Deaf/Blind

Originally posted by kuifje75
Good for this person. I'm grateful my parents didn't implant me. I'm grateful I don't have to hear all the crap in this world. Silence is beautiful.
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Originally posted by ShEiLdTaLiSmAn
I'm glad that ur fighting the bad and make it good out of it. I'm sorry to say this but I'm totally against cochlear inplant. I dont believe operations and stuff for people to go though then dislike them afterward or near death crap. I believe that something goes to ur ear should not go though operations would be hearing aids or something related.
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i concur with both quotes above

Originally posted by kuifje75
You're really lucky Knightwolf, that your right eye healed back fine. I remember one time, someone had a camera too close to me and flash made me so blind, I couldn't see anything. I just went to bed and next morning I woke up, being able to see again. I was really afraid.
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:confused: i flashed my own camera pressed right up against my own eye, twice.. each eyes.. and it didnt caused temporary blindness to me..
 
There are several students whose Ushers Syndrome is so severe that they have to look down at my hands in order for me to sign and when walking, they have to look right down to make sure he doesn't walk into anything.
 
well then it's like you aren't being fair to the world of blindness...everything happens for a reason...sure you may be scared if you ever become blind, but that doesn't mean your life is over...there still is alot of things to do when you are blind anyway
 
Helen Keller said, "Blindness separates man from things, but deafness separates man from man".


Difficulty in hearing can cause feelings of fear, anger, depression, embarrassment, and anxiety.

Many of your posts display it.
 
Originally posted by Cain Marko
Difficulty in hearing can cause feelings of fear, anger, depression, embarrassment, and anxiety.

Many of your posts display it.
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That is really the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
The only reason why we feel this is because of the reactions of SOME hearies. Enough said. Go back to YOUR cave.
 
Originally posted by kuifje75
That is really the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
The only reason why we feel this is because of the reactions of SOME hearies. Enough said. Go back to YOUR cave.
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Someone makes you feel bad and you cant handle it.

Grow up.

My feelings dont get hurt by people that discriminate/or cant understand what it means to be deaf against me.
I move on with my life.
You are the one stuck crying in the corner because someone "hurt your feelings". wuss.
 
I thought you would have hearing difficulties if you always hear such loud sounds...most of the time of course
 
Originally posted by Cain Marko
Someone makes you feel bad and you cant handle it.

Grow up.

My feelings dont get hurt by people that discriminate/or cant understand what it means to be deaf against me.
I move on with my life.
You are the one stuck crying in the corner because someone "hurt your feelings". wuss.
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Oh yeah, whatever, I don't really think you know what it is like to be Deaf. I ain't crying or anything, just tired of ppl like you thinking that we have issues that we inflicit upon ourselves or whatever. The only reason why we are posting here our stuff is because we want to share with ppl who understand our feelings and that they can relate to us. Also to exchange information so that ppl can learn from each other. I think you're quite ignorant to call it the way you did.
 
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oh boy.. :roll: I guess hearies and deafies have issues about that thread eh? :D
 
I do meet few blind peeople from my old high school and some clubs.. something like that. I did try one time to talk blind/deaf person who live in HOMES... she did talk real good. she is nice. she is kinda of lonely to me bec i dont see any deafies around her at HOMES oh well I don't really know what is going on PLUS her parents put her HOMES bec they dont have time to take care of her. that is no excuses. sigh.. they should love her and c are of her and make her happy what she want in her life but oh well. she is only around 30's or 40's I can't remember but she is pretty lot older than me.
 
*sigh* this is so much like humans against mutants... what a cruel world this place is
 
Originally posted by kuifje75
Oh yeah, whatever, I don't really think you know what it is like to be Deaf.
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Shut the fuck up. I dont have to prove my deafness to anyone, especially you. you f'n idiot.

I ain't crying or anything
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Thats all youre doing. Crying because someone in the hearing world doesnt "understand" you. Go f yourself and your feelings. Your posts prove how much of a wussy wimp advocate you are of other deaf people.

You give us a bad name.
 
Originally posted by Cain Marko
Inspirational read...



http://www.e-accessibility.com/news.html

08: BIONIC BLISS
by Patricia 'Trout' Livingstone.

I was born with Usher's Syndrome, a combination of blindness and deafness. While my eye disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, deteriorated, so did my residual hearing loss. The struggle of reading my computer monitor with the aid of magnification became increasingly obscure and impossible.

When my ability to use my computer waned because of my diminished sight and hearing, so did my desire to write and communicate, because I felt the isolation, the void of sight and hearing, a most oppressive and daunting weight in my connection with the world. At the time, I could not rely on audio aids, nor could I rely on visual aids in efforts to write at my computer. The despair and frustration at the closing of my sight and hearing were undeniably exhausting. Yet, with a smattering knowledge of Braille, I knew it was time to learn more Braille as a first step toward connecting with literature. I learned the basic alphabet in Braille, and in sign language, finger spelling. I never thought I would need Braille since I was able to use a small portion of my sight in one eye for lip reading, relying on readers, and reading large print. I suppose I thought I would never lose the rest of my sight and hearing. I was wrong.

