Sentence examples for I am deaf from inspiring English sources
There is no escaping that I am deaf.
As one reader puts it: "I was Deaf 38 years ago and I am Deaf today.
I sleep soundly because I am deaf with exhaustion and then I get up and write again and then I write some more and this is lovely.
"I am deaf and proud of it," I read in a recently published book, "[and] I have been appalled by the amount of 'do-gooding' I've witnessed by those who pity deaf people and want to 'help' us.
If someone asks me for directions, and I say I am deaf, they just walk off or say: 'It doesn't matter.' If they had been patient for a moment, I could have told them the way – if they had given me a chance".
By F. J. Murphy and John McCarten The New Yorker, December 17 , 1949P. 19 Our Third Avenue correspondent reports a Foxy Grandpa-ish old fellow who enters a bar and hands a likely prospect a printed card reading, "I am deaf and dumb and out of work.
I began to feel, 'I'm deaf, so what?' Deafness was a given.
They thought I was deaf".
"I'm deaf to all the critics.
