I don't hear whispering at all. Whenever
somebody whispers to me, I'm like,
"If this is a secret, you can rest assured.
It is very, very safe."
Crazy. I miss out -- I hated it when i
was a kid
because people would always want to play games that involved whispering. Like the
game they always wanted to play
when you start a new grade or something.
Like, let's all get to know each other.
Let's play
Broken Telephone. Remember that? It had
different names. Some people
just called it Telephone. I always called
it The Game that Exposed Me as the deaf Kid.
Horrible game. Horrible.
And everyone else would be so excited.
The way it works, if you don't remember. If
you never played. Somebody starts with
a word and they whisper it.
And then everybody whispers it and you
see how much it slowly transforms
as it goes down the line. Yeah, when
there's a kid with hearing aids playing
that game,
there's no slow transformation.
That word is changing drastically.
Everyone else would be so excited.
The first kid would be like, "I'll start, I'll
start.
Sandwich." The next kid's like,
"Sandwich". The next kid:
"Sandwich." Gets to me, I'm like,
"Mortal Kombat."
Last kid would jump up. "Mortal Kombat!"
First kid's like, "Nah, I said sandwich.
Something happened here.
I expected a bit of a deviation but this
is too much."
They're all trying to figure it out. How
did this happen?
"Hey kid with the hearing aids on, you got
any ideas?"
"I said sandwich."
They're like, come on buddy.
Come on. Mortal Kombat? You couldn't even
hear the right amount of syllables, for
chrissake?
No. I couldn't.
