Recent content by eagle102938

Let's just make a new culture home, haha. Any misfits from anywhere. Variety is the spice of life, right?

If I've learned anything from my experiences, it's that no matter how you try to group people together, there's always going to be extremely nice people, and jerks. North/South, Red/Blue, American/Non-American, White/Black, rich/poor, I grew up (sadly) hearing that one was inherently "good" and...

Don't worry, I appreciate the humor, lol. Love how you keep referring to 'ferrets' too. But I have to wonder, sometimes, do the deaf dogs ever make friends with deaf ferrets? That would be an epic friendship...

I've accepted that I'm HoH, and that I simply can't do everything that someone with perfectly capable hearing can do. It's a little upsetting, but I've decided to focus on all of the things that I *can* do instead. Somewhere farther back in the post, someone used the examples of not being...

Thanks, that makes sense. For the verbal sign, the "5" is palm out, right?

To make a long story long: When I was 10 or 11, my hearing loss was discovered. It's genetic, progressive loss, and ever since then I've used hearing aids. I was brought up entirely Hearing, the only other HoH people I regularly encountered were my Mom and some of her sisters with the same...

I was raised Hearing, and I'm beginning to learn ASL. So there's a little question I have. I know the signs for "speak/talk" and "sign." If I were to speak the sentence, "I will talk to him," I would say it as written. But if I were going to sign it, which sign would I use? I suppose I...

On the percentages, I've just always had people ask me "how much" and never really knew how to answer. The loss is a mid-range "cookie bite" as the audiologist calls it, with a more significant loss at higher pitches. The genetics on it is pretty interesting. My family was part of a study at...

I'm not too sure about where to stand on this. I mean, I'm attracted to girls shorter than me, and redheads. There's nothing really odd about that, is there? Being short is just a part of who they are, as is the color of their hair. It's not fetishized or anything, just simple attraction. So...

I'm a student at Louisiana Tech in north Louisiana, going for my Chemical Engineering degree. We found out I had a genetic hearing loss when I was 10 or 11, don't really remember. It's on my Mom's side, she and a couple of her sisters have it, as did her father. I have no clue as to the...