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To Nomad....sorry forgot to add the whereabouts bit, Grew up around Papatoetoe mostly, spent several years in Maraetai Beach, several more around Howick/ Botany area and now am playing at being a Westie in Te Atatu........but with my predeliction for moving house who knows where I may be next...

No, I dont need to register online, as I said in my first post in this thread my birth family has already found me, quite easy in a small country like NZ

Hi Nomad, sorry I havent been online for a bit, will explain about that shortly. I think by the 70's, 80's things had pretty much changed with adoption, much more open and often meetings between birth and adoptive parents. Its amazing how many friends and aquaintances I have who are adopted. I...

Thanks to every one who replied, its always interesting to hear about peoples everyday lives, the reason why daily tv soaps are so popular I suppose....lol The communication tools like email and text are things I use but have never used a terp. The fast food drive thrus I have never tried...

Can someone please give me some background on ASL. My main question is, is a person who relys entirely on ASL, no oral at all, able to conduct their business, shopping banking etc on their own, or do they need a terp to go with them? I should imagine there would not be very many shopkeepers etc...

Has anyone here received emails from anyone in Nigeria wanting to be friends etc? I have had 2 from someone saying he is CEO of a company which sources products for Nigeria. I have read the post on Nigerian scams but cant find a way of contacting the moderator to check on this. Advice, info...

Can you give me a bit of background on your day to day life, I am fairly new here and very interested to know how a person copes with everyday things that the sighted take for granted. Do you live alone, with family, flatmates etc? How do you use the computer? My biggest fear has always been...

Dixie, I see what you are saying but to my mind waiting until a child is 10 or 11 to see if they want CI just makes it harder, the early years are so important for learning speech. However I know that no one is going to "win" this debate of oralism/signing, implanting or not implanting. Every...

Um....Please sir/madam......."hand up" ...can I ask if the blind, paraplegics, etc etc etc argue and nitpick like thos on here seems to:ty:

Of course I wouldnt babble much as I couldnt hear my own voice, didnt get diagnosed until 5 yrs old, so no h/s, no sound

So you mean there is no blind culture,....and why is loss of eyesight any different from loss of hearing? I am not disrespecting deaf culture, just trying to understand why it is ok to "fix" one problem but not another. Do you think deafness is more complex than blindness?

maybe I should have said HEARING babies babble, if you read my post correctly you will see that I was a deaf baby, hence a very quiet one.

If your happy in your family then theres no need to search, I didnt but am glad they found me. I think its only in a not so happy adoption that the child may want to go looking, but having said that my 2 bests friends where happy and they stilled looked and found birth parents..

well its not a very good model if they keep bashing each other. I used to think having a disability or whatever you like to call it made people more tolerant.

Deafdyke...what I was getting at was not growing new limbs or the blind magicly seeing again, I was refering to prosethics, artificial limbs, and for eyesight just ordinary glasses...I mean if one is short sighted why dont they say "well that is how I was born, that is my culture" and stay short...

Hi, I have mentioned in other threads that I am on the waiting list for CI, however owing to the long list and small amount done per year I may never get it done. I wear h/a now, always have so do have sound, it is actually quite loud but not the clarity that CI would, hopefully, provide. My...

Easy one.........babies babble because they like the hear their own voices, havent you ever seen a small baby make a sound, maybe a louder sound than it has made before, stop, listen, then repeat the same sound.......my mother always said I was a very quiet baby, maybe be cause I couldnt hear my...

Thanks Boult, thats exactly what I was getting at. Been away for weekend and now trying to plow thru all these posts following the "tangled web we weave"....lol

There is really no comparison between sex change and CI, everyone knows that the sooner a child hears the quicker and better speach developement will be, waiting until 18 or 20 means the child will probably never learn to speak. I do have some transexual friends so I know that side of the...