Advantages of being deaf

Mc Gusto · 06-22-2005, 02:04 AM

Ok i don't know if this thread has been done before .How can you use your deafness to an advantage or as a way of getting things or getting out of them ?
A couple off the top of my head-Getting out of talking/communicating to people who you don't want to talk to , not having to listen to sounds that are annoying (by turning off aid/c.i ) , avoiding occupations that you don't want to do (even if you could do it) and when someone asks you a question that you are going to respond to with a lie -asking them to repeat themselves while you think of something to say

.I think that being a deaf person puts you to some disadvantage in life (some people may not agree on that) that you should use the advantages to balance it out a bit

JeepGirl · 06-22-2005, 02:11 AM

one of my advantages is I get to sleep more peacefully at night where I don't hear tick tick tick tick from clock, or raindrops on the roof, or dripping water in the sink or hear my dog barking all night. People screaming or hollaring, i can just turn my hearing aids off.

The*Empress · 06-22-2005, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mc Gusto

Ok i don't know if this thread has been done before .How can you use your deafness to an advantage or as a way of getting things or getting out of them ?
A couple off the top of my head-Getting out of talking/communicating to people who you don't want to talk to , not having to listen to sounds that are annoying (by turning off aid/c.i ) , avoiding occupations that you don't want to do (even if you could do it) and when someone asks you a question that you are going to respond to with a lie -asking them to repeat themselves while you think of something to say

.I think that being a deaf person puts you to some disadvantage in life (some people may not agree on that) that you should use the advantages to balance it out a bit

Well my advantage is to chat and be message board forum with deaf people
cause deaf people don't criticize my grammar.

Hearing people always bad mouthing me about my grammar and
think I should go back to 3rd grade. That pissed me off.

deafman6975 · 06-22-2005, 11:10 PM

there are far more disadvanages then advantages. but one of most of our advantages is if hearies talk shit about us and we can see their lips , well you now the rest . another advantage is our eyes ,most of us deafies can see far more better then hearies.

Mc Gusto · 06-22-2005, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by RebelGirl

one of my advantages is I get to sleep more peacefully at night where I don't hear tick tick tick tick from clock, or raindrops on the roof, or dripping water in the sink or hear my dog barking all night. People screaming or hollaring, i can just turn my hearing aids off.

ha ha ! ,yeah i forgot about that one,my dad has to close all the windows in the house so he can't hear anything when he goes to bed,otherwise the sound of cars will keep him awake, i don't have that problem !!

ravensteve1961 · 06-23-2005, 01:21 AM

And Now the Disadvantages.
Cant Enjoy Music.
Cant Enjoy Movies at the theater.
Cant Attend comedy clubs.
Being Judged by society.
Cant get a good job.

JeepGirl · 06-23-2005, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Mc Gusto

ha ha ! ,yeah i forgot about that one,my dad has to close all the windows in the house so he can't hear anything when he goes to bed,otherwise the sound of cars will keep him awake, i don't have that problem !!

See, that's one of the advantages!

JeepGirl · 06-23-2005, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by deafman6975

there are far more disadvanages then advantages. but one of most of our advantages is if hearies talk shit about us and we can see their lips , well you now the rest . another advantage is our eyes ,most of us deafies can see far more better then hearies.

hmm, i could careless what they have to say, at least i don't have to hear them B*tching! Unless I have a hearing friend that pick up their conversations and tell me what's going on.. if it has something to do with me or my friends, I'd go up and stand up for us.. otherwise, its not worth it!

deafdyke · 06-23-2005, 01:37 AM

Being able to turn hearing aids off on people!

...Best.Thing.In.The.World!

JeepGirl · 06-23-2005, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by deafdyke

Being able to turn hearing aids off on people!

