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12-14-2011, 12:14 AM
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I accept my hearing loss although I love listening with my HA. I'm deaf but I see myself as hard of hearing, too. Or if people get picky about it I'm just a guy who happens to have a hearing loss. Does it make me feel unique? Hmm.....not really. I'm just one of the 36 million people with hearing loss. Perhaps I'm "unique" in the sense I have done things differently as a hh/deaf person if that's any help. |
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12-14-2011, 02:39 AM
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The turning point was realising that my misery was due to how hearing people treated me. If they had made an effort to allow for my hearing loss and not treat me, consciously or not, as inferior to themselves I would have been happy. This realisation has now put me on a new path to find contentment in being the unique person I am, which includes accepting my deafness. Personally I find this very difficult, but I try to not care about not fitting into the hearing dominated society I live in. The most important thing is that I treat everyone with care & respect (hearing, deaf and myself) and not think of myself (or anybody else) as an inferior human being. I want to love people who are different from me, and in return I expect to be loved even though I'm different from them. I know that the reality is that many people can't/won't do this, but if they can't, then I know it's their disability not mine. |
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12-14-2011, 04:45 AM
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when i was growing, and always wore the body hearing aid. I did not care if they have seen me. my friend's dad made the cool body hearing aid harnesss that was made of leather and my name on it. you know how popular in 1970's for the leather wrist band with name or cigerette box or anything. I wore the leather body hearing harness and loved it! i wish i still have it but it isnt.
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12-14-2011, 09:06 AM
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I embrace it now, I didnt when it first started happening (losing my hearing.) I met a group of people on the internet that showed me I had nothing to feel scared about
 If I wear my hear up people see my HA's if I wear it down they ask why I say "what" a lot either way they know hahaha ahhh well 
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12-14-2011, 09:43 AM
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I embrase my deafness now. I don't mind when people see my HA's (when I'm wearing them... which isn't even close to 50% of the time any more) I don't mind when people see me sign, in public... I'm trying to go more and more voice off! the only time I really am using my voice is at work (because I have to)... and at home (same reason). I am happiest when I am signing, not reading lips, and have no HA's on, and I am very Proud to be Deaf... the hearing world needs to change, not me.
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12-14-2011, 01:58 PM
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I'm ok with it, as long as I can still hear something with my hearing aid (and soon CI). I know I wouldn't be able to tolerate being 100% deaf 24/7, I'd go crazy from the silence. I like hearing noise! But that's just me. I've got a red hearing aid, and when I get the CI for the left ear, I'm sure I'll be showing that off too.
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12-14-2011, 07:22 PM
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I'm fine with my deafness.
I like the fact I'm trilingual because of it. I display my silver HAs with purple earmoulds. I don't give a flying jot what hearie thinks of me because if they judge me based on erroneous assumptions then that's their loss as I won't put up with them.
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12-14-2011, 07:38 PM
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I am proud to be a part of a community that is bilingual and have worldwide connections.
When I went to Gallaudet University, I made so many friends from all over the world. That is very uniquie in a community and I am proud to be a part of it. Also, AllDeaf is the same as well.
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12-14-2011, 07:45 PM
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12-14-2011, 07:50 PM
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12-14-2011, 07:51 PM
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12-14-2011, 07:53 PM
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Embrace like wholly maybe, yes and no. Like someone said it is strong a word.
I still would prefer to be able to hear normal because I do value to be able to hear everything like hearies do- TV, movies in theater, music, my friends talking all at once and all. I just grew up in this all my life, so..... part of me however always miss not being given a chance to belong to the deaf and Deaf culture, always regret why was I denied this... always something pulls me here, and I do feel Deaf even if I know nothing about it. Or very tiny little. But I am staring to accept totally my own deafness and the fact that I wear HAs and recently I bought the black ones for the first time in my life, and cut my hair short as I don't give damn anymore who sees them. on the contrary, I want them to be seen! Now I am thinking of making my next earmolds something goth terrible  one day, one day Fuzzy
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12-14-2011, 08:17 PM
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12-14-2011, 08:19 PM
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12-14-2011, 08:28 PM
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I don't want children born blind, do you? I don't want children born with missing limbs, do you? I don't want children born with a hole in their heart, do you? Yes, children are born these ways but still it is RIGHT for me and everyone else NOT to want it to happen. |
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12-14-2011, 08:30 PM
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12-14-2011, 08:33 PM
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i do not understanding what bad about deafness? it weird see some deafs people scare of their children becoms deaf. they gone through that experience of deafness themself
i remember quote I king jordan said about deaf peple can do anything. |
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