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  1. HH scientist

    Hating to use "spoken" English?

    Is this a truthful article by BBC: BBC News - Living outside the hearing world ? It says that CI is a partial fix for some people and no fix for the remainder. Is that a good way to put it? I communicate with two people at work and that is working fine with me. I do not need HA and it only...
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    Hi guys! from the UK ;)

    I come from Sweden and I have lived four years of my life in England (Bristol and London). Now, I live in Ireland. Welcome to AD. :wave:
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    A Techie Thread About Absolutely Nothing!

    It is just fine otherwise. The first 10 years after buying my first glasses, I had to change the glass every 12 months. It was partly due to that, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE graphical environment) is my distribution of choice. Nowadays, I have a 16 inch "block of concrete" laptop, a...
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    Introducing ME!!!

    Oh, welcome by the way. I forgot to say that. :wave:
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    Introducing ME!!!

    You are damn right. I loved learning foreign languages in school (I am HOH and can hear just about) but then it turns out that there are lots of rules in society - both informal and formal - which are not easy to learn on one's own. It turned out that I can read but not "speak" (i.e. hear...
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    Is "Deaf from Birth" a Minority Around Here?

    Diagnosed at the age of 4, df since birth probably.
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    A Techie Thread About Absolutely Nothing!

    Yes, but Macs are pricy so they are not meant to be used by everyone. I bought a Macbook with a 13 inch screen 5 years ago. I could not read after a while and my eyes started aching. A return to PC with a 15 inch screen one year later solved the issue. BTW, I am not a Windows person but a...
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    Benefits to being Deaf/HOH

    The US is big: rather half a continent than a country, from a certain point of view.
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    New, Recently hard-of-hearing. Hi all!

    It is always lovely to see new people here at AD. Welcome to this place. :wave:
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    What did you learn today? Part II

    I come from there, so I can tell you that are largely right. Some winters we barely have any snow in the far south. In the north, there is always lots of snow. I have experienced 1.3 m in central Sweden. That is a lot. I am waiting to hear what the Canadians are going to say. :wave:
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    Do you guys embrace your hearing loss/deafness?!

    I used to wear HA. I did not really feel like I needed it. Once there are CI implants that are at least as good as the real stuff and you can turn them on and off for enjoying solitude, I am gonna get them. They should be to human hearing, what the Hubble telescope is as compared to human vision.
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    The new guy

    Welcome to AD. :wave: I live on the other side of the Atlantic. Nice meeting you.
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    wore hearing aids all my life... now 21

    I used to wear a hearing aid in one ear (50% hearing in one ear, deaf in the other) when I was a kid and sometimes as a teenager. It did never really suit me so I wore it increasingly less. My hearing has not changed much since my teenage years so I never had to change my mind either. Choose...
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    Hi everybody(: I'm new..

    Hello! Welcome to AD! Good luck with learning SL if that is what you want to do.
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    Benefits to being Deaf/HOH

    I am exactly the same: reading the news (NY Times (delete your cookies from NYT to avoid paying), BBC, The Guardian, Time, Newswek, The Daily Telegraph - you name) and science (Scientific American, New Scientist, Edge (Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge), TED (TED: Ideas worth...
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    It's Scotty!

    Welcome to AD :wave:
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    Hello from Chile

    Hhhhmmmm, no parlo espanol. Nonetheless, I greet you welcome. I hope that you will find many like-minded people here.
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    Hi Everyone!

    Welcome to AD. This is a great site for great people, in my view.
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    Benefits to being Deaf/HOH

    I often need time to listen, i.e. the process "sound -> words" takes more time in case of bad hearing. I sense that people think that I am mentally slow. In my view, they are too impatient. There is a movement called Slow Food that advocates you-know-what. We need "Slow Talk" too. Several...
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    hi iam new :)

    Welcome. I hope that you will like it here.
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