Have you ever seen a deaf and dum trying to communicate?do you notice how they struggle to make sounds? And how frustrated they look when they noticed that they cannot be heard nor understood by others. It's painful
A picture of me and my sonshine 🌞
I met this deaf guy at the market some days back , I was with my baby that was already making himself noticeable to everyone in the market. While I bring him out of my back to attend to him since I was at my Vendors place already I just noticed this Young look guy coming towards my direction with a smile and he walked towards where I was attending to my baby.
Trying to touch him and also struggling to express himself,I signed (using my fingers )to talk to him,I asked him how he was and what is his name he was so happy and started talking to me with sign language but I couldn't communicate with him again because I could only sign some few sentences and they where not applicable to what we were saying.
I became reluctant but I noticed this guy was still talking, making sounds that I couldn't understand at the end of it all I noticed how happy and satisfied he felt.
I couldn't help but kept wondering what life would be like when this deaf gain their speech, how excited they will be,what their first word would be and for how long they would keep speaking.
Truth be told since we can speak it's a gift and the best way we can use this gift is to speak politely, respectfully and with consideration.
Sometimes we unconsciously use abusive words on people and forget how that would affect that person negatively or even body shaming others.
Let's be slow in speaking and quick to listen because out ability to speak is an unmerited gift that shouldn't be misused.
We as people take a lot of things for granted that we do without any effort and minimal thought. It brings it back to some extent when you run into issues like not being able to walk, you appreciate your legs a lot more. Talk, you appreciate your voice a lot more when these things heal and get better.
I’m glad that you were able to communicate with him, that’s important as those people are very often unable to communicate and it puts them at a difficult disadvantage in a lot of ways but it is also socially isolating. We are social creatures! We need to have social contact and I’m sure the guy was thinking about it the rest of the day that you talked to him. Perhaps learn a little more sign language! That would be nice!
Each time I read your reply on my post I feel supper excited..... thanks so much for taking out time to read and comment on my post.
I really want to learn more sign language but don't have a tutor around me anymore.