Stuff My Deaf Kid Can Do

I've been thinking about this a lot over the past several months. Quite often, someone will see CJ or Liam do something and say, "Wow! I didn't know a Deaf kid could do that".  I love being able to demonstrate that my boys are just like everyone else, but I thought I'd go ahead and put together a couple of lists so people would know for sure what my kids can and can't do. The first list will be the CAN list and the second will be the CAN'T list.  The first list will probably be incomplete.  I'm pretty confident I've got the second list down.

Stuff My Deaf Kid CAN Do

Talk

Walk

Read

Write

Go to school with his peers

Tell a joke

Laugh

Cry

Toilet Train

Swim

Play sports

Ride a bike

Feel emotions

Fall in Love

Reciprocate emotions and feelings of love

Dance

Sing

Be artistic

Enter the school science fair

Share

Understand religion

Go to college

Go to Grad School

Hold a job

Become famous

Be a doctor

Be a garbage man

Be anything he wants

Get married

Have children

Tell stories

Have a favorite flavor ice cream

Have a favorite book

Have a favorite everything

Understand consequences

Talk back

Order food at a restaurant

Dream big

Make big dreams come to life

Get straight A's

Drive their teachers bonkers

Hold the hand of someone who is hurting

Watch movies

Dream of being in movies

Choose his own clothes

Be completely oblivious that his clothes are completely mismatched

Use the computer

Reprogram the computer

Download fart jokes from the computer

Have a best friend

Be a best friend

Read books about every fact under the sun and then feel the need to share those facts with everyone

Study insects in depth

Go to P.E. in cowboy boots

Make Valentine's for someone special

 Become and Eagle scout

Find a talent

Share a talent

Set a good example for others

Set a not so good example for others

Write a book

Have pets

Become President of the United States

Lobby against the President of the United States

Vote

Go to clown school

Join the local fife and drum corp. (CJ just joined and LOVES it)

Drive

Become a DJ

Have chores

Cook

Invent a rocket ship to take them to the moon

Build a tree house

Make a mud pie

Go hunting

Pray

Pretty much everything you and I can do

 

Stuff My Deaf Kid CAN'T Do

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