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Deaf Customer Struggling To Place An Order At A Restaurant Gets A Happy Surprise From Waitress

 

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Living in a hectic world is not easy, imagine how harder it is if you have a hearing disability. Simple tasks like ordering food at a restaurant become very frustrating, since most restaurants lack the training on how to accommodate a hearing impaired customer. Most of the time, they just have to rely on pointing to items on the menu and hope the server taking the order gets it right.

Juliet Lyan, a recent high school graduate from Florida, decided to post a video after an encounter with a hearing-impaired customer at the restaurant she works at when he tried to make an order.

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He started pointing at the menu items, not saying a word. His behavior caught her attention, so she walked up to him and asked if he needed help, with no response from the man. Thinking that maybe he didn’t speak English, this time she tried speaking to him in Spanish, to no avail.

That’s when she saw him sign the word ‘meat’ to himself. That’s when she realized the man was deaf and lucky for him, Juliet was fluent in American Sign Language, taking three years of ASL classes in high school.

Excuse me, do you sign?

After learning that someone in the hearing world had an interest in making an effort to communicate with him, the man had the brightest smile on his face!

In an interview with BuzzFeedJuliet says that she knows how it is to feel like an outsider, since she had to learn English when she moved to the United States from Puerto Rico; ”I never want anyone to feel that way.”

”Now I love sign language more, because I know I can meet those who feel like they don’t belong and tell them the hearing world loves them,” Juliet says in her video.

Watch below where Juliet talks about her powerful experience.

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