...Best.Thing.In.The.World!

and all the commotions going on around you!

theMXM · 06-23-2005, 12:20 PM

one of the advantage of being deaf is that you're fluent in sign language - which helps while you're scuba diving underwater. people can't talk underwater and have to use generic body signs or pencil and board, but i have no problem with that, i talk with my dive buddy without any problems whatsoever

Catmandu · 06-23-2005, 12:55 PM

The advantage of being

:

Sleep without interuptions
Babies constant wailings
Trains passing by my house
My hubby's motor mouth
Air condition running
Alarms/Timers/Clock tickings
The sound of crickets and bird chirpings
Blasting music
Mono-toned talkers (that's my MIL)

Oakley_04 · 06-23-2005, 03:49 PM

the advange... cant hear my mom yell or bi%$h @ me

wildzerica06 · 06-23-2005, 08:48 PM

the advantage.. is when hearing guys try to hit on me I tend to act dumb and ingore them

but one time a hearie thought I can speak but I can understand what he was saying but he kept bugging me so I had to move to another seat on train blah..

06-23-2005, 10:47 PM

For some reason, whenever I come across this thread, I keep thinking it reads "Adventures in being deaf."

One advantage to being deaf, you can make us relay operators work our asses off and not feel bad about it....at least I know I wouldn't.

Nancy · 07-21-2005, 09:08 PM

Here are some advantages of being deaf or hard-of-hearing, with my own comments. -- Nancy

• Telemarketers won’t bother calling you if they know you are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

• Noises from the outside at night don’t bother you when you sleep, but it does bother hearing people. (At my old house, there was a guy roaring his motorcycle loudly in the middle of the night next door – woke the whole neighborhood up…but I was sound asleep!)

• If you don’t want to hear something or someone, you can always just turn your hearing aid off. During the movie “Forrest Gump” at the theaters, I had to turn off my hearing aid when the Sergeant in the movie kept saying “g-d” – I cannot stand that kind of cursing using God’s name in vain. I am sorry hearing people had to hear it. I turned off my hearing aid on a few people (not at work) because they annoyed me.

• Snoring from the other person in the same bed with you, doesn’t bother you since you can’t hear him or her.

• Thunder doesn’t bother you in raining weather because you couldn’t hear it. Thunder never bothered me when I sleep because I couldn’t hear it, or the rain pounding on the window….lightning? That is what woke me up because of the “flashes” through the windows in the room.

• We don’t hear “gossip” in places, where hearing people can. I don’t hear gossip either, but I have noticed a lot of things using my eyes in the room.

• You don’t have to listen to Musak in elevators (most people hate this kind of music) just by turning off your hearing aid.

07-21-2005, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Nancy

• You don’t have to listen to Musak in elevators (most people hate this kind of music) just by turning off your hearing aid.

Haha, I love this.

sr171soars · 07-21-2005, 10:07 PM

Whether with my HA or now my CI, the advantages are several to me...

1) Great sleep at night - I never want to hear anything while sleeping {my wife can wake me in an emergency

}
2) Don't have to start the day with noise...on work days I turn on my CI when I get to work @ 7:00am
3) In the hearing world where I belong, you can claim you didn't hear it (usually that is not true for me

)
4) Later at night before bed, I can turn off the CI (everybody in family is asleep by this point) and I can watch TV using close caption and not bother anybody.

The disadvantages for me are...
1) I depend on my batteries to hear...usually three days at a shot
2) If society collapses, well I'm in a heap of trouble and I got to start all over again

3) You don't always hear everything whether with a HA or CI...
4) I may exist nicely in the hearing world, I'm still stuck between the hearing world and the deaf world psychologically no matter what I do - No offense to anybody!!!! Fortunately for me, I'm pretty well accepted just as I am.

cady75 · 07-21-2005, 10:09 PM

Yeah! I work at a school, I teach ASL. I am the only deaf teacher in the whole HS. one teacher once talked to me, said, asked me if I hear all the gossip going around and all that. I said, no, I just don't get into that, I stay out of it all.

It made me realize I am very lucky- no putting up with that silly crap!!! Haha. I see some drama going on, teachers backstab each other and stuff, but I pretend I am just deaf and don't understand what is going on. so the gossipy and mean people don't bother me a lot. it's only the nice and interested ones who make the effort.

perfect!! less trouble for me!

Athena · 07-21-2005, 10:43 PM

Ug....last night my fiance was snoring soooooo loud I couldn't sleep and finally had to go out in the living room. It was very late by the time I got to sleep. Then, early in the morning, I awakened by construction outside..... I wish I was Deaf!!!!!!

deaf24fan · 07-22-2005, 06:19 AM

An excuse to crank up music in car. If they complain about loudness, I said I'm deaf and they go oh, ok. :-D

Same thing with TV and movies.

