Do you guys embrace your hearing loss/deafness?! - Page 14

audiodef · 01-07-2012, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Banjo

I know people involved with hearing clinics. They are still selling just hearing aids and FM systems. Are you aware that they are still using Windows XP for their softwares since that's what they require? Windows Vista, nah. Windows 7, nah. Windows 8? Probably nah.

Talk about staying in the dark ages.

Keeping up with the technology is pretty important if you ask me. Apparently these people don't appear to think so.

They're definitely not interested in coming out of the dark ages. Their computers are still infected with the Trojan virus known as "Windows".

audiodef · 01-07-2012, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by kokonut

Digital aids are good for several years or longer. My last one lasted 13 years before it suddenly conked out. My second one is now 4 years old.

My current aids are going on seven years old. My audiologist thinks I should look into replacing them soon. I'm having no trouble with them and I think they'll last a few more years, but I'm interested in looking for new aids anyway.

Not sure where I'm going to get money for them, though. Maryland is supposed to have a program to help, but they have weird rules that I'm not interested in dancing to.

**sallylou** · 01-07-2012, 03:22 PM

Get your audi to give you a loner pair. If that audi won't, find someone else. An audi gave me a loaner pair of the latest and greatest new HAs. I decided that they weren't any better than what I already had (mine are about 5 years old). Sounds like your audi wants some cash out of you. Audis don't make any money just cleaning HAs and selling parts. If you get a loaner pair, you can make an informed decision. Be wary of an audi who refuses to do it.

audiodef · 01-07-2012, 04:29 PM

The audiologist I've been using is good. I'm not worried about her trying to rip me off. :-)

Grayma · 01-08-2012, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Audiofuzzy

Precise, of course

But I am not taking this test, sorry... what I don't like about it is,
it requires my email and then it keep it - oh, no, I don't like that

.

Fuzzy

I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.

Beach girl · 01-09-2012, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Grayma

I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.

Me too.

Audiofuzzy · 01-09-2012, 12:48 AM

Oh, good idea. when I have time, then.

re: HAs.
we tend to forget we "true" deaf and HoH are not the only ones who need them.
There is a lot of others, for example late deafened professionals like doctors, nurses
who need to listen to their patients, heart, pulse etc and that's a huge market, too.

Fuzzy

**Cheetah** · 01-09-2012, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Grayma

I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.

Ditto, except I threw it away and don't remember what it is anymore.

audiodef · 01-09-2012, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Cheetah

Ditto, except I threw it away and don't remember what it is anymore.

I'm sure there's a tech-support story in which someone threw away his computer because he had to put something in the trash...

**Cheetah** · 01-09-2012, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by audiodef

I'm sure there's a tech-support story in which someone threw away his computer because he had to put something in the trash...

I had to scroll up to see what we were talking about!

That reminds me of the day I finally disposed of my first computer. I loved that hunk of metal.

I did my first college level programming on it. Built my first Linux box with it. Sigh, good times! Oh man, now you got me all nostalgic!

audiodef · 01-10-2012, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Cheetah

I had to scroll up to see what we were talking about!

That reminds me of the day I finally disposed of my first computer. I loved that hunk of metal.

I did my first college level programming on it. Built my first Linux box with it. Sigh, good times! Oh man, now you got me all nostalgic!

My first computer was a Mac, can't remember the model. I don't even remember when I got rid of it, but I did some fun things with it.

What I really regret throwing out (and I put the damn thing in the dumpster. Call me a moron!) is a Mac Classic. There was nothing wrong with it. I just wasn't in a good place in my head at the time. I wish I still had it for the nerd factor, and that it might be a collector's item some day.

**KristinaB** · 01-10-2012, 01:22 PM

Okay, here's me ageing myself. My first computer was the Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3 as well as their Color Computer. Serial number for the Coco - was 12, serial number for the Mod 1 was 8, serial number for the Mod 2 was 16 and serial number for the Mod 3 was 4.

We also had the Daisy Wheel printer with printer wheels for different fonts.

