What do we deserve?

Deaf people are not tourists.

Tourists may have encountered communication barriers in certain countries. That is their choice. They decide to travel to countries where local people could not speak their language or English. Furthermore it is just temporary. 

Deaf people never ask for communication barriers in own country. It is not our choice to be a deaf person. It happened. Being "hearing person" again after losing hearing ability is an impossible solution. 

Therefore please do not compare deaf people with foreign tourists for any situation where staff refused to serve deaf people directly. Fear or not, you have to be bold if you want to avoid discrimination. Simple communication will do. 

Should deaf people choose to travel to other countries, that would be different story and the communication barriers in the other countries can be acceptable because deaf people made this choice. 

Posted on Facebook 1 Jan 2019

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Deaf people already went through hard life due to people ignorance. We have been mistreated in our life. Thousand times. Not just once or twice. You want to give us a long lecture about being nice to those people choose not to communicate directly with us to find out what we want to get. There are thousand ways of communicating with us. Simple way will do.

Please save this lecture for those who are ignorant. You do not need to feel sorry for us. Please do not say that you understand how miserable our life is. If you understand us, you will not give the lecture to us. 

Whenever we receive such lecture, you are indicating that we are the problem to the society. You are indicating that we are faults and damaged persons in the society that need to be silenced. 

Think first why we became this aggressive when people mistreated us BEFORE you give lecture to us. You and me may have different understanding of certain situation we are facing and yet you do not have every right to correct my thoughts and actions. 

Posted on Facebook 31 December 2018