”
- “Can you have children?”
- “You speak so well!”
- “You don’t sound like a deaf person.”
- “What? There’s no need for captions. Here, I’ll turn up the volume, I don’t mind.” (turns up volume on t.v. really loud, smiles and gives the thumbs up).
- “Oh, never mind. I’ll tell you later.”
- “Turn up your hearing aid!”
- “Why don’t deaf people just get cochlear implants?”
- “Oh, I love sign language! “A… . .B… . .C…”
- “Why don’t you ever listen to me?”
- “I bet you are just pretending to be deaf, huh?”
- ”What is your problem? You were hearing me fine just a second ago. Are you listening?”
- “Oh, he’s probably not deaf. Selective hearing, right?” (laughs)
- “GEEZ! I…SAID… WHAT…DO…YOU…WANT…TO…DO?!!!”
- ”Doesn’t it make you sad that you won’t hear your child say, “I love you.”?
- ”Can you read their lips and tell me what they are saying?”
- “Oh, how do you sign @#%^, *#$%, %@!*&, and !@@#$%& ?
- ”Can you hear me now?” (laughs)
- ”You don’t need an interpreter. We can understand what you are saying.”
- “Oh, you are deaf? Like Helen Keller! Cool!”
- “Gosh, you deaf people are so angry and militant!”
- (Whispers) “Look! He has a hearing aid, just like you!” (points)
- “Didn’t you hear? Oh- Eer, um…so sorry, um.” (laughs nervously)
- “Oh, you’re deaf? Sorry.”
- “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??”
- “i can see your hearing aids, WHY CANT YOU HEAR ME?”
- “this one time.. on a bus.. i saw some Deaf people!”
- “Your accent is interesting! Where are you from??”
- “So like, what CAN you hear??”
- “Does it hurt?”
- “Dont you wish you could hear music?”
(Source: thatdeafchick)
