I’ve got some really pretty ones all decorated with lil watermelons that my mum painted on for me and I’ve never felt ashamed when wearing them or anything like that
None of my mates even notice them anymore and it’s all fine
What’s not fine is my school.
I get looking after a good 1000 little twats isn’t easy but...This was a pretty big fuck up
So we’re at lunch yeah, I’m sitting at the table with me mates just enjoying life when this teacher comes up to me from behind and taps me on the shoulder. So I turn around and this binch starts flapping her arms around wildly, gesturing vaguely at her ears, me and this old lady standing behind her.
My friends are kinda mixed between laughing and cringing at that
So I just go “I can hear you.”
She gives me this look like I’ve just shat on her cat or something idk, then she’s like “oh aight, well we’ve got this lady in to teach some of your form sign language! To help better communicate with you.”
And tbf tbf, it’s pretty nice. Like yeah you’re going out of your way to book a lady to teach everyone a new language just so I’ll feel more welcome.
I’m in my second year in college, I’ve been at this school almost 2 years so the fact they were suddenly like o shit maybe she needs a bit of company after all that time makes it seem like they were trying to get brownie points??
But still I didn’t wanna seem ungrateful so I said thanks, but I also mentioned that I didn’t really need anyone to know sign language at school? I have my pretty hearing aids, i have my cool friends, I don’t need you to make people learn something that ultimately they’re not gonna use around me
But hey!! They might come across a need for it in life! So lets try!
Sooo, I go into this break type period with my mate Gabby (Shoutout boo you the mvp) and this old woman is standing near out interactive board at the front and from the look on her face she was giving off a “oh goodness gracious me! The audacity of these delinquents to even look in my direction! In my school in London, direct eye contact would result in a hanging!” Yknow, the look?
When we’re all there she legit slams a ruler on the wall to get our attention and we’re laughing kinda secretly because no one takes anyone like that seriously anymore, obsessive authority is just funny as shit
Anyway she introduces that we’re gonna be doing some sign language and yada yada yada
Finally she finishes and her lil slideshow goes across to greetings.
She signs nice to meet you.
Straight away I click on to the fact that it was a bit...off
She got meet right, she had the hands meeting in the middle. But the rest wasn’t even vaguely similar. In BSL its your thumb coming across your chin for the nice to at the start
She rubbed her hands along the side of her head.
That wasn’t too weird, I guessed, and put it down to different regional greetings.
Fucking nope. She step by step tried to get the class to sign the chorus to let it go and it was...so incredibly fuckin faked lmao
None of it was BSL, it was all completely made up on the spot, I don’t even know how you do it so wrong
So I turn and sign to my friends “She’s faking it” which they don’t understand so I dumb it down to “Thats not bsl” and gabby was trying to sign back in butchered signs, bless her, something like “I guessed that it looks stupid”
This lady must of soon us cause next thing I know she was looming over me and throwing her hands around as if she still fully expected me to be like o yeah i get ya
So I say “literally no idea what you’re trying to say” and ooo bitch hades wishes he had that glare, she looks like she actually wants to bury me alive
This utter mistake of a woman yanks me up (already im like what the actual fuck take your crusty hands off of me) out of my chair and kinda shepherds me away from the table and starts addressing the class about how rude i was and how I was using my disability to get away with whatever I wanted.
My friends cringed at me when she said disability cause I personally don’t mind people referring to it as such but overall it’s pretty common knowledge that you don’t refer to deaf people as disabled
That basically confirmed to me that she had no idea what she was doing after all. Disgusting tbh.
THEN THIS BITCH SLAPS HER HANDS OVER MY HEAD
Fully like wacks me in the head yeah
And digs into my ears, until she’s got the tube of my hearing aidsin her manky little finger and she yanks them out so fucking fast
They oulled around the inside of my ear and it hurt like fuck, so naturally as a reflex I kinda spin around flapping my arms and catch her
My hearing aids are still in her hands ans my ears are buzzing but from looking at her I can picture the over obnoxious scream as if I’d just punched her in the face
To be clear I hadn’t, I barely caught her arm
My teacher decides that this is the time to intervene and starts screaming at me as he holds this woman upright or something and I yell, at least tried to yell “MAYBE I COULD RESPOND IF I HAD MY FUCKING HEARING AIDS” and then i yank them out ger her hands and kinda huffily dragged myself back to my seat where my friends are just kinda stunned by that??
As is a good majority of the room
To skip a bit I got a full day detention from classes which was fucking stupid but o well, and I went to the school nurse because my ear had been hurting a but since
Turned out she left a little cut on the inside of my ear which is always appreciated, nurse gave me and apple lollipop and I was on my way
I told the higher ups at college , they told me my reaction was unnecessary and violent
I was told to apologise to the woman after my second hour of isolation.
Tldr: School hired a sign language teacher, she was faking it, she got mad at me for signing and pulled my hearing aids out in front of the class, i swung around as a reflex and accidentally caught her arm, I got a full day of isolation, a cut in my ear and a mark on my record.
But hey at the end of the day she gets knocked over by a slight breeze and I’ve got a lollipop sooo