I began teaching myself Braille by reading 'To the lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf in Braille, though it took me six months to read the three volumes since I was unfamiliar with many Braille contractions. I focused on the contractions and punctuations throughout the book. I read very slowly, with intermittent pauses to each word and punctuation. I tried to unravel and work through each sentence. It was probably the longest time I have spent reading a novel. No doubt, the experience of reading and learning, in my chosen fashion, was fraught with headaches and anxiety. Yet my effort to learn to read and learn Braille was unwittingly indispensable: I had no idea how effective and powerful the offerings of Braille could be in my life.

After completing 'To the Lighthouse', I ordered another book with much anticipation and curiosity. My initial dislike of Braille diminished as I began to devour novel after novel, reading voraciously and with delight. Though, many books on my list of requests were unavailable in Braille catalogues of books listings, over two thousand books are available at Braille libraries: an ample selection of books to help me stay in practice and enjoy reading. Reading filled the silence I'd previously experienced.

One day, I was introduced to a 'Braille Display', a keyboard attached to my computer allowing me to read forty or fifty characters in Braille format. With this ingenious tool, I am able to write and read anything displayed in computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer or Outlook Express. Thanks to computer Braille training instructor Peter Tighe from the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts (http://www.carroll.org), I have been introduced to a world of new technology, to new modes of communication, and to using the Braille display along with keystrokes which take the place of the mouse relied on by most sighted users.

It is astonishing how much information scurries quickly by my fingertips, dots that connect me to people, to the world news online, to life! Through hard work with a good computer Braille training specialist, and a lot of patience, the reality of communication continues to flourish and augment the window of the world to me.

While I was in the initial process of learning how to use my Braille display and its copious new features and techniques, I stepped into another new technological phenomena: I choose to have a cochlear implant. My cochlear implant is essentially a 'bionic ear'. I am a novice at being an 'implantee'; as time goes on, I hear new sounds. I hear birds chirping, a dripping tap (or 'faucet', as we say in the States), and winds gusting through leaves on a tree . . .

All this from a gift of technology. I am able to use a telephone, something I like very much. The bliss of hearing is astounding. There is light in the world that once seemed utterly dark and blatantly morose by the gulf of loneliness caused by the loss of hearing and sight.

It is without doubt that technology, in all its genius, will bedazzle the medical, educational, and assistive aid fields. There is reason to have faith that the impossible will become a possibility. Will technology one day succeed in making a 'bionic retina'? Will technology make television viewing possible in Braille? Will I become the next bionic woman? All I know is that when I hear the birds singing and feel the Braille dots as I write these words, I am grateful and thankful.
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I appreciated that you post the information here. It is very helpful for vr counselors to become aware of Deaf-Blind clients. I am just a graduate student with goal of becoming VR counselor. I will use information to apply to my awareness of Deaf-Blind people's needs. Thank you.:bowdown:
 
Originally posted by Cain Marko
Shut the fuck up. I dont have to prove my deafness to anyone, especially you. you f'n idiot.



Thats all youre doing. Crying because someone in the hearing world doesnt "understand" you. Go f yourself and your feelings. Your posts prove how much of a wussy wimp advocate you are of other deaf people.

You give us a bad name.
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And now you are resorting to name-calling and cussing. I aint going there. Ciao.
 
I just CANNOT resist!!!

Cain Marko.. Since you do not understand and respect different people's opinions and feelings, I shall have to make it clear to you by speaking your native language of Cavemen:

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I know of one friend who has Usher's syndrome (its not severe) and deafness, she told me she can see on front of her but not the bottom ..has to look down to see the floor, so she wont trip on anything. My son was sitting on the floor for some reason :roll: and she almost tripped him. Oh boy. Also, I found out that my grandfather's grandsons is deaf and the other is deaf AND blind. I wonder how his daughter is handling it with her deaf and blind son, it must be pretty hard work trying to teach him ways to communicate and etc.. my grandfather's other daughter's son has some kind of eye disease that they dont know where it came from, he's had it since he was born, I think. His eye condition is detoriating, he could be blind anytime, and hes only 7... :ugh:
 
Originally posted by Teekie
I know of one friend who has Usher's syndrome (its not severe) and deafness, she told me she can see on front of her but not the bottom ..has to look down to see the floor, so she wont trip on anything. My son was sitting on the floor for some reason :roll: and she almost tripped him. Oh boy. Also, I found out that my grandfather's grandsons is deaf and the other is deaf AND blind. I wonder how his daughter is handling it with her deaf and blind son, it must be pretty hard work trying to teach him ways to communicate and etc.. my grandfather's other daughter's son has some kind of eye disease that they dont know where it came from, he's had it since he was born, I think. His eye condition is detoriating, he could be blind anytime, and hes only 7... :ugh:
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aww dang, hope he's gonna be ok. things will eventually work out on its own.
 
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