Recent content by nicegirl

Thank you for the warm welcome my fellow Aussie BecLak! I have written the deaf society to find out what is available. It is sad in a way but lucky for me, she mostly reads from the book so I can follow along in the book. :) It is interesting there is a man in the class who doesn't know...

@Vorsia and @Laura, thank you for the suggestions.

OP I really can relate to your situation. I found my office to be less than accommodating and certain competitive workmates used my deafness to their advantage to exclude me. They made no accommodations in meetings so imagine being in a meeting room with 20 people all trying to talk at the same...

Could someone please help me with tips for being in a classroom or meeting with hearies. I always tell them I am deaf when I first meet but it seems they just revert to their rude behaviors of talking all at the same time, turning their head, talking to my back, and covering their mouth with...

Hello, glad to have found the right thread. My loss started around 10 years ago and now at 50, I pretty much have ringing in my left ear and moderate loss in the right. The thing that bothers me the most is how I am treated. I had a very successful software career but left a few months ago. I...

Today has been a particularly rough day so I will vent a little here. I am taking a class and it is the first class I have taken since my hearing loss and let me say, I am really struggling. I'm 50 so not a kid. My hearing aids were stolen so I am just trying to get by as I can't afford a...

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.

They really don't know. My dad was HOH as my mother always called him tin ear. ugh. People started saying stuff to me about 10 years ago and then I had a surgery; nothing to do with ears, and from then on i had bad tinnitus and my hearing deteriorated in my left ear. So left ear is just...