**Cheetah** · 01-10-2012, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by KristinaB

Okay, here's me ageing myself. My first computer was the Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3 as well as their Color Computer. Serial number for the Coco - was 12, serial number for the Mod 1 was 8, serial number for the Mod 2 was 16 and serial number for the Mod 3 was 4.

We also had the Daisy Wheel printer with printer wheels for different fonts.

Ah! I remember programming on the Trash 80 (TRS-80). I also programmed on the Commodore 64. Good times!

**Banjo** · 01-10-2012, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Cheetah

Ah! I remember programming on the Trash 80 (TRS-80). I also programmed on the Commodore 64. Good times!

Oh Good Lord, I remember the Tandy computers. We used to have one of these computers.

**KristinaB** · 01-10-2012, 02:45 PM

Right Cheetah!! Trash-80's from the Rat Shack!!

Jane B. · 01-10-2012, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by KristinaB

Okay, here's me ageing myself. My first computer was the Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3 as well as their Color Computer. Serial number for the Coco - was 12, serial number for the Mod 1 was 8, serial number for the Mod 2 was 16 and serial number for the Mod 3 was 4.

We also had the Daisy Wheel printer with printer wheels for different fonts.

From other things I think I have a few years on you but you used a slightly older computer.

The oldest thing I used was at work — a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III followed by both a Model IV desktop and portable. All had two 5 1/4" floppy drives (never did use tape). The portable was about the size of today's portable sewing machines. Even after we went to a PC clone I still used one of the Model IV's for payroll because I could enter rate changes for SS & Medicare as well as union dues myself rather that wait for and pay for updates to the Peachtree accounting software.

Printers were dot matrix.

My first home computer was a PC clone with a 8088 processor that I bought used.

**KristinaB** · 01-10-2012, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jane B.

From other things I think I have a few years on you but you used a slightly older computer.

The oldest thing I used was at work — a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III followed by both a Model IV desktop and portable. All had two 5 1/4" floppy drives (never did use tape). The portable was about the size of today's portable sewing machines. Even after we went to a PC clone I still used one of the Model IV's for payroll because I could enter rate changes for SS & Medicare as well as union dues myself rather that wait for and pay for updates to the Peachtree accounting software.

Printers were dot matrix.

My first home computer was a PC clone with a 8088 processor that I bought used.

The Model II used 12 inch disks and to Color Computer was cassette tape. The modems were phone couplers and you could not talk, sneeze or anything within 15 feet of them. All computer programs we used we had to type in Basic from PC computing magazine. A favorite of my father's was the Dancing Demon.

**KristinaB** · 01-10-2012, 05:10 PM

Okay - back to the main topic. More and more I am embracing my hearing loss. By now, I wish I was born the way I am currently so then maybe I would have had the chance to learn ASL.

lucas · 01-11-2012, 12:59 AM

im trying to embrace it but when your born and raised with people who hear, it makes u want to fit in with that crowd and showing everyone ur implant and announcing ur deaf kinda kills that opportunity. If there was a strong deaf community with people my age around me maybe i would say otherwise, but im isolated and have to deal with what i got

**Banjo** · 01-11-2012, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by lucas

If there was a strong deaf community with people my age around me

Believe it or not, there is a large deaf community in Toronto and surrounding cities. Didn't you mention that you're from Toronto? Have you ever been to the Deaf Culture Centre?

Deaf Culture Centre - Le Centre De La Cutlure Des Sourds

The address is 55 Mill St Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It's a part of the Stone Distillery. You may find the place to be enlightening. They often have events there and in several places around the city.

lucas · 01-11-2012, 03:50 AM

thanks for the post ill make sure to find my way down there sometime

azlady · 01-18-2012, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Hannah louise

Are you guys happy to show people your hearing aids, or cochlear or not? Do you mind tying up your hair to reveal your HA or CI? Do have coloured hearing aids etc? Do you like having a hearing loss? Does it make you feel unique? Etc.
C'mon guys, inspire me!(:

To me,deafness is something to accept. I might not like it but it isn't the worst thing in the world. If I had been born deaf then I too would be shouting "Deaf Pride" and Deaf Power because being born with it is different. Just like people of different races and cultures, they should be proud of who they are. Me? since my deafness is something I accept then I probably don't have the same amount of "Deaf Pride" but I think it it is a healthy attitude to be proud of who you are.

