Shit Hearing People Say to Deaf and Hard of Hearing People:

  • “Excuse me, Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! WHAT ARE YOU?!?! DEAF?!?!”
  • “Wow, I never would have known you are deaf!” 
  • “You don’t look deaf.”
  • “What’s reading braille like?” 
  • “Can you have children?”
  • “You speak so well!” 
  • “You don’t sound like a deaf person.” 
  • “You dont need captions. I’ll just turn up the volume.”
  • “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?”
  • 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!” 
  • “Look! He has a hearing aid, just like you!” 
  • “Didn’t you hear that? oh.. uh sorry.”
  • “Oh, you’re deaf? Sorry.” 
  • “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??”
  • “i can see your hearing aids, WHY CANT YOU HEAR ME?”
  • “I’ve always wanted to learn sign language!” 
  • “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?”
  • “So what does this mean??” (waves hands randomly)
  • “You are SO lucky you dont have to hear those annoying people talking”
  • “Can you have sex?”
  • “I wish i could just, turn my ears off!”
  • “Sorry im deaf must be your best excuse right??”
  • “I know you can talk, why dont you just talk?!?!”