Recent content by shpanky

A couple weeks ago, I posted this in alldeaf. http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-education/101883-abused-child-isolated-adult.html I posted initially with the intent that I wanted to find out if I was the only one going through what I am going through. If what I've dealt with in my personal life...

Thanks for the kind words. I've been having a really difficult time this past week dealing with this. It's just been yet another challenge and it gets exhausting sometimes. I have been in therapy before and take some medication to help with the depression and anxiety. It's been a while...

I always went to a mainstream school and was one of the very few disabled kids in my classes. I didn't know anyone else with a hearing problem, and I never really learned any sign language. I do know that I was always an easy target and was constantly picked on, teased and had kids trying to...

I have been hearing disabled my entire life. I have a bordering-severed hearing loss that has required me to wear hearing aids since i was 6 years old. I was fortunate that my dad was in the military and that they'd cover my hearing aids and that, coupled with speech therapy, allowed me to...