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I woke up to a lovely email from my girlfriend. :)

This is my cat, Oso. :)

I feel like this could be a good idea. It's a slippery slope, though.

This is something I need to look into as well. I'm slowly losing all of my hearing, and I'd like to learn either BSL or ASL. I'm terrified I'll never be any good at it though.

Sad, overwhelmed, trapped, and lonely. :(

So today I was talking to my university adviser, and for the first time, my hearing loss came up (as I've been fairly functional in the past, I didn't ever tell him). He basically trivialised my hearing problems (I have severe losses in the low frequencies) and said that the problems I have...

Vegetarian fajitas!

Hi, nice to meet all of you :)

I was born with congenital hearing loss in low frequencies of about 30dB. Over the past year or so, I've lost more than 40dB in the low frequencies for no apparent reason. They except that I will lose high frequencies as well, and possibly be profoundly deaf by the time I'm 30.

The new Sherlock Holmes film. I quite liked it, actually!

Well, I just kind of decided, really. I knew that I wanted to go far away for university, and in Scotland I would be able to study just mathematics and physics, and no other subjects. I also had some friends there, so that helped my decision.

Hi everyone I'm a 20 year old American who goes to school in Scotland. I have low-frequency sensorineural hearing loss; about 70dB in each ear. I am getting fitted for hearing aids in a month. I'm a mathematician, and will be beginning my PhD in October, so I'm at a pretty exciting stage...