I know deaf people who say they never want to be hearing, why should they if thats all they know. I think that question of whether you want to be hearing or not is like asking a black person if he/she rather be white than black.

CareyJay · 02-01-2012, 06:57 PM

I make no effort to hide it. My aids are a plain dark shade for no reason other than that I'm a ginger so bright colors would clash horribly. I'd frankly prefer that people (at conversational range anyway) did see them, because that way they are less surprised/annoyed if I ask them to repeat themselves a lot. For the most part I embrace me for how I happen to have been born, and there are perks despite the problems. Sleeping through flatmates stumbling in drunk=good. Sleeping through fire alarms=bad. I do hate the first day of classes when I have to have awkward conversations with professors about my FM system with the whole class staring at me though, those make me feel like a bit of a circus freak. (Awkward because generally they've never seen one before and have difficulty understanding what I'm asking.)

**LDNanna** · 02-01-2012, 10:05 PM

Well, I do.

HH scientist · 02-02-2012, 06:07 PM

I used to wear HA. I did not really feel like I needed it.

Once there are CI implants that are at least as good as the real stuff and you can turn them on and off for enjoying solitude, I am gonna get them. They should be to human hearing, what the Hubble telescope is as compared to human vision.

nicegirl · 10-23-2012, 03:55 AM

I guess at first it bothered me but now I am ok with it. I mean what else can I do lol. I guess the part that makes me mad is how rude some hearing people are. They don't even try.

BecLak · 10-23-2012, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jillio

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Originally Posted by VacationGuy234

I totally agree. I cringe at the thought that children have to go through what I've gone through.

They don't. They are forced to because of the rampant audism in this country, not because of their deafness. Get rid of audism, and the whole world changes. We don't need to get rid of deafness; we need to get rid of audism.

Good post, Jillio.

BecLak · 10-23-2012, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DeafCaroline

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Originally Posted by posts from hell

You wish it wasnt true, that's good. I am curious to what are you doing to contribute towards the solution of the problem.

African Americans suffered from racism and instead of bleaching their skin white in an attempt to cope with it, they had the Civil Rights movement. It would be great if the Deaf, instead of focusing on less than perfect technology to cope with audism, organize their own movement to promote awareness and education about deaf children in mainstream settings.

When I was growing up, I only saw a group of deaf people signing just once until I reached age 18. The deaf community needs to be more visible, need to put on shows and performances in public schools, do more outreach programs in society. Until they do, the world at large will remain ignorant.

:thumbs up: I agree.

BecLak · 10-23-2012, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by kokonut

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Originally Posted by Beach girl

Mine is! And I'll admit it.

So from what I gather - "normal hearing" = no hearing loss. Except that some people take offence at that definition of "normal hearing" because to them, not having any hearing is also normal.

So we have a phrase that can be defined by the person using it, or by the person reading it, and if the person reading it doesn't care for the person using it, then it's fair to get upset. But if the person reading happens to personally like the person using the phrase, then it's ok.

Welcome to Alice in Wonderland, I guess.

Ok, so what's abnormal deafness then? Hearing?

Really, some people do get their knickers in a twist over that one. We all know what they mean when they say "normal hearing" as in having no hearing loss.

The word "normal" is offensive when it is in reference to a hearing person saying that hearing like a hearing person hears is normal, and anything other than that is not normal. Whereas to Deaf, the opposite is normal.

