Recent content by Danders

I've researched health and deafness to a great extent, looking for solutions to problems that I've had. I personally have Waardenberg's ssyndrome, inherited from my father. My father, grandmother and great grandmother all had it, however, none of them wore hearing aids. They all suffered from...

I won't fake hearing anything if I can help it.... too much stuff goes missed and then you really have a problem on your hands. If it's someone you really can't understand then make them write it down. Part of the reason why I hate the phone... I don't trust translators or videophone...

Yes.... clearcaptions is another company but they have taken their app down, says they're going to get a new app back up but they haven't done it. In the meantime I have innocaption but I don't use it. Since I've been married 7 yrs ago I have probably used the phone less than 10 times. I know...

Not depressed at all.... there is much going on in the world that I am very glad that I totally miss out on. Haven't had hearing tests for somewhere around 20 years. Don't care to bother with them. I get along alright just as it is.

I feel sorry for the sods who are a "little bit deaf" because they'll never get along as well as I can in the hearing world being severely-profoundly deaf from the get-go. I know plenty of sods who are a "little bit deaf" and envy me because I can read lips and sign circles around all of them...

That can be really rough. I'm severely-profoundly hard of hearing since I was born so I don't know what it's like to be hearing (I have a very good idea of what I'm missing though). Have hearing aids that get my hearing to a level where I can communicate but I still need to lipread to...

Just looking for HOH/deaf friends. I don't do fakebook or any other kind of social media and I haven't really talked much with HOH or deaf ppl since before I was married. Just trying to fit into the hearing world best as as I can. Getting tired of fighting the hearing world, would like to talk...