Using the Excuse You're Deaf or Old
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
December 29, 2012 1:17pm CST
I am getting so tired of hearing these excuses in my family lately. Today it was like "Ask her to help me, get confused on what the right term to say was, get angry and then just blame it on my deafness" again with my dad. He is just getting so hard to be around anymore since his last ordeal with his lungs. Flustered cause I told him I didn't understand the computer term he used which ended up being incorrect as always. My mom backs him up with saying "You know he can't hear." all the time and it's like yes I know that. But she gets even more mad at him for that! These people don't realize they complain about what they do themself here either. I wish I had someone to take me away from this madness... 
2 responses
@peavey (16936)
• United States
29 Dec 12
On the other side of the coin, it's very difficult to lose any degree of our senses. Getting older is strange. The body becomes weaker and our minds don't function like they use to, and we're very much aware of that. That's what makes it so hard. If we didn't realize what was happening, we'd be happier, I'm sure.
Frustration is part of it and it's hard to deal with, believe me.
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@NailTech (6874)
• United States
29 Dec 12
I am in the same boat of not being able to do this or that slowly like them, but I don't blame others for my own confusion and the way they act toward me with accusations, etc. Everytime my dad gets angry with me cause HE can't or isn't hearing/hear or something they both get on my case for it. Is that fair to you? Then you can have them. Then they can do the same to you or anyone else who is their daughter who tries to help them out while other daughters like me might not. I would love to see how someone else in my shoes acts who thinks I'm being ungrateful or something after all of this after awhile. That might be amusing. They wouldn't last five minutes...
@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
29 Dec 12
The other day I was watching a woman talk about getting older. She said she used to get so annoyed with her dad because he claimed he just couldn't hear what she was saying. It drove her mad. Then she got older and understood what her father meant. She would get so frustrated because people couldn't believe she had such a hard time hearing, but she truly did. The older she got the more sympathetic she became.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
29 Dec 12
It is not that I don't understand people with deafness or the like, it's the fact my family blames me for everything as if I had something to do with it all. Different story. I'm old enough to know by now that people do get old and experience things that go wrong with their health. I don't think you understand what I was trying to get at here.
