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Funny things that happen as deaf person in a hearing household!
I was born deaf and the whole of my family is hearing
so I thought why not share with you all the funny things that has happened to me in my house with my hearing family!
If this has happened to you too, please comment below!
If you have other funny things, let me know in the comments below!
Are you ready to find out the 10 funny things that has happened to me in a hearing household?
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Number one, this is the TOOOOP one.
What is it? Forgetting to turn taps off because I'm totally deaf.
When I go to the bathroom, I sometimes get distracted whilst washing my hands and forget to turn off the tap.
Suddenly, my family can hear something running in the bathroom, "What is that noise?"
and then they saw the tap running and knew it was me, that I forgot to turn it off because I obviously can't hear.
But I need to be CAREFUL because the bill has raised now, so every time I wash my hands I've got that scar in back of my head to turn it off.
To my family, you still love me really.
Number two, this is very common.
Missing my deliveries because I'm too deaf to hear, there's my deaf ass not hearing the knock.
*knocking*
*knocking again*
*thinking why is she standing there and ignoring me?*
*someone is in trouble*
It has happened to me before when a delivery man was like why did you ignore me?!
I was standing in the kitchen minding my own business *buttering the bread*.
He would get annoyed and give up, put the parcel in a hidden place or send it back to the post office.
I hate this part, because I'm deaf which means I sometimes miss my deliveries so I have to pick it up later, ahhh!
But I happened to be lucky turning around and see him, he was like huh? I was like I'm deaf... he was like OH, I'm sorry!
I was like hahah yeah... it was a bit awkward. I have no idea how long he had been trying to knock for? His poor hand.
I hate this part as I get paranoid... what if I miss my delivery again? If I was in the kitchen making food or a drink, I would keep turning around
making sure I haven't missed my delivery, because I can't see my doorbell flashing when I turn around.
I'm sure this has happened to some of you (deafies).
Number three,
When my dinner is ready, how do they catch my attention?
My mum once shouted, "Dinner's ready!" and then remembered that I can't hear.
So, she would try flashing the hall light instead.
What?
Dinner's ready, come down!
Ahh, dinner's ready, ok.
This is how people catch my attention.
Or they would call me on FaceTime, if I didn't answer then they would flash the light. I was like what?
Flashing light is powerful, it catches deaf people's attention.
Like, at a deaf pub and it's time to close, us deaf people are always the last people to leave as we talk, talk and talk.
Hearing people would get annoyed so they decide to turn off the lights as we can't see each other's sign so we have to leave.
Yeah, this.
Number four, this is my favourite one. What is it?
At night time or at bed time. Suddenly, it's loud outside such as loud rain pouring, thunder, people arguing or music being played loud.
This will wake up hearing people and they struggle to sleep with all of the loud noises outside. Trying to figure out how to stop it?
But, I'm deaf which means I have a peaceful sleep.
*people arguing outside*
*knocking*
What is this noise?!
I can't hear so I have a peaceful sleep throughout the night.
My family would get jealous that I can't hear the loud noises and had a good sleep.
Sometimes my mum can't sleep because of my stepdad's snoring,
Fortunately, I can't relate to this. I don't have any problems with hearing people's snoring.
They would say that I'm lucky and they wish they could be deaf at this moment.
I was like, that's why I love being deaf.
Sorry to the hearing people who struggle to sleep through the night with loud noises.
Number five, this happens, it's very common...
What is it? If I sit behind the window and I'm watching TV or something,
and my family don't have a key with them, so they would get locked out but can see me in the house and they would try to catch my attention.
I can't see them if I'm not faced towards the doorbell flashing or to them, so I don't even realise that they are outside.
*knocking*
If I sit very near the window, I will turn around cos I can feel the vibration very well.
But If I sit or stand far away from the window, I won't realise. They will be like:
Ahhhh!!
My sister would call me on FaceTime many times if I never turned around, I was like what?
She said look outside! I turned around and saw her being annoyed outside. I waved at her.
It happened on a rainy day once, she got soaked and was like, "Why you?!" I waved at her giggling haha.
Number six, this happens very often.
My family love tea or coffee, every time they hear I have turned the kettle on,
they would come to me and say, ooo make me a tea or coffee please! I was like, why?!
*kettle beeping*
It has happened to me so many times, when the kettle went off and I never heard it cos I'm deaf,
my family was like, where's my tea? Where's my coffee? I'm waiting.
I was like, OF COURSE! I forgot about it. The water must be cold cos it stays there for a long time.
This happens very often.
Number 7, this is a really funny one and awkward, it's both.
My family argued downstairs and there's me, of course, I can't hear.
I came downstairs to the kitchen, and saw them arguing.
I felt so awkward.
*people arguing*
I would walk back, close the door and rush upstairs to my bedroom
and thinking, omg, why are they arguing? I can't hear. How long have they been arguing?
I have so many questions in my mind.
I always feel like I'm in the middle when my family are arguing because I have no idea what's going on.
I don't know what they are arguing about, and there's me in the middle.
I always ask my sister to translate what are they arguing about, she tried her best but she can't help when trying to listen to it.
Once they were walking towards the door, we would rush to a different room pretending like we never heard it, I'm sure this has happened to a lot of yous.
Comment below if this happened to you and your sibling!
Number eight, in the early morning, my mum hoovers my room when I'm asleep cause it doesn’t wake me up.
I slept like a baby and there's her hoovering my room.
*hoovering*
My mum avoids hoovering my sister's or someone's else room because it'll wake them up. They would say, why wake me up?!
But there's my deaf ass sleeping like dead.
Number nine, oh my god...
You know what? You know I love bath, when I run it,
I would go to my room and get distracted by sorting out my stuff
such as laying on my bed watching telly, on my phone and I forget about the bath running.
Suddenly, I felt something wasn't right. Hmm.
*running a bath*
*feels like I'm forgetting something*
OMG THE BATH!!
I started to remember that I ran the bath, so I was rushing to the bathroom and opened the door...
I saw the bath almost flooding the house, so I ran to stop it.
Thank god, I didn't flood the house. The water was that high, almost above the bath tub. Imagine if I got in, it will flood my house.
I had that scar in the back of my head, from now when running a bath, I would bring my stuff to the bathroom and stay there and watch.
This is the last one, number ten, what is it?
A dishwasher where we put all the dirty cups, plates etc in and it washes.
Of course, I can't hear when the dishwasher is running.
When I wanted to put my plate or glass in the dishwasher, so I opened it when it's running and the water/steam came up.
I shut it fast.
*tap water running*
*dishwasher running*
This happens to me EVERY TIME without fail. It has happened so many times.
Recently, my friend got a new dishwasher and he was like, finally now I know when it's running
as it has a light on the bottom to let us know that it's running.
The light will go when it finishes. I need one! When I move out, I need to have products that are accessible to deaf people.
Maybe I'll have a chat with a deaf architect to help me with rooms that are accessible for deaf people as they know it very well.
Deaf accessible, I need that.
So, this is all the ten funny things that has happened to me as deaf person in a hearing household.
They have all happened to me many times.
Let me know in the comments below if this has happened to you too,
or you have any other funny things that have happened to you! I'd love to read it all.
I really hope you enjoyed this video, maybe it made you laugh thinking it's relatable or not?
Thank you for watching this video and I'll see you again soon for a brand new video. Byeee!