The Importance Of Life In Deaf World

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Being deaf in a world that most of the people are hearing and don’t understand the deaf culture is very hard to live in. In my opinion I don’t know how they live or what they do or how they feel because no one told me their life style. I though their life is just the same as mine just have to go by way a different way but I didn’t know coving your mouth or whispering or not paying attention with your eye is distrustful because us hearing people can talk with looking at some in the eye or whispering to not be too loud. The video explain how a man life in deaf world is not easy and how people treat him very different because he deaf and that his parents didn’t teach him what the real world is like he had to learn for himself.
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