Understanding the Deaf
This insightful story from a Nigerian publication addresses the two different broad types of deafness: prelingual (deaf before speaking) and postlingual (deaf after speaking). Unfortunately, there’s a bad typo in the article. “Dead” instead of “deaf” as well as a few errors. In spite of these mistakes, it’s still worth reading.
While growing up, a few kids asked me, “Are you death?”
Obviously, they misheard “deaf” as “death.”
Comments
When I tell people what I do, I get a lot of adults that say death instead of deaf or say “What??” but they think they’re being funny. Ha-ha, that’s original. Never heard that one before…
Interesting story nonetheless.
Posted by: Elle | June 9, 2006 12:01 PM