01-07-2012, 03:22 PM	#393 (permalink)
sallylou Potterhead and Janeite Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: My own private Idaho Posts: 6,653	Get your audi to give you a loner pair. If that audi won't, find someone else. An audi gave me a loaner pair of the latest and greatest new HAs. I decided that they weren't any better than what I already had (mine are about 5 years old). Sounds like your audi wants some cash out of you. Audis don't make any money just cleaning HAs and selling parts. If you get a loaner pair, you can make an informed decision. Be wary of an audi who refuses to do it. __________________

01-09-2012, 12:48 AM	#397 (permalink)
Audiofuzzy Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,389	Oh, good idea. when I have time, then. re: HAs. we tend to forget we "true" deaf and HoH are not the only ones who need them. There is a lot of others, for example late deafened professionals like doctors, nurses who need to listen to their patients, heart, pulse etc and that's a huge market, too. Fuzzy __________________ . A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Mohandas Gandhi .

01-10-2012, 01:22 PM	#402 (permalink)
KristinaB New SDIT Deacon Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Land of the backstroke Posts: 13,856	Okay, here's me ageing myself. My first computer was the Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3 as well as their Color Computer. Serial number for the Coco - was 12, serial number for the Mod 1 was 8, serial number for the Mod 2 was 16 and serial number for the Mod 3 was 4. We also had the Daisy Wheel printer with printer wheels for different fonts. Cheetah likes this. __________________ Taking life one day at a time.

01-10-2012, 02:45 PM	#405 (permalink)
KristinaB New SDIT Deacon Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Land of the backstroke Posts: 13,856	Right Cheetah!! Trash-80's from the Rat Shack!! __________________ Taking life one day at a time.

01-10-2012, 05:10 PM	#408 (permalink)
KristinaB New SDIT Deacon Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Land of the backstroke Posts: 13,856	Okay - back to the main topic. More and more I am embracing my hearing loss. By now, I wish I was born the way I am currently so then maybe I would have had the chance to learn ASL. deafdyke and shel90 like this. __________________ Taking life one day at a time.

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01-07-2012, 04:29 PM	#394 (permalink)
audiodef Banned Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Maryland Posts: 135	The audiologist I've been using is good. I'm not worried about her trying to rip me off. :-)

01-11-2012, 12:59 AM	#409 (permalink)
lucas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 247	im trying to embrace it but when your born and raised with people who hear, it makes u want to fit in with that crowd and showing everyone ur implant and announcing ur deaf kinda kills that opportunity. If there was a strong deaf community with people my age around me maybe i would say otherwise, but im isolated and have to deal with what i got

01-11-2012, 03:50 AM	#411 (permalink)
lucas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 247	thanks for the post ill make sure to find my way down there sometime

02-01-2012, 06:57 PM	#413 (permalink)
CareyJay Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 50 Blog Entries: 2	I make no effort to hide it. My aids are a plain dark shade for no reason other than that I'm a ginger so bright colors would clash horribly. I'd frankly prefer that people (at conversational range anyway) did see them, because that way they are less surprised/annoyed if I ask them to repeat themselves a lot. For the most part I embrace me for how I happen to have been born, and there are perks despite the problems. Sleeping through flatmates stumbling in drunk=good. Sleeping through fire alarms=bad. I do hate the first day of classes when I have to have awkward conversations with professors about my FM system with the whole class staring at me though, those make me feel like a bit of a circus freak. (Awkward because generally they've never seen one before and have difficulty understanding what I'm asking.)

02-01-2012, 10:05 PM	#414 (permalink)
LDNanna Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 2,696	Well, I do. __________________ I have discovered that the word "diet" begins with d i e.

02-02-2012, 06:07 PM	#415 (permalink)
HH scientist Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Cork, Ireland Posts: 186	I used to wear HA. I did not really feel like I needed it. Once there are CI implants that are at least as good as the real stuff and you can turn them on and off for enjoying solitude, I am gonna get them. They should be to human hearing, what the Hubble telescope is as compared to human vision.

10-23-2012, 03:55 AM	#416 (permalink)
nicegirl Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 8	I guess at first it bothered me but now I am ok with it. I mean what else can I do lol. I guess the part that makes me mad is how rude some hearing people are. They don't even try.

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