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People with normal hearing and the people withhearing impairment

Xinpu chemical fiber factory / Li Yujun
        When I went to McDonald's in the middle of the night before yesterday, I saw a group of deaf friends communicating in sign language at McDonald's. The only voice was a woman's crying voice. I guess if it wasn't for the quiet of midnight, their party would have attracted a different look.

When I got home, I talked about this with my family and a set of comics in my collection, the heart speech sign language trilogy, about hearing-impaired parents worried about their own healthy children. Because her family is engaged in the field of special education and has frequent contact with deaf children, she instead recommended me to watch another movie "out of silence", which depicts the feelings of deaf parents who are afraid of healthy children leaving.

Hearing impairment is a very special and independent ethnic group among all the ethnic groups defined as "barrier". Their ability of action and activity is the same as that of ordinary people. The only difference is that their communication methods are natural sign language, lip reading and expression. Unlike ordinary people who need to spend their whole life learning a second language, deaf people in different countries can integrate into sign language in other countries within three days, or even ride a bicycle while communicating with eyes, lips and expressions. Even if they communicate with words and mobile phones, the speed of their writing and input is far beyond our reach.

Because the handicaps such as the handicaps of limbs, vision and intelligence all need the assistance of the society to live, which is easy to produce the mood of "self weakness" psychologically. Although the "hearing impaired" ethnic group can live independently, they feel that they are not compatible with the society, so they also call the non hearing impaired ethnic group "hearing people", which is psychologically regarded as another ethnic group.

The atmosphere between "listener" and "hearing impaired" is not hard to imagine. Ordinary people will feel unable to communicate when they enter an area not belonging to their native language. In fact, when I first arrived at Far Eastern Group Chemical fiber factory, I felt the same way. Although they were all Taiwanese, I felt the same way because it was a place with a dense group of guest families and I could not understand the guest language at all I feel that I am different from everyone. Let's try to recall that in our life, do we also look at ethnic groups with different habits with different eyes? In fact, as long as you are willing to understand each other, you are not so different.

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