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Hello Bailers, and thank you very much for watching, until next time, Into Oblivion!
I'm just joking, but then again, what if you thought I was serious?
What if I upset you?
I am so sorry
Why would I do that?
I'm a terrible person
I'm so sorry
I can't believe it
I lured you into a sick joke
I'll just take a drink of water, and think about what I've done
Water!
H2O is awesome!
I've always adored water
It's just so remarkable
The way it can take any shape or form
The way it can fit through even the smallest of gaps
The way it can keep us hydrated and cool
The way it can look so calm, and peaceful, and beautiful
Yet how it can quickly turn into a deadly and violent force
And how if you die underwater, it's possibly one of the most peaceful ways you can go
Silence.
Wow, that was grim.
Water has always fascinated me
In fact it wasn't until two years ago when I started working on my novel that I realised I can make
water, something that I love, into a metaphor for deafness, something that I am
Allow me to explain
Now let's take a hearing person and a deaf person, note that the deaf person is properly deaf, no hearing aids, just pure deaf
Now for a hearing person on dry land, they can hear anything that's going on around them
But for a deaf person on dry land, they can't hear anything around them
Put a deaf person underwater and that deaf person will hear exactly the same thing that they could on dry land
However, put a hearing person underwater and their hearing will suddenly become incapacitated
The hearing person suddenly becomes a deaf person
Now, let's put the deaf person in the water with the hearing person so they're side by side
As you can see, these two now have hearing difficulties in common
As well as struggling to breathe and muscle fatigue
But the fact is, if you're a deaf person being bullied by a hearing person, or a hearing person that's bullying a deaf person
or if you're a hearing person who knows a deaf person being bullied by a hearing person then the fact is
that we are exactly the same, it's just the deaf person is living in a constant underwater world
They are constantly living in a thick membrane of audio blockage and there is nothing they can do to stop that
So if you're a hearing person and you meet a deaf person, then you've got to remember
that the deaf person will be hearing exactly what you hear when you're underwater, but on a daily basis and on dry land
This metaphor method I created for my novel can be used for pretty much anything
For example, let's take a potato and a tomato
On dry land they both look different, you can clearly see that they are completely different and
complete opposites
However, let's throw them both in water and you can see that they both...
Oh.
Okay.
Yeah okay, my method only works for deafness
Oh well, what can you do? Thank you very much for watching and until next time, into oblivion!
In fact it wasn't...what is going on with my voice!?
It's so high pitched, it's so annoying, I feel like Fred on YouTube, Oh my god!
Not Fred! I can't be Fred! What's going on!?
It's like my Adams Apple has been too polished, and it's not as gritty and rough as it normally is, I don't know
I'll just have some water.
That's perfect.