Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the channel.
Today, I'm going to bring a little bit of fun to you
and let's react to some memes
about deaf people.
This is a requested video.
So I hope those of you that requested it
will watch this and enjoy it.
So what I'm gonna do is first,
I think I'm gonna Google, like, deaf memes.
Memes about deaf people and see...
They're memes that hearing people have made
and we'll answer some questions that they bring up.
And then I'm going to go to the deafmemes Twitter,
which is a deaf-run Twitter account.
And they make deaf memes,
jokes about deaf people and jokes about hearing people.
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All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and do the Googling one first.
And I guess I'm gonna put "deaf memes".
"When the airline lady finds out you're deaf
"and offers you a wheelchair."
Yeah, that does happen a lot,
and it's something that still doesn't make sense to me.
I found out that airlines or the hospitality industry,
when you're in school they pretty much give the same
"if a disabled person is coming to you,
"just give them a wheelchair and that's it".
Somebody told me that. Somebody who studies this
and majors in this, told me this.
And I thought that is very strange.
I'm not always offered a wheelchair,
but sometimes I am.
And now that my chronic pain is worse,
my chronic pain and fatigue, I actually do use it.
It's because deafness is not my only disability.
I've come to be less, like, "Ohhh my god!" about it,
just because there are deaf people with multiple disabilities.
But I do still find it a little weird,
kind of funny that everyone just
automatically offers that
if you just say that you're deaf. (LAUGHS)
Or like if you're asking for anything else,
but they'll still offer you that wheelchair
and I'm like, "No. Save that for...
"somebody else", you know? Why...
"When the deaf kids are roasting you in sign language,
"so you turn off the lights."
Yeah. That's basically what you could do.
It's like when I did the Trevor Noah reaction video
and he made the joke about how, like,
people were covering their eyes so they wouldn't have to see
what was being said or whatever.
Yeah, that's... that's a thing.
"I can't hear you, so I'll just laugh
"and hope it wasn't a question."
A hundred percent.
A thousand percent.
Relatable. (LAUGHS)
I'm trying to move past the bluffing
because it comes back to bite you in the ass,
like real hard, sometimes.
Or not only... Like you also just hope...
You also...don't only hope
that it's just a question.
But also, like imagine if somebody came to you
with something serious to say, like somebody had died.
And you laugh because you don't know what else to do.
That's just bad. Real bad.
"When you can't hear what someone says
"and they repeat it 98 times
"and you're still like..."
Relatable.
"Me: 'I'm deaf.'
"Person: 'Oh, okay!'
"Person: still continues to speak at light speed.
"Me: trying to lip read..."
Yeah.
Also, if you tell somebody that you're deaf
and you also, like, ask them to write it down or something.
And they'll still just continue to talk at light speed.
And you're like...
Way too common.
Way, way too common.
And here's the most famous one.
"When people yawn,
"do deaf people think they are screaming?"
This made the rounds on Tumblr so, so much,
and I just want to...
Let's... Let's just...
go over the differences between yawning and screaming, shall we?
Roll clip!
(YAWNS)
(SCREAMS)
Yeah, we know.
"When people learn to sign for the first time.
"A, E, I, O, U." (LAUGHS)
We can't knock people who are trying
even if they, you know, only know how to fingerspell.
Like when my boyfriend and I went on our very first date together,
he knew the alphabet.
You can't knock 'em. It's the effort, you know?
It's their very first time, you know? You can't knock 'em.
But I chuckled. I chuckled. Okay? (LAUGHS)
"Wow! You speak really well for a deaf person."
Boy, do I relate to that! (LAUGHS)
It's always like a backhanded compliment.
You know? It makes people really uncomfortable.
I know some people really don't mind when people say that,
and they do take it as a compliment.
Because it may be like a oral deaf person
who is strictly oral and has worked very hard on their speech.
And so, you know, they might accept that as a compliment.
And that's fine.
