Recent content by Darkhusky

As for me... I'm not from the USA, but this is my experience thus far. I spent the equivalent of middle school in a 100% deaf school. When I entered high school, I went to a mainstreamed school that had support for deaf students, including interpreters in 50% of classes. (The number would have...

Several weeks ago, I had an examination, and the invigilator was supposed to hold up flash cards corresponding to the verbally-issued instructions (I am bilateral profound and currently mainstreamed). He actually asked me several times verbally if I could hear him and if I was following the...

Hi all, I joined here several weeks ago but haven't had the opportunity to introduce myself properly until now, so here goes :) I'm 18, profoundly deaf, and a fluent signer without any dependence on speech. My immediate family are all hearing, but all sign as well. We mainly use SEE...

A lot of our dreams are largely shaped by memories of what we experience during our conscious state. They are, for me, the most accurate indicator of whether the sensation of sound is encoded in our memories or not, which is why I am referencing them here. I was not born deaf, but became just...