By booboo300 - 03/04/2014 22:16 - Canada - Kanata

Today, it's the last day of my sign language class. At the end of the class, my teacher surprised us by speaking for the first time, also surprising everyone that she wasn't actually deaf. It wouldn't have been so bad had I not just given someone an answer to the test, thinking she couldn't hear me. FML
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booboo300 15

Definitely not going to defend myself, it was a dumb thing to do. Although, I did whisper, not shout, an answer just to get my friend on the right track. I totally respect my teacher and it was the kind of whisper that probably would have been tried in any class with a hearing teacher as well. She was a great teacher and I think I learned better that way. There is a mix of deaf and hearing asl teachers at my school, though. It was amazing though, because she didn't respond to phones going off, people sneezing, people walking in late (until she saw them) and even the people bashing asl and deaf people in the hall one day.

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CurlyQute 17

NEVER assume anything

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nkb94 18

YDI for cheating but I am getting so many ideas for when I am a teacher....

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Pussycat86 18

How do I sign "you are ******* awesome" to your teacher?

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ThomasBombadil 31

Sorta reminds me of the scene in the first Harry Potter movie where one of his professors was the cat sitting on the front desk.

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Fuaaad1994 31

Reminds me more of game of thrones when Daenerys Targaryen pretended she couldn't speak Valyrian

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izntdan 14

Not sure why you don't have more up votes, that's a great reference

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tbro47 23

Well you know what happens when you ASS U ME something.

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Lil_Red777 21

It's when you assume you make an ass out of you and me.

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Jakob2255 12

she never said she assumed so it looks like your the ass lol

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Kamon97 23

Wonder if she also takes acting lessons too :o

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Kergami 18

I wonder how hard it must of been for her to not speak for the time period of that whole class.

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Bibliovore 26

Not hard at all, for anyone fluent in sign, any more than it's hard to not accidentally break out in a given spoken language while you're speaking a different one. (It can be harder to suppress reactions to sudden sounds -- shouts in the hallway, a dropped book in the classroom, honks from outside, whatever. However, Deaf people often react to such things, too; they observe that people around them are looking in a particular direction, so they do, too, to see what's up.)

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iloovveyyoouu 15

My class does that all the time but I'm pretty sure my teacher is deaf

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Bibliovore 26

Shame on your class -- and the OP -- for trying to take advantage of people, especially over a perceived disability.

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midgetism 9

I really feel bad for you, did she say anything?

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