Teaching hearings sign can be fun if they're making this enjoyable. heh

FeistyChick · 07-22-2005, 06:32 AM

if i fly with southwest... i tell them i am deaf (even though i can speak) ... and can't hear them when they make announcements when it is time to board,etc... so they let me know when it is time to board and they let me on first with the h/c, parents w/ babies, first coach, etc.

which is a BIG ADVANTAGE CUZ I GET THE BEST SEAT and load in empty compartments as well!

FeistyChick · 07-22-2005, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by deaf24fan

An excuse to crank up music in car. If they complain about loudness, I said I'm deaf and they go oh, ok. :-D

Same thing with TV and movies.

Teaching hearings sign can be fun if they're making this enjoyable. heh

that's very true!!! when we watch movies together we have the volume up TO ITS MAXIMUM--- IT IS SO AWESOME!!! IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE AT A MOVIE THEATER!!! right deaf24!!!? MWAH!!!

lisartist · 07-22-2005, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ravensteve1961

And Now the Disadvantages.
Cant Enjoy Music.
Cant Enjoy Movies at the theater.
Cant Attend comedy clubs.
Being Judged by society.
Cant get a good job.

Now, now.
Were you hearing before at one time and can now compare?
That would make these reasons all the more significant, BUT
every deaf person or hh person has a different level of deafness. I can still hear bass sounds with my aids so I can enjoy the music I know (just not lyrics, which are silly a lot of the time).
Movies are wonderful with Closed Caption, are they really that much better at the theater? The prices really are ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. I am lucky to live near VA School for the Deaf and occasionally our neighborhood theater has open caption movies. There is a website that shows all open caption movies in your state I believe. I will see if I can find it. That is a rare treat.
Comedy Clubs.... never been, but I have rented comedy club dvd's and the language totally turns me off. If you enjoy this kind of thing, maybe ask for an interpreter? It's amazing what the state can provide (and entertainment IS neccessary as far as I'm concerned).
Judged by society? Make it work for you. Show how you are NOT stereotypical. I don't know where you live, but the society here in Central VA has been terrific. I attend church and we live by the motto of not judging others leat we be judge ourselves. I make my "difference" pay off in my work. There are millions of graphic artists out there and in the giftware and greeting card industry, it is very cut throat and competitive. At the trade shows where you show your portfolio there can be dozens of artist a day seeing one company. EVERYONE is good, EVERYONE is professional. Who is different? The deaf one who is perceived as being a harder worker to overcome the oods. At the last show I went to, I took a sign language interpreter. They don't forget THAT.
And lastly,
not being able to get a good job depends on the career you've chosen for yourself I believe. I don't think I could get a good job if I were to be courtroom recorder or anything that relies on hearing. I chose my profession because I could do it well without relying on my ears. The email and internet helps me compete and communicate as easily as a hearing person and I am much quicker than the jhearing person with communications because I am always on my computer working.
I don't mean to sound "Pollyanna", I just try to turn things to the positive if possible. There are weeks that go by with no work in my business and I get as depressed as the next person, but hearing or not isn't the reason.

I like your signature by the way!

Reagrds,
Lisa
www.peruchini.com

downing · 07-22-2005, 08:30 AM

advantages....

can't hear your kids screaming, hollering, whiny, crying when a moment of your time is annoyed.

Can't hear chalkboard stratching that gets on people's nerves.

Liebling:-))) · 07-22-2005, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by downing

advantages....

can't hear your kids screaming, hollering, whiny, crying when a moment of your time is annoyed.

Can't hear chalkboard stratching that gets on people's nerves.

That´s what my co-workers alway said to me: "You are lucky because you can´t hear chalkboard stratching.... oooccchhhhh... horrible noise... and also kids screaming, too.

All what I sleep peaceful without bother thru noises... my sons asked me either I can hear thunder? I said no... They said to me: "You are lucky because we can´t sleep well thru thunder noises..

