Even though the term doesn’t actually exist, at least according to dictionaries, its meaning is easily deduced. It’s a pain, condition, or situation that thousands of deaf people live with around the world

Let’s imagine the case of a deaf child whose parents have helped him all of his life to communicate outside the familiar environment. If the parents have a developed sense of responsibility, it’s probable that the child will live a life full of satisfactions and optimal development.

But if it is like it is in the majority of cases, the parents (or other representatives) have taken advantage of their son’s disability to get richer, receive preferences, skip processes etc… it’s normal that when growing up, the deaf child will develop a sense of rejection towards hearing people in general.

The little contact a deaf person has outside their family circle with the world accentuates the idea that “all hearing people are the same”. That’s why if my own parents take advantage of my deafness, the rest of the world will do so even more.

These types of situations (much more common than one would think) have created a certain myth of mistrust towards hearing people. Being deaf does not imply being mistrusting by nature, but rather having had a series of not very positive experiences.

Let’s imagine another situation. We are in the backseat of a car and two people (family, friends, acquaintances, etc…) are seated in front speaking in a language we don’t know a word of. Suddenly they laugh, then they are serious, etc…

The most natural thought would be for us to ask ourselves “What’s happening? What are they laughing at?”, etc… If we receive as an answer, a 100% accurate translation of what was said, there will be no problem. But most times we will get an answer like “Oh, nothing” or “Just fooling around”.
This could lead us to believe for example that that they are talking about us and they don’t want us finding out; or that we are considered not to be intelligent enough to understand what are they talking about.

Well, a deaf person faces this situation every day in his/her life……