But for me and a lot of others,
it just sounds like
very much of a backhanded compliment.
Especially if there was someone else.
If I had a deaf friend who doesn't speak as well as I do...
I do have speaking privilege. I acknowledge that.
I've always acknowledged it.
And they're like right beside me, right?
And somebody were to say that to me.
Like, the other person would feel... might feel...
not so great about that.
And I just... It's just...
It's uncomfortable.
"Thank you for shouting at me...
"said no deaf person, ever."
Yeah, shouting doesn't really do any good.
Makes it harder to understand you.
I know my boyfriend will talk a lot louder in this ear,
because it's my... my "better ear".
But like, screaming at me
from across the room with something,
probably isn't gonna do anything. (LAUGHS)
If you want to shout at me to get my attention, then okay.
Combined with, like, stomping on something.
That's fine.
But if strangers are shouting at me,
it just doesn't really work. Don't do that. (LAUGHS)
Definitely don't do it in public cause that's really embarrassing. (LAUGHS)
"You expect me to lip read?
"Why don't you learn sign language?"
Relatable.
Every time I come near a hearing person,
especially strangers, you know, they're always like:
"Oh! So can you lip read?"
And I'm like, "No".
Like, there's always that common misconception
that everybody lip reads.
And those that can lip read,
can lip read everything.
When scientific evidence shows that
only 30 to 40 percent of the English language...
I don't know about any other languages,
but only 30 to 40 percent of the English language
can really be read on the lips.
And that is also combined with like no background noise
and good lighting and, you know, things like that.
It is a little bit frustrating and, you know,
if one person doesn't know sign language
then, like, just... middle ground and
write down or type it down.
If it's somebody that you know regularly...
With families and with friends,
and I mean, like, friends that you see all the time.
Not like maybe a friend you see, like, once a year, right?
If it's somebody you're gonna be with for a while,
whether it's family or significant others,
and sign language isn't really coming into the picture,
it is a very big struggle.
"How do deaf people think?
"Does sign language just pop up in their head?"
Yes and no!
I do think this is a little bit of a silly question cause, like,
what makes you think deaf people aren't capable of thinking, right?
But yeah, I know some people think in...
If they have a spoken language that they know,
they'll think in a spoken language.
Or if there's a sign language,
they'll think in sign language.
I....
do both.
All right, let's move on to
the Twitter.
I can go over Google ones
in another video. But for time's sake,
let's move on to the Deafmemes Twitter.
This is Deafmemes.exe
and I'll put a link down below, if you want to follow them.
They have a lot. They have a lot of tweets now.
So, we're gonna just see what comes.
(LAUGHS) I love this one.
"Waiting for your deaf friend to open the damn door
"because there's no doorbell strobe light installed.
"Yo...I am here!... Hello?" (LAUGHS)
I'm someone who doesn't have a doorbell.
I don't have a strobe light doorbell.
I don't have a Ring doorbell.
I lost half of it and now I just don't have it anymore.
And I never got it approved to install it.
So, I've had people come by,
and they'll text me that they're here.
But I don't answer
because sometimes my phone flash doesn't go off
and I might be doing something else.
The time that they were gonna arrive was underestimated.
So, (LAUGHS) it happens.
I think I left one friend
standing for a good, like, 15 minutes
before I realized. (LAUGHS)
"When you find out your insurance doesn't cover hearing aids
"and you're gonna pay out of pocket.
"I'm never gonna financially recover from this."
Yeah, hearing aids for the most part...
I think it really depends on insurance
but I think more often than not
hearing aids are not covered by insurance
whereas cochlear implants tend to be.
Because somehow, insurance considers hearing aids
cosmetic procedures,
and cochlear implants are not cosmetic procedures, which...
Cochlear implants are not cosmetic procedures, obviously.
But hearing aids also are not cosmetic procedures
because they're not there to look pretty.
Unless you bling them out. Then they can look awesome.
