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Deaf peddlers are Deaf people who sell to the wider public manual alphabet cards, keychains, nail clippers, pencils and pens, [1] national flags, [2] [3] or receipts in various amounts, which they have printed themselves. In this peddling, the sellers claim that they are deaf, to manipulate or put pressure on the buyer.[ citation needed] Some "Deaf" peddlers fake their deafness in order to trick people. [4]
In the United States, the National Association of the Deaf made a campaign against Deaf peddlers, for improving the status of Deaf people as American citizens who are able in body and in mind. [5]
She signed and asked them if they were really deaf [...] and they walked away really quickly.