Deaf: A Short Story

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The news had come. It was bad. I could tell by the look on their faces. I was trying to read their lips. Something isn’t right. I grabbed a piece of paper and began to write. Something is wrong with me. Today was the day everything changed. The world became silent and I was about to find out why. Everything was beginning to change. My alarm would go off in the morning and I’d press the snooze button. Well I used to but not anymore. Now I just feel a shake like a volcano erupting and that was my sign to get up for school. Now at school I was being treated differently by everybody else. Why? I’m not sure but they just stare at me or ignore me. I’m different from everybody else. I walk down the hallway at school feeling as though I’m not …show more content…

When I attempt to communicate with people I use sign language but people just walk away or laugh at me. I just wish I could be understood. Just because I can’t hear I’m automatically isolated by everyone especially at school. They think I’m less and I’m never going to be treated equal. Instead I’m treated like I’m dumb. Broken. Flawed. Different. Even though I can’t control that I’m deaf. Because of this I can’t be included. I just want to take control but I can’t. I’m treated different and many things are one sided even at school. I make the effort to try to fit in and communicate with others but nothing works. I’m looked at as if they talk to me I’m going to give them some sort of disease. Maybe they are afraid. Maybe they don’t want to accept the challenge. They make me feel afraid and as if I don’t have an identity. I just want to be treated like an ordinary human. I want to be able to communicate with people, I want friends but I guess people are just too cruel to accept me for me. I’m not going to give up though, I’m going to get stronger and prove everybody wrong. I’m not different. I’m unique. Even though I get upset when I attempt to communicate with people and see a possible friendship but then, just like everyone else, they realise I’m different. Then the friendship is doomed and i never see that person

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