How do you become deaf? - Page 2

Stevey Boy · 03-19-2003, 03:17 PM

I was born to be deaf too.

BabyPhat21 · 03-19-2003, 06:23 PM

I was born deaf, the only one in the ENTIRE family line...no one has a history of deafness..........they think something happened to me after I was born.......we will see - if my children are deaf okay then it is the gene...

Willy · 03-19-2003, 06:27 PM

I was born deaf due to genes.

LeviathanC · 03-25-2003, 10:50 PM

Spinal Mengingitis at two-months-old

crazyerica32 · 03-26-2003, 03:24 PM

was born deaf but had got sick cuz of spiral something (SP) blah but my parents didn't know til I was a year old ugh

d · 03-26-2003, 03:56 PM

was born deaf. dunno why but think its genetic since my sis is deaf as well.

illustrator · 03-26-2003, 04:03 PM

Mine is totally mystery.

Do I born deaf? Do I cause by sickness to become deaf? Or my originaly parents slap me silly and damge important keys of inner ears of mine?

Answer is unknown.

Laughter · 03-26-2003, 05:40 PM

Hemophilus Influenza Meningitis..... 18 months old!

Laughter · 03-26-2003, 05:42 PM

My mum told me that I was almost dead but I was alive. Whew, I am glad. I am here.

03-26-2003, 06:31 PM

No idea really abt myself. My mum said I was born hearing and must have lost my hearing when I was a baby. Really, I just consider myself deaf since birth anyway. Nobody in my family that I know of who were born deaf. I have a deaf cousin who is twice as old as I am, and he lost his hearing due to illness and he also has a little CP. Lost his twin sister too.

Wolfboy · 03-26-2003, 08:23 PM

I was born hearing then got little deaf due to high fever when I was a baby.

Angelcat · 03-26-2003, 08:40 PM

I was just born deaf and how ? I dunno.

Ironheartz · 03-26-2003, 09:05 PM

I was born hearing up till the age of 3 when I began to gradually lose my hearing. I started to lose my skills in speech, and wasn't responding to sounds, and was sitting way toooo close to the t.v, even when the volume was set on high. EVer since then, I became deaf. The cause of my deafness to this day remains unknown.

***VamPyroX*** · 03-26-2003, 10:57 PM

When I was around the age of 1, I suffered a common child-hood illness where the tubing inside the ears are not balanced. Most kids have this problem and it's nothing that proper medication can't fix. Anyway, the doctor gave my mom some medicine and told her to keep giving it to me until she ran out of medicine. When then has to see the doctor again when the runs out of medicine. She gave me medicine until my ear problem seemed to be fine then stopped giving me the medicine. Because of that, my illness came back worse than before. I had fluid leaking out of my ears and I was screaming while she was out playing some poker game with her friends. I ended up becoming deaf and my mom was reported to social services. I was taken away from her and put in a foster home. Now, I am with my new adopted parents.

dojosky · 03-26-2003, 11:02 PM

Don't Know what really happened but my parents were careless to have me as a fourth kid and ready to give me away in adoption but until someone at the adoption center told them that since i am deaf that I could get SSI my whole life so they thought of the SSI as an extra income and decided to keep me ACTUALLY NO THAT IS A JOKE ! MY PARENTS CHERISHS ME VERY MUCH to give me away but my deafness is unknown !!!!! just found out when i was 6 months old !!! and the fact i am the second kid and the baby in my family ...

eternity · 03-26-2003, 11:03 PM

I was born as hearing until approximently age one --I became deaf with no causes.

dojosky · 03-26-2003, 11:07 PM

wow anyone else in ur family deaf ? eternity no causes at all ? u were not even sick at all ?

Teekie · 03-27-2003, 02:23 AM

I am the only one deaf in the family, no genes of deafness at all. I was born hearing until at the age of 4. I was in France visiting relatives with my grandmother and became really sick with Bronchitis, the doctor there gave me an antibiotic overdose called Streptomycin and that caused my deafness. My grandparents didn't find out about my deafness until about a week later after getting home from France, How they found out: I had set the volume of the tv way up too high and told them it was broken.

I'm proud to be deaf anyway

wickedeyed · 03-27-2003, 07:41 PM

deaf family... i got 'em blasted genes.

***VamPyroX*** · 03-28-2003, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wickedeyed
deaf family... i got 'em blasted genes.

Aww... who in your family is deaf?

Travis · 03-28-2003, 11:21 AM

became deaf at age 2 due to high fever

KingDragon · 03-28-2003, 11:24 AM

Jesus did give me deaf that way. Oh well. I wish i want to be hearing.