But my point is (LAUGHS) that they're not there as like
fashion glasses or earrings or makeup.
It's a medical tool, but
insurance is nonsensical. Yeah.
And they can be anywhere for a single pair,
a couple of thousand to...
past the ten thousand. It's so strange.
I have a video that I did with Amanda McDonough.
I'll have that linked up down below if you want to watch
because she has experience with that.
"Me: walking up without making a noise.
"Hearing people: (BLEEP)"
Relatable. I think in the past
I was better at being sneaky.
But now that my hearing has gotten worse,
I am louder than I used to be.
When I think I'm very, very quiet, I'm not.
But I have been successful at
scaring hearing people.
Because I came up to them
and tried to tap them on the shoulder and didn't realize so...
Sorry!
"Every deaf person's worst enemy."
And it's a photo of the sink, running water.
I related.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know about this.
My toilet downstairs I rarely use
was running constantly
for a good, like, two days before I realized.
And that was not a pretty water bill. (LAUGHS)
And yeah. Thankfully,
I got it knocked down a little bit.
But there was a story about a woman
I think in either Washington or Oregon
who had to pay thousands of dollars
for her water bill
because her toilet was running for, like, ever.
And I wish there was some sort of
technology or something
that would let deaf people know that something's running.
Especially a toilet, if it's one that you don't really use a lot.
"Deaf.
"Hearing people: sounds too rude.
"Hearing impairment.
"And the hearing people clap, clap, clap."
I have noticed this
I have seen this.
And I don't understand it. (LAUGHS)
It's one thing if they didn't know about it,
and then they're like, "Hey! Isn't that..."
You know, you just tell them.
But then when deaf people are like, "No, actually we don't like this".
But then everybody insists and they're like "No, no, no.
"No!
"No. My book says this."
And they're, like, written by hearing people,
like, ages ago and it's...
I don't know. it's always been really weird.
Some deaf people don't care. They'll use "hearing impaired".
But...yeah.
I used to use "hearing impaired" a lot.
But then, as the years went by,
I was like "I don't really like the sound of that word".
"When you are eating dinner with your hearing parents,
"but they get into an intense argument
"and you have no idea what they are saying."
Parents.
Other family members.
Friends.
Every group of hearing people on the planet.
What's up, dinner table syndrome?
(LAUGHS THEN SIGHS)
And even when you get, like, a gist of what's happening,
you're still lost.
You're still lost!
And my favorite one to wrap this up,
because I have a story about this.
"Deaf gain means you can eat while talking."
Hearing person is having...
ice cream in her mouth and trying to talk.
And it's not really working cause, you know,
she'll be afraid that she spits it out.
And then you got the "deaf man"
who has the ice cream in his mouth,
but then he's using his hands to...
well, clap. But the point is that, you know,
you can use your hands to talk.
Yeah, I remember I was at...
last year at Cambridge
for the MIT program.
And we had taco night and my interpreter was there.
I was the only deaf person... No, I wasn't.
There was another deaf person there.
But she speaks only. She doesn't sign.
I was talking to a couple of my classmates.
You know, they're all talking.
They're trying to eat and talk at the same time,
and it's not really working.
But me, at some point...
Well okay, tacos and burritos are not deaf friendly foods,
if you're trying to hold and sign at the same time.
At least for me. I can't sign and talk.
Or I can't sign with one hand very well.
But you know, at least if I have food in my mouth
and I put my food down...
And then I could talk and everybody else is, like, struggling.
And I'm like, "Yeah, this works very well.
"It's amazing!"
All right, so those are a couple of memes.
Let me know if you enjoyed this video.
And maybe in the future, I'll do some more.
Especially from that Twitter.
That Twitter has so many good gems.
But it's hard to get through them all
in a good amount of time for a video, all right?
So, let me know. If you have any other memes
that you would like me to react to,
send them to me on Twitter, and then I'll save them
and then I can react to those later.
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