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Recently, my friend had been released from prison. He vows to stay clean from using drugs and stay on the right path. I'm happy for him that he's doing well so far. Now he trying to rekindle his relationship with his ex-gf who is an alcoholic. At the time they were together, his drug use...

I'm a little freaked out as how I will afford to pay my bills. Luckily, my phone contract ends early next year. I know one Deaf dude don't even use a phone to communicate but uses his IPad. Because of where I live in a rural area, I must use Verison. I spend very little as it is on fun...

I didn't realize how many young Deaf/HoH were out there until I started going to events in my area. I didn't know what they were capable of....Some I've met had decent jobs supporting themselves. It amazed me. I had assumed the ones that were Deaf had disability. i'm HoH myself and...

A misconception I had when starting hanging around the Deaf community, that it would be more close-knit & like family. Nope, I was wrong. Full of cliques just like in the hearing world. I'm HoH and lived mostly in the hearing world up to a few years ago after losing my job & then started...

My "friend" is a lifelong alcoholic. She has made comments about not caring if she gets shot in bad part of town & God can take her any day because of unhappiness on Earth. How I found out was reading messages on my sister's Ipad and her & my SIL were commenting on her negativity...

I want to restart my netflix membership. My one complaint is the cc on movies can be hard to read & not able to change the color & background. Is there a device I can buy that ables me to change it so it's easier to read?

Out of curiosity, I'm interested what y'll do. Being out of the workforce and moderately Deaf, I'm hoping to find something to do. And without having a degree, makes it more difficult.

Its a very bad habit I have that started when I was about 13 years old. I just didn't want anything to do with anyone. Not even with my parents, siblings or relatives. Same at school. I only spoke if I had to that was related to the class I was taking at the time. When I did work, same...

I was born with moderate/profound hearing loss and wore hearing aids since age 2. At home, only my mother knew a little sign language. I was raised as if I was a child that could hear completely well in my family. Hearing aids can help a great deal but NOT a cure. I just couldn't tell people...

who's responsible for taking care of that?

Im getting Iphone soon. Do people still use TTY? Ive been hearing about VP a lot and that I have. My place no longers has landline service. My Iphone will be coming from Verizon as always had service with them. A question about TTY, how does that work with Iphone an communicating. Do I...

Greetings from down under all the snow in Michigan. Born and raised under the bridge of Lower Michigan. Above the bridge its the U.P. Profoundly deaf in right ear and HoH in left. Call me Jill or Jilly or Bean or JillyBean here. Found this place by searching forum to join