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Misunderstood...


I am watching the Series “Switched @ Birth” for those who don’t know it’s about two girls that were switched at birth, the one being hearing impaired which means she can talk half way but she mostly makes use of sign language, the recent episode I watched was where the whole episode was done in Sign Language and there was no sound apart from the background music, however the rest of the episode was done in sign language which meant I needed to read the subtitles. I couldn’t help but think how difficult it was for the DEAF kids to communicate to others that have no hearing problems, this specific episode had lots of feelings portrayed like feeling undermined, feeling less of, always feeling inferior to others, always having to compete and fight for what they believe in and their right to education. This episode had the DEAF kids sharing their school with hearing kids and there was a lot of uneasiness.

It made me think a lot of being MISUNDERSTOOD, how easy it for us to be misunderstood if we don’t say what is important to us, how easy it is for others to treat us in a way that we don’t like, but they do so because we have not spoken up and made our voices heard and say what we like or don’t like…

How many of us walk around feeling misunderstood not because we might not have said something but just because we have not found the right way to communicate how we feel. Maybe we have “shouted” to have our voices heard in the past and yet it didn’t help and we wonder today why things have not changed? Could it be perhaps that our way of communication is somehow flawed?

Perhaps if we changed our “shouting” to speak in a calm manner, would that make a difference? We will only know if we try…

Albert Einstein says “Doing the same thing all the time is called INSANITY”

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