why do we make fun of people who wear hearing aids, glasses and other?

Question

seariously, i would have never done. i am a person that wears glasses and people don't make fun of me but other people with glasses in my middle school. why do we tend to do this and harm people's feelings?

Answer 1

it is silly isn't it

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Answer 2

I've been wearing hearing aids since... phew! I don't know... 4 years old? That as far as I can remember! I also remember that kids can be very, very cruel, so, do NOT be fooled by the puppy dog eyes!

Seriously though, when it comes to kids, they just don't understand why is it that this other kid, needs hearing aids, glasses, braces, etc. And since children like that are often vulnerable, it is so much easier to make them feel inferior. So long as they see their getting results out of their teasing they will keep on doing it over and over again.
Parents can tell their children not to rise to the bait, but it's easier said than done.

My first hearing aids were held together by this string, so I wouldn't lose them I guess. My classmates thought it fun to pull on it, almost making my hearing aids pull out of my ear (trust me, the feeling is extremely unpleasant) and fall to the floor! At that age, I was very submissive, I thought that if I did something about it, it would get worse, even if my godsister suggested a good kick in the balls. I would show up at home in bruises because the kids would pinch and scratch me so hard.

What did I do? I learned to ignore it. Turn a deaf ear (no matter how literal that was, LOL) to their teasing. I adopted an attitude that said: "You want to be my friend, good. You don't, just as well. Have a good life." I started to have friends that accepted me for who I was, understood my situation, and defended me against those who wanted to make fun of me. Just shows that attitude matters. Always.

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Answer 3

People have always and will probably always make fun of someone different in any way! If the difference is physical especially so. The use of artificial aids like Glasses, hearing aids and wheelchairs which mean people make jokes about is often fear or insecurity! Anyone could end up needing them and I think deep down we all know this!
I've been made fun of or treated differently all my life. I can't alter my height or rather lack of it! (4ft 9ins) but I refuse to let people upset me now. At least it taught me not to do it to others!

Answer 4

Making fun of people with visible heritable defects is part of a primate behavior pattern that zoologists call "a driving out." The evolutionary purpose of that behavior is to rid the breeding stock of defects, or anyway obvious ones that might cause the affected individual to be a burden and liability to the troop.

That's why people with glasses or hearing aids are disparaged; it's nature saying "Go Away! Don't taint the next generation with your flaws!" It's always why some people laugh when other people fall down or display clumsiness in some other way. TV and movie producers take advantage of this predisposition as a cheap way of introducing comic relief in their dramas.

Our johnny-come-lately moral systems, of which Christianity is (relatively speaking) an example, urges kindness and consideration for those who are flawed. These moral systems work contrary to millions of years of primate evolution, and, where they are successful, they enable heritable defects to propagate, even flourish, at the expense of the group practicing that moral system.

The lesson that nature is - slowly - teaching us is that our wishes and our philosophies don't determine reality, that a moral system is only as good as its effectiveness in promoting the longterm suvival of its practitioners, and that while we can never change the laws of nature, we can certainly defy those laws, and suffer the consequences thereof, until we are extinct and the universe forgets us.

Answer 5

People like to belittle others because it makes them feel superior, and the fact that the other person wears glasses, is overweight, has a limp, uses a hearing aid, just makes the belittling easier

Answer 6

Unfortunately some humans have a real nasty streak inside and take pleasure from teasing or tormenting someone abit different (glasses, hearing aid, whatever) - they are ignorant and sad people. Don't worry, what goes around comes around.

Answer 7

I've never done this. The ones who do make fun, lead very shallow lives and think it makes them look good in front of their friends. By making fun of others, they're drawing the attention away from their own imperfections.

Answer 8

Perhaps its a way to seek attention. By making fun of someone, you show to everyone else whose "side" you are on, so that anyone else that also makes fun of those people will want to join you or like you. Its possibly a way for insecure people to try to make friends.

Answer 9

I never have. Thats terrible. Almost everyone in my family has worn glasses and my grandfather wore a hearing aid. People that do that are very immature.*

Answer 10

I've never made fun of them - it's all about your character and how you are bought up isn't it? But you are right, there are very mean people out there who are just not happy unless they are making someone else unhappy. I was always told to lead by example and treat others how you wish to be treated.

Answer 11

because some people are so sad they have nothing better to do than make other peoples life a misery,
I've always worn glasses, now my 4yr old wears glasses touch wood she hasn't had any trouble yet