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    Self Inflicted Deafness

    Which does not quite fit people with BIID. They know their leg (or whatever other part of the body they want to get rid of) looks ok but they just don't want it. Once it is gone they are happy because they feel like their true selves at last. It's got more similarities to GID rather then what...
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    Self Inflicted Deafness

    Nihil, Hello and welcome to alldeaf. I'm deafblind too. I also have mental health issues. I was born HOH. I became blind for psycosomatic reasons. Then most of my vision came back. About 2 years ago I also suffered severe light sensitivity problems. I've a lot of eye pain right now, so don't...
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    sick grandmother left to starve

    Terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doctors - Telegraph
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    Study: Disabled more likely to be victims of violent crime

    I totally agree with that. The person who held a pillow over my head, she did the same thing to this kid. She's abused all her kids in fact and other people's kids too. But as far as I know I'm the only adult she's attacked since I'm deafblind.
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    Who are the famous deaf in the Deaf History?

    I'm deafblind too. I don't hate Helen Keller. I don't idolize her but I don't vilify her either. She was just a product of her time. She was influenced a lot by people who had audist ideas.
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    Who are the famous deaf in the Deaf History?

    The problem is it's out of date now. In Helen Keller's era, it probably was true unless you were lucky enough to be among other deaf people. However now deafblindness doesn't have to mean that. I'm deafblind and I communicate all the time with people online.
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    Study: Disabled more likely to be victims of violent crime

    Doesn't surprise me either. I've been there too.
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    letter to family

    My opinion is based on what disabled people themselves say in groups such as 'not dead yet',. Have you read their literature? Sometimes the other side just simply isn't worth bothering about. It's not being narrow minded, it's just self preservations, because if I went on reading all that...
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    letter to family

    We disagree on this matter. So there is no cause for name calling. That is plain childish.
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    letter to family

    Souggy: Sorry I didn't notice that bit. We draw entirely differant conclusions on this matter.
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    Palin's EPIC FAIL!

    Kokonut: I think we got cross posted. I was responding to Souggy's post. Your device sounds interesting, but it's going to take a long long time before I can hope to afford one. I paid for my braille display. I paid for Zoom with a higher level of magnification then the previous package...
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    Palin's EPIC FAIL!

    That sounds good. My dad has a scanner but his computer is no longer accessable to me because he uses Zoomtext at a lower magnification level then what I can see. He would need to upgrade, but at the same time I'm waiting because I don't know how much longer I will be able to see enough to use...
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    letter to family

    Souggy: You haven't answered my question:
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    The gift of hearing....do you cherish it?

    I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here. A lot of posters are like that, but they don't all get attacked in the way Kokonut is. I think that it's more a question of wether you accept the status que or not. If you have differant views then you will get attacked however they are...
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    letter to family

    Not if he wanted to brainwash his readership. There must have been that going on, there always is which is why I avoid certain sources because I want to keep myself pure from that sort of indocrination. And besides it's depressing when any group of people are marked out for death, wether...
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    letter to family

    Did you read the links I posted on my thread about alternatives to animal testing? It's not so much about somthing I disagree with but I'm vegan and pro life. Anything that does not fit in with any of my values concerning the sactimony of life won't be read because I have better things to do...
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    The gift of hearing....do you cherish it?

    Not everyone fits into the deaf culture. I would like to be part of the deaf culture, but when I was homeless the woman from the deaf organisation in Birmingham, England discriminated against me because I was deafblind. They said they only wanted to help Deaf people. Hopefully this is just...
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    Palin's EPIC FAIL!

    That's probably true. You can 'educate' people until you are blue in the face, but they still don't always do the right thing by using proper contraceptions.
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    Palin's EPIC FAIL!

    Thanks for the transcription steele, although I'm afraid I don't agree with it.
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    Palin's EPIC FAIL!

    Thanks for the link. I'll have to save up for that first. Although it wasn't clear wether it turned print into tactile print or braille. There already was one that turns print into tactile print called an opticon but then it went out of buisness as the blind tend to use speech and the deafblind...
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