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Deaf for a Day
When I saw this assignment I was thinking that it was going to be easy to be ‘deaf for a day’. Then I realized that I actually had to plan my whole day of how I was going to spend my day so that I could do it on a day or at a time that I was not working. I planned my day accordingly, waking up to a vibrating phone, ‘deaf’ for two hours, work until one in the afternoon and then ‘deaf’ for the rest of the day.
The day before I ‘became deaf’; I deliberated the idea that I would need to wake myself up without hearing my alarm. The night before, I found a strap that could be attached to a phone or a camera and put it on my phone. I set the phone to silent so that it would only vibrate and I kept it in my hand all night. I woke myself up to a vibrating phone so I didn’t have to hear it to wake up.
My ‘deaf for a day’ started at seven in the morning, when I woke up to my phone vibrating. I immediately put earplugs in my ears, went down the stairs to the kitchen and started to make myself some breakfast. I had to watch the microwave and the toaster to see when my food would be done, and that was very odd for me. I made sure to have everything on mute and I didn’t even turn on the television. I noticed that when I was eating my breakfast, I could hear myself chewing and swallowing inside my head.
Later, when I was done eating, my mom and dad came into the kitchen and started asking me questions using gestures and some signs that I taught them the night before. Some signs they did not understand when I was signing back to them, so I would write some words on a piece of paper, point to them, sign them, point again, sign them, and nod my head to show that that is what the word is that I’m signing. I signed that I wanted tea with sugar and no milk and that I already ate my food and had milk with my breakfast.
When my parents woke up, they talked in a normally loud voice to each other and had the television on a...