For Deaf people, lipreading is too often portrayed by the hearing world as a magical solution, a bridge that erases difference. In reality, it is a cruel trap. Words blur, meanings collapse, and entire conversations are reduced to fragments of guesses. What hearing people call “communication” becomes a daily nightmare of misunderstanding, exhaustion, and humiliation.

This is not the fault of Deaf people—it is the failure of a hearing-centric world that demands we bend to its rules instead of respecting our language. Behind every forced smile and nod is a story of pain: the pressure to perform hearingness, the dismissal of our truth, and the denial of our humanity. Lipreading is not empowerment. It is survival in a world that refuses to meet us halfway.

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