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    Dis-Labeled

    I meant "good ones" in terms of negative labels to call out and kick back to where they belong. They certainly do not feel good in the moment where you are targeted. I was told many times in graduate school that a problem student like me did not belong there. Labeling often tells more about the...
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    Dis-Labeled

    Ha! "Reject" and "felon". Good ones!
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    Old Dog, New Treks

    Welcome to the journey, Tessa! There must be something in the water out there in the SF Bay Area, eh?
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    Dis-Labeled

    After the last 4 years of rediscovering myself as late-identified HoH / Deaf, I have been recalling many of the various negative labels I was given by teachers and others in elementary school all the through graduate school: inattentive, shy, sleepy, does not apply himself, does talk /...
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    Old Dog, New Treks

    Thanks for the welcomes.:ty: The hindsight discoveries have a life of their own. They keep popping up in unexpected ways and lead to re-visiting encounters that never quite made sense to me before. Now I find myself on the other side of an audist culture that had no idea about who was...
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    Old Dog, New Treks

    Hi all, I am a late identified HoH Canadian import sorting out the meaning of life with and without hearing for the last several years. I was 50 or so before I realized I had some significant audiological issues and later was tested and advised that I needed a hearing aid for my left ear...
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    I was deaf all along.

    Thanks for sharing your experience here, Kevin. I've been thinking about this late identified HoH issue myself for the last few years. Seems strange to others who think that hearing problems ought to be easily identified. I was 50 or so before I realized I had some significant audiological...
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