Are your parents/children hearing or deaf?

pbpara · 09-29-2003, 12:15 PM

Sorry if this is a repeat...I ran searches for it and didn't find anything.

Anyway...I was just curious as to how many of us come from deaf families and/or have deaf families of our own?

Are/were your parents deaf? One of them? Or were they both hearing?
Are your children deaf? Is your significant other deaf and you have hearing children?

I would make it an actual poll but I need more than 4 choices, so it might be better as a survey.

To answer my own question...I was born to hearing parents, have a hard of hearing sister and one with normal hearing. The girl I want to marry is hearing. I appear to be the only one in my family that has manifested actual deafness, though I haven't been able to trace it back far on my father's side. (We suspect it may have come from him, since my youngest sister has a different father and is fine.)

DeafSCUBA98 · 09-29-2003, 12:44 PM

my parents are hearing.. I'm Deaf.. my son's hearing..
but there's few deaf people in my family.. my grandfather's cousin is deaf and my grandmother's sister is deaf.. but it's not genes.. it just that all of us got deafness through disease. got mine from menigits, and other two from german messles.

Gatorboy00 · 09-29-2003, 03:06 PM

I am born deaf and my parents are born deaf too. My sister is also born deaf. My aunt and uncle is also deaf (my aunt is my blood aunt and she was born deaf too). My other aunt who lives in Texas is also deaf and I think she was born deaf too. Her husband which is my uncle is also deaf. So, it's all genes. The girl I am about to marry is also deaf but she became deaf by a disease. I hope we can have deaf kids, but if not, i will still love them no matter what.

CatoCooper13 · 09-29-2003, 09:07 PM

My younger sister and myself both are deaf -- our parents both are hearing...everyone except sister and I are hearing. I was told it was recessive genes from both parents that caused the deafness.
My husband (hearing) has 2 kids from a previous marriage, the son is deaf and daughter, hearing. Hubby's ex-wife is hearing.

Fly Free · 09-29-2003, 09:37 PM

my parents are hearing and older sister hearing -- im the only 1 deaf in the family and im deaf caused by rubella/german measles

Ziusudra · 09-29-2003, 09:44 PM

I'm deaf, the only deaf person in my family. My mum had German Measles when she had me.

Kai Onca · 09-29-2003, 10:04 PM

I'm the only deaf one in the family- did not find out I was deaf until I was 9 months old

***VamPyroX*** · 09-30-2003, 01:09 AM

I come from a hearing family of mother, father, two sisters, and a brother. Communication isn't really a problem for me since I can speak for myself and they know some home-signs. In order from knowing more sign language to less sign language is my brother, one sister, the other sister, my dad, then my mom. However, they are aware that they need to speak clearly so when I have deaf friends over, they understand my parents cuz they speak clearly enough so my friends can read their lips.

Opal · 09-30-2003, 02:24 AM

I was born deaf because my mother had rubella, the only one in my family side. My parents and 3 sisters refused to learn sign language, we communicated in oral/lipreading.

My husband is hearing, no deaf on his family side. We have three hearing girls. We use Auslan sign language

sharlie · 09-30-2003, 10:44 AM

I was born Deaf - due to rubella, a german measles my mum has contracted during her pregnancy which she didnt know and she did not have the vaccination at that time.

My parents and my older brother are all hearing. None of our family are Deaf, BUT..... one of my mum's older brothers, his wife's sister has a Deaf son. I do not know how he become Deaf himself

~sharlie~

deafdyke · 09-30-2003, 11:54 AM

Born HOH.(five decibles away from being deaf) Only hoh person in my immediate family, although my dad's cousin Becky is Deaf (she went to Clarke way back when) My hearing loss however is genetic (random mutation) and if I have kids they have a 50% chance of being hoh or maybe even deaf! (70 dcb loss)

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I hope we can have deaf kids

Well you could adopt deaf/hoh kids. From what I hear, it's really difficult to find people who will adopt deaf and hoh kids,(b/c most people who want to adopt want "healthy normal designer children") so it's pretty easy to adopt them.

Levonian · 09-30-2003, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by deafdyke

Well you could adopt deaf/hoh kids. From what I hear, it's really difficult to find people who will adopt deaf and hoh kids,(b/c most people who want to adopt want "healthy normal designer children") so it's pretty easy to adopt them.

If you have any information on this subject, could you e-mail it to me? I am planning to write a long article/resource list on the subject of adopting deaf children for Sarah Dillon's web site.

cjester27 · 09-30-2003, 09:16 PM

More about me: I'm hearing, as is my immediate family (mother, father, sisters, half sister, half brother). I think I heard that one of my uncles just recently became deaf. My younger sister has a son that....I think might be a hearie, but is about to turn 6 weeks old this coming Friday, so I'm not completely sure if he's hearing.

