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Being Deaf

Being deaf is all I know

So I don’t feel any different from you or anyone else

You try to make me forget the fact that I am deaf

You try to make me feel confused

You try to make me hearing

Yet you try to make me different

Did you know, you are different?

Everyone is different, in their own ways

No matter if they are black, white, deaf, hearing, gay, lesbian (what race, what sexuality they are)

Everyone is different

Well, look at me!

You are a human being!

Well, guess what?

So am I!

I’m deaf, you’re hearing

Yet we are the same – human beings

But you still try to make me confused

About my identity, about my culture, about my language, about my deafness

But hang on!

We both are human beings!

You try to make me different

Why? You are in fear of my deafness

You are in fear of us being different from each other

You are in fear of my culture, my language, my community

Don’t be afraid

Let us come together as human beings

We are all the same, yet different in our way

We have different cultures, languages, different personalities, different minds etc

But in the end, we are all HUMAN BEINGS.

We all live on the same planet, we are a community of human beings

Please don’t be afraid to be different.

- written by Me

A loose translatation from my ASL vlog