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Awkward Introduction

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I read a news story a couple years ago about a convenience store clerk who mistook a Deaf person's lack of verbal response for rudeness. The store clerk became so upset because the Deaf person didn't reply to him, that he threw the customer's change on the floor, and while the Deaf person was picking that up, the store clerk hit him over the head with a blunt object.

Sadly, I see somewhat similar occurrences all the time (sans the violence) when a hearing person will address a Deaf person I'm with while the Deaf person isn't looking at the hearing person, so the Deaf person isn't even aware anyone is talking to him or her; the hearing person will often not know how to react to this, sometimes mistakenly perceiving that the Deaf person is deliberately ignoring him or her.

Anyway, that was part of the inspiration for this scene from the animation I'm working on with a group of artists here on dA. Toby tries to introduce himself to Katie, but she's reading her book on Tcl and never even notices him. =(

character art sketches by :iconshembre:
coloring & tweening by :iconstamps:
background by :iconkourukon:
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DinosaurzUwU's avatar
im not deaf and i feel bad like thats horrible i can remember me being like 9-8 and being like WOW