Emerald18 · 04-24-2003, 04:38 AM

I became deaf at 2 caused by spinal meningitis

04-24-2003, 04:49 AM

I was born deaf

Steel X · 04-24-2003, 05:35 AM

and you aren't proud of being deaf?

pity

Mr & Ms Sandman · 04-24-2003, 11:31 AM

My parents and families are also deaf,, aunt,uncle,cousins
Deaf Power in my family :-)
as for Jimmy his family are also deaf, his 8 months old nephew is deaf too but twin sister not deaf..
DonnaMarie :-)

~Heather~ · 04-24-2003, 11:44 AM

My mother had german measles while pregnant with me that caused my deafness. My parents didn't find out that Im deaf til I was around near 1 year old. And, I'm only deaf in my family as far as I know.

Fly Free · 04-24-2003, 11:47 AM

Rubella kid here -- born deaf caused by German Measles/Rubella -- only 1 deafie in family

ShEiLdTaLiSmAn · 04-24-2003, 12:39 PM

Born deaf... found out I was deaf around age 1 to age 1 1/2.

Cause...unknown until I was 7 years old. My mom watch the news and got PISSED! The known or assume known would be the pills that she was taking while pregnant with me. She almost lost me so she took the pills. Whatever it is (my mom forgot but once she see that word again, she'll tell me.) caused me deaf because my hearing was being delevoped at the time.

<<Proud to be DeAf >>

deafdyke · 04-24-2003, 04:36 PM

My deafness is WICKED complicated. I have a genetic syndrome, but it's not familial(no one else in my family has it)...it's denovo.(spontanously appeared with me) Anyway I am missing a gene that codes for the development of the middle ear. As a result I don't have ear canals, or eardrums. The bones (staphus, mallus etc) are fused together. The strange thing is that most of the time with this type of pathology, the outer ear is missing or absent. Yet my ears aren't even smaller then usual!
It wasn't discovered til I was about 2 1/2 when I got my hearing aids.

03-26-2003, 03:24 PM	#35 (permalink)
crazyerica32 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: san jose, CA Posts: 4,765 Blog Entries: 5	hmm was born deaf but had got sick cuz of spiral something (SP) blah but my parents didn't know til I was a year old ugh

03-26-2003, 08:23 PM	#41 (permalink)
Wolfboy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 1,630	I was born hearing then got little deaf due to high fever when I was a baby. __________________ You brought out the wolf in me

03-26-2003, 10:57 PM	#44 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 40.18, 58.41 Posts: 34,139	When I was around the age of 1, I suffered a common child-hood illness where the tubing inside the ears are not balanced. Most kids have this problem and it's nothing that proper medication can't fix. Anyway, the doctor gave my mom some medicine and told her to keep giving it to me until she ran out of medicine. When then has to see the doctor again when the runs out of medicine. She gave me medicine until my ear problem seemed to be fine then stopped giving me the medicine. Because of that, my illness came back worse than before. I had fluid leaking out of my ears and I was screaming while she was out playing some poker game with her friends. I ended up becoming deaf and my mom was reported to social services. I was taken away from her and put in a foster home. Now, I am with my new adopted parents. __________________ Check out my city... C L I C K H E R E! (If you've already visited yesterday, visit again today!)

04-24-2003, 11:47 AM	#58 (permalink)
Fly Free Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Roosted in the DC area! Posts: 9,101	Rubella kid here -- born deaf caused by German Measles/Rubella -- only 1 deafie in family __________________ Enjoying life!

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03-19-2003, 03:17 PM	#31 (permalink)
Stevey Boy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,852	I was born to be deaf too.

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03-19-2003, 06:23 PM	#32 (permalink)
BabyPhat21 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: CALI Posts: 3,107	I was born deaf, the only one in the ENTIRE family line...no one has a history of deafness..........they think something happened to me after I was born.......we will see - if my children are deaf okay then it is the gene...

03-19-2003, 06:27 PM	#33 (permalink)
Willy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NY Posts: 508	I was born deaf due to genes.

03-25-2003, 10:50 PM	#34 (permalink)
LeviathanC Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,312	Spinal Mengingitis at two-months-old

03-26-2003, 03:56 PM	#36 (permalink)
d Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 494	was born deaf. dunno why but think its genetic since my sis is deaf as well.

03-26-2003, 04:03 PM	#37 (permalink)
illustrator Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Benbrook Posts: 4,594	Mine is totally mystery. Do I born deaf? Do I cause by sickness to become deaf? Or my originaly parents slap me silly and damge important keys of inner ears of mine? Answer is unknown.

03-26-2003, 05:40 PM	#38 (permalink)
Laughter Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 255	Hemophilus Influenza Meningitis..... 18 months old!

03-26-2003, 05:42 PM	#39 (permalink)
Laughter Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 255	My mum told me that I was almost dead but I was alive. Whew, I am glad. I am here.

