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Personal Narrative: My Deaf Cultural Experience
I have a few memories of myself where I was really brave and pushed myself a bit in order to achieve something. One of those brave moments that is still stuck in my head till today is when I did a deaf cultural experience. I wanted to put myself in other people’s shoes and see what they’re going through, and how they cope with life. I was thinking about a place where I should do my cultural deaf experience, and one of my best friends Danica invited me to her aunt’s engagement party. It was a huge party, I would have mistaken it for a wedding. There were so many different people so right away it clicked to me that I should have my cultural experience at the engagement party. At first I was a bit shaky, and I wasn’t confident at all, but with the help of my friend I managed through it.

My friend Danica comes from a deaf family, so they really embrace the deaf culture and are very passionate about it. Her mom is deaf, her dad is hard of hearing, and her brother is deaf, so she knows quite a lot of ASL. There is a lot of people who make fun of deaf people and their culture, which makes me extremely upset, and is one of the reasons I wanted to do this experiment. It took a lot of courage to go out there and pretend to be deaf. My friend and I started a conversation at our table in ASL, and we had …show more content…
That day was probably one of the longest days ever for me, although I did it for only four hours. As more time passed by, I felt more frustrated and impatient. This was an amazing experience for me, and I probably will never forget about it. Although no hearing person can ever put themselves in a deaf person shoe, they can still know how it feels just a bit. I think that every hearing person should go deaf for a day or blind for a day, just to feel and experience what others go through. I was very proud of myself for being brave enough to stand up for deaf
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