Recent content by Passivist

Funny, they told me alldeaf wasn't a social medium...

I avoid all that I don't use social media lol

It is about 'frequencies' and the irregular decay of the cochlear hairs. When My hearing was going 1 minute I would hear something the next half a sentence would have gone, so deaf one minute partial hearing the next, SN loss can drag on for years and very debilitating and you get no sympathy...

Preference is relative, it is entirely dependent on how many decibels you have of use. I think once you have had useful hearing then the want is always to return to the norm. Personally I cannot understand ANYONE preferring not to hear, it must be based on the fact they never had much anyway...

Not quite the only Brit here :wave:

Great advert for co-operation :roll: Is this about getting fair play for us all or just having ago at hearing ? If the latter we are NOT amused.

Still the D versus d versus disability. I don't think there can be any consensus whilst we are all so dogmatic about things, it bodes badly for any sort of unity of access or purpose. Whatever happened to live and let live ? I think the cultural attitude is wrong in this respect. 9 out of 10...

There is no 'definition' of 'Deaf' with a capital D to signify culture either. Also no reference to 'Audism' in the UK versions (my spell checker which is incidentally American refuses to accept it too). Most is accepted as colloquial, whether they get official acceptance depends on usage over...

I think it comes under 'useful' hearing you have. Certainly if you struggle to hear then you are disabled by your loss. I am concerned mainly with those who acquire a loss after formative hearing. The issues/trauma of that can disable you for life without question. I do not feel...

for those who are deafened or acquire deafness it IS a disability, and has nothing to do with 'feeling', you just are disabled by it. Disability is defined in those terms as 'suffering sensory deprivation/loss after having hearing.' To write it off via culture is meaningless. Also coping with...

But is it safe for deaf people ? Facebook is the world's number one abuser of deaf online re privacy. Already we are reading "Pornographers see an even wider market to exploit..." Until it is captioned, and subject to some form of censorship in real time, I can't see the point. The potential...

Attitude certainly is, is but do not expect late-deafened wil be 'Deaf' even WITH ASL because they won't.. Deaf learn sign language as born deaf, from cradle/education/community involvement, but late-deafened have to RE-learn communications and with the issue of hearing gone, and zero...

It's conditional on ASL that's the real point. IF we learn that THEN we can use what the community offers, but this still doesn't offer late-deafened access outside those areas. I think it is such an 'well understood' thing that deaf and cultural integrate and sign, they don't really understand...

Smaller areas 'muck in' so to speak, ditto I was late deafened and there were NO other deaf people in my village area, certainly none that used sign language and most were very elderly. People you grow up with will maybe accept you, but if you have to work etc elsewhere then your communications...