Some People Think Deaf are Simple Minded!
I have a younger sister and the age different between us is 13 years., So as you can see I left home long before she reached her teens.
Sometimes when I used to visit my mum and she happened to be there, she would usually have her school friends around at the house.
I found that some of her school friends must have thought that deaf people had some disease or are very simple minded!
For example, if I spoke to one of them and didn’t get a reply, or when others only replied to my sister and not me.
Teenagers think it’s uncool to be talking to adults, so I loved winding my sister up as she did it often enough to me.
When she was about 14, I came round to my mums house and I gave her a birthday card and I timed it well so that she could open it in front of her friends. It was a Barbie card. I found it amusing, as her friends did not know what to say.
My sister said “Fintan, don’t you think I am a bit too old for a Barbie card?”
Since then every birthday she always got a Barbie card from me.
3 years ago on her 21st birthday I turned up and she mentioned that she didn’t get a Barbie card this year, just a normal happy birthday card
Knowing her friends were within earshot I said “it’s about time you grew up..You’re told old for Barbie birthday cards”
But when she finally got round to opening her birthday presents she came to mine last …What was in it, yep you have guessed it, a Barbie doll!
Deaf people aren’t simple minded; they’re just damn cruel!!
Of course Deaf people are simple minded! What do you mean they aren’t? Oh they aren’t? I alwasy that that… was!
That cracked me up! Thanks for a good story!
SIMPLE MIND ??? REALLY MOSTLY DEAF PEOPLE DONT USE SIMPLE MIND BUT MOSTLY DEAF PEOPLE HAVE VERY STRONGEST USE COMON SENSE MANY DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE LOTS OF IDEA AND THINGS TO DO IN BALANCE OF LIVING
I’m a barbie girl
In a barbie world
I’m really stupid
It’s fantastic
We are barbie girls
We ignore fintan
He’s a deafie
Isn’t that tragic?
We are barbie girls
Really stupid too
We play with barbie dolls
But don’t tell Fintan
Hi! I wanted to tell you that I gave my own mother a Barbie doll for her birthday when she was 85 years old! My mom always loved to dress in beautiful evening gowns and she was blonde and tiny and she got a big kick out of the Barbie doll! It stood on her bedroom dresser right up until the time she passed away.
Lantana
[...] toward where she should be walking down. Her friends who thought us deafies are simple minded (see my other post) were the first to spot me said , “ Is that your brother on a bike with no clothes on?” She just [...]
Barbie used to have apparently less number of friends, clothes, careers or vehicles in 60s. Assorted things and friends of Barbie was a big fascination for most girls.
Young women know different nowdays. My own grand daughter who is now 16 and a former lover of Barbie dolls, does not look like a Barbie NOW and is very much herself. Kids know the difference between truth and make-believe! Bless them.
I loved Shirley Temple, too but I did not expect to grow up to be like her.
Lantana