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emilySUN · 07-23-2005, 01:28 AM

Cant hear loud breathing of my date at the movies or him chewing with open mouth.
Cant hear loud TV in next door apartment.
Cant hear snoring! ha.

emilySUN · 07-23-2005, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Liebling:-)))

That´s what my co-workers alway said to me: "You are lucky because you can´t hear chalkboard stratching.... oooccchhhhh... horrible noise... and also kids screaming, too.

All what I sleep peaceful without bother thru noises... my sons asked me either I can hear thunder? I said no... They said to me: "You are lucky because we can´t sleep well thru thunder noises..

I cant hear thunder unless its really really loud. Sure can feel it though! Used to hear it better and it didnt startle me as much as it does now. I like thunderstorms anyway I think they're pretty. Except when all the TV stations interrupt good shows to talk about it when theres no reason.

Eek I can still hear chalkboard scratching if close my hearing loss worse in lower ranges. Terrible sound!

06-22-2005, 02:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mc Gusto Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 97	Advantages of being deaf Ok i don't know if this thread has been done before .How can you use your deafness to an advantage or as a way of getting things or getting out of them ? A couple off the top of my head-Getting out of talking/communicating to people who you don't want to talk to , not having to listen to sounds that are annoying (by turning off aid/c.i ) , avoiding occupations that you don't want to do (even if you could do it) and when someone asks you a question that you are going to respond to with a lie -asking them to repeat themselves while you think of something to say .I think that being a deaf person puts you to some disadvantage in life (some people may not agree on that) that you should use the advantages to balance it out a bit

06-22-2005, 11:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
deafman6975 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: cecil county md. Posts: 71	disadvantages v/s advantages there are far more disadvanages then advantages. but one of most of our advantages is if hearies talk shit about us and we can see their lips , well you now the rest . another advantage is our eyes ,most of us deafies can see far more better then hearies.

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06-22-2005, 02:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
JeepGirl Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In the South Posts: 6,180	one of my advantages is I get to sleep more peacefully at night where I don't hear tick tick tick tick from clock, or raindrops on the roof, or dripping water in the sink or hear my dog barking all night. People screaming or hollaring, i can just turn my hearing aids off.

06-23-2005, 01:21 AM	#6 (permalink)
ravensteve1961 Banned Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Here Posts: 3,940	And Now the Disadvantages. Cant Enjoy Music. Cant Enjoy Movies at the theater. Cant Attend comedy clubs. Being Judged by society. Cant get a good job.

06-23-2005, 01:37 AM	#9 (permalink)
deafdyke So NOT a Princess! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Trebekistan Posts: 6,560	Being able to turn hearing aids off on people! ...Best.Thing.In.The.World!

06-23-2005, 12:20 PM	#11 (permalink)
theMXM Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 30	one of the advantage of being deaf is that you're fluent in sign language - which helps while you're scuba diving underwater. people can't talk underwater and have to use generic body signs or pencil and board, but i have no problem with that, i talk with my dive buddy without any problems whatsoever

06-23-2005, 12:55 PM	#12 (permalink)
Catmandu aka KaTziE Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 4,461	The advantage of being : Sleep without interuptions Babies constant wailings Trains passing by my house My hubby's motor mouth Air condition running Alarms/Timers/Clock tickings The sound of crickets and bird chirpings Blasting music Mono-toned talkers (that's my MIL)

06-23-2005, 03:49 PM	#13 (permalink)
Oakley_04 Nozobo's undie Boi Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Colorful Colorado Posts: 1,189	the advange... cant hear my mom yell or bi%$h @ me

06-23-2005, 08:48 PM	#14 (permalink)
wildzerica06 -Erica- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: california Posts: 4,151 Blog Entries: 2	the advantage.. is when hearing guys try to hit on me I tend to act dumb and ingore them but one time a hearie thought I can speak but I can understand what he was saying but he kept bugging me so I had to move to another seat on train blah..

06-23-2005, 10:47 PM	#15 (permalink)
apathrev Guest Posts: n/a	For some reason, whenever I come across this thread, I keep thinking it reads "Adventures in being deaf." One advantage to being deaf, you can make us relay operators work our asses off and not feel bad about it....at least I know I wouldn't.