That being said, I just found out recently that my supervisor at work was born deaf, but became hearing at an early age.

Fly Free · 09-30-2003, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by cjester27

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That being said, I just found out recently that my supervisor at work was born deaf, but became hearing at an early age.

became HEARING at an early age qq are u possibly referring to cochlear implants or something else qq can u please clarify qq

cjester27 · 09-30-2003, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Fly Free

became HEARING at an early age qq are u possibly referring to cochlear implants or something else qq can u please clarify qq

She....didn't really explain it in depth too well. She was born deaf and did not know she was deaf until she was sitting in front of her TV when she was young and her mother was screaming at the top of her lungs. She told she was lip reading all that time without even knowing it.

Either she said she had some sort of surgery or somehow mysteriously she gained her hearing. No cochlear implants, nor does she wear a hearing aid. Sometimes she gets very bad sinus problems, and once again, does go deaf. I do at all times have to speak to her face so she can hear me.

Does that help? I'm somewhat of a bad explainer.

Sarah

Fly Free · 09-30-2003, 09:49 PM

uhmm i think i get an idea -- gracias for ur explaination

hard9701 · 09-30-2003, 10:07 PM

I am only one DEAF in the family. All my family are hearing. We communicate by lipreading/speech.

My husband is HOH - he was born with that. Both of my children are hearing.

Soonersseth · 09-30-2003, 11:23 PM

I'm only deaf in family I was hoh since age 7 and gradually lost all my hearing by age 17.

deafdyke · 10-01-2003, 01:10 AM

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Either she said she had some sort of surgery or somehow mysteriously she gained her hearing. No cochlear implants, nor does she wear a hearing aid. Sometimes she gets very bad sinus problems, and once again, does go deaf.

Maybe she had really bad ear infections or really bad otis media as a baby coupled with narrow ear canals which caused a moderately severe conductive loss. Students with significent conductive losses due to otis media were really common in schools for the deaf until about 30 years ago. I know a ton of hearing kids (my age early-mid-twenties) who had conductive losses when they were born but had surgery and are now 100% HEARING. I have very narrow(almost nonexistent) ear canals and when I get colds I literally go

Weirdo · 10-01-2003, 10:33 AM

Both of parents are hearing. But mom lost her right hearing, just a lil.

10-01-2003, 10:43 AM

Dad's deaf, birth mom's hearing. Im deaf, sister's hearing. SImple eh? hahahahhahah right =D I suppose I answered the question so I wont go on and on like I usually do =X

lucidjen · 10-02-2003, 05:54 PM

My parents both is hearing, all of my family is...I"m the only one that is deaf.

Anne · 12-15-2003, 05:58 PM

Parents are hearing. I am deaf. My children are hearing. My mum's mum was deaf in one ear. My dad's dad is deaf in one ear. Both wore hearing aids.

Anne
x

Historyfreak · 12-24-2003, 03:31 PM

I'm hard-of-hearing. I lost some of my hearing due to holes in my eardrums. The holes were grafted over, it didn't help much, just keeps water and other stuff out of my eardrums.

All my family is hearing as far as I know. I was raised as hearing. I did not speak until I was four, however.

nozobo · 12-24-2003, 03:54 PM

I was born hearing until age of 2 and became deaf... both of my parents are deaf, my two oldest sister are hearing but my older brother are deaf. I'm in the 6th generation of deaf family... My relatives on my father's side are deaf. My aunt is deaf as well and she work @ Gallaudet University. If you know Gallaudet people well. U might know her as a secretary for the I King Jordan President in Administration building... Sure we'll are proud to be

but I'm also proud to be me

TweetyBird · 12-26-2003, 02:54 PM

I born with deaf... I am only one who is deaf in the family... I am so proud be

.. I can talk with voice n words.. not most time!! smile..

WBHarley · 12-26-2003, 03:14 PM

born hearing.. became deaf at age of 18 months old unknown reason cause..

Both parents are hearing, lots of my siblings are hearing. My children are hearing and not sure about the baby in my belly as well too LOL... Hmmm.

got implanted July 6, 2001, hooked up on Aug 27, 2001.. Love it since then.. Not much to say since It is not relate to this topic

for me to add this LOL...

Thinking I might have miss something else Oh well, but I finally get to do my errands today for the first time since I got out of hospital with son.. Ciao all.

Ciao,
Wendy ~~ the oopsie with adding stuffs that are not related ~~

Sassy97222 · 12-26-2003, 08:05 PM

I am deaf in my right ear, and hoh in my left ear.
I am the only one in my family that is deaf/hoh. everyone else is hearing, as is my husband and my children.

