3. Reasons you cannot be deaf
You don’t sound funny.
You don’t talk too loud.
You have such a nice voice.
You’re so normal.
You can wear hearing aids.
You can turn up your hearing aids.
You can try harder.
You don’t have any trouble hearing me.
You can do better if you try.
You can hear anything you want to hear.
You can try harder.
You can never really learn sign language.
You didn’t grow up deaf.
You didn’t go to a deaf school.
You tried to pass as hearing.
You try to pass as hearing.
You don’t fit in.
You don’t get the jokes.
You don’t understand the language.
You don’t understand the language.
You just don’t understand
the language.
Reasons you can’t be hearing:
You can’t hear.
--Ilene C. Caroom,
"Like Love, This Choice of a Language"
