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Once again I call on Seun, Lalasticala to please help give this a widest publicity by moving it to the front page.

Seun, lalasticala please move this to front page.

Abeg lalasticlala do the needful by helping to move this to front page to enlighten our folks.

My attention was drawn to the derogatory comments Nairalanders were hurling at the Keke NAPEP deaf driver in the story posted here yesterday. If you didn't see the post, here is it https://www.nairaland.com/2905491/deaf-keke-driver-inspiration-danger

I create this thread purposely to enlighten those ignorant folks and the general public at large that had a wrong mindset about deaf people because of their inability to hear well or cannot hear at all.

A deaf person can do everything even better than their hearing counterpart except hearing.

Out of the five (5) sense organs, the eyes perceive about 80% of the information about environment while the other four (4) sense organs share the remaining 20% including ears. http://www.about-vision.com/human-eye

Because of the inability to hear, a deaf has to make maximum use of the sight to make up for the hearing loss. This makes the deaf to have foresight which most people don't have.

As par driving, I myself as a deaf, I have driven from Abuja to Lagos on several occasions. I have 20 years driving experience and never for once had an accident neither did I ever made any mistake on the highway that can be ascribed to my hearing impairment.

So I was just laughing when comments like "how will deaf hear the horn of vehicles coming from behind him?". As said earlier, almost all deaf have foresight, the ability to predict or imagine things correctly based on their experience which an average person doesn't have. This ability makes it possible for deaf drivers to prevent a situation where a vehicle will have to beep them before they give way.

Questions can roll in and I will answer them all.

Readers can as well read this write up https://www.facebook.com/notes/gbenga-bunmi-aina/that-deaf-and-dumb-story-and-editorial/10151640309721131