Am I the only one with a household of deaf teens??!

[MichelleC69]

Three kids aged 12, 16 & 18 (one mine, two stepkids). Not one of them hears what I say the first time I say it. Half the time it's because they are plugged into music (OK I can't expect them to hear me with earphones in) but the rest of the time I think their default response to anything I say is 'pardon/sorry' even if they did actually hear me!! Husband can be the same as well to be fair. It's driving me a bit nuts - think I will take a vow of silence just to have to avoid repeating myself every flippin day!! Or just start yelling everything like a mad woman!

I have resorted to texting them. Usually works.

I am seriously pondering covering every room with post it notes of instructions am so sick of repeating myself.
6xdc.....

I know! I’ll say something to my son and he’ll go ‘yes ok’ then a second later ‘wait what?’. Have to say he’s worse than his sister who is a bit more attentive. And he is particularly deaf if I’m asking him to do something....

I have an 11 year old who doesn't hear anything I say,

BUT the minute I'm in the kitchen trying to silently snaffle a handful of Pringle's from the tub, he appears like a fucking magicien.

Oh god not just me then, at least it's normal even if it is fucking annoying!

Oh, and the other thing is, 16yr old DD tries to have a conversation with me from her bedroom while I'm in the kitchen by yelling down the stairs!!!

For example, ds 15 had walked his gf home, tea in oven waiting, comes back and eats in kitchen, had put ddog 1 out (utility) as she is a greedy buggar! I reminded him to let her back in. Got up next day and ddog2 was locked out! Ddog 1 in though.
Questioned his thinking and he said she 'asked' to go out (access to outside always from here). I tried to explain she hadn't known it would be for all bloody night as he had then gone to bed!
Need to write full instructions it seems!

I have two here too 18 & 16.An age thing I expect!

Very normal teenage behaviour - I think the lack of response is just in case they are being asked to do something that they might consider unreasonable - what with all the raging hormones and the need to be sullen.

I can totally relate. 4DC at home today....everything I say is either unanswered or I get “huh??” 🙄 Or the conversation from their bedrooms which just involves them shouting and me shouting back “if you want to talk to me come downstairs!!!!!!!”
I do frequently resort to texting them...

I often use WhatsApp instead
If I call them and they don’t answer, then I repeat and they get annoyed saying ‘I heard you the first time’. So bloody answer then!

Your child/ren being rude and ignorant is not the same as deaf person, you all do see that don’t you, and so can therefore see the ableism in this post? I’d hope.

Here come the terminally offended....it was a light-hearted post. Of course I know the bloody difference!

There is no able-ism in this post (apart from being able to discern how to interpret a reasonable comment reasonably) - It is about teenagers who choose not to hear what they don't want to listen to. Any other interpretation is frankly ridiculous and smacks of someone looking for trouble - is this the case?? I can feel the fun being sucked out of life as we speak.... Is this really what we have come to - seeing offence where there is none and where none was intended?

@msmith501 I actually questioned myself before I wrote the title of this post and then thought 'nah, no one's that much of a twat that they'd find offense in this!!!'

Re the yelling at you from any part of the house - I bludgeoned a household rule do not speak to me unless you are in the same room. The selective deafness thing is useful for mumbling terrible things under your breath.