07-21-2005, 09:08 PM	#16 (permalink)
Nancy Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central FL Posts: 2,291	Here are some advantages of being deaf or hard-of-hearing, with my own comments. -- Nancy • Telemarketers won’t bother calling you if they know you are deaf or hard-of-hearing. • Noises from the outside at night don’t bother you when you sleep, but it does bother hearing people. (At my old house, there was a guy roaring his motorcycle loudly in the middle of the night next door – woke the whole neighborhood up…but I was sound asleep!) • If you don’t want to hear something or someone, you can always just turn your hearing aid off. During the movie “Forrest Gump” at the theaters, I had to turn off my hearing aid when the Sergeant in the movie kept saying “g-d” – I cannot stand that kind of cursing using God’s name in vain. I am sorry hearing people had to hear it. I turned off my hearing aid on a few people (not at work) because they annoyed me. • Snoring from the other person in the same bed with you, doesn’t bother you since you can’t hear him or her. • Thunder doesn’t bother you in raining weather because you couldn’t hear it. Thunder never bothered me when I sleep because I couldn’t hear it, or the rain pounding on the window….lightning? That is what woke me up because of the “flashes” through the windows in the room. • We don’t hear “gossip” in places, where hearing people can. I don’t hear gossip either, but I have noticed a lot of things using my eyes in the room. • You don’t have to listen to Musak in elevators (most people hate this kind of music) just by turning off your hearing aid.

07-21-2005, 10:07 PM	#18 (permalink)
sr171soars Cyborg since March '05 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 2,376	Whether with my HA or now my CI, the advantages are several to me... 1) Great sleep at night - I never want to hear anything while sleeping {my wife can wake me in an emergency } 2) Don't have to start the day with noise...on work days I turn on my CI when I get to work @ 7:00am 3) In the hearing world where I belong, you can claim you didn't hear it (usually that is not true for me ) 4) Later at night before bed, I can turn off the CI (everybody in family is asleep by this point) and I can watch TV using close caption and not bother anybody. The disadvantages for me are... 1) I depend on my batteries to hear...usually three days at a shot 2) If society collapses, well I'm in a heap of trouble and I got to start all over again 3) You don't always hear everything whether with a HA or CI... 4) I may exist nicely in the hearing world, I'm still stuck between the hearing world and the deaf world psychologically no matter what I do - No offense to anybody!!!! Fortunately for me, I'm pretty well accepted just as I am.

07-21-2005, 10:09 PM	#19 (permalink)
cady75 Paper Clip User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 111	Yeah! I work at a school, I teach ASL. I am the only deaf teacher in the whole HS. one teacher once talked to me, said, asked me if I hear all the gossip going around and all that. I said, no, I just don't get into that, I stay out of it all. It made me realize I am very lucky- no putting up with that silly crap!!! Haha. I see some drama going on, teachers backstab each other and stuff, but I pretend I am just deaf and don't understand what is going on. so the gossipy and mean people don't bother me a lot. it's only the nice and interested ones who make the effort. perfect!! less trouble for me!

07-21-2005, 10:43 PM	#20 (permalink)
Athena Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 39	Ug....last night my fiance was snoring soooooo loud I couldn't sleep and finally had to go out in the living room. It was very late by the time I got to sleep. Then, early in the morning, I awakened by construction outside..... I wish I was Deaf!!!!!!

07-22-2005, 06:19 AM	#21 (permalink)
deaf24fan Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 239	An excuse to crank up music in car. If they complain about loudness, I said I'm deaf and they go oh, ok. :-D Same thing with TV and movies. Teaching hearings sign can be fun if they're making this enjoyable. heh

07-22-2005, 08:30 AM	#25 (permalink)
downing Chai Latte Addict Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,444	advantages.... can't hear your kids screaming, hollering, whiny, crying when a moment of your time is annoyed. Can't hear chalkboard stratching that gets on people's nerves.

07-23-2005, 01:28 AM	#28 (permalink)
emilySUN Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 13	Cant hear loud breathing of my date at the movies or him chewing with open mouth. Cant hear loud TV in next door apartment. Cant hear snoring! ha.