Her usual gruffness turned into real anger. I couldn’t understand anything she was saying.Īs I floundered around trying to make sense of all the usual “find everything OK paper or plastic have any coupons that’ll be $120.43 debit or credit” Annette became increasingly agitated with me. That day I was preoccupied with who knows what, and so I wasn’t as attentive in my lip-reading as I usually am. Annette the cashier was never all that pleasant - her gruff manner made her really hard to lip-read. I was too ashamed.Ībout seven years ago, I was in the check-out line at our local grocery store. Could you repeat that?” I am able to do that now. The easiest way to deal with a situation like this is to say, “I’m sorry. They don’t know the real reason, which is simply that I cannot hear them - or anything, for that matter - very well. Perhaps the person thinks that I am not listening, or that I don’t care. And so, the person speaking to me gets annoyed with me, or even angry. One of the more uncomfortable experiences I sometimes have as a deaf person is when I cannot understand the person speaking to me. Her graphic novel El Deafo is a loose biographical account of her childhood living with deafness, and it won a Newbery honor this year. We are extremely pleased to introduce Cece Bell as a guest blogger today. Author of “El Deafo,” CeCe Bell, reveals the book’s backstory
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