Never have I
experienced something like being deaf for an hour. It was on one hand very
fascinating but on the other it made me a little uncomfortable.
I live in a house filled with different noises. The old stair is supposed to creak, the big tree outside my window is supposed to scratch on the window. There were none of these sounds. I did not even realize my brother was trying to speak to me before he touched my arm and even then, I could not understand anything. He had to write down, what he wanted to say to me. Only then could I give him an answer. I then tried to watch a movie, but without the sound it was completely impossible to enjoy it. I did not understand what was happening on the screen because I could not hear any of the voices or music. It was straight out boring. I have never realized how much sounds and background music does for a movie before now. It is everything.
After my attempt to watch a movie failed miserably I decided to do my homework instead. Normally I enjoy and prefer silence when I do my homework, because it helps me concentrate. But this kind of silence was different. It made me a little uncomfortable, because everything was just too silent. In the first couple of minutes it was nice because I could just shut the world out, but then it became too much. I realized that even when I sit in “silence” normally, there are little quiet sounds around me. The wind, my siblings talking, my animals, the roof creaking. It was hard for me to concentrate because they were missing.
I live in a house filled with different noises. The old stair is supposed to creak, the big tree outside my window is supposed to scratch on the window. There were none of these sounds. I did not even realize my brother was trying to speak to me before he touched my arm and even then, I could not understand anything. He had to write down, what he wanted to say to me. Only then could I give him an answer. I then tried to watch a movie, but without the sound it was completely impossible to enjoy it. I did not understand what was happening on the screen because I could not hear any of the voices or music. It was straight out boring. I have never realized how much sounds and background music does for a movie before now. It is everything.
After my attempt to watch a movie failed miserably I decided to do my homework instead. Normally I enjoy and prefer silence when I do my homework, because it helps me concentrate. But this kind of silence was different. It made me a little uncomfortable, because everything was just too silent. In the first couple of minutes it was nice because I could just shut the world out, but then it became too much. I realized that even when I sit in “silence” normally, there are little quiet sounds around me. The wind, my siblings talking, my animals, the roof creaking. It was hard for me to concentrate because they were missing.
In
conclusion it was interesting being deaf, but it is not something I hope to
become in the future because I felt very disabled. This experience has given me a whole new perspective on being
deaf.
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