03-26-2003, 06:31 PM	#40 (permalink)
kuifje75 Guest Posts: n/a	No idea really abt myself. My mum said I was born hearing and must have lost my hearing when I was a baby. Really, I just consider myself deaf since birth anyway. Nobody in my family that I know of who were born deaf. I have a deaf cousin who is twice as old as I am, and he lost his hearing due to illness and he also has a little CP. Lost his twin sister too.

03-26-2003, 08:40 PM	#42 (permalink)
Angelcat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 251	I was just born deaf and how ? I dunno.

03-26-2003, 09:05 PM	#43 (permalink)
Ironheartz Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 110	I was born hearing up till the age of 3 when I began to gradually lose my hearing. I started to lose my skills in speech, and wasn't responding to sounds, and was sitting way toooo close to the t.v, even when the volume was set on high. EVer since then, I became deaf. The cause of my deafness to this day remains unknown.

03-26-2003, 11:02 PM	#45 (permalink)
dojosky Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: kalifornia Posts: 179	Don't Know what really happened but my parents were careless to have me as a fourth kid and ready to give me away in adoption but until someone at the adoption center told them that since i am deaf that I could get SSI my whole life so they thought of the SSI as an extra income and decided to keep me ACTUALLY NO THAT IS A JOKE ! MY PARENTS CHERISHS ME VERY MUCH to give me away but my deafness is unknown !!!!! just found out when i was 6 months old !!! and the fact i am the second kid and the baby in my family ...

03-26-2003, 11:03 PM	#46 (permalink)
eternity Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,755	I was born as hearing until approximently age one --I became deaf with no causes.

03-26-2003, 11:07 PM	#47 (permalink)
dojosky Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: kalifornia Posts: 179	wow anyone else in ur family deaf ? eternity no causes at all ? u were not even sick at all ?

03-27-2003, 02:23 AM	#48 (permalink)
Teekie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,929	I am the only one deaf in the family, no genes of deafness at all. I was born hearing until at the age of 4. I was in France visiting relatives with my grandmother and became really sick with Bronchitis, the doctor there gave me an antibiotic overdose called Streptomycin and that caused my deafness. My grandparents didn't find out about my deafness until about a week later after getting home from France, How they found out: I had set the volume of the tv way up too high and told them it was broken. I'm proud to be deaf anyway

03-27-2003, 07:41 PM	#49 (permalink)
wickedeyed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: a plastic fork factory Posts: 337	deaf family... i got 'em blasted genes.

03-28-2003, 11:21 AM	#51 (permalink)
Travis Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 98	became deaf at age 2 due to high fever

03-28-2003, 11:24 AM	#52 (permalink)
KingDragon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 516	Jesus did give me deaf that way. Oh well. I wish i want to be hearing.

04-24-2003, 04:38 AM	#53 (permalink)
Emerald18 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Georgia Posts: 131	I became deaf at 2 caused by spinal meningitis

04-24-2003, 04:49 AM	#54 (permalink)
Shelley Guest Posts: n/a	I was born deaf

04-24-2003, 05:35 AM	#55 (permalink)
Steel X Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Carolinas/Rochester, NY. Posts: 13,824	and you aren't proud of being deaf? pity

04-24-2003, 11:31 AM	#56 (permalink)
Mr & Ms Sandman Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 42	My parents and families are also deaf,, aunt,uncle,cousins Deaf Power in my family :-) as for Jimmy his family are also deaf, his 8 months old nephew is deaf too but twin sister not deaf.. DonnaMarie :-)

04-24-2003, 11:44 AM	#57 (permalink)
~Heather~ Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Midwest, USA Posts: 1,328	My mother had german measles while pregnant with me that caused my deafness. My parents didn't find out that Im deaf til I was around near 1 year old. And, I'm only deaf in my family as far as I know.

04-24-2003, 12:39 PM	#59 (permalink)
ShEiLdTaLiSmAn Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Crazy Smallest State of USA Posts: 1,229	Born deaf... found out I was deaf around age 1 to age 1 1/2. Cause...unknown until I was 7 years old. My mom watch the news and got PISSED! The known or assume known would be the pills that she was taking while pregnant with me. She almost lost me so she took the pills. Whatever it is (my mom forgot but once she see that word again, she'll tell me.) caused me deaf because my hearing was being delevoped at the time. <<Proud to be DeAf >>

04-24-2003, 04:36 PM	#60 (permalink)
deafdyke Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Trebekistan Posts: 13,082	My deafness is WICKED complicated. I have a genetic syndrome, but it's not familial(no one else in my family has it)...it's denovo.(spontanously appeared with me) Anyway I am missing a gene that codes for the development of the middle ear. As a result I don't have ear canals, or eardrums. The bones (staphus, mallus etc) are fused together. The strange thing is that most of the time with this type of pathology, the outer ear is missing or absent. Yet my ears aren't even smaller then usual! It wasn't discovered til I was about 2 1/2 when I got my hearing aids.