Not completely deaf, but...

You should look in to getting them. Its amazing how much sound I miss when I don't have them in.
 
yeah, I have purple hearing aids and I love them!!!! they're much better than my old ones that are beige and also crap 2
 
Hi and :welcome: to AD!!! Hope everything gets better for you from then on!

I was born with a bilateral severe profound loss so deafness has been my whole life. It is not too bad once you find a support group and learn how to adjust to it.
 
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Hello, I'm Freddie.

I've just recently turned twenty-years-old and I'm a nearly completely deaf girl that lives a miserable life of child (well, would you consider me a child now? Nah, not really) abuse since, well, forever ago. I'm nearly completely deaf in my right ear and have lost a lot of my hearing in my left ear. It is hereditary. I do not know sign language but I feel like I really need to (and want to) but I don't know where to start. I'm not sure which online resources are really good, and I can't go out and find a class because nobody will want to drive me to it every single day (that the class is going on). One time a deaf girl came to houses in the neighbourhood and offered to teach, but my dad said no, thinking I don't need it. -_-

Anywho.

My birthday is July 16. I do makeup tutorials and stuff on YouTube as well as self studying Mandarin Chinese (with traditional characters!) on the side. I've tried self studying ASL with signingsavvy but I'm not sure if doing it one word at a time is really the way to go as a whole, plus it's hard to practice by myself. I've been watching Switched at Birth and I can pick up a few phrases here and there, but that's not enough!

I like Korean and Taiwanese music, as well as Taiwanese and Japanese shows. Some Korean movies as well. I spend a lot of time on the computer, obviously. I don't have many "friends" at all, and the ones I do have, we don't hang out very often since they "don't have gas" to pick me up. It's also hard communicating with random new people since I can't understand them a lot so I've found this forum from a Google search!

Yeah... that is a lot. I'll leave it here. Basically, I'm wanting to find friends that are just like me. Maybe help me out with some sign language here and there.
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Hey Freddie I'm Naomi, I'm partially deaf too, but I can still hear mostly. I know sign language, and I learn more everyday. I'd love to help you out, and Skype or something sometime. I'd love to teach you what I know. I work with a deaf girl and her interpreter at school sometimes. And they tend to teach me a lot. send me an email. sheaforce6@gmail.com Also I watch switched at birth. Sign language is about idioms mostly. Chat me up, i'd love to help you out.
 
Hey Freddie, welcome! I'd love to help teach you to sign but I know British Sign Language (BSL) and you probably need American Sign Language (ASL). I think most of the users that can sign on here use ASL though, so you're in luck! See you around the forum!
 
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Hey I'm Simone :)
I totally understand how you feel, I'm becoming HOH and it may get worse soon.
I'm starting to learn ASL right now.
I know what it is like to have friends who disappear when your life gets harder
 
Welcome here :)
withouth aids will only stress you out, since you have always to have concentrate what the other says....just try out with hearing aids :)

Lg Anni
 
Welcome!

Bottesini pointed out I responded to an obsolete post. Therefore, I'm deleting my response.
 
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SBirn said:
Hey:
I'm one of the older folks here. My perspectives will consequently be a bit different than some. You don't have to be deaf to be here. It is a lovely forum with many cultures, many different views, and support. It has grown into one of the better support websites for "us" out there.

The moderators are cool. You'll get responses from people and possibly corrections from others :) and you have to decide what to do. What's important to me is while there is no right of free speech any longer, the website comments are left very much intact.

So sorry about your abuse at home. I grew up middle class and in a pretty nutty and abusive home(s) - parents divorced - but my dad was really supportive of me and on his own decided I needed a hearing aid, so he went out and bought one for me (uh, sit down?) @1963/64ish. That changed my life. There are places (when you're ready, I can help you look) that may offer you hearing aid assistance as in $$ for the appropriate aid. Even in this economy they still exist. Found them here in the boonies but an aid would not have helped me.

I think right now, I need more of a face lift rather than make-up :) .

Take care and ask away and ye will receive.

-- Sheri
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If you look top left at the first post in a thread you can see the date of the post.

The OP was here for two days three years ago.

So she isn't going to see your helpful advice.
 
Danke

Bottesini said:
If you look top left at the first post in a thread you can see the date of the post.

The OP was here for two days three years ago.

So she isn't going to see your helpful advice.
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Shoot me now. I try to be observant and look and obviously miss now and then. Thanks, Botts. I'm going to edit it ... Geesh!
 
ohhh feisty....
(drags cigarette, slowly exhales, sits back)
 
hoichi said:
ohhh feisty....
(drags cigarette, slowly exhales, sits back)
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Yeah, yeah... You never came around when I was growing up.

It was like being raised by wolves, and thus my character developed.

Now it's over and I am who I am, but you want input??

You didn't even pay child support, and the impoverishment that resulted further warped my childhood.
 
me? pay who? what?
im sorry you lost me.
you meant to say your pops didnt pay child support uh? thats some hard nailed luck kido.
(drags cigarette, exhales, sips a fine drink, sits back)
 
hoichi said:
me? pay who? what?
im sorry you lost me.
you meant to say your pops didnt pay child support uh? thats some hard nailed luck kido.
(drags cigarette, exhales, sips a fine drink, sits back)
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No, I meant since you follow me around disapproving and correcting me , it's obvious you must be my mother.

I think since you didn't trouble to help raise me, you could make your own life in your old age .

But if you really want to help shape me, I will just go along with it.
 
old age? my my.............(scratches head), im not old yet gil. uhhh ok.
not sure what to sign to this. mmmm
maybe i haven't been following YOU around. maybe just maybe i have been following wee things called threads. and you happen to be posting in them. thinking about now
maybe you have been following me around?
ah it cuts both ways doesn't it darlin.
clearly ive offended you and so i do apologies i know not everyone likes my humur. and so here botts pls accept my sincere apology.
i meant no harm or foul
ever yours
Hoichi0the earless
 
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