I gradually became deaf over time, with me being 80% deaf in my right ear. and 45% in my left ear.

I wear a hearing aid in my worst ear.

Sassy

Liebling:-))) · 01-21-2004, 11:59 AM

My mum got a German measles when she was 3 months pregnant with me. The doctors warned her that her unborn baby might be disabled but she decided to keep me.
My hearing parents are relieved that I have legs & arms, 1 year later then they discovered that I´m deaf! They often said to me that I should be glad that I can see & have both arms & legs. True!
Anyway, I´m oldest sister of 4 hearing siblings.

Angel · 01-21-2004, 01:02 PM

My whole family and my children are hearing but, my twin sister , Cheri and I are the ONLY ones who is deaf in the entire family!....

Good thing, We have each others!

...

09-29-2003, 12:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
pbpara Professional Sitter Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 40	Are your parents/children hearing or deaf? Sorry if this is a repeat...I ran searches for it and didn't find anything. Anyway...I was just curious as to how many of us come from deaf families and/or have deaf families of our own? Are/were your parents deaf? One of them? Or were they both hearing? Are your children deaf? Is your significant other deaf and you have hearing children? I would make it an actual poll but I need more than 4 choices, so it might be better as a survey. To answer my own question...I was born to hearing parents, have a hard of hearing sister and one with normal hearing. The girl I want to marry is hearing. I appear to be the only one in my family that has manifested actual deafness, though I haven't been able to trace it back far on my father's side. (We suspect it may have come from him, since my youngest sister has a different father and is fine.)

09-29-2003, 12:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
DeafSCUBA98 my cute fish of the year! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: land of 10,000 lakes and living by one of them Posts: 4,640	my parents are hearing.. I'm Deaf.. my son's hearing.. but there's few deaf people in my family.. my grandfather's cousin is deaf and my grandmother's sister is deaf.. but it's not genes.. it just that all of us got deafness through disease. got mine from menigits, and other two from german messles. __________________ Nucleus Freedom 04/18/05 activiated 05/16/05

09-29-2003, 09:07 PM	#4 (permalink)
CatoCooper13 Am attached and in LOVE! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sonoma County, California Posts: 6,421	My younger sister and myself both are deaf -- our parents both are hearing...everyone except sister and I are hearing. I was told it was recessive genes from both parents that caused the deafness. My husband (hearing) has 2 kids from a previous marriage, the son is deaf and daughter, hearing. Hubby's ex-wife is hearing. __________________

09-29-2003, 09:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
Fly Free Living Life! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: In the loving arms of my butchboi! Posts: 9,101	my parents are hearing and older sister hearing -- im the only 1 deaf in the family and im deaf caused by rubella/german measles __________________ Enjoying life!

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09-29-2003, 03:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Gatorboy00 "Vini, Vidi, Vici" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 144	I am born deaf and my parents are born deaf too. My sister is also born deaf. My aunt and uncle is also deaf (my aunt is my blood aunt and she was born deaf too). My other aunt who lives in Texas is also deaf and I think she was born deaf too. Her husband which is my uncle is also deaf. So, it's all genes. The girl I am about to marry is also deaf but she became deaf by a disease. I hope we can have deaf kids, but if not, i will still love them no matter what.

09-29-2003, 09:44 PM	#6 (permalink)
Ziusudra The Cammy Fighter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Posts: 771	I'm deaf, the only deaf person in my family. My mum had German Measles when she had me.

09-29-2003, 10:04 PM	#7 (permalink)
Kai Onca Save the RAINFOREST Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Wandering through the Mist of Time Posts: 971	I'm the only deaf one in the family- did not find out I was deaf until I was 9 months old

09-30-2003, 02:24 AM	#9 (permalink)
Opal ~~~~~ Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,756 Blog Entries: 1	I was born deaf because my mother had rubella, the only one in my family side. My parents and 3 sisters refused to learn sign language, we communicated in oral/lipreading. My husband is hearing, no deaf on his family side. We have three hearing girls. We use Auslan sign language

09-30-2003, 10:44 AM	#10 (permalink)
sharlie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In da Middle of Nowhere Posts: 100	I was born Deaf - due to rubella, a german measles my mum has contracted during her pregnancy which she didnt know and she did not have the vaccination at that time. My parents and my older brother are all hearing. None of our family are Deaf, BUT..... one of my mum's older brothers, his wife's sister has a Deaf son. I do not know how he become Deaf himself ~sharlie~

09-30-2003, 09:16 PM	#13 (permalink)
cjester27 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Terre Haute, IN Posts: 177	More about me: I'm hearing, as is my immediate family (mother, father, sisters, half sister, half brother). I think I heard that one of my uncles just recently became deaf. My younger sister has a son that....I think might be a hearie, but is about to turn 6 weeks old this coming Friday, so I'm not completely sure if he's hearing. That being said, I just found out recently that my supervisor at work was born deaf, but became hearing at an early age.

09-30-2003, 09:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
Fly Free Living Life! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: In the loving arms of my butchboi! Posts: 9,101	uhmm i think i get an idea -- gracias for ur explaination __________________ Enjoying life!

09-30-2003, 10:07 PM	#17 (permalink)
hard9701 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 20	I am only one DEAF in the family. All my family are hearing. We communicate by lipreading/speech. My husband is HOH - he was born with that. Both of my children are hearing.

09-30-2003, 11:23 PM	#18 (permalink)
Soonersseth Boomer Sooner Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 1,391	I'm only deaf in family I was hoh since age 7 and gradually lost all my hearing by age 17.

10-01-2003, 10:33 AM	#20 (permalink)
Weirdo LaLa Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 494	Both of parents are hearing. But mom lost her right hearing, just a lil.

10-01-2003, 10:43 AM	#21 (permalink)
pinkster Guest Posts: n/a	Dad's deaf, birth mom's hearing. Im deaf, sister's hearing. SImple eh? hahahahhahah right =D I suppose I answered the question so I wont go on and on like I usually do =X

10-02-2003, 05:54 PM	#22 (permalink)
lucidjen ..tomorrow never knows.. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: casa grande - arizona Posts: 152	My parents both is hearing, all of my family is...I"m the only one that is deaf.

12-15-2003, 05:58 PM	#23 (permalink)
Anne Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: London, UK Posts: 92	Parents are hearing. I am deaf. My children are hearing. My mum's mum was deaf in one ear. My dad's dad is deaf in one ear. Both wore hearing aids. Anne x

12-24-2003, 03:31 PM	#24 (permalink)
Historyfreak Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 15	Parents/Children Hearing I'm hard-of-hearing. I lost some of my hearing due to holes in my eardrums. The holes were grafted over, it didn't help much, just keeps water and other stuff out of my eardrums. All my family is hearing as far as I know. I was raised as hearing. I did not speak until I was four, however.

12-24-2003, 03:54 PM	#25 (permalink)
nozobo Native Coloradian Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 3,944	I was born hearing until age of 2 and became deaf... both of my parents are deaf, my two oldest sister are hearing but my older brother are deaf. I'm in the 6th generation of deaf family... My relatives on my father's side are deaf. My aunt is deaf as well and she work @ Gallaudet University. If you know Gallaudet people well. U might know her as a secretary for the I King Jordan President in Administration building... Sure we'll are proud to be but I'm also proud to be me

12-26-2003, 02:54 PM	#26 (permalink)
TweetyBird ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 21,485	I born with deaf... I am only one who is deaf in the family... I am so proud be .. I can talk with voice n words.. not most time!! smile..

12-26-2003, 03:14 PM	#27 (permalink)
WBHarley Multitaskin' Wanderin'Mom Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere Posts: 1,380	born hearing.. became deaf at age of 18 months old unknown reason cause.. Both parents are hearing, lots of my siblings are hearing. My children are hearing and not sure about the baby in my belly as well too LOL... Hmmm. got implanted July 6, 2001, hooked up on Aug 27, 2001.. Love it since then.. Not much to say since It is not relate to this topic for me to add this LOL... Thinking I might have miss something else Oh well, but I finally get to do my errands today for the first time since I got out of hospital with son.. Ciao all. Ciao, Wendy ~~ the oopsie with adding stuffs that are not related ~~

12-26-2003, 08:05 PM	#28 (permalink)
Sassy97222 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 4	I am deaf in my right ear, and hoh in my left ear. I am the only one in my family that is deaf/hoh. everyone else is hearing, as is my husband and my children. I gradually became deaf over time, with me being 80% deaf in my right ear. and 45% in my left ear. I wear a hearing aid in my worst ear. Sassy

01-21-2004, 11:59 AM	#29 (permalink)
Liebling:-))) Sussi 7.7.86 - 18.6.09 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 30,971	My mum got a German measles when she was 3 months pregnant with me. The doctors warned her that her unborn baby might be disabled but she decided to keep me. My hearing parents are relieved that I have legs & arms, 1 year later then they discovered that I´m deaf! They often said to me that I should be glad that I can see & have both arms & legs. True! Anyway, I´m oldest sister of 4 hearing siblings. __________________

01-21-2004, 01:02 PM	#30 (permalink)
Angel ♥"Concrete Angel"♥ Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 19,089	My whole family and my children are hearing but, my twin sister , Cheri and I are the ONLY ones who is deaf in the entire family!.... Good thing, We have each others! ... __________________ "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is brought in our life, OR in the life of another